Sexpertise
My Summer of ____________
Aaaaand we’re back! Welcome, Brunonians, old and new, to the academic year of 2009-2010. Woohoo! How was your summer? What did you do? Actually, don’t answer that. Because, really, I don’t care. Don’t get me wrong; the answers that Brown students furnish never fail to captivate. That internship with the BBC. The solo project of…
Tartuffe on Camera
who’s watching
First Sunday in September. The sun is beaming on the main Green, still vacant, except for the occasional freshman-parent-unit strolling across. Inside the cool halls of Leeds, a group of actors scurry around in the semi-dark theatre, surrounded by surveillance cameras rigged around the stage. Their image, in form of unidentified bodies and flashing limbs,…
No Sight but Certainly Vision
blind musicians bring the tunes
Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Art Tatum figure prominently among some of the most successful blind musicians; there are also the three different blues musicians who went by the name Blind Willie. Aside from Mr. Wonder’s presence at the Obama Inaugural Concert in January, the brightest moments of these luminaries are largely in the past. …
Post- Sex: The Hardy Brothers
our first mystery
FRANK: Hello. I’m Frank Hardy. That’s not the name printed on my birth certificate, but as far as lowbrow write-in sex column pseudonyms go, my younger brother Joe and I feel as if it’s hard to beat. I’m sorry, that was crude. But did you think Dear Abby’s name was really Abby?! The real (fictional) Hardy Boys were detectives…
dude. food.
Stock Options
“Paul Allen has mistaken me for this dickhead Marcus Halberstram. It seems logical because Marcus also works at P&P and in fact does the same exact thing I do and he also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a…