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  • Fondling the Boob Tube

    My dealer is holding out on me. She must know my stash is running low, and I know she has what I want. But she...

  • Tosca Tops the Charts

    How do you calculate the tenor X-factor? Let's take Salvatore Licitra. We saw him already this season in the title role of Andrea Chenier, where...

  • Bread and Roses Feminist Singers

    Members of Bread and Roses MISSION: Bread & Roses Feminist Singers strive for musical excellence; project a message of feminism, social justice and peace; broaden...

  • Good Government

    (EDITOR'S NOTE: The GLLU presentation will be Webcast Wednesday, May 11, between 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m., at www.ashinstitute.harvard.edu/Ash/) Unless a person has had direct...

  • Parenting in the Pink

    Ellen Kahn set a storybook tone last Saturday morning as gay parents -- and prospective parents -- and their kids gathered at Sligo Middle School...

  • Operatic Wonder

    As we all know, Joan of Arc died hard and Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orleans is for a different sort of die-hard -- the operatic kind....

  • Sunny Side Up

    Nestled among the woods of Gilead, Wisc. rests the Spitfire Grill, a cozy little nook where the owner always knows where you want to sit...

  • Pop Rocks

    Remember those black packets filled with the sugary-sweet concoction of tiny stone-like candies that you pop in your mouth and they sizzle, fizzle, crackle and...

  • Family Affair

    Quiet repose: Paulding in Member of the Wedding (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) Some plays age like a fine wine. Others modify shape and texture,...

  • Stage Haze

    As the reigning queen of psychological stage haze, Caryl Churchill doesn't apologize for the lack of explanation or analytical epilogue in her work. It's a...

  • Barriers to Health

    Ironically, a few weeks after Melissa Etheridge's breast cancer diagnosis helped put ''a lesbian face'' on cancer, the same-sex marriage backlash as witnessed in the...

  • Need for Speed

    One of the hidden truths about writing reviews, be they about cars or movies or architecture, is that the most difficult things to write about...

  • Modern Marvel

    How do you know when you're having a good time at the theatre? You're smiling ear to ear, from curtain rise to curtain fall, check....

  • You Shouldn't Have

    A billionaire talk show host had a psychotic episode on national television, and then everyone got Pontiacs. ''Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!''...

  • SLDN's Full Court Press

    When Monica Hill joined the Air Force in the 1990s, she and her partner thought it was an excellent way to both act on her...