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WEDNESDAY
Sept. 30, 1998
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21st Play money By Andrew Leonard
Is Silicon Valley talent souring on stock options? (09/30/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Alissa Lara Quart
"Day Job: A Workplace Reader for the Restless Age" by Jonathan Baird: This ersatz journal, accessorized with fake coffee cup rings,
offers a bleak and frequently hilarious portrait of today's young
white-collar wage slaves
(09/30/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new CDs by Jerry Seinfeld, Joni
Mitchell, Renée Fleming, Robbie Fulks and Soul Coughing
(09/30/98)
"Is This Desire" -- or just bad performance art? By Bill Wyman
In her first release in three years, Polly Jean Harvey offers sops to a self-consciously hip underground
(09/30/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Premieres of "Maggie Winters," "Secret Lives of Men"; Gershwin
salute on PBS (09/30/98)
Ivory Tower Seven Deadly Sins By Nicole Nolan
Playboy goes limp without feminist vice grip: Since young women stopped protesting Playboy's College Girls issue, the dirty old rabbit's student peep show is looking pretty tired
(09/30/98)
Mothers Who Think Wild Things By Lisa Moskowitz
A mother's guide to gunk: Help! I've got Silly Putty stuck in my eyebrows and it won't
come out!
(09/30/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Cinema falsité: What passes for raw, unfiltered experience isn't. Thank God (09/30/98)
Newsreal Protected witness, Part Two By Murray Waas
Law enforcement records obtained by Salon reveal a two-year effort by
Kenneth Starr to impede the Arkansas prosecution of David Hale
(09/30/98)
Letters Readers divided on Horowitz's "crocodile tears"; Salon's TV and book critics could learn from each other
(09/30/98)
Wanderlust Iowa heartland By Jennifer New
The joys and dilemmas of being a traveler from Iowa
(09/30/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
A little head from an intern
(09/30/98)
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TUESDAY
Sept. 29, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
"Under the Cherry Moon": Prince's unfairly maligned second film mixes swank screwball comedy with uptown sass (09/29/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Vampires vs. bats: "Buffy" season opener; baseball playoffs (09/29/98)
Today in 21st
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Story time -- can
narrative save us from information overload? (09/29/98)
21st Log An indecent proposal By Jenn Shreve
A new scanner ad
promotes virtual romance (09/29/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Scott McLemee
"I Married a Communist" by Philip Roth: During the McCarthy era, a left-leaning radio actor is blacklisted, and betrayed by his actress wife (09/29/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
The decline of pop culture: Camille Paglia bemoans the decline of American pop culture into puerile sentimentality
(09/29/98)
Letters Clearing up the smut around CDA II; What does Salon have against Pynchon?
(09/29/98)
Mothers Who Think
Her siren thong By Shelley Youngblut
Eve had her apple. Monica had her thong
(09/29/98)
Newsreal Rushdie: Free at last By Christopher Hitchens
Reason and decency have their occasional victories, too, and the lifting of the fatwah against the author of "The Satanic Verses" is one of them
(09/29/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Reeling in the tears
(09/29/98)
Wanderlust
An Italian romance: Chapter Two By Laura Fraser
The first time, he had helped heal her heartbreak. Could their second fling be as good as the first? (09/29/98)
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MONDAY
Sept. 28, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Talk to our agent By Howard Wen
In the rapidly consolidating world of computer gaming, you need more than a good idea to get ahead
(09/28/98)
21st Log
Tasty tidbits from the infosphere (09/28/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Escape from the planet of the tapes By Joyce Millman
After being inundated with Lewinsky scandal, it's a relief to get
back to TV that doesn't matter
(09/28/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Costello and Bacharach on "Letterman"; unknown bands get break
on MTV's new "The Cut"
(09/28/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Why Clinton should not be impeached -- yet: Salon's decision to expose Henry Hyde has put the nation's political crisis in whole a new light for me
(09/28/98)
Ivory Tower As American as ethnic studies By Joan Walsh
Strange bedfellows: Can ethnic studies survive a marriage to American studies?
