Currently in Salon

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  Have yourself a very merry black Friday
  The author of "Scroogenomics" explains why holiday shopping is a drain on the wallet and the holiday spirit
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  One last ride for the ice cream man
  It should be too cold for him to come around, and he knows it
  By Francis Lam
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  Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties
  The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows
  By Gene Lyons
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  "The Road": Post-apocalypse now
  Director John Hillcoat and his star, Viggo Mortensen, improve on the mannered machismo of Cormac McCarthy's novel
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  "The Princess and the Frog" is Disney royalty
  The studio's first African-American princess charms in one of the most sincere romantic comedies in ages
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  Cinematic genius meets teen heartthrob
  A mighty cute Zac Efron plays the foil in Richard Linklater's affectionate ode to Orson Welles
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  "Ninja Assassin": Sneaky but not subtle
  Decapitations! Slashed eyeballs! But the finest effect in this visceral gouge of a picture is Korean pop star Rain
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  An immigrant Thanksgiving
  Growing up with the stigma of a turkey-averse people
  by Francis Lam
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  Tom the Dancing Bug
  A lady from the East and a half-breed ripsnorter from Colorado duke it out at the Oklahoma roundup
  By Ruben Bolling
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  Last gasp for American foie gras?
  An environmental lawsuit threatens the U.S.'s biggest producer of a controversial delicacy
  By Thomas Rogers