December 2002 Archives
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The Non-Expert
Santa Claus
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we determine once and for all the existence of Santa Claus.
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Personalities
Sympathy for the Deviled Eggs
Christmas has its fans and foes, but the tanenbaum-crazed, decked in holiday sweaters, are a different story.
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People
Barry Lewis
Historian from the acclaimed Walk Around New York series and New York-expert, Barry Lewis tells us about the city he loves, the people who make it work, and peace.
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Opinions
The Nine Coolest Albums of 2002
Want to be cool but don’t have the time? Get clued in here. But remember, in the world of indie-rock, what you actually listen to isn’t as important as what you claim to.
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Spoofs & Satire
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Revisited
In the first installment of a new series of re-readings, we dust off our dog-eared copy of Metamorphosis and see it in a decidedly different light.
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Stories
Sexual Mechanics
Librarians are asked all types of questions, but few must be experts on the clap. Jessa Crispin reports from a sex library, where pustules and excitable virgins are just another part of the job.
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Opinions
Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers
Don’t know what to get your (sorta) loved ones for the holidays? Well, there’s always powdered urine.
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Personalities
The Army Wives Club
There is life as a civilian, life as a soldier, and then something in-between: a soldier’s spouse. Army wife Nicole Hunter reports on the glamour, stress, and rewards of life on the base.
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Stories
Mix Tape for Dead Girl
Writing a eulogy once involved hours of revising and a good thesaurus.
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Women's Fashion
Part III, Hats
Why have hats fallen out of favor? After all, if you choose your headgear well, no one will notice what else you’re wearing.
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Letters From the Editor
Power of the Internet
Here’s the deal: My fiancée and I are starting to look for a new apartment. The stress, dangers, and complete hell of finding a good broker-free apartment in...
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Personalities
Roundtable: Academia
What happens when you put five academics together and talk about the future of higher learning, the intricacies of tenure, and whether or not American high-schoolers are really learning anything? THE EDITORS strap on their mortarboards and find out.
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The Non-Expert
Buttons
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we settle the question of why men’s and women’s buttons are on different sides of the split. And history takes a back seat.
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Letters From the Editor
Snow Day
It’s been snowing all day in New York. And real snow this time: not all that business the meteorologists kept on about in the past few weeks. ‘Get ready,...
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Listening
Ride, Nowhere
shoegazing (n): to stare at one’s shoes, typically while (whilst) playing loud, effects-laden guitar pop; coined to describe the stage presence of early-’90s British band Chapterhouse, whose tendency...
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The Switch Bearer
Santa’s Not-So-Little Helper
You know Santa: cheeks like a rose, nose like a cherry. Now meet the Krampus, a boozy, goat-horned menace that whips European children during the first days of December.
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Letters From the Editor
Good Things Come in Small Packages
I love holiday shopping. Picking out presents, crossing the names off the list, wrapping all the gifts. Every year it seems an insurmountable task. Every year it’s accomplished far...
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Letters From the Editor
Maturity Expressed
It’s good, I think, to reveal on occasion one’s younger side, to dismantle or at least set aside our mature trappings and play like blond-haired children, roll in...
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Personalities
To the Teen Beat of His Own Drummer
Maybe you only know him as “the other one” from Weird Science, but Ilan Mitchell-Smith is a former actor turned real human being (and Ph.D. candidate, no less).
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Opinions
Holiday Gift Guide
Thanksgiving’s over, Chanukah’s in full swing, and Christmas is right around the corner. Our recommendations for what to get that special someone, i.e., yourself.