A fed up angry rant about our ongoing obsession with beauty and with re-defining beauty. I'm done. Let's go for ugly.

A look at the latest offering from the great metal documentary filmmaker Sam Dunn.

A simple vision for our responsibilities to ourselves and to others, caring for a world in which much is needed.

Seth Godin on the futility of being insatiable.

That young people should be seen and not heard is certainly yesterday’s news! Check out this teen with her strong voice for maturity, sanity and respect in the culture of young girls.

A contribution to Dark Side of the Womb week that explores women who tapped into their inner Kali to rock out.

Superwomen, Crazy Bitches and Beauty Queens: Why anger in women is so not cool.

A few tunes to introduce our upcoming theme week.

Beams family member Vanessa Fisher has just launched a new website.

Wow, your latest round of plastice surgery sure makes you look like a creepy alien young.

C4Chaos makes his Beams debut with a scorcher on why we might consider supporting Occupy Wall St.

Political theorist Michael Hardt offers a new vision for societal transition, one now springing forth in the Occupy movement. (video)

In solidarity with the Occupy Wall St. protests this week's Jukebox looks at different forms of revolutionary music.

In a world vying for our attention and selling inadequacy at every turn, how do we guard against the insatiable desire to consume or to simply change our state moment by moment?

In Beams and Struts' newest game, we invite readers to discuss whether a comment by US politician Michelle Bachmann is Integral or Ignorant?

Is Superman a bold, larger-than-life world-changing superhero, or a self-seeking, inwardly focused anti-hero? Well, it all depends on your worldview. 

These days it's not so uncommon to celebrate your friend's upcoming nuptials by dressing her like a giant penis, parading her through town and relentlessly attempting to humiliate her...we're trying something else.  

The 2012 Summer of Heart is set to be this generation's Summer of Love

Alright, so this is less of a Sacred reading and more of whine and moan…but an important one.