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So once again New Year's Eve was a bummer. That's probably because there are so many ways such a highly anticipated evening could go very wrong. For example, you might have...
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Do you get blank stares when you talk about your Ph.D. thesis? Does a Saturday spent gaming in your basement sound like heaven? Does your job title end in "ologist"? Are you...
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In 2005, University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times columnist Stephen J. Dubner co-wrote Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of...
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Who's worse when it comes to public policy grandstanding, fear-mongering, ignorance, and general slinging of bullshit? Sarah Palin, who thrashed Bachmann when it came to...
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And so the holidays pass, the biting Minnesota winter encases us all, and January, a month that breathes like no other, delivers its bitter winds to our ruddy cheeks, swirling...
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Well written article. Not a big fan of Brett, but his influence in the NFL is second to none; he's one of the last major "legends" of the franchise. This is one of the first...
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It may not seem that jazz, politics, and standup comedy would make likely bedfellows, but singer Nellie McKay has mastered the art of weaving them together perfectly. As a...
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When Ben Crew says that there's a war on, he's pulling a seamless Buster Keaton—if he's joking, he isn't showing it.
"We believe in this," he says, punctuating his...
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There are solo artists whose names appears on album covers even though a full band plays, and there are solo artists who make the songs their own, taking center stage and...
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Mya feat. Nicki Minaj"Ponytail"
How many strip-club anthems are this sinuously sensual or concentrate on hair like this, and how exactly to throw it around while...
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I have never in my life had a bartender cut me off, though it nearly happened the other day when I was out to lunch at Barbette with City Pages' former restaurant critic Dara...
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For years Hollywood has wrestled with adapting C.D. Payne's 1993 novel Youth in Revolt—which actually was three novels collected under one title, and so the...
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Like director Edward D. Wood Jr.'s own odes to the outcast, Tim Burton's highly personal takes on genre have often been accused of narrative incomprehensibility. Which is to...
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This is always a messy process, full of calculation, hunch, rekindled passions, and a thwarted impulse to somehow convey how many and how varied were the emotions and ideas...