Suburbs

He dribbles! He shoots! He drives me insane!
The kid next door has discovered basketball, and I have discovered an exquisite torture.
Peace movement at a crossroads
Three years ago, it was called "un-American." But now this moving antiwar protest in small-town America has been embraced by the community.
I left the suburbs for Chicago, but there's a boy back home
Here I am at the crossroads. What would you do?
Getting uppity in suburbia
Have some tea with your Brandywine at Thornbury? A little Anglophilic branding will make all your insecurities go away.
Swap meat
We're told to get married, have children and deny ourselves nothing in terms of sex -- and the conservative suburbanites of "The Lifestyle" have always played by the rules.
Soul of the suburbs
From "American Beauty" to the New York Times, those who satirize and celebrate the burbs seldom understand how they got the way they are.
Gang land
Can the same entertainment media that have popularized gang culture be used to combat gang-related violence? Plus: Men who collect penis bones; capital punishments throughout human history.
"American Beauty"
Kevin Spacey keeps a biting suburban satire from eating itself alive.
The new house blend
Terence Riley, curator of the new MOMA exhibit "The Un-Private House," talks about Martha Stewart, changing domestic ideals and why walking around your house naked is increasingly a public issue.
"Something's bound to go wrong"
A boy who played games with the police and the justice system couldn't outrun the cost of defiance.
The original regular
Cynthia Joyce reviews Liz Phair's new album, 'whitechocolatespaceegg'

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