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We got a little distracted on Saturday with Independence Day activities, but we’d be remiss not to mention another important July 4th celebration: the building of the first bus. We can’t really pin down in what year this feat of engineering first occurred (some say 1662, others the 1820s, an some 1895), but at any [...]

Looking over this year’s Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, one legendary female character archetype – the phallic mother – looms large in The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (is Harvey Milk a proxy phallic mother to the gay rights movement in Milk? discuss). We’ll therefore be taking this edition of our [...]