Burkhas, Bikinis, and Other Lies
“You're in deep doo-doo now," was my 6th grade math teacher's favorite expression, the one that signaled a mini-Apocalypse in the form of a D grade, or a detention, or a shrill call to the parents...
Author: Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova is a DC-based writer and editor
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Quick memo to the good ol' folks that drive straight from church to the pro-war rally in their starred and striped S.U.V.'s: You are total idiots. Oh, I am sorry. I doubt even you would have an easy...
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
By now, most people have seen the images of war-crimes that went on in the Abu Ghraib prison. This is Rush Limbaugh's response to the torture, as tactful and intelligent as always: ”This is no...
Wet Dreaming, Sort Of
On Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers” Decadence is good for you. Take your decadence like you take your vitamins. I understood this whilst freezing my bum off outside a Canadian Cineplex,...
On Virginity
“What IS virginity?” I first knew that different people would answer this question differently as I rode down an escalator in a German shopping mall a few years ago; my friend turned toward me...
Mel, I Hardly Knew Ye
Oh dear. Does a certain movie mean we can't make fun of Mel Gibson anymore? If I were to play a free-association game using the image of Mel Gibson, the words and phrases that most readily come to...