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Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: Rick Ross Lies, the Rolling Stones Plunder, and Taylor Swift Triumphs

Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I Sees Double

Plus, the return of Another American: Asking and Telling

Bros Icing Bros: "Tecate Bukkake" or "Wizard's Staff," The Next Generation?

​Ever hear of the insipid urban drinking terrorism ritual known as Bros Icing Bros? It's a game that involves your friends, your friends being frat-boys/patronizing the supposed behavior of frat-boys (thereby inadvertently exhibiting frat-boy behavior themselves), and The Worst Malt Liquor Dri ... More >>

New York Times is Sadly Sexless

​What's important in a marriage? For the non-married, guesses go something like this: kids, money, sex. When long-term couples don't work out and outsiders assume simplistic reasons for the dissolution, they might bet that one, or all, of The Big 3 were to blame. Curiously, in the New York Tim ... More >>

The Next Frontier of the Stem Cell Debate

"Snowflake" babies, embryo "adoption," and being pre-born again

Interview: Found Magazine's Davy Rothbart

"Jim Carroll goes to a colonic spa in San Francisco with a friend of his, and his friend shits out this plastic green army soldier... his friend, after the soldier was out of his system, he got a lot mellower." Davy's Sears-style portrait Eight years into a project that began when he discovered a ... More >>

How Superdrag's Resurrection Really Feels

The Knoxville power-pop quartet mount a snarling, ferocious comeback, spiritual awakening notwithstanding

Thursday Ephemera: Don DeLillo in Sports Illustrated

Jacket Copy finds DeLillo's "Total Loss Weekend," an 1972 Sports Illustrated essay on a sports-gambling cousin, in the SI archives: CJ is a gambler. He likes to bet on sporting events, almost any kind, and the dark crawling horror of Total Loss Weekend is never very distant. Misgivings and dread. ... More >>

The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

SXSW's 2009 Partial Performers List: If You Can Afford to Go, You Must Be Running a Ponzi Scheme

Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

Synecdoche, New York: Welcome to the Simulacra

Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

Talking with Robert Plant

Touring the South, the legend talks about Led Zep and Alison Krauss. Mostly Krauss.

Omission Accomplished

Transport Group leaves out the props; The Internationalist leaves out information

Letters

Transport Group leaves out the props; The Internationalist leaves out information

Popular Parsing

On the most American of American movie critics

NY Mirror

On the most American of American movie critics

Sports

On the most American of American movie critics

Knocked Up

On the most American of American movie critics

War Games

New Media Finds Its Place in the New World Order

Nation

New Media Finds Its Place in the New World Order

NY Mirror

New Media Finds Its Place in the New World Order

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

College Football's Real-Life Top 25

Letters

College Football's Real-Life Top 25

Letters

College Football's Real-Life Top 25

Letters

College Football's Real-Life Top 25

Mayor Pander

'Single-Standard' Rudy Bows to Baseball Bigwigs and Staten Islanders

The Graying of Indie Rock

What do you do for an encore after the spark is gone?

Statue of Limitations

What do you do for an encore after the spark is gone?