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Defending Your Email from SpammersDo's and don'ts for protecting your email from heavy spam.
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Is There Any Defense Against Somali Pirates?Somali pirates are not interested in the material cargo of a ship, just the human cargo, whom they now ransom with impunity
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The New World of Self-PublishingHow to publish your book, which services to use, how it all works and what it costs.
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Moving to New York City on a BudgetOut of towners don't know to choose a NYC neighborhood by the subway that serves it.
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Ganymede: A New Journal for Gay MenA new journal from New York, Ganymede reflects the mixture of high and low tastes actually pursued by literate gay men. -
Visitors to Victorian EnglandChristiansen's "The Victorian Visitors" paints a picture of an age through the experiences of visitors, not natives. -
Choosing Toothpaste by Flouride LevelsFlouride, which does all the work killing tooth and gum infection, is not offered at adequate levels in most toothpaste brands, so you have to shop for the few brands that have enough of it.
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The Gay Underworld of Late-Victorian London: Theo Aronson's Book is a Landmark Study of Private Spaces at the Time of Oscar WildeTelegraph boys, moonlighting soldiers, private clubs with guests in drag--all were options of gay resort in late-Victorian London
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Book Review of The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really WorksCaptive suppliers are forced by Wal-Mart to send their factories overseas, and stores are under-staffed by design
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James Saslow's Pictures and PassionsGay art historian James Saslow surveys Western art as the story of same-sex desire in visual terms -
Vermeer's Paintings are a Window to World Trade: A New Book Traces the Role in Global Trade of Key Objects in Paintings by Dutch ArtistChinese porcelain, Turkish carpets, felt hats, silver coins: each item in paintings by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer tells a story about the global economy of the mid-1600s. -
Gay Liberation was Born in Victorian OxfordDefenders of gay rights were able to argue that gay men were not just corrupters of youth because classics scholars in Victorian Oxford started the study of Greek love as it was and could be again -
Prince Albert: The Real Monarch of Modern BritainGerman-born Prince Albert married Queen Victoria then got busy providing far-reaching cultural leadership -
Bachelors of Art: Ned Warren and John MarshallAmerican Ned Warren and Britisher John Marshall, who met at Oxford in the 1880s, assembled a major collection of Greco-Roman art prized by museums in London, Boston, and New York
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Ian Duncan: From Gay Teen to Porn MogulGay teen Ian Duncan opened his own porn studio in Montreal, and now, at 25, will retire from on-camera performing to run his expanding empire
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Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's SaviorIt took years for Oscar Wilde's devoted friend Robbie Ross to untangle his affairs and buy back his copyrights -
Rosa Bonheur: The Art of Wearing PantsA specialist in painting animals, Rosa Bonheur found she had become famous just for wearing pants in 19th century France -
Favorite Gay Interest WebsitesThe best posting sites for male beauty and gay dish -
The Drag Queen Mae West Took Her Act FromVaudeville drag queen Bert Savoy created the Mae West persona before talking movies -
Brideshead Revisited: Movie Vs. BookThe 1981 mini-series version of Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" left the book's contradictions intact; the new movie version tries to solve those contradictions and departs too far from the story
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Wind Power in Our FuturePromising ideas for generating real power from simple, cheap wind turbines in the midwest and upstate New York
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Filming Gay Porn with Matthew RushUsing the internet as its base, the world of gay sex workers is crowded, lucrative, and busy.
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Decoding Oscar Wilde's MasterpieceClarifying the gay slang in its text helps to open up new meanings for Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest" -
Zelotti's Mannerist Frescoes at CataioA recent discovery of a major group of forgotten Mannerist frescoes will require all surveys of Mannerism to be re-written
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Women Rising, Men SinkingFirst college campuses graduated more women than men, then the lucrative professions...where does that leave men? -
Selling Your Books and Records in New York CityNobody will buy your used clothing, but used books, DVDs, CDs, and VHS tapes have a market, if you know where to go
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Gay and Steamy: The Career of the Club Baths, 1960-1980If a boy was bored by smoky and boozy gay bars, he could go to this quiet, swank bath-house, by and for gay men only, to meet his next boyfriend.
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Russian Farming Comes AliveRussia has more under-used farming acreage than any country on earth. Collective farming is now foreign-owned corporate farming in Russia.
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Is Putin a Communist or a Fascist?Putin's form of autocracy leaves the private sector and the lives of its people largely alone. Outside politics, Russia is now free and dynamic. The Cold War will not return because it would be too bad for business.
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Gay Advocacy: Gay at FordhamEvery gay man is fully deputized to advocate for every other gay man, and each act of advocacy can really make a difference. -
Why New York's Public Theater FailsThe reason Public Theater fails is the same reason New York theater fails: a vast roster of lousy untested material with few classic revivals--the inverse of London theater. -
Is Almodovar Evading His Destiny?Gay Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar has spent his career letting women tell their stories; his gay men have little to say
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The Day I Met Truman CapoteThat high voice, famous from The Tonight Show, was what I heard long before I saw Truman Capote.
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Gericault's Lover: A Black Male Model Occupies a Footnote in Art HistoryThe black boy at the apex of a pile of survivors in Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa" was also his domestic partner.
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Straight to Hell Night at Pyramid in New York's Lower East SideIt didn't matter that the drag queen MC flopped that night; the crowd supplied its own surprises.
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Why MoMA Doesn't Work: New York's Modern Art Museum 2004 RenovationAfter spending $850 million, the Museum of Modern Art's renovation still doesn't work. Somebody over there is a moron.
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Turner Exhibit at New York's Met MuseumThe deeply original works of British painter J.M.W. Turner were Impressionist before the Impressionists.
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Focus Groups for Fun and CashHow to become a regular in paid focus groups and mock juries
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New York Museums on One Dollar or LessAlmost every museum in New York has free or nearly-free hours of admission--you just have to know when.
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A Message VoidA memoir of trying to befriend a younger gay man: with so much in common, it should have been easy, but for no discernible reason, it failed.
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Rollerena: A Forgotten Gem of Recent Gay History in New York CityRollerena was a superbly equipped, genuinely witty drag queen who entertained New York City for 20 years, then suddenly disappeared for nearly another 20 before calmly re-appearing, her act retired.
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Gay New York, 1968In 1968, New York was suspended between two worlds: the old world of Noel Coward and Judy Garland had burned out but the new world of Starbucks and e-mail was still in the future.
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Two Godfather Templates: The Road to Perdition in ContextHow the film "The Road to Perdition" fits in with other gangster movies.
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How Chekhov Got StartedHow Anton Chekhov launched a life of literature when he needed some quick cash.
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The Last of Flannery O'ConnorIn her interviews and radio and TV appearances, Flannery O'Connor spoke with the same voice as her great fiction.
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Penelope Fitzgerald's novella At Freddie's: Curator of VoicesA late bloomer, Penelope Fitzgerald published all her best fiction between the ages of 60 and 80, after a full life as housewife, office worker, business-owner, and widow; she died in 2000. Arguably, Fitzgerald is Britain's answer to Chekhov.
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Memories of InexpressionSometimes watching, not listening, tells you how your relationship will end.