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Sunday, January 14, 2007
The Glamour Factor and the Fiji Effect
 
 
 
 
I love “The ‘L’ Word.”
    Saying that in the company of other lesbian feminists feels about as comfortable as saying, “I love oppression,” or “Give me some more patriarchy, please,” but I remain undaunted.
    Sure, there are issues with the show. Every television show has issues. You can’t name one ground-breaking show that doesn’t. But I think that “The ‘L’ Word” is the best publicist that the lesbian community can have. It spins us into something more glamorous, more gorgeous, more
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Boom Chicago/Chicago Tribune
 
    Ten years ago, during a post-college trip to Europe, two Northwestern graduates sat in an Amsterdam café and hatched the idea that would change their lives: Amsterdam needed Chicago improv, they decided.  And they were just the guys to import it.
    “Jon [Rosenfeld] and I were both taking classes at ImprovOlympic as a hobby, and it seemed like a Second City-style comedy show would work here,” said Andrew Moskos, now 33 and living in Amsterdam. “The Dutch are international and English-speaking
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Xena/Chicago Tribune
 
    In the last episode of the syndicated television show “Xena: Warrior Princess,” Xena was killed. Awfully.
    “They beheaded her,” said playwright Claudia Allen. “They made sure she was dead.”
    But that didn’t stop the crack creative team at About Face Theatre from deciding to put on a second production about the campy hero.
    “It’s TV, you can always bring someone back to life,” said Allen, who also wrote About Face’s 1999 hit “Xena Live!” “Soap operas have been doing it for 50 years.”
    “Xena
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Jordan
 
    This is how you bargain in Jordan.
    You look around. You look at anything you like. But you do not touch.
    Because once you touch something, the game begins.
    “Ah,” the vendor said at his stall outside dusty Jerash, the ancient Roman town to the west of Amman, “you are welcome. Have some tea.”
    “Shukran,” I said, one of my few words in Arabic. Thank you. I had brushed a silver and jade necklace with the back of my fingers.
    I had learned by then, my fourth day visiting my friend Leah, an
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Bonjour, LeBoudoir!/Chicago Free Press
 
 
 
            There are a lot of reasons to spend the weekend at LeBoudoir, Montreal’s annual lesbian burlesque festival. The performances are polished, sexy and lightened with humor. There’s a great party on Saturday night and a post-hangover picnic on Sunday.
    And, oh yeah—there will be about 1,000 women there. Beautiful, well-dressed women. And they are all sexy, whether they are girlish or boyish, geeky cool or  ‘L’ Word chic. And they’re friendly. LeBoudoir, in fact, is a weekend in
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