AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Barbara Ehrenreich talks about her book Dancing in the Streets, in which she explores the desire for collective joy (see photo), historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. more ›

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We may have to break ourselves of the habit of calling the Intiman a "plucky local theatre," now that they've won the 2006 Regional Theatre Tony. (They're feeling modest, so you have to dig around the Intiman site a bit to find a mention. Ha! We kid because we love.) more ›

Love her, hate her, or wish she'd stop looking down her nose at the people she's writing about, Barbara Ehrenreich knows how lance the zeitgeist and get conversations flowing. She's the oil to Ann Coulter's vinegar. And she's got a new book out: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, in which she pretends to be someone else and searches for a white-collar corporate job. She fails, and damns the white-collar world as one of "economic cruelty." (We hope that wasn't too much of a spoiler.) more ›