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“In Pursuit of Silence”: How noise really is killing us
Thomas Rogers
From noisy Starbucks to shrill tea party protests, America is getting louder -- and we're paying the price
David Simon’s magnificent, melancholy “Treme”
Heather Havrilesky
"The Wire" creator's passionate tour through post-Katrina New Orleans is TV storytelling as its finest
Pope’s preacher likens accusations to anti-Semitism
Frances D'emilio
The Vatican tries to distance itself from the controversial comparison that has sparked a new wave of criticism
Mean girls aren’t a myth
Sady Doyle
A New York Times Op-Ed arguing that the girl bully epidemic is a "hoax" relies on the wrong statistics
Things that would not happen today
Glenn Greenwald
Jerald terHorst resigned as Ford's press secretary, 30 days after taking the job, to protest the pardon of Nixon
Why kitchens stopped being like pirate ships
Francis Lam
10 years after Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential," the bad-boy chef is an endangered species
The end of the hipster
Thomas Rogers
They've been parodied for their skinny jeans and cheap beer, but you might not have them to kick around for long
Rick Santorum, a serious presidential candidate?
Alex Koppelman
Former Pennsylvania senator gearing up for campaign, reportedly based on premise he was right all along
Italian politicians rally to pope’s defense
Frances D'emilio
Newspapers and elected officials label recent reports of his knowledge of pedophilia as "attacks"
George Takei: Pop culture punch line turned hero
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Spokesman for gay rights, Howard Stern's unlikely ally -- the former Mr. Sulu keeps boldly going, and going
Death to the French food snob
Thomas Rogers
An anti-pretention movement is tearing apart France's culinary traditions -- and now it's coming to America
Sandra Bullock should have stayed home?
Tracy Clark-Flory
Columnist David Brooks uses the actress to illustrate the danger of choosing a career over love. Gimme a break!
The death — and life — of art-house cinema
Andrew O'Hehir
A New York festival's lineup captures the likely outsider hits of 2010 -- and most are headed your way
What the iPad means for social media
Andrew Leonard
A world where Bulgarian politicians play Farmville and Margaret Atwood tweets is a world made for Apple's new toy
Mike McConnell, the WashPost & the dangers of sleazy corporatism
Glenn Greenwald
A former Bush director uses the Washington Post to advocate dangerous policies he would personally profit from
George Lucas, the most hated filmmaker in America
Paul Hiebert
More than a decade after "The Phantom Menace," a documentarian examines why "Star Wars" fans just can't forgive
Why it’s OK to love Styx
Steve Almond
They've been slagged as embarrassing, over-earnest, everything wrong with '70s music. Forget that: This band rules
Tiger, Jesse James: Why do cheaters marry?
Aaron Traister
They could have saved a lot of grief by skipping the nuptials, but in America, marriage still has a powerful pull
“How to Train Your Dragon”: Triumph of the beast
Stephanie Zacharek
The real success of DreamWorks' painless animated fantasy is a creature who seems thrillingly real
The horrible prospect of Supreme Court Justice Cass Sunstein
Glenn Greenwald
The N.Y. Times bizarrely claims that choosing this long-time defender of Bush radicalism would "excite the left"
Who’s afraid of the word “feminism”?
Judy Berman
The publisher of a women's music magazine trashes "the f word" as outdated, but she's the one who's out of touch
Competitive eating: The most American sport?
Thomas Rogers
Amid the push toward healthier food, the popularity of eating contests continues to soar
Justin Bieber, tween of all media
Mary Elizabeth Williams
He has a hit song, a Twitter feud with Conan, a satire blog of lesbian look-alikes and the world's attention
Forget vegan, he’s a “hegan”
Thomas Rogers
The Boston Globe coins a ridiculous new term for manly men who don't mind eating their veggies
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