(09/28/98)
Mothers Who Think Uh-oh, Spaghettios By Danny Miller
A single dad with a junk food past develops an obsession with health food
(09/28/98)
Today in Newsreal:
"What kind of life do I have without my bride?" By David Niewert
Behind his superhero façade, "patriot" movement leader "Bo" Gritz was just another sad, vulnerable man, distraught at losing his marriage, when he turned his own gun on himself last week (09/28/98)
Salon Exclusive: Starr vs. Tripp By Jeff Stein
The inside story of how there came to be so many copies of the Monica Lewinsky tapes
(09/28/98)
Today in Books:
Sneaks Reviewed by Stephanie
Zacharek
"Cinderella & Company" by Manuela Hoelterhoff: This irresistible blend of gossip, reportage and crackerjack
observation follows Italian mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartoli through today's
colorful opera scene
(09/28/98)
The Garner Report: October 1998 By Dwight Garner
A highly subjective, monthly roundup of upcoming book titles
(09/28/98)
Letters Hitchens enrages and entertains; Paglia ignites furor; warm fuzzies for
Tisdale
(09/28/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow: America's exciting new Vegas EconomicsTM! (09/28/98)
Wanderlust Running with the Hadza By Eric Seyfarth
Tanzania's Stone Age tribe represents a living link to our earliest ancestors (09/28/98)
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FRIDAY
Sept. 25, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Date night, ABC By Joyce Millman
Two new shows, "Cupid" and the updated "Fantasy Island," remind us of
why Saturday night is the loneliest night
(09/25/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
New faces on "Homicide" season opener; Cameron Diaz hosts "SNL"
(09/25/98)
Today in 21st:
The president as lab rat By Gary Wolf
How much surveillance can one human being take? President Clinton is helping us find out
(09/25/98)
Introducing 21st Log
Tasty tidbits from the infosphere (09/25/98)
Today in Books:
From Our Contributors
"Penguin Soup for the Soul" by Tom Tomorrow: Tom Tomorrow's new book of cartoons
(09/25/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Dan Cryer
"Death in Summer" by William Trevor: In this stark and often violent rendering of Britain's class divisions, a young shoplifting runaway becomes a nanny at a stately country home (09/25/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Hijacked: The Starr report has taken all the fun out of talking dirty
(09/25/98)
Talking head By Virginia Vitzthum
The hand-wringing over the Starr Report proves that Beltway
pundits have a harder time getting a grip on a certain sexual
practice than the American people do
(09/25/98)
Ivory Tower Recess
A one-stop playground for weekend fun frivolity
(09/25/98)
Letters Deceived dads praise Quan; in defense of "Ally McBeal"
(09/25/98)
Mothers Who Think Something to declare By Dwight Garner
Novelist Julia Alvarez talks about moving to America, her relationship with her family and the rituals that keep her a focused writer
(09/25/98)
Money The Reluctant Capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
The grueling world of work: Bagels on Fridays, teammates and jovial bosses can hide the ugly truth
(09/25/98)
The Dark Hotel
Creaking bedsprings in Room 14 (09/25/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies, TV (09/25/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Lesley Hazleton
"Driving to Detroit": Searching for the site where James Dean died
(09/25/98)
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THURSDAY
Sept. 24, 1998
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21st From girl-games to glamour By Matthew DeBord
Silicon Alley star Theresa Duncan moves nimbly between worlds
(09/24/98)
Today in Books:
"Bag of Bones" by Stephen King Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Sex, death, shambling ghosts -- this is Stephen King territory, all right. But this tale of a tortured romance novelist is a surprisingly mature, nuanced work (09/24/98)
The King of death By Andrew O'Hehir
Stephen King has turned mankind's oldest fear into an excruciatingly addictive body of work. Andrew O'Hehir peers into the terrifying world of one of our most important writers -- and recommends five of his novels for newcomers (09/24/98)
The Salon Interview: Stephen King By Andrew O'Hehir
The horror master talks about the latent violence of males,
childhood terror and an "odious little man" named Kenneth Starr
(09/24/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Allen Barra
