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Bedfellows Sex seduces science in Mary Roach's Bonk Sex and science have a natural affinity. After all, doesn't just about everything we learn about sex come from experimentation? What happens if I do this? Will putting this and this together produce the desired results? Equal parts biology, chemistry and physics, sex makes life one big …
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Producers who mine the depths of underground dance music too often follow the letter, but not the spirit, of the genre. They might borrow the arrangements, EQ and editing styles that propelled dance floors at such legendary New York clubs as the Loft and Paradise Garage, or mimic the shimmer, clothes and hair of '80s …
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As part of their Lights In The Sky North American tour, Nine Inch Nails will play the Forum Sat. Sept. 6. Atlanta space/drone rockers Deerhunter will open (a surprisingly, bold choice by Mr. Trent Reznor). Tickets go on sale June 28 at 10 a.m. through LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.com. Since Reznor and Interscope Records parted ways, …
Interpreting Register publisher Terry Horne’s Page 2 Tuesday letter to Reg readers, the same day the paper introduced a new slimmed-down format—all pages reduced by a one-inch width to save on the cost of newsprint. (You can just call it shrinkage.) Warning: Horne uses the word “exciting” twice in his letter—in our book, a coded …
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PALM SPRINGS—Imagine if the courtyard from Melrose Place were relocated to the desert, decorated with slings and spanking benches, and populated by leatherwomen. That's pretty much where I hung out over the weekend. I've been to hundreds of BDSM events, but I've never been to one quite like Desire (DesireLeatherWomen.com). This was the fifth annual …
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Wild in the Streets, Calm in the Seas Posse on Broadway, Busywork Turns 1, and Super Minerals Get Oceanic A THREE-WAY ON BROADWAY Strength lies in numbers, and three is the magical one, as they say (“they” are rarely wrong, even if they often go heavy on the clichés). That's how you can view Posse …
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The Sunshine of Your iPod The definitive sounds of encroaching melanoma Just as a fulfilling summer consists of familiar pleasures and thrilling adventures, summer soundtracks ideally should include obvious, reliable favorites and surprising gems. This is the guiding principle of the following list of hot-season tuneage. Of course, there are as many awesome summer songs …
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Dear Readers: The Mexican has previously published only one Best Of column in his nearly four years of living under his cousin's identity in this country, but I must pull this week's first pregunta out of the archives because ustedes keep asking it—obviously, not enough of you bought my paperback because the answer's on page …
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Am about to return to la naranja after a week in Philadelphia for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' annual convention. Am happy to report yours truly won the Best Column award for alt-weeklies with a circulation over 55,000 for the second time in three years. And il cappo di tutti capi of investigative reporters, R. …
Party Crashers At this Garden Grove family barbecue, the police brought the pepper spray and handcuffs Frank Santos is sitting on a couch in his daughter's apartment in Anaheim, surrounded by family members. He's wearing a wife-beater undershirt that exposes a pair of brawny, heavily tattooed arms. The ink, his closely cropped hair, bushy goatee …
Up Sick Creek How new developments in Laguna Beach will (and won't) deal with the pollution from Aliso Creek Nine years ago, in a Weekly article titled “The Anus of Aliso Viejo,” Matt Coker described the pollution levels in Aliso Creek, which flows from Modjeska Canyon to the ocean at Laguna Beach. It was, he …
Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, who's been absent from movie screens (except as an occasional actor) for nearly as long as Indiana Jones—17 years, to be …