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  • The New Carrie Makes Bullying the Real Horror

  • Friday, October 18
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  • You know the story. You remember the blood. But nearly 40 years after the publication of Stephen King’s high school horror Carrie and the film adaptation that followed, somehow we haven’t learned its lesson about the horrors of bullying and …

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  • Crowley Meets Crime Novel In 'Love Is The Law'

  • This isn't your average, young-adult detective yarn; the sexuality is provocative and raw, just this side of prurient. The concepts come fast, thick and tangled. And Dawn's first-person narrative frequently strays into frantic cloud-gathering about the nature of magic and ...  More
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  • I Have a Character Issue

  • My character, to judge from the popularity of Web sites and Facebook pages devoted to hating her, has become a flash point for many people’s feelings about strong, nonsubmissive, ill-treated women. As the hatred of Skyler blurred into loathing for ...  More
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  • The Legend of The Oregon Trail

  • Rawitsch planned to add an element to advance players across the board—perhaps dice or instructional cards. But his roommates, who had taken a few programming classes, had a different idea. “What if we put this thing on a computer?” Heinemann ...  More
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  • A Day Inside Hall H

  • It’s an ugly moment, an unfortunate capper to a great session, to be followed by many of the guys sitting around me offering up tired lines like “I hope they feel empowered now!” and several recitations of the Twilight mantra ...  More
  • Thursday, July 25
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  • Comic-Con leftovers: 20 tons worth

  • Comic-Con, with its 130,000 attendees over four days, may generate millions of dollars in revenues for local businesses, but it also manufactures close to 20 tons of trash on surrounding city streets. That's where the Downtown Partnership's Clean & Safe ...  More
  • Wednesday, July 24
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  • Social Networking in the 1600s

  • But what was the actual impact of coffeehouses on productivity, education and innovation? Rather than enemies of industry, coffeehouses were in fact crucibles of creativity, because of the way in which they facilitated the mixing of both people and ideas. ...  More
  • Monday, June 24
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  • If Mad Men Really Addressed Race

  • Much has been made of Mad Men’s tentative handling of racial tensions in the 1960s. The arrival of each new season brings the same anticipation that race may finally be brought to the forefront of the series. But while most ...  More
  • Thursday, April 11
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  • Art After Occupy

  • It’s not typical for artists to go out and see the world. Most prefer to sit politely in their studios and make increasingly refined versions of the same piece until they die. Once, artists had a monopoly on image making. ...  More
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