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...Biblical scholars would have made R. Crumb - the counterculture cartoonist famous for creating Fritz the Cat - their no. 1 choice for reinterpreting the first book of the Pentateuch. And few among Crumb's cult following would have elected that he spend four of his creative years drawing pictures to go with Sarah Palin's favorite bedside reading. Yet the weird, obsessive, oversexed artist's pictorial interpretation of Genesis, which came out Oct. 19, has shot up best-seller lists: as of this writing, it's no. 1 on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list and on Amazon.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genesis: The Word According to R. Crumb | 11/1/2009 | See Source »

Another Halloween staple, this “multi-story, totally free dance party” has “$1500 worth of club lighting” and four DJs. If you don’t mind huge crowds of sweaty partygoers, we hear this is the big event of the weekend...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Halloween Happenings | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.” We’re not sure what it’s about, but it supposedly involves “a sleepwalker with a knife, a firebrand ex-preacher, four gin-riddled singers, a sexual maniac with a wig, a schizoaffective historical re-enactor, a histrionic man in a bathtub, his mistress, and a Spanish guitar...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Halloween Happenings | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...idea first began when Mindy McDonald, Assistant to the Resident Dean, wanted to bake pumpkin-flavored chocolate-chip cookies for the students for Halloween. Quickly, the idea spiraled into a full-fledged, four-station trick-or-treatin’ heaven for everyone...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang | Title: Mather Does Trick-or-Treat | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...word of what's often called la langue de Shakespeare until they've mastered it on paper. "I think a lot of French people are hesitant to speak another language at what could be considered the expense of French," says Karin Hull, who has taught English at Berlitz for four years. "The legacy of cultural protectionism is one factor, and the way foreign languages are taught in school is another. Students pass language exams only to discover they can't really speak [the language]." (Read "Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why France Is Pushing Its Students to Master English | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

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