Culture

Paintings by Congo the chimpanzee sold at auction for more than $25,000 on Monday. Link [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHIMPANZEE_ART?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-06-20-16-47-57] . Excerpt: > The three abstract, tempera paintings were auctioned at Bonhams in London alongside

Don't ask us how we stumbled upon it, but here's a lesbian writing about this coming weekend's gay pride parade. She adores the parade, but has some problems with it, like this one: > Stand proud Gay Parcheesi Players with Hay Fever! You are

The New York Times is excited. According to this story [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/fashion/sundaystyles/19GAYDAR.html?ex=1276833600&en=9a7245033eb2af5a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss] , it's getting harder and harder to distinguish queers from straights. Excerpts: > As

Reuters devotes a substantial amount of print (three Internet pages) this weekend to a story about Raphael's alleged affair with a baker's daughter. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=lifeAndLeisureNews&storyID=2005-06-17T120916Z_01_L20372736_RTRIDST_0_LIFESTYLE-ARTS-RAPHAEL-DC.XML] . Excerpt from the introductory

Crux Magazine on the boring beginning of Batman Begins and Hollywood's inability to stage a fight. Funny stuff. > OK, I understand it's Batman Begins, and you feel obligated to show his beginnings, which is acceptable as a premise even though we've seen his

An article in the June 20th issue of U.S. News & World Report speculates that suburbia might be bad for our health. A few excerpts (no link available): > Since 1960, the number of people commuting to work out of the county they live in jumped by 200 percent.

> [Eugene, Oregon's] current Human Rights Ordinance bars discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, marital status, familial status, age, sexual orientation, or source of income. The new ordinance would add "gender identity" to that

Gil Reavill, a former employee of Screw magazine and current writer for Penthouse and Maxim, has written an excellent cover story for The American Conservative about the prevalence of smut. It's not available on-line yet, but when it is, we suggest everyone read it and send the link

> It was 88 degrees and humid. Folks were eating fried catfish and hushpuppies and listening to bluesman Terry "Big T" Williams sing about the delta, while the Governor of Mississippi greeted old friends. Just another day in park - New York City's Central Park. >