"Ghost Town" by Robert Coover: In this funny, phantasmagorical book -- sometimes the hero is an outlaw, sometimes he's the sheriff -- Robert Coover re-imagines the Western novel (09/24/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Peckerhead By Laura Miller
Gleeful depravity: An interview with John Waters
Television By Joyce Millman
Season premieres of "Friends," "Frasier," "ER" and Christina
Applegate's new "Jesse"
(09/24/98)
Ivory Tower Recommendation wars
By Tyler Thoreson
While students increasingly sue professors for less-than-gushing letters of recommendation, professors are subtly crafting their criticism in calculated ambiguities
(09/24/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts
By Sallie Tisdale
Recipes make the woman: Betty Crocker was a model woman and other kitchen myths
(09/24/98)
Letters Mothers Who Think could use some nurturing; ufologists get no
respect; Clinton: bad husband, good president
(09/24/98)
Newsreal Kiss those Miranda rights good-bye By Beverly Gage
Thanks to privatization, the United States now has three times as many security guards as police officers
(09/24/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The education of Louis
(09/24/98)
Wanderlust Letter from Pusan: The party's over By Rolf Potts
The heady rise and fall of expat decadence in South Korea
(09/24/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Sept. 23, 1998
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21st CDA -- the sequel By Janelle Brown
Congress is flooded with new bills restricting online expression. So where are the protests?
(09/23/98)
Books Reviewed by Robert Sietsema
"Apples" by Frank Browning: An engaging study, from a writer who descends from a long line of Kentucky apple-growers, of "the hardiest, most resilient, and most diverse
fruit on the earth"
(09/23/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of the latest releases from Hootie and the
Blowfish, Cat Power, Amy Rigby and Marilyn Manson, plus a tribute to Kate
Wolf and the soundtrack to "Somewhere in the City"
(09/23/98)
The Shadow sheds light By Adam Heimlich
Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, goes on the record about the evolution of hip-hop and his latest project, "Psyence Fiction," the debut album from UNKLE
(09/23/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Phil Hartman remembered on "NewsRadio" season opener (09/23/98)
Today in Ivory Tower:
Camille on Campus By Camille Paglia
From screaming babies to screaming college students: "The Nurture Assumption": A rambling, anecdotal memoir
(09/23/98)
Confessions of Harper's serf By Marc Herman
The lessons gleaned from an internship at an elite magazine are the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of
(09/23/98)
Mothers Who Think Conception by deception By Tracy Quan
Why do women get away with "accidentally" getting pregnant -- when if a man tried to pull the same manipulative stunt, he'd be Bobbitted?
(09/23/98)
Newsreal They bomb pharmacies, don't they? By Christopher Hitchens
When Clinton really had to look "presidential" for a day, he simply launched cruise missiles against a sort of Arab version of Ken Starr
(09/23/98)
Letters High praise for Taylor's Clinton video analysis; the dumbing-down
of 21st?
(09/23/98)
Wanderlust Swimsuits -- and more! By Beverly Gage
Past and present collide at Atlantic City's annual Miss America extravaganza
(09/23/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Epiphany on the Great Salt Flats
(09/23/98)
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TUESDAY
Sept. 22, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
Citizen Tania: "Patty Hearst" tells the story America didn't want
to hear (09/22/98)
You don't know Dick By Hariette Surovell
Andy Dick, the unpredictable and hilarious co-star of "NewsRadio," talks about the deaths of his colleagues Phil Hartman and Chris Farley -- and why he thinks it should have been him (09/22/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
New shows: Nathan Lane's "Encore!" and ABC's ESPN takeoff "Sports Night" (09/22/98)
21st Anatomy of an e-mail chain letter By Amy Virshup
Why did so many people forward an obviously bogus message about a Bill Gates giveaway? (09/22/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Scott Sutherland
"We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our
Families" by Philip Gourevitch: A superb and haunting book, from a frequent New Yorker contributor, that explodes many of the myths about the genocide in Rwanda (09/22/98)
Ivory Tower Ufology
By Christina Valhouli
After decades of debunking and naysaying, why have academics invited aliens into the ivory tower?
