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  • Step into the Storm at Performa 13

    In just seven days, November 8, 2013, Zeena will be performing in New York City at the Performa 13 arts festival in “Live - From the Eye of the Storm,” a sonic ritual event organized by artist Frank Haines.

  • The Un-Science of Radionics

    To get a handle on a controversial, discredited, and generally bizarre medical technology called radionics, here’s a story about me as a horny teenager.

  • Being a Muslim Sexologist Is a Tough Gig

    Islam isn’t a belief system known for its liberal stance on sexuality. Lately, however, there have been signs that the Muslim world is becoming at least a teensy bit more open-minded when it comes to genitalia. I emailed a Muslim sexologist to find out...

  • The Atheist Church That's Trying to Raise $800,000

    Nine months after a couple of standup comedians started a godless church in London, they're expanding and hope to raise money to create dozens, maybe even hundreds, of similar congregations.

  • Was Jesus a Roman Hoax to Trick the Jews?

    Joe Atwill purports to have discovered proof that Jesus of Nazareth was merely a fabrication of first-century Romans, who created his gospels as a way to quell the messianic fervor of the Jews.

  • Celebrating Hasidic Mardi Gras in Crown Heights

    The Orthodox Hasidic Jewish lifestyle seems grim and austere, but for a day during the weeklong harvest festival Sukkot, the streets of Crown Heights run wild with throngs of be-hatted and bearded Hasids drunkenly dancing in the street.