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  • Oh, Daddy!

    The author of a new book about fatherhood on today's "insane" parenting culture, and why guys can use a little advice about raising kids.
  • Thanks for shopping, little lady!

    Citing lagging sales, department stores are phasing out petite clothing departments.
  • Deep chicks

    Women's voices have become lower in the last 50 years. Have our bodies changed or are we trying to compete with men?
  • The damage done

    How that Newsweek article really did a number on women.
  • It's a man's world

    "Maddox," the Web programmer turned pop-culture hero whose book "The Alphabet of Manliness" recently leapt to the top of Amazon's sales list, talks about obedient wives, the craze for all things manly, and whether the next generation is going to be "totally puss-onified"
  • Remembering the "Naked Guy"

    Andrew Martinez led an amusing crusade to be nude that taught me about body acceptance.
  • Return of the brainless hussies

    From "American Idol" to Paris Hilton to an army of jiggly video stars, vapid females seem to be everywhere these days. Have we really gone this far backward, baby?
  • The classy bachelor party

    Tired of strippers, some men just want to hang out and talk. There's nothing unmanly about that.
  • Hipster rebel punk outsiders -- 99 cents a dozen

    A disillusioned ex-boho argues that consumer culture has turned "rebellion" and "individuality" into meaningless poses, about as transgressive as a turtleneck.
  • Education, homosexuality, the media and pop culture

    Readers write about academia and its disintegration, lesbians without personalities, Peter Pan syndrome among gay men and simpering nymphets of the Flockhart-Paltrow school.
  • Michaelllllll Jorrrrrdan!

    Forget the NBA playoffs. At the IMAX movie "Michael Jordan to the Max," the greatest player who ever was lives again.
  • The book on film

    Director Martin Scorsese presents a new series of books about film, starring James Agee, Vachel Lindsay, David Selznick and "2001."
  • Cybersex 101

    Can't find porn online? Maybe you need a real adult education -- one that brings hardcore scenes and sex chat tips into the classroom.
  • The Dixie Chicks, TV Guide and me

    America's favorite weirdly schizophrenic magazine comes bound in leather in swanky hotel rooms.
  • Songs that kill

    In the dark comic world of "American Psycho," pop is an essential soundtrack to murder.
  • Are we not divas?

    Guys -- at least straight guys -- can't be divas. They don't have the right shoes.
  • All this useful beauty

    The hottest art show in America is never better than Tom Cruise in his underwear. Wouldn't a nice Kate Spade handbag be so much more practical?
  • "T for Texas/T for Tennessee"

    From "Waltz Across Texas" to "The Tennessee Waltz": Will Bush or Gore dance his way to the White House?
  • The ballad of Luther and Johnny

    In the jungles of Southeast Asia, 12-year-old twins lead a band of rebels. My twin sister and I got into trouble a lot, too.
  • Honest Abe and Earnest Al

    Reciting Lincoln's words, Gore -- the geek candidate who cares about climate change in 10th century Mexico -- confronts America's most famous presidential ghost.
  • Please, sir, may I have a mother?

    Despite the WB's reputation as the teen-sex network, shows like "Dawson's Creek" and "Roswell" owe their appeal more to the damaged-family yearnings of a Brontk or Dickens novel than to sheer skin.
  • Risky business

    Tom Cruise is not one of us. He's always aloof and alone, seemingly judging us with his eyes. He makes us very, very nervous. Maybe that's why we can't resist him.
  • My favorite things

    Bathrobes, Canadians and plastic chairs: These were the things that made my year.
  • "I'm a pure insider"

    "It Hurts" author Matthew Collings on the uselessness of secular critics, Warhol's sincere cynicism and how one avoids annoying art-speak.
  • Moving pictures

    Why have there been more good movies in the past eight weeks than in the past eight years?
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