(09/22/98)
Lovers and
Writers By Garrison Keillor
How can I meet girls in odd clothing if I'm not a writer?
(09/22/98)
Letters The get-Clinton mob's disregard for First Amendment rights; bisexuality explored
(09/22/98)
Media Circus Big game By David Bowman
Pynchon hunters find it frighteningly easy to track and catch their prey
(09/22/98)
Mothers Who Think
First pick by proxy By Carol Snow
A toddler fulfills her mother's gym class dreams
(09/22/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Analysis: Grace under pressure By Charles Taylor
With his back to the wall, President Clinton finds his voice and passes the character test
(09/22/98)
Analysis: The politics of paranoia By Bruce Schapiro
In their rush to burn the president at the stake, the sexually insecure voices of moral absolutism are criminalizing some of our most cherished constitutional protections
(09/22/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
"Potion Parts"
(09/22/98)
Wanderlust
The cheapest air ticket around By Dawn MacKeen
Couriers fly halfway around the world at half (or less) the normal price
(09/22/98)
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MONDAY
Sept. 21, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Six degrees to nowhere By Janelle Brown
A Web site that connects you to everyone you don't need to know
(09/21/98)
Bombs away By Andrew Leonard
What if everyone can wreak cyberhavoc?
(09/21/98)
Today in Entertainment:
American Squirm By Sarah Vowell
Ally McBeal, all-American antihero: We have met the enemy, and she is us
(09/21/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Gay man, straight woman buddy up in new sitcom "Will & Grace"; Jerry Stiller is back in "King of Queens"
(09/21/98)
Left Hook By Joe Conanson
What goes around, comes around: The self-righteous bullies on Capitol Hill like to conduct sexual inquisitions as long as no one fights back
(09/21/98)
Ivory Tower Seven deadly sins By Isaac Zaur
Sacred rites of an acid house: Beyond the bad food and the bad poetry, a tribe of students seek life's mysteries in a collective hallucination
(09/21/98)
Mothers Who Think Time For One Thing By Karen Laws
With my father at my side, I finally learned how to "read the water"
like a true angler
(09/21/98)
Newsreal A man for all seasons
By Jeff Stein
Russia's former KGB chief dishes the truth about new Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov
(09/21/98)
Today in Books:
Sneaks Reviewed by Gary Krist
"Model Behavior" by Jay McInerney: From the author of "Bright Lights, Big City," a thin novel about
the rise and fall of a disgruntled fashion journalist in New York
(09/21/98)
Pornography of despair Reviewed by D.J. Waldie
L.A. Apocalypse: Why does Mike Davis want to see his city burn?
