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Building a perfect Paris picnic
Francis Lam
A guided food tour with a dash of history, culture and hot teenagers making out (with a handy map!)
Somerset Maugham’s brilliant biography
Katherine A. Powers
The British writer never wanted his story told, but Selina Hastings' "Secret Lives" has done so, beautifully
The copyright wars come to “Glee”
Andrew Leonard
Could real high school kids get away with such reckless appropriation of commercial pop music?
“Same-sex” Malawi couple splits
Miranda Simon
After being freed from prison for attempting marriage, they call it quits. Also: Why they aren't actually "gay"
Culinary diplomacy at the Axis of Evil Cafe
Riddhi Shah
The Conflict Kitchen serves only food from places Americans are supposed to hate. Can taste create understanding?
Whitman and Fiorina: Silicon Valley’s shabby side
Dan Gillmor
The top California Republican candidates are a reminder of the tech industry's less-admirable values
US official: Gulf oil drilling paused, not stopped
Associated Press
Interior Secretary Ken Salazaar assures congress and gulf residents that drilling has been postponed, not stopped
Baby Gaga is a bummer
Tracy Clark-Flory
A remake of Lady Gaga's "Telephone" starring a 3-year-old has sparked outrage -- but it mostly just makes me sad
Joe Lieberman still flirting with endorsing Linda McMahon
Alex Pareene
Our most sanctimonious senator won't let a little pro wrestling sully his admiration for Republican Linda McMahon
Why “Glee” is this century’s “Twin Peaks”
Matt Zoller Seitz
As the last episode of Season 1 airs tonight, we look back on this apparently shallow sitcom's radical sincerity
Are bustaurants the new food truck?
McAllister Jimbo
An L.A. entrepreneur brings the latest mobile dining gimmick to American shores -- but will it last?
The meaning of torture porn
Thomas Rogers
From "Saw" to "Human Centipede": An expert on horror movies explains the moral appeal of a controversial genre
All hail iPhone 4 (until tomorrow)
Andrew Leonard
Applause greets a Steve Jobs demo as the smart-phone future careens into the present, again
Our hard-core, adversarial press corps
Glenn Greenwald
Leading "journalists" play water sports with Rahm and Biden and proudly giggle about it later
Nailing infertility with an ad
Lynn Harris
Finally, couples trying to conceive find understanding and comfort ... in a campaign by big pharma?
If social media had been widespread on 9/11
Dan Gillmor
We would remember the terrorist attacks differently if we communicated then the way we do now
Israel and the psychology of “never again”
Sandy Tolan
The wounds of its people's tragic history have trapped Israel in a cycle of violence
Nick Hornby: Stuff I’ve been reading
Nick Hornby
The bestselling author's ongoing effort to balance the books he's bought with the books he's managed to read
“Hurt Locker’s” illegal downloading wars
Sam Adams
A lawsuit pits a misguided war-movie producer against shrill, free-culture extremists -- and everybody loses
The right price for BP’s disaster
Andrew Leonard
Bring on the lawyers! Suing BP won't plug the leak, but it may make other oil companies think twice about risk
“The Cove” screening canceled in Tokyo after protests
Yuri Kageyama
Japanese film distributor met with outrage, claims of betrayal
Ken Salazar, corporatism and the BP oil spill
Glenn Greenwald
Obama says Deepwater Horizon environmental review had to be waived because of bad law -- which he could have fought
Female genital mutilation in the U.S.: No compromise
Lynn Harris
What we can learn from the American Academy of Pediatrics' hasty reversal on "clitoral nicking"
Book owners have smarter kids
Laura Miller
When it comes to your children, the books in your house matter more than your education or income
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