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None of this means that dust poses a clear and present danger or that you need to take any extraordinary measures. Just clean regularly, don't smoke, eat at the table - and try not to freak out. Dust bunnies are still only bunnies; you may just want fewer of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in Household Dust? Don't Ask | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

While I suspect that the commercial success of McCarthy’s work may be due to the tropes of science fiction and action rather than its literary merits, that does not diminish the power of McCarthy’s intensely human portrait of a father and son. Where Roth and many other contemporary novelists write about an ironic and dehumanizing world that leaves characters externally disconnected and spiritually enervated, McCarthy embraces humanity in all of its weakness, madness, and strength. Some people may find detailed digressions on spiritual exhaustion profound, but this reader found it merely exhausting...

Author: By Theodore J. Gioia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studying 'American Pastoral' to Understand 'The Road' | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...volunteer-run MOBA received a surprising amount of media attention when it held its first public exhibition in March 1994. The museum then opened its first permanent gallery space in October 1995 next to the men’s room in the basement of the Dedham Community Theater. In May 2008, they expanded to a second gallery space in the Somerville Theater in nearby Davis Square...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOBA Changes Trash to Treasure | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...MOBA board and there are rigorous rules dictating what will be considered. No works by children, no commercially-produced paintings, and no tacky tourist art are permitted. Nor are kitschy paintings on black velvet, paint-by-numbers, or latch-hook rugs accepted. “Any of the aforementioned may be compelling,” reads the introductory wall text, “but are probably better suited for the Museum of Questionable Taste, the International Schlock Collection, or the National Treasury of Dubious Home Decoration.” Above all, submissions must be sincere attempts to make an artistic...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOBA Changes Trash to Treasure | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...mocking art historical commentary, and criticism. One label, for instance, compares “The Lady with Big Pants” to Goya’s “Nude Maja,” while another pretends that a painting entitled “The Last Dance” may be, “an atypical, late work by iconoclastic French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOBA Changes Trash to Treasure | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

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