Monthly Archives: July 2008

I’m just not that into you, genetically speaking

By 2008, most of us have realized that the person you consider your “soul mate” is really just the carrier of some genes you think a mini You ought to carry in his DNA. But talking and spending time together are so 19th century, and they leave you blind as to whether the genes of [...]

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Kiss my math, bitch

 
Remember Danica McKeller? No? How about Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years? Yes, it’s alwaystragic when a person’s identity is swallowed by a past fictional role, and it’s especially devastating for one’s acting career. In lieu of finding steady acting work, McKellar has reached into the recesses of her intellectual past – she majored in math [...]

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Ad Heaven

In the city’s Municipal Services Building, in the office of the Zoning Board, sits a manila folder filled with letters teeming with invective. Most are written by owners of million-dollar-plus condos. “Hideously massive,” “appalled,” “a blemish,” they say. They’re reactions to an attempt by Unisys Corp. to place two 900-square-foot glowing red signs on the [...]

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Q & A with new art czar Gary Steuer

After keeping the arts community on the edge of its seat for months and months, Mayor Michael Nutter finally announced who will head the city’s resurrected Office of Arts and Culture. Gary Steuer, who currently serves as a vice president for D.C. nonprofit Americans for the Arts, will serve as director of the brand-new Office [...]

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More pictures of children

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