Monthly Archives: February, 2005

If you're anything like me, new releases from The Criterion Collection make your heart beat a little faster. Imagine my delight, when I discovered that they were going to be releasing a film by Catherine Breillat, the French filmmaker, whose controversial films about sex have challenged a generation of cinephiles. The film Criterion chose from Breillat's filmography, is called "A ma soeur" in French, which means, "to my sister," but Breillat herself prefers the English title "Fat Girl".

Kicking off the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates sat in his characteristic slouch next to late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien in an effort to promote Microsoft's new Media Center. Just when he was about to demonstrate the "ease of use" of this new Microsoft system, the computer he was using for the demonstration froze.

The truth about the lynching of Emmett Till was thought to have died along with him in 1955. But the new documentary, "The Untold Story of Emmett Till", and the resurfacing of the immense amount of evidence regarding the case, prompted it to be reopened.

An early work by filmmaker Michael Snow titled "Jazz Band" is the first piece in the Corbett vs. Dempsey exhibition "Eye and Ear".

Warning: Must be over 18 to see this film. "A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More" is pornographic in the most literal sense of the word; the entire film consists of sexually explicit images.

by Caroline Keem Last February 14th my significant other, my partner in crime in a biiiiiiig long distance relationship decided to call me up to...

by Caroline Keem Last February 14th my significant other, my partner in crime in a biiiiiiig long distance relationship decided to call me up to...

One afternoon last summer, I was doing some web searching at work and noticed a banner ad for an online dating site. Not being one to troll around school or work for a potential mate, I chuckled and clicked on it. I was delivered to the promised dot.com where I decided to fill out a dating profile. It was free. Why the heck not! I had dumped my BIG long-distance relationship a whole two months before. It was time to kick up my heels and enjoy being a girl again. I remember thinking to myself, "Ha! This will come to nothing. These stupid things never work."

As sexually active young people today, you may wonder, are you really safe? The answer is: probably not.

As sexually active young people today, you may wonder, are you really safe? The answer is: probably not.

Even though he was something of a celebrity in his own lifetime, I don't think that I am alone in my generation as being someone only vaguely aware of Alfred Kinsey, until Hollywood recently put him on the radar. Despite this, he changed the way that my peers and I talk about sexuality--even that we talk about it at all.

Kristen Rowe-Finkbeiner, author of The F-word: Feminism in Jeopardy, has made some startling observations. She explains how, in the current political climate, young women do not have a significant voice due to their own resistance. Women between 18 and 24 years of age are the least likely group to show up at the polls. Only one third of them voted in the 2000 election.

This month F wanted to know: Do artists make better lovers? Is it a good or bad idea for one artist to date another? Is it a...

Did women recognize the hidden politics of menstruating a hundred years ago when they were denied education, jobs, and land for such reasons as "hysteria" and periodic "irrational behavior"? Or, did women then just accept these biases as a matter of course, the way women today accept paying more for a haircut or for their shirts to be dry- cleaned or pay countless dollars (or, if you want to count, how about $17) every month on tampons, panty liners, and maxi-pads. Plus tax, because, after all, feminine "hygiene" products are a luxury, kind of like a sailboat or a fancy red car, don't you think?

Advancements in technology allow artists to use new mediums for the creation of their artwork, and an ever-growing number of artists attempt to reconcile their practice with scientific expansion. Applied Interactives is an artist-based non-profit that has such a mission: to bring wider attention to the applications of virtual reality technology in both practical and creative ways.