I do this so you can wrap your palms around the leathers of my spine long after I am gone. I do this so that I can live on and on in the silent whispers that warm your mind’s waking hours like the early dawn. Your body can hold nothing of me. It is...
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Sisters in War reads like a serial drama, kicking off with the fall of Saddam Hussein in a time of naïve hope. Christina Asquith’s breezy style still captures the complexities of the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, particularly how one can be anti-Republican, think...
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Does Jerry Buss know just how fitting the purple and gold of his Los Angeles Lakers are? These elite athletes are draped in symbols of immortality and beauty sent from God.
Or so you would think if you were a scientist or painter in the...
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I’m watching Canada’s finest real lesbians do it. Maybe they aren’t Canada’s finest. But they’re real lesbians. In a beard-stroking kind of way, I’m selecting scenes from this all-girl website for an erotic compilation for women that doubles as a showcase for female directors....
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Sex, drugs, and, well, rock and roll wasn’t yet invented when Lizzie Siddal took her place as a Pre-Raphaelite muse. But if there were a Sid and Nancy in Victorian London, it was Lizzie and her rebel painter/poet paramour Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Now, Rossetti...
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Andre Malraux, a French adventurer once asked, “Who can claim to have seen the most beautiful city of the world without having seen Isfahan?” Designer and gemologist Carri Vacik’s Isfahan ring captures the splendor of Persia’s crown jewel for the woman who relates to...
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