We've got our fair share of bragging rights when it comes to our local music scene: Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Grass Widow, Shannon and the Clams -- the list goes on. However, we've become jealous. Nashville is pumping out bands that are making us nail-bitingly nervous because they're damn good.
(Video starts slow and ends with you weeping at its radiant, joyful beauty.)
You know what makes dancers fun to watch? Brutal rigor. That's pretty much it. An artist's eye for the audience point of view helps too, and at the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company Home Season Concert, that's what you get. Artistic director Cai is known for the gorgeousness of her sets, costumes, and devices -- plus the brutal rigor of her dancers.
We're not afraid to admit it: If that lonely lurker drinking straight whiskey with no ice out of a plastic cup at the back of the bar wrote a book, we would totally stay up all night reading it (bonus if he knows how to properly use the comma). Lucky for us, for centuries dirty old men have been filling pages with their desperation and longing, graphically detailing all of the sex they're probably not having. These five fellas have made us feel slightly dirty and uncomfortable by turning their lust into literature.
"I want to stand up for what's right," said Jessica "Jane Doe" Gonzales. At the SlutWalk rally this past Saturday, Gonzales was also there to tell her story about being a victim of gang rape: She was assaulted by her high school football team while unconscious. At the trial the clothing she wore, the fact that she was intoxicated, and her social network photos were all used against her. The perpetrators were not convicted.
Commentary / Controversy / Marilyn Wann / Politics / Sex and Sexuality Life After Lap-Band Surgery: It's Complicated
Posted By Marilyn Wann on Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:30 AM
This is the second of a two-part commentary on the surgical procedure used to promote weight loss known as laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, or lap band. Read the first part here. -- Eds.
Surgical procedures designed to help people lose weight are becoming more prevalent, but there aren't many comprehensive, controlled, scientific studies on the effects of these, including the lap-band method. This is where a band is surgically inserted and can be adjusted to regulate the amount of food one's stomach can hold. I refer to it as stomach-binding.
Here are a few things I've found on the procedure:
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