Uganda

The Prime Minister's Brother Gets a Lot of Love in "Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story"

Bizarre Kony 2012 Posters Seemingly Contain No Trace of Irony

Kony 2012 is a viral video that attempts to bring us together by alarming us over a common enemy (a dictator using child-warrior slaves) that absolutely nobody could object to. The fuss about the cofounder of Invisible Children, Jason Russell, who apparently went haywire a while back, has died down. ... More >>

Circumcision and AIDS: Harvard Doctors Respond to Criticism

​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong? Or are their critics hinderin ... More >>

Anticircumcision Activists Say Trimming a Bit Off the Top Is Too Much

​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong? Or are their critics hinderin ... More >>

Hussein, Amin, Gaddafi Star in Nando's South African Chicken Commercial (Video)

​You know that game where you pick five people living or dead to have over for dinner? We'd love to break bread with Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Bourdain, Ernest Hemingway, Julia Child, and Abraham Lincoln. South African chicken restaurant Nando's thinks it would be awesome to have a nice holiday din ... More >>

A Must-See

​You know that game where you pick five people living or dead to have over for dinner? We'd love to break bread with Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Bourdain, Ernest Hemingway, Julia Child, and Abraham Lincoln. South African chicken restaurant Nando's thinks it would be awesome to have a nice holiday din ... More >>

Words and Action

​You know that game where you pick five people living or dead to have over for dinner? We'd love to break bread with Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Bourdain, Ernest Hemingway, Julia Child, and Abraham Lincoln. South African chicken restaurant Nando's thinks it would be awesome to have a nice holiday din ... More >>

Fridge Art Seeks to Explain Your Food Fetishes

Mark MenjivarLooks like a party in the making.​ For as long as I can remember I've had this nervous habit of opening up people's fridges. Whenever I visit someone's house, no matter how well I know the person, I get the irresistible urge to open up their refrigerator door and poke around. Some peo ... More >>

Released on DVD this Week

What Garry Didn't Know

Absolute Power

A chameleonic Forest Whitaker dominates Idi Amin biopic.

McMahan Family Values

He wriggles, squirms, and throws money around, but "H" can't make the tale about his seduction of "W" disappear.

Pop-punk, and Then Sum

With an acclaimed new album and a goodwill trip to Africa, Sum 41 grows up -- a little

Letters to the Editor

Letters for July 19, 2001

Secrets Kept

Exploring the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida