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Savage Love

Smokin'!

• by Dan Savage

Employee Picks

One Day at a Time

• by Ann Romano

Comics

New Column!

Nothing burns like fire!

Destination Fun

Visual Arts Listings

Wanna Hear a Dirty Joke?

To begin with, The Aristocrats is about a joke, and the film's title is that joke's punchline. I know that sounds like a spoiler—and well, maybe it is, a little bit—but the punchline is hardly the point of The Aristocrats. So what exactly

• by Zac Pennington

Point of No Return

The sad truth is that if The Brothers Grimm weren't such a ghastly mess, it might have been one of Terry Gilliam's best films. Of course, Gilliam is no

• by Sean Nelson

Goofy, Gore-Happy, Lame

You've heard it all before: Group of semi-likeable teens gets stuck in a small town where something seems amiss; night falls, and soon afterward

• by Erik Henriksen

Geek Out

Quickly! To the Internet!

• by Erik Henriksen

Film Shorts

Bright Colors and Comfy Couches

Scheduling the opening night of its very first production on the same night as Best of the Best Sketch Fest 2005 was bad timing on the part of upstart, all-female sketch comedy troupe XXX

• by Justin Wescoat Sanders

The Heart is Also a Furnace and Pants All Night

There are 26 separate entrees in The Heart is Also a Furnace, Portland author Magdalen Powers' 43-page collection, but it would be a mistake to read them all in one sitting. The unassuming stories

• by Alison Hallett

Wrecking Crew

John Albert's oddly joyous new book Wrecking Crew profiles what may or may not be an emerging subculture: The Born Again Jock. These are the guys who shied from sports as teens because the coach

• by John Dicker

Readings Listings

Happy Hours

Rays of Dope

Sunburned Hand of the Man’s Eternal Jams

• by Dave Segal

CD Reviews

Up & Coming

No Free Lunch

Exacting, costly packaging; meticulously custom-made gear; as much as five years (and counting) between records; brief, infrequent touring that rarely coordinates with record releases; playing

• by Zac Pennington

It's Who You Know

Steve Albini

• by Zac Pennington

Surf's Up

I hope you're happy with yourself. You, with your seemingly bottomless sense of entitlement. You, who couldn't leave well enough alone. You, who just had to ask "What if Brian Wilson

• by Zac Pennington

Once More With Feeling

Awesomefest

• by Ezra Ace Caraeff

Music Catches Up!

AS THE EVIL INTERNET threatens to usurp touring as the way to promote your schtick, Smog's Bill Callahan remains elusive. You won't find a Bill Callahan blog or a homesite or even a MySpace

• by Adam Gnade