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By Liz Spikol

Queering the Fest

This year, everything is different, and it all starts with a welcome name change: from PIGLFF to QFest—the Q standing in, of course, for queer. White gay men? You’re still welcome. But black lesbians, Jewish transmen, Buddhist intersexuals, straight grandmothers, people who don’t know what the hell they’re feeling—you’re all welcome too.  

Posted Jul. 7, 2009 | Comments: 0

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SCREEN

By Matt Prigge

The Hurt Locker

The Iraq war movie machine, much like the war itself, hasn’t been going swimmingly. The movies, earnest and ham-fisted in a way that would shame even Stanley Kramer, have stunk and bombed, all while genre films that brutally comment on the Bush II era (The Bourne Ultimatum, Manderlay, various zombie movies) have succeeded.

Posted Jul. 7, 2009 | Comments: 0

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ARTS AND CULTURE

By J. Cooper Robb

Season Review

With better material (and perhaps less money) to work with, directors rediscovered their creativity, mounting more sparse, intimate productions that placed the focus on the plays’ characters. The less-is-more approach paid off in productions ranging from the Wilma’s powerful staging of the epic Scorched to Theatre Exile’s thoughtful exploration of pedophilia in the stunning Blackbird.  