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Perhaps I don’t understand the concept of American Apparel because my own experiences there have been so unbelievably wack...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Apparel: Not a Good Place to Shop | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...that moment on, it’s all crazy laughs, bizarre chants, and Ol’ Dirty’s trademark off-key, off-kilter vocals. ODB’s hoarse, strangely resonant voice is in full effect, veering unpredictably from off-key wailing to deep, eerie harmonization. The concept of dynamic variation is anathema to him: for ODB, if it’s worth saying, it’s worth shouting. The opening of the record’s first track, “Lift Ya Skirt,” is reminiscent of ODB’s terrifying debut...

Author: By Tom C. Denison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: ODB | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...must never underestimate the prescience ofAshton Kutcher. Critics panned his 2004 thriller The Butterfly Effect, but its title popularized an obscure concept of chaos theory--that small acts can beget far-flung consequences, as a butterfly's flapping its wings can trigger a storm thousands of miles away. Deep stuff for the guy who punk'd Justin Timberlake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intimate Strangers | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...concept behind these events is that restaurants are impersonal, stuffy and not nearly adventurous enough. "What if you could actually cuss and high-five people and lick the plate?" Townsend asks. The answer, of course, is that you would never go to that restaurant again. Still, there is something exciting about sitting on a pillow grabbed from a couch and stuffing steamed white roughy and green-mango salsa into a savory shiitake-mushroom doughnut that I know damn well the Man doesn't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret Suppers | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by intelligent design and excited, perhaps intoxicated, by their disciplines' increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience. Brain imaging illustrates--in color!--the physical seat of the will and the passions, challenging the religious concept of a soul independent of glands and gristle. Brain chemists track imbalances that could account for the ecstatic states of visionary saints or, some suggest, of Jesus. Like Freudianism before it, the field of evolutionary psychology generates theories of altruism and even of religion that do not include God. Something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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