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'Vagina' caps off V-Week

The word “vagina” elicits reactions that run the gamut from squeamishness to embarrassment to disgust. However, this weekend’s production of the “Vagina Monologues” reclaims the […]

Sage's 'Healthy Distrust' is poetic but dry

On the opening track of his new album, “A Healthy Distrust,” Sage Francis says, “Radio suckers never play this.” He’s probably right, too, since his […]

Godard's new film is way beyond belief

Jean-Luc Godard’s overpowering but insanely confusing new film “Notre Musique” is an astonishing symphony of garish colors, violent images and a jarring musical score. Godard, […]

Where do you fall on the sex curve?

As Miss Marple said in “The Murder at the Vicarage,” “so many people are a little queer, aren’t they? — in fact most people are […]

Ben Lee is a happy, indie, cute kid

“They play Good Charlotte on the radio, and that’s the way I like it/ I hear Beyonce on the radio, and that’s the way I […]

'Date' is a romantic comedy with the heart of a Viagra ad

It seems sublimely coincidental that the release of Clare Kilner’s tepid romantic comedy “The Wedding Date” should happen to coincide with the perennially hateful Valentine’s […]

Kanye, Keys, the Grammys, oh my!

As Eminem once said, “You think I give a f*** about a Grammy?” This Sunday, the much-maligned music awards show returns to the airwaves, ready […]

In the mind of an unreal artist

Jessica Yu’s “In the Realms of the Unreal” is in style and content different from any other documentary I’ve ever seen. Ostensibly a biography of […]

'Sex Week' was lots of talk for very little action

Between Feb. 9 and 14 of last year, the inboxes of Yale students were bombarded with mass e-mails about vibrators, masturbation, pornography and sex. This […]

Falling (or tripping) in love is hard on the knees

I recently had a “Twist and Shout” experience. I twisted my ankle, and then I shouted. Well, really, it was shriller than that. More of […]

I hope I die before I get old — and smell

As a child, I used to dread family visits to my great-grandmother at the old folks’ home. I was not a fickle child, nor was […]