Big Love, a show mostly known for making men incredibly tired (three wives, no beers), decided to throw its first-born son and Oedipus of Latter-day Saints, Ben, into a Straight Edge mosh last night. Granted, the parallel between Mormonism and Straight Edge is appreciated: both creeds being relatively new and...

The long lines at the liquor store, children on the knee of Italo Svevo, the faint scent of urine in your breakfast; it's beginning to look a lot like Bloomsday (June 16): the day the world celebrates James Joyce's Ulysses. It's a day full of wonder and...

In Aurora, Illinois, there's trouble. On Thursday, May 31 at West Aurora High School, 200 students incited a melee that many teachers describe as a "food fight." Teenagers, bored with booze and firearms, have taken to using food as crude missiles, which are indiscriminately launched into crowds of innocent children....