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since all these women are still releasing music and going strong.

Interestingly enough, they were born about a decade apart, too, so musically, that might be a generation.

The oldest is Melissa Etheridge, who at 46 shows no signs of stopping. Having battled breast cancer, she just released the album The Awakening.

Qualifying an album by an iconic artist like Etheridge is difficult, at best. Yes, it's

filled with the introspective songs of love and loss that one expects from her, the focus on guitar and voice, the forays into political commentary.

What's perhaps most amazing is that, almost 20 years after her first album, she is still going strong, no mean feat for a female in the world of rock and roll. Joan Jett occasionally makes forays out of the obscurity

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like the constant repetition of the chorus in that song off of their last album.

What there is, however, is 14 tracks of indie singer-songwriting bliss, with just that little dash of maple leaf goodness that makes everything better.

With Kaki King and members of the Rentals, AFI and Death Cab for Cutie adding instrumental skill and production power, hopefully this album will continue the twins' rise to fame and fortune.

Books

Alas, poor books. It seems that the day of the printed page is nearing an end, between the seeming illiteracy of the American people and the rise of e-books. Have you heard about Amazon's new Kindle e-book reader? No? Well, you're probably not missing much. Reading a book on any form of a computer seems about as painful as watching an entire week of television while sitting about six inches from the screen.

However, there are still great books out there, printed on actual paper, providing something to fill shelf space once it's over and having a good heft in the hand while it's being read.

For one, there's Supervillainz by Alicia E. Goranson, described as "rumpsmacking good action-adventure trans fiction."

TEGAN AND SARA THE CON

into which she's fallen; Debbie Harry still rides the success of Blondie; Chrissie Hynde will always be the voice of the Pretenders. None of them, however, can stand on their own two feet like Melissa, as easily identifiable by that one name as Madonna or Cher. Born just shy of a decade after her, Ani DiFranco released her first album two years after Etheridge's start, and now has 20 full albums, along with some official bootlegs, under her belt.

The latest, Canon, is a two-disc set collecting her best-known, most-loved tracks, like the signature "32 Flavors." It also has new studio versions of the tracks "Napoleon," "Shameless," "Your Next Bold Move," "Both Hands" and "Overlap.”

For the casual fan who likes a DiFranco song here and there, it's the perfect anthology of her work to date. And it's really necessary to stress "to date," since she releases about an album a year, and she's only 37.

Finally, that brings the babies of the bunch, Tegan and Sara, out with their latest, The Con.

The Quin sisters, lesbian identical twins from Calgary, are getting their second taste of success in the United States with this album. Those who liked their song "Walking with a Ghost," but thought it was a bit repetitive, should be thrilled with the new album. There is no reliance on what seemed

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Basically, a team of superheroes has appeared in Boston, fighting petty crime. When a hapless young trans woman and her trans-man best friend are mugged, they encounter one of these "heroes," and he accidentally winds up dead,

leading the rest of his team chasing after the protagonists as they learn that heroes are not necessarily the ones with the powers.

Speaking of superheroes, Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film, Second Edition has a whole section of essays on superheroes in television and the movies.

It also covers many of the queer films that came out in 2006 and 2007, and straight films with queer connections. What it does not necessarily do well, however, is explain why some of the films in the book are there at all. V for Vendetta, for instance, had Stephen Fry, an openly gay actor, playing a closeted gay television director, but they make no mention of that. Nothing else in the film suggests queerness.

It's still a fun read, especially for a hopeless cinephile.

Finally, there's Powerhouse Books' Czanara: Photographs and Drawings, a lush coffee-table book by an obscure French photographer who often used an overlaying technique to put texture into his photos, or blend them together.

Filled with timeless pictures of disaffected young male models, the book is a fitting tribute to Raymond Carrance, the artist who worked under the pseudonym Czanara. While few had heard of him, even fewer who see his work are able to forget it.

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