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I went to a reception the other night to celebrate the efforts of a group called the Innocence Project, which provides legal assistance to prisoners for whom the technology of DNA testing may n

As the general strike against President Hugo Chávez entered its third week in early December, a major TV channel broadcast statements by baseball hero Andres Galarraga and other celebrit

They say history repeats itself. But usually not quite so quickly.

How does a fiercely anticorporate musician feel about participating in a corporate entertainment system?

Trent Lott has grudgingly relinquished his grip on the Senate majority leader post, but that doesn’t mean that the Republican Party has purged “the spirit of Jefferson Davis” that Lott famously

As an unabashed, nail-biting Oakland Raiders fanatic who sits in the nose-bleed seats and who just bought my grandson pajamas and a dishware set emblazoned with the team’s infamous pirate logo, I

Darn, but those weapons of mass destruction keep turning up in the wrong places.

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Some family values.

I have a friend who is the only black person living in his luxury cooperative building. A few years back, there was a get-to-know-your-neighbor party.

So onward into 2003 we go, amid INS roundups of Middle Easterners in Southern California and the grand hunt for Saddam’s “material breaches,” which could be a song out of Gilbert and Sullivan.

We now feel warm toward Albert Gore,
Who will not run in aughty-four.
Most candidates, I must admit,
Seem at their best the day they quit.

I first read Samuel Delany’s Tales of Nevèrÿon during the high-geek days of junior high.

It’s a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the world, because he’s the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.

As Trent Lott struggled to “repudiate” segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is that he was a soul-music fan.

In more than fifteen years of rock-and-roll touring, my worst night of sleep followed a June 10, 1989, show at Centro Sociale Leoncavallo, an anticapitalist squat in Milan.

On the self-titled debut record by punk/dance band Le Tigre, there’s a short song called “Eau d’Bedroom Dancing” that pays tribute to the timeless tradition of spinning around one’s bedroom, al

The Chicago-based magazine Punk Planet–nominated for the past two years in Utne Reader‘s Alternate Press Awards for “General Excellence,” along with such better-heeled competitio

In Hicksville, Long Island, on any given Sunday afternoon, pierced and tattooed teenagers in black clothing gather to listen and watch as groups of kids like themselves tear their fingertips on

Russell Simmons, known for decades as Rush to his friends, is of average height and build for a man his age (45), with a cleanshaven face, bald dome and light complexion.

Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.

Topic magazine is a kaleidoscopic new British literary review, still in its infancy and edited by a bunch of precocious Cambridge graduate students.

Picture this: you’re stranded on a desert island with nothing to comfort you but sand, sun and, miraculously, the solar-powered sound system that washed up with you.