ARCHIVES > 2009 > FEB 11 ISSUE

The Sweet Smell of Excess

Hyperviolent vigilante Frank Castle--aka the Punisher--is on vacation in Philadelphia when he finds himself in the middle of a shoot-out between transvestite Mummer cops coming out of Geno's and hips...

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NEWS AND OPINION

By Dan Savage

Savage Love

Recently I celebrated my first year of marriage to the most amazing man. When we first began dating, he told me that he enjoys open sexuality and wants swinging to be part of any partnership he's in....

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MUSIC

By Brian McManus

Tracking the old, stodgy Grammys on new media platforms.

"Who gives a fuck about a goddamn Grammy?" That question, posed by Public Enemy on "Bring the Noise" back when rap music still mattered, wasn't rhetorical. They wanted answers. And Sunday's 51st Ann...

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MUSIC

By Katherine Silkaitis

Aspiring Hitmaker

Download our inaugural Umm...Drop podcast with Kurt Vile. "I'm real obsessive," Kurt Vile readily admits. He's obsessed with bands, with his own songs, with making things perfect, with music in gener...

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