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This day and age knitting has a definite gender bent. We tend to think of it as a “granny” hobby done only by little old ladies rocking in wooden chairs. Maybe we think of young pregnant women waiting for the little bundle of joy to arrive. We never even consider a middle aged man who works in a factory to be a likely candidate to pick up knitting needles. Yet, this is by its very nature a sexist attitude. Could it be that as a society we’ve decided what a grown man can or cannot to just be

THE ALAMO GUIDE for September 4th, 2009 How’s it goin’, Austin? If you came to one of two premieres of MYSTERY TEAM this weekend, your answer is probably, “pretty good, thanks for asking!” If you missed it though, your answer is probably nothing, because you killed yourself. Whoa. That was a little intense. Hopefully you did not do that because MYSTERY TEAM is still playing at the Ritz! Only for another week or so, so GET. ON. THAT. I’ve seen it three times now. No lie.

Wellington, Sep 2 (ANI): A person’s sex quotient lies in his or her brain, according to a study that suggests that being smart is sexy, and the smartest males get the most partners. Through a study on Australian birds, a team of researchers have lent support to the idea that our big human brain evolved because it is a sexually attractive organ, not just a useful one. According to the above theory, signs of intelligence – such as creating art, music, and humour – could have made t