Dan Kennedy finds the Vatican's stance on same-sex marriage mind-bogglingly insulting and arrogant. Read why.

Michael Bronski wonders if the Harvey Milk School expansion really is progress.

Tony Giampetruzzi spends time in a basement with gay zombies. On the set of a gay horror film.

Q & A: You've eaten Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but, asks Tamara Wieder, do you really know them?

In the Phoenix editorial, take a closer look at the proposed Cape wind park.

In Out There, Kris Frieswick reveals the real reason for high unemployment.

Brian E. O'Neill chills out in "Urban Buy."

Plus, this just in:

A LEG UP ON THE COMPETITION : Thighs on the prize

WATERED MUSIC : Regattabar cancellations

ROCK'S VISIONARY : Sam Phillips,1923–2003

MEDIA : Raw meat vs. mush from the wimps

ON ANOTHER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FRONT : LGBT battering

PERFORMANCE? : Boston’s camera-flash mob

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

Dr. Lovemonkey

EDITORS' PICKS

In State of the Art Eric Bogosian sounds off about ‘The New McCarthyism’

Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar premieres at Tanglewood in Classical.

In Arts News, special concerts and open house at Jordan Hall, plus The Boston Classical Orchestra and more.

Plan your week:

MUSIC

Carly Carioli gets to know R & B's Female Frontrunners

In Cellars by starlight, Brett Milano witnesses Thundertrain return; plus John Powhida and the Rudds obsess.

Sean Richardson listens to 311 get sensitive.

Josh Kun ponders being a man who loves Duran Duran

Sean Richardson gets weepy over Michelle Branch's Hotel Paper

Matt Ashare reviews the Warped Tour in Brockton. And Carly Carioli rocks out at Ozzfest in Roadtripping.

Also, short reviews of:

FILM

Peter Keough examines Base Behavior in Buffalo Soldiers

Steve Vineberg remembers the comic of the century. Bob Hope 1903–2003

In Filmculture, Gerald Peary hears eloquent Words at the Coolidge.

THEATER

Carolyn Clay on Lear and Virginia Woolf in Lenox.

Carolyn Clay says Romantique is a travesty.

DANCE

Jeffrey Gantz on CND2 at the Pillow and Jeffrey Tate with the BSO at Tanglewood .

BOOKS

Peter Keough enters Nicholas Mosley’s Grave new world in Inventing God.

TELEVISION

Hotdots : WEDNESDAY 13: 9:00 (5) The Real Roseanne Show.
Roseanne Barr comes back at us with this quasi-pseudo reality vehicle, which is either so high-concept or so lame that we can't describe it.

FOOD

SPECIALS