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Is Humanism a Religion?


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Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe By Greg M. Epstein (HarperCollins, New York) 250 pp. $14.99 (paperback)

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Delving Deeper Inside the Corrie Woman


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Re “The Killing of Rachel Corrie

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Humanists, the True Believers


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em>Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe By Greg M. Epstein (HarperCollins, New York) 250 pp. $14.99 (paperback)

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The Killing of Rachel Corrie


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Re “Controversial ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie’ Arrives at the Will Geer

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Controversial ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie’ Arrives at the Will Geer 



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From Lucy Pollak
[Editor: A two-part interview with actor Alan Blumenfeld will run Wednesday and Thursday.]

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Wusses?..!


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[Editor’s Note: Dr. Hoult is under going surgery today, and prayers would be appreciated.]

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Cowboys & Aliens: The Year's Most Underrated Blockbuster?


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As tempting as it is to label Cowboys & Aliens a genre mashup, that path leads to confusion – which goes some ways to explaining the mixed reviews and box office performance. Viewed as a seemingly irresolvable chimera, reactions to the film are akin to the befuddlement that the Saturday Night Live’s “It’s Pat!” sketches exploited for laughs, only with less amusement and interpretive acuity. For reference, consider Firefly, a bona fide mashup of two genres that the San Francisco Chronicle’s Tim Goodman, in his review of the cult TV series, described as “alarmingly opposite.” Here we were presented with an aesthetic that jammed together Western and sci-fi tropes, leading to scenes that played out as Westerns with ray-guns and hovering vehicles. Whedon’s blending of visual vocabularies from two strongly defined genres yielded results akin to the Spanglish that comes from the meld of Spanish and English. It worked, albeit very creakily, but the show’s appeal ultimately emerged from the strong storytelling and compelling character archetypes drawn from Western rather than Science Fiction sensibilities.

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Tonight at 7, Summer Concert Series Waves Bye, Bye


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Closing Night.

Can it be?

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The Jazz Opener Was a Little Light on Applause — for a Reason


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The much ballyhooed debut of jazz last night in the Summer Concert Series in the Courtyard of City Hall was, well, it was much-ballyhooed.

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Jazz Comes to the Courtyard Tonight


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After a lengthy and bitter battle last winter in Council Chambers over which entrepreneur — Gary Mandell of Boulevard Music or the Jazz Bakery — would be in charge of the 8-week Summer Concert Series, they cut the baby in pieces, biblically speaking. .

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