Featured Pieces

My Computer Said Kill, I Said Alright! [by Will Smith]

In the coming months robots will begin accompanying US soldiers as they patrol Iraqi streets. Already, the military uses robots for bomb detection and surveillance, but soon, some of these robots will be armed with weapons capable of firing up to 1,000 rounds a minute. (Read More)

The Achewood Episteme [by Martin Mulkeen]

RAY SMUCKLES IS ACHEWOOD's pre-eminent good-time Charlie, a thong-sporting cat with a penchant for "getting twisty on a chilly stella [artois]" or eight. Roast Beef is his computer-programming emo counterpart-a lover of geometry and slogan t-shirts he is too self-conscious to wear. (Read More)

Gays and Gangsters [by Sarah Goldstein]

ON STAGE a dancer in fishnets and stilettos struts with ballerina poise. She teases, tugs at her garter straps, sinks into spread eagle splits, and caresses the faces of her bigger spenders, adoring women who reach up for a touch of her lace, a stroke of her hair. (Read More)