Monthly Archives: August 2008

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men

 
Within the United States is the nation of Guyland, a demographic of 16-26 year-old white males who live by the credo “Bros Before Hos” and binge drink their ways through their formative years. At their most innocuous, the citizens of Guyland are nothing more than young men who play too many violent video games and [...]

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Review of “The Longshots”

The idea that Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst would direct a family film like “The Longshots” is the stuff of late-night talk show jokes, an idea so absurd that there would seem to be some law of nature prohibiting it. But you’ve got to hand it to Durst. The guy skyrockets to fame and coolness, [...]

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Charles Hayes

Double takes are common with Charles Hayes. It usually requires two glances for passers-by to realize that the grocery cart he pushes is not a homeless man’s compartmentalized life, but a makeshift art gallery with colored canvases and artistically spruced-up housewares.
It’s how Hayes, 62, has been showcasing his work for the past two months. Three [...]

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This is Not a Game

 

On Saturday, members of Casino-Free Philadelphia walked to the proposed site of Foxwoods Casino on Columbus Boulevard, carrying beach balls, umbrellas, liquid bubbles and floaties. They stopped on the sidewalk in front of the gate at the site, and they played.
As some of the members impersonated police, asking the gatherers what they were doing and [...]

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