NEWS & FEATURES

Mike Miliard asks students what it's like to be gay at a college affiliated that calls homosexuality "a troubling moral and social phenomenon."

For many newly married gay and lesbian couples, legal union affirmed entire families, complete with children, homes, and joint finances. Deirdre Fulton explains why they have more to worry about.

Dan Kennedy explains how to reinvent the ailing Herald in five not-so-easy steps.

Adam Reilly asks whether being will black help or hurt Deval Patrick? Also, all quiet on the death-penalty front, and John Podesta’s values myopia.

Richard Sobel explains that a national driver’s license — in reality, a national ID card — would let the government track and restrict all our movements.

In "Out There," Alan Olifson experiences periodical insanity.

Dan Savage on sex.

In the Phoenix editorial: If John Paul was a conservative, Benedict is a narrow-minded reactionary.

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

Plus, this just in:

MUSIC

Nick Sylvester listens to East London's grime ambassador Dizzee Rascal, and says the genre is the most exciting thing happening in music right now.

Ted Drozdowski talks with Comedy Central's Dave Attell about TV versus stand-up as well as drinking, smoking, strippers, and sleep deprivation

Adam Bregman talks with David Gedge about The Wedding Present's reunion and his undiminished streak of romantic melancholy

Mikael Wood talks with American Hi-Fi. about their semi-successful career, their new CD, and why they get no respect

Josh Kun remembers the great Eduardo ‘Lalo’ Guerrero, who died last month.

In Cellars By Starlight: Lost City Angels and Willie Alexander’s Boom Boom Band

In Giant Steps: Gary Burton's protégés pull him back into the band business

In Out: Elvis at Harvard; Plumerai at T.T.’s; ‘mp3j’ spares the DJ

Chris Rucker hears No Trigger go Nitro, Eyes like Knives get Bloody, and a Spider comes home to Allston

Also, short reviews of:

THEATER

Carolyn Clay says I Am My Own Wife is a blissful marriage.

Carolyn Clay says David Patrick Kelly’s Iago rules Hartford’s Othello.

DANCE

Marcia B. Siegel goes to New York for the Martha Graham Dance Company.

BOOKS

Douglas Wolk examines superheroes, ‘super-readers,’ and the latest generation of mainstream comics.

TELEVISION

HOTDOTS: FRIDAY 22 10:00 (2) Farming the Seas. Having done our best to ruin our planet's soil, we now go after its water. By Jeffrey Gantz

FOOD