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...Hollywood didn't want her, but the San Fernando Valley did. That was the center of the burgeoning video market in the early '80s, when sex films accounted for an outsize share of sales and rentals. And Chambers was agreeable to lending the video-porn industry her allure. For the next two decades she starred in porn films and Cinemax-style sexploitation efforts. In her 40s and 50s, she appeared as the hostess, and smiling dominatrix, of soft-core loops (Marilyn Chambers' Bedtime Fantasies, etc.) that still play on late-night pay cable. Perhaps her strangest career move came during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marilyn Chambers, the Ivory Snow Porn Star, Dead at 56 | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...This is the second time in its 30-year history that the Pritzker has gone to a Swiss architect. In 2001 the winners were Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, a team whose signature buildings - the Tate Modern in London, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the "bird's nest" Olympic Stadium in Beijing - could not be more unlike Zumthor's spare exercises in subtraction and compression. Herzog & de Meuron revel in complexity, intricate structures and elaborate surfaces. Zumthor reduces and purifies. Le Corbusier, that other great Swiss purist, would have approved. (See TIME's photos of Peter Zumthor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Minimalist Peter Zumthor Wins Architecture Prize | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...being difficult on paper, emerges here even more engaging than West. A thinker in feminism, queer theory, and ethics, she shows up sporting a baggy leather jacket and an equally loose style of talking. Accompanied by Sunaura Taylor, the filmmaker’s disabled sister, Butler strolls around San Francisco considering traditional Western conceptions of a body—the pitfalls of having “an ideal morphology… [of] what a body should look like, move like” and whether we really live in a world where we assist each other. This discourse...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Examined Life | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...However, after a solid third place showing among a talented field in San Diego, the squad is brimming with confidence and has revenge in sight...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Seeks Wins on Charles | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Indeed, the Crimson has already sent a message to the Bears, finishing two spots ahead of its rivals in San Diego...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Seeks Wins on Charles | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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