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This week we bring you some journeys that don't require you to turn over your life savings to the oil companies. more ›

We'd like to interrupt our Bay Area coverage to direct y'all over to Gothamist, which is providing awesome coverage of the New York transit strike. more ›

What is there for us to point out about , a 1990 documentary about Harlem drag balls, that hasn't already been said by far greater minds than our own? Between 1987 and 1989, filmmaker Jennie Livingston followed, interviewed, and created an intimate portrait of urban men -- mostly black, mostly poor -- who devoted a simply awe-inspiring amount of energy to creating competitions in which they could hone their imitations of realness. These folks created an entire world in which they could be loved and admired for dramatizing the state of being rich, or feminine, or young, or geneerally enfranchised. It's all just absolutely incredible, and that's all you need to know about that. more ›

Matt Mullenweg is calling it the "Blogger" Harlem photo, and man, is that a bunch of beautiful geeks. We despatched one of the cuter SFists to the fete, but next time we'll have to give him a little media training -- lesson one: "How to elbow your way to the front of a group photo, babies be damned." more ›

A roundup of this week's theater picks. more ›