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Rallying the troops

Your guide to Netroots Nation 2012
So many panels, so many receptions, so many opportunities to get filthy drunk. It's hard to know where to begin. Well, you've come to right place.
Game Change?
The bills, designed to choke off online piracy of movies, music, and pharmaceuticals, seemed greased for passage.
Don't taze us, we're with the media
As the Veterans for Peace led marchers into the mayhem of last month's NATO protest in Chicago, photographers and cameramen from major media outlets rode ahead of the pack on a double-decker bus.

Talking Intouchables

Winners and losers at Cannes 2012
"KIDMAN PEES ON EFRON!" lacks the historic heft of "GARBO TALKS!", but that's one of the contextually apt things that happens in Precious director Lee Daniels's florid 1969-set The Paperboy.
Review: Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
Whatever your opinion of the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, you can't deny that his brother Yoni was a hero, a courageous man whose conflicts and triumphs mirror those of his homeland.
Review: For Greater Glory
Bring coffee, because director Dean Wright's dramatization of the 3-year-long Cristero War (1926-9) seems to last longer than the Mexican conflict itself.

Failure

Future Fatty Foods
Heart disease, courtesy of ... the future!!
Bibs are back!
Bibs: they're not just for babies anymore.
The Queer Issue
QUILTBAG folks tell their stories of newfound visibility, rethinking "gay nights," political music, and more

Wild things

Out: Dancing among DJs at Petrol's third-anniversary party at Middlesex
The appearance of DFA Records heavyweights the Juan Maclean and Justin Miller at the third anniversary of Petrol, the monthly Tuesday-night party at Middlesex, was going off — popping off.
Seer Group players share more than music
Seer Group's Jason Rozen has a history of working with — and helping out — his friends.
The Big Hurt: An unknown legend comes in from the cold
From the early '70s through the late '90s, artist branding guru Harold Wells worked with nearly every major label, coming up with perfect names for some of the most famous acts in rock history.

Caffeine Kickstand

Review: Moksa
Moksa, or moksha, is the concept in Buddhism and Hinduism of enlightenment by way of release from the mental bonds of reality.
On the Cheap: China King
A new restaurant can inspire a mixture of anticipation and dread: will it live up to its pre-opening hype?
On the Cheap: One of the Kind
Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" may not seem like a good way to describe Sichuan and Shandong cuisine, but that's exactly the feeling you get from the Chinese regional offerings at One of the Kind: a satisfying numbing of the tongue and lips.

May 22 2012 – Aug 18 2012 | Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Finding out what makes the Meat Puppets tick with a new oral history
As half-assed a form as it can be, the rock-band oral history is a folk form nonetheless, with a great claim to authenticity.
Jasper Johns cools it
The title of Jasper Johns's 1975 painting The Dutch Wives refers to a slang term for, alternately, a prostitute or sex doll or a glory hole.
Jonathan Lethem braves Talking Heads’ Fear of Music
In every single rock documentary on the BBC, there comes a certain moment.

Always on

Crossword: ''Metal on Metal''
What's that sound?
Crossword: ''Special K''
It's good for you.
Review: Trials Evolution
Trials Evolution is a game about launching dirt bikes off sweet jumps, gunning for record-breaking times, and occasionally doing backflips. It's like a modern-day Excitebike .