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This Summer's Best Rom Com Is About an 18-Year-Old Boy Who Falls in Love with an Old Man
In filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s new romantic comedy Gerontophilia, an 18-year-old boy falls in love with an 81-year-old resident at the nursing home where he works.
Summer Reading List: Zombie Hordes, Snuff Films, Haunted Computers
The hot flesh of summer is here, and the last thing I want to do when I’m living in the thick of it is read about it. If you feel the same, here are three short books that will make you feel strange in the sun.
Narco-Saints Are Melding Catholicism with the Drug Trade in Mexico
A new exhibit at UCLA called Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners plays on folk legends, and the drug traffickers and impoverished citizens who rely on them as nonjudgmental sources of strength and protection.
The Drunken, Devilish Mayan God Still Worshipped in Guatemala
He's the kind of god you pray to when you really want a motorcycle.
Mother Teresa Was a Jerk, and So Were a Bunch of Other Saints
According to a study conducted by Canadian researchers, Mother Teresa wasn't as saintly as everyone assumed. But if you look back on the 10,000 people who have been canonized by the Catholic Church over the centuries, some of the other saints were way...