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Published: Aug 5, 2009

Seems like all the Saturday morning 'toons of my youth were aimed at boys. But every once in a while, the network goddesses would throw in a half-hour for the young lady who wanted to watch some ass-kicking, too. Enter She-Ra , a cartoonette just as hardcore as her twin bro, He-Man. Watch episodes recently posted on hulu.com and try not to run around yelling "For the honor of Grayskull!"too much.

Under the guise of a blog about his upcoming movie Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze and friends' We Love You So (weloveyouso.com) is really about everything that catches the authors' interests. In between posts about the cultural impact of Maurice Sendak's children's classic (Jonze's adaptation hits theaters Oct. 16), there are musings ranging from Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro to a post titled "Introduction to Liquid Crystal Thermography" — which could be subtitled "Why Mood Rings are Awesome."

Since 1997, The Moth series has been inviting interesting people to get up on stage with no notes and tell a true story. Everybody from Mike Birbiglia to Candace Bushnell to Suzanne Vega have had their 15 minutes so far. Most opt for funny, though poignant works, too. Right now there's just the podcast (themoth.org) or the occasional segment tucked into This American Life, but here's hoping The Moth Radio Hour will land on WHYY when it debuts in the fall.

—Patrick Rapa

There is a 22-foot-long slave ship planted smack-dab in the middle of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists ' new Locust Street digs. How'd it get in there? And more importantly, how does its foreboding presence play against Peter Prusinowski's black-and-white Fishtown photo series and Katie Murken's dead-of-winter forest installation? Think about the show's title, "The Messenger is Already Dead," and decide for yourself. Just don't let Scott Pellnat's artist statement muddle your judgment; we don't know what "a fine line between humor and despair, sexuality and death, guilt and will" means, either.

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