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...raising, entertainment, and titillation. The show’s national tour gives workers in the sex industry—strippers, porn actors, burlesque dancers, dominatrixes—a chance to present a more nuanced view of their profession. They critique and celebrate. They get naked. But when I first heard about the show, I focused on the third word in the title: What would a stripper have to say about art? This question in mind, I joined the line of more than 100 people waiting on Saturday for the show’s one-night-only stop at the Adams...
...camera pans out, the Playmate raises the shovel over her head and begins jabbing it into the trunk. The video then quickly cuts to the words “Flashing Lights” before ending over a minute before the actual song would normally stop. When I heard this song months ago, I figured the video would feature a dark room full of Rita G’s and pulsing, (obviously) flashing lights. Kanye would probably dominate the frame and look pretty pleased with himself. Not so much, it turns out. What did I know? —Andrew...
...have heard of the companies that Godin, in his distinctively tangy style, chooses to single out for praise. After all, CafePress.com which sells millions of dollars' worth of imprinted items every month, and Etsy.com a site specializing in handmade crafts and artifacts, are hardly General Electric. But being small yet scalable is the springboard of Web companies. "Why didn't American Express invent (or buy) PayPal?" Godin asks. "Why didn't Barnes & Noble become Amazon?" Because they were busy running multibillion-dollar businesses...
...senior is looking forward to her next big challenge: Oxford.Named one of the 2008 recipients of the highly competitive and highly coveted Rhodes Scholarship in November, the Brookline, Mass. native will be joining the ranks of the Oxford Blues following her graduation this June.“I first heard about it and thought about applying at the beginning of last summer,” Blattler reminisced. “Everybody gets these emails from their house fellowship advisors, and I guess my brother encouraged me to apply.”But the process was no small task for Blattler...
...some money for my teaching from time to time but, to tell the truth, I haven't been paid for 17 months," Patrice explains. "So, when I heard this mine had opened, I decided to come and try my luck...