NEWS & FEATURES

Deirdre Fulton says that in the breast-augmentation wars, nothing less than women’s health, freedom, and empowerment is at stake.

Dan Kennedy on how the White House’s assault on the Freedom of Information Act enables torture, exposes media apathy, and hurts our ability to govern ourselves.

With an eye toward electability, Mitt Romney and Tom Reilly tackle stem-cell research and gay marriage. Adam Reilly reports.

Mike Miliard pays a visit to Burlington’s iRobot, a company that is revolutionizing robotics and positioning itself at the forefront of a new and potentially lucrative industry.

Gabriel Jeffrey's confessional GroupHug.us was an unexpected online success, and its strangest entries are now collected in a book. Tamara Wieder talks with the author and entrepreneur.

Attempts to stifle one professor’s notorious opinions showcase the hypocrisy of American academe. Harvey A. Silverglate and Dan Poulson on Ward Churchill's position.

In "Out There," Steve Almond gets out of jury duty without even trying.

In "Urban Buy," Darcy Scanlon reports on the new edge in cottage crafts.

Dan Savage on sex.

In the Phoenix editorial: Bush’s Social Security plan is a phony solution to a nonexistent problem.

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

Plus, this just in:

MUSIC

In Sound Bites, Punk wasn't supposed to get better or wiser as it got older, but over the past two decades, certain products of Orange County have aged like the contents of Napa caskets.

At the Grammys, Matt Ashare sees Green Day give way to Ray's night.

Franklin Soults hears Nellie McKay, Rod Stewart, Bobby Darin, and Caetano Veloso bridge the ages

Akhnaten, plus Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos at the BSO, and Benjamin Zander’s Bruckner. Lloyd Schwartz gets around.

In Cellars By Starlight, Ted Drozdowski talks to guitarist Gary Hoey and songwriter Tom Hambridge.

In Giant Steps: Jason Moran takes his music out into the sun

In Out: Monoman auditions for INXS; the Information find Paradise.

Chris Rucker hears The Click Five, SXSW, and more.

Live reviews of: Cars tribute, Sage Francis, and Jimmy Web

Also, short reviews of:

THEATER

Steve Vineberg remembers Arthur Miller

Carolyn Clay says Trumbo revels in the art of the epistle

Bill Rodriguez says Trinity gives Molière the backstage treatment

Carolyn Clay watches Robert Lepage’s moon glow at the ART

Blue/Orange puts the squeeze on mental healthcare. Carolyn Clay analyzes

DANCE

Marcia B. Siegel sees 'Dance Straight Up(!)' at Zero Arrow Theatre.

ART

Christopher Millis says in the DeCordova’s multi-hued ‘Pretty Sweet,’ white is right; plus Lalla Essaydi in New York.

TELEVISION

HOTDOTS: TUESDAY 22 9:00 (2) Frontline: A Company of Soldiers. Shot in the weeks following our presidential election, this report follows the US Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment in Baghdad. It's no John Ford movie. By Clif Garboden

FOOD