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Cruelty and Resistance

by Amy Danielson
Published February 6, 2003

Sun Hee loves reading books and filling her teenage mind with knowledge, but her mother forces her to do chores instead. Living in Korea prior to World War II, she clashes with her mother and is conflicted...

Technology and its discontents

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published February 6, 2003

In the United States there is a tendency to think about movies as an American form. They seem to be our exclusive domain, though we occasionally share them with Europeans when they want to make deep, artsy...

A heart like lightning

by Brianna Riplinger
Published February 6, 2003

At first blush, Tim Easton's voice sounds like a generic bar band lead who worships Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline." But when you listen to the entirety of his new album, "Break Your Mother's Heart," you'll...

A little bit crazy, a little bit bad

by Nathan Hall
Published February 6, 2003

The British are on to something; that's for sure. Virtually every popular Yankee TV show of late is a dumbed-down, regurgitated version of a U.K. program. Everything from punk to techno cuts its proverbial...

Treason to Whiteness

by Nathan Hall
Published February 6, 2003

When I was a teenager attending high school in suburban Texas, I briefly dated a girl of Filipino descent. The relationship only lasted a few months but was significant enough to raise the ire of virulently...

All His Far-Flung Friends

by Jennifer Schneider
Published January 30, 2003

A gifted musician. A gourmet cook. A first-rate storyteller and friend. It's no wonder so many friends liked to drop in on Dave Van Ronk throughout the years. This Sunday, three of those friends (Spider...

You Can’t Touch This

by Nathan Hall
Published January 30, 2003

Hell has officially frozen over. Everything you know is wrong. Hawaii Show, the lip-synching side project of ex-Lifter Puller guitarist Steve Barone, recently opened for Nickelback. Now Har Mar Superstar,...

Don’t Take Your Love to Town

by Nathan Hall
Published January 30, 2003

Prostitution is of course both the oldest and one of the most dangerous professions. Hollywood, via unrealistic fairy tales such as 1990's "Pretty Woman," downplays the numerous risks involved to the point...

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire

by Amy Danielson
Published January 30, 2003

Director and choreographer Martha Clarke envisions a pre-World War I Vienna, Austria, in a wash of beauty and eroticism. In her dance-theater production, "Vienna: Lusthaus (Revisited)," inspired by the...

Party for Your Right to Fight

Published January 30, 2003

At first it resembled a high school talent show. At The Whole Music Club's "Battle of the Bands" on Saturday, moms and dads toted camcorders while little brothers and sisters shuffled around Coffman...

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