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Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
It's May: the Sin Also Rises
by Wilkins Micawber, prop.

Book Review
Iran So Far Away
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran
by Christopher de Bellaigue
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by Azedeh Moaveni
Persepolis
by Marjeni Satrapi
Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
by Alison Wearing
book reviews
by
David A. James

Calendar of Events

Editorial
A Bug-Free Zone

Firebreak
by Sarah Wolfe

Index of the Absurd

poetry
"rice renga"
by Laura Henry, Ulyana Korotkova, Alina Cushing, and Ellizabeth Marino

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink
The Deft Palate
Café Alex: Small Dishes with Big Flavors
restaurant review
by
Mary Haley

Video Dreamland
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Spanglish
Sideways
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
movie reviews
by
Thela Clayton

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FEATURES

Displaced Iraqis Simmering in Amman
by Dahr Jamail

Interviews with some decidedly angry Iraqis who are refugees living in Amman, Jordan.

ECA Spring Meeting
by
D. Helfferich

Positions for Assistant Überczar and Eggman are open!

The EFL's Spring Games
by "Bonecrusher"
Billington with photos by Mike Musick

The Spring Classic and the Dust Bowl: The last two games of the season yielded some fantastic plays, great photos, and bizarre nicknames.

The Frog and the Would-Be Frog
a fairy tale by Ursula Cady, age 10

An enchanted frog and a princess meet and find their respective curses can help each other out. Or is that an enchanted princess and a frog?

Relik
photos by
Monique Musick

Selected photos from the recent show at the Annex curated by Amy Luick and featuring many local artists.

Sliced and Stoned in Honolulu
or, How I Spent My Winter
part one, by Carla Helfferich

A case of Old Lady Leg turned out to be something much, much more: A journey into the medical wilderness.

A Smoking Memo
by Matthew Rycroft, obtained by Michael Smith, and originally published (to much fuss, in Europe, at least) by the
Sunday Times of London. Rycroft was a foreign policy aide in England.

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