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Looking Back on Blue Christmasesnew
A new stepbrother expecting the hamster-massacreist, a brother transformed by Thorazine, an old girlfriend resurfacing as a roommate's date: City Pages writers remember some of their most miserable holidays.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Staff Writers |
12-23-2004 |
Recreation
Tags: schizophrenia, Christmas 2004
The Best Photography Books for the Holidaysnew
The photographic book whose combination of elegance, intelligence and broad appeal makes it the ideal gift this year is Irving Penn's A Notebook at Random.
The Village Voice |
Vince Aletti |
12-15-2004 |
Nonfiction
Spare Parts and Body Armor on GIs' Christmas Listnew
In Iraq, people need clean drinking water, rebuilt schools, jobs and medicine while the U.S. military is short of such essentials as body armor, radios, and the right-size desert boots.
The Village Voice |
James Ridgeway |
12-15-2004 |
War