(09/21/98)
Letters More mudslinging over Salon's Hyde story
(09/21/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Clinton joins ranks of great presidential prevaricators! (09/21/98)
Wanderlust Paris' cafe renaissance
By David Downie
From nouveau sleek to retro chic, there's a lively new scene in the City of Caffeine
(09/21/98)
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FRIDAY
Sept. 18, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
"One True Thing" Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
One Blue Thing: Renée Zellweger buckles under the emotional weight of the brutally melodramatic "One True Thing"
(09/18/98)
"A Merry War" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
How to get behind in advertising: Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter shun middle-class mediocrity in "A Merry War," the film adaptation of George Orwell's "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"
(09/18/98)
"Rush Hour" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
A pale imitation of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong hits
(09/18/98)
"The Young Girls of Rochefort" Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
The color of love: Romantic fantasies are indulged in Jacques Demy's touchingly outmoded musical love letter
(09/18/98)
"Permanent Midnight" Reviewed by Janelle Brown
Permanent Boredom: The latest in the junkie-flick genre has plenty of low lows, but unfortunately few highs
(09/18/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
New "Simpsons"; "The Farm": Inside the toughest state pen in America
(09/18/98)
Today in 21st:
What the spell-checker knows By Tom Krattenmaker
It doesn't just fix your typos -- it sees through to the truth behind names
(09/18/98)
The 21st Challenge No. 13 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
High-tech status gadgets! (09/18/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Daniel H. Pink
"No Safe Place" by Richard North Patterson: Frank Capra meets Albert Camus in this smart, timely political
thriller about a well-meaning politician with a "bimbo eruption" on his
hands
(09/18/98)
Ivory Tower Recess
A one-stop playground for weekend frivolity and fun
(09/18/98)
Letters Readers respond in droves to Salon's Henry Hyde story
(09/18/98)
Media Circus The jester of Monicagate By Inda Schaenen
As the president falls, Lucianne Goldberg's son rises
(09/18/98)
Mothers Who Think Who needs experts? Part Two
By Beth Kephart
"The Nurture Assumption": A controversial book makes headlines, not sense
(09/18/98)
Money Move over, Susan B. Anthony
By Lance Gould
Sacajawea and a new tribe of currencies are on the loose
(09/18/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Loyal to the end By Jessica Seigel
Susan McDougal, on trial in California on non-Whitewater offenses, feels vindicated
(09/18/98)
Political firestorm erupts against Salon By Harry Jaffe
Republicans charge that White House was behind story and call for FBI investigation; bureau says it will "look into" the matter
(09/18/98)
Editorial
Salon's declaration of independence
(09/18/98)
Hyde lied, says former lover By David Talbot
"Long-term relationship" ended at least two and a half years after Hyde
claimed it did, charges Cherie Soskin
(09/18/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies, TV (09/18/98)
Wanderlust The heart of a tourist hustler By Lisa Dreier
Lonely in India, she befriended the local playboy. Who could know what would happen next?
(09/18/98)
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THURSDAY
Sept. 17, 1998
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21st How Palm beat Microsoft By Mary Eisenhart
One of the PalmPilot's parents explains its success
(09/17/98)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Almost Heaven" by Marianne Wiggins: A foreign correspondent returns home after eight years in war-torn
Eastern Europe, in a novel that's equal parts love story, psychodrama and
balderdash (09/17/98)
Today in Entertainment:
The same old song and dance Reviewed by Peter Kurth
Is that icon of gay culture, the Broadway musical, a dead genre? A new book by a Columbia professor puts another nail in its coffin
(09/17/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
WB's new Thursday lineup; "48 Hours" season premiere
(09/17/98)
Ivory Tower Going adjunct
By Andreas Killen
The grueling plight of underemployed academics and the violent
fantasies they entertain
(09/17/98)
Mothers Who Think In defense of parenthood
By Katie Allison Granju
A controversial and deeply flawed new book argues that no matter how you parent, junior might still turn out to be the next Charles Manson
(09/17/98)
Letters Anti-Starr Republican speaks out; love and hate for Salon's Clinton coverage
(09/17/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Everybody Wang Chung tonight
(09/17/98)
Wanderlust In shackles with the Freedom Bag By Carol Lloyd
No matter how nifty the organizational innovation, some minds cannot rise to the occasion
(09/17/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Sept. 16, 1998
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21st The Microsoft defile By Scott Rosenberg
"The Microsoft File"
is all the dirt on Microsoft that fits between covers
(09/16/98)
Today in Books:
Killing the father By Zoe Heller
After 30 years of friendship, why did Paul Theroux stab V.S. Naipaul in the back?
(09/16/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"Pure Drivel" by Steve Martin: Effortless, silly and subtly erudite, the author's short New Yorker
essays, collected here, prove that there is such a thing as an elegant puff piece
(09/16/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
The weekly music column features reviews of new music by
Sheryl Crow, Pansy Division and Danilo Perez, and Rhino's latest "Nuggets"
release
(09/16/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"90210," "Party of Five" season premieres; Conan's prime-time
special (09/16/98)
Ivory Tower By Carol Lloyd
Vocational fiction 101: The principles of creative writing can help make