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FILM COFFEE ACHIEVERS Black Gold goes behind the scenes of our coffee jones TRANSGENDER BIAS Out on Film searches for a new niche ART DOMESTIC GODDESSES Teresa Bramlette Reeves and Lillian Blades at Sandler Hudson STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS Beep Beep Gallery plays it by ear

FILM DRUG WORN Tideland flops, Down to the Bone flips ART LIFE OVER DEATH In his latest performance-art piece, Ben Fain skewers those who hold the key FASHION STATEMENT To a T at MODA

FILM SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS American Hardcore moshes around the early '80s punk scene ROYAL FLUSH Mirren offers a revealing portrait of The Queen ARTS SUDDEN IMPACT Sometimes, art is so powerful it moves us to tears

FILM LET THEM EAT COOL Finding the fashion of Marie Antoinette's passion UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB Little Children trots out to the 'burbs ARTS ART SCHOOL Linda Armstrong and Stan Woodard at Spruill

FILM KILLING WITH KINDNESS Keeping Mum LEFT FEELING COLD Second telling of the Truman show falls flat PERFORMANCE ANXIETY John Cameron Mitchell rides Shortbus to the ground ARTS OLD SOUTH David Yoakley Mitchell remembers a time and place VIVE LE LOUVRE! The High makes a striking French connection with its latest exhibition

FILM CAMPFIRE AND BRIMSTONE Turning just-born Christians into foot soldiers TIME FLIES Scratching the seven-year itch with 49 Up ARTS TRICK PHOTOGRAPHY Photographer Suellen Parker generates and manipulates TOY STORY Plastic Culture: How Japanese Toys Captured the World

FILM IRON-ON REVOLUTIONARY Honoring the man over the icon AMERICAN UNDERDOG Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? ARTS BEARING WITNESS Red Was the Midnight at the MLK Jr. National Historic Site HOUSE WORKS Intimate Rituals of Daily Life at the Signature Shop & Gallery