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Celebrating 30 Years Of ‘Fresh Air’: Remembering Horror Film Director Tobe Hooper

August 31, 2017

Celebrating 30 Years Of ‘Fresh Air’: Remembering Horror Film Director Tobe Hooper Hooper, who died Saturday, wrote and directed the 1974 cult classic film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,which helped…

Books

‘Too Fat, Too Slutty’ Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women

June 28, 2017

In the seventh century B.C., the poet Semonides of Amorgos wrote a catalog of unmanageable women. First, there are the women who resemble pigs, "resting in filth and growing fat."…

Articles

How The White Establishment Waged A ‘War’ On Chinese Restaurants In The U.S.

June 16, 2017

In most American cities these days, it seems like there's a Chinese restaurant on every other street corner. But in the late 1800s, that ubiquity was exactly what certain white…