Who is HBO’s Girls For?
Watching HBO’s Girls felt like standing around at a party with a bunch of people trading insider jokes I don’t get; at the same time that I was being welcomed as part of the club, it was obvious...
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Baby and Booth Makes Three: Can Bones Still Work As A Family Drama?
Bones is back with a bang—and a baby—after its long hiatus. Nearly four months after viewers last saw Booth, Brennan, and the gang, ‘The Prisoner In the Pipe’ swung people back into the...
Time Banks: Tapping into the Untold Riches in your Neighbors’ Skill Sets
When is a cooking lesson worth the same as a dental cleaning? Or a tree stump removal worth the same as a hand-hammered silver bracelet? When both services are provided as part of a time exchange, or...
The Trans-Vaginal Ultrasounds You Didn’t Hear About: Ignoring Anti-Choice Extremism in Texas
In February, the state of Virginia became a focal point of attention in the national media when its legislature attempted to pass a forced ultrasound law that required doctors to know the gestational...
The Rewards and Challenges of Working at an Urban Farm
Walking onto the site of the Noyo Food Forest on the brink of spring, you’re struck by the amount of activity going on; beds exploding with vegetables, volunteers building up compost and weeding,...
Sex Scandals in America: Jason Russell, John Edwards and Our Hashtag Attention Spans
If Jason Russell’s public masturbation meltdown means anything at all, it surely has nothing to do with Ugandans or central Africans as such. No, if anything, it illuminates the cluttered and –...
The Crime of Being Black: Trayvon Martin and the Everyday Reality of Racist Violence in America
Trayvon Martin's death is on tape. Anyone with a decent internet connection and a strong stomach can listen to his final moments. They're heartbreaking. It would be nice to think that this was an...
The Politics of Urban Farming
An urban farming revival is sweeping across the United States, sparking a flood of conversation, and sometimes conflict, among communities large and small. Some regard urban farming as the hope of...
Review: Bumbling into Body Hair
Everett Maroon, Bumbling Into Body Hair (Booktrope 2012) Cis people have a seemingly endless fascination with transition, particularly the minutia and the deeply personal details. They want to know...
#Kony2012: Invisible Children’s Media Blitz of Misinformation
Misinformed poverty porn: It’s an entire genre in the world of “consciousness-raising” NGOs, as any foreign correspondent, researcher or professional do-gooder can attest. I saw Invisible...