by Susan Eisenberg | Dec 3, 2009 | The Public Humanist
I thought I’d already heard it all, so I was surprised at how suddenly raw I felt, reading what one vocational-technical high school student had written on a yellow sticky note: “Your [sic] never going to make it.” I guessed that she was quoting the...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Dec 3, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Today is (or "would have been"?) my mother, Sheila Berger's birthday, the first since she died last December 9. The picture is of a crystal she always had in the living room. At one point each day, it would project little rainbows all over the room,...
by Cherchez La Femme | Dec 3, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme
According to "Jezebel," funny-lady Jessi Klein, whose most impressive CV bullet point is a behind the scenes gig on Chappelle's Show, has just been hired as a staff writer on Saturday Night Live. Lindsay Robertson, a blogger who writes for...
by Amy Littlefield | Dec 3, 2009 | Wellness
As the Environmental Protection Agency dusts off its cogs after years of inactivity, a consumer watchdog group has given us yet another reason to believe that the global manufacturing sector is trying to kill us. Their chief weapon this time? Vinyl and faux leather...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 3, 2009 | Stage
“We’re trying to recreate some of the excitement, some of the fun, some of the anarchy and sensuality that we have at the Globe.” That’s Dominic Dromgoole, director of Shakespeare’s Love Labour’s Lost, which played in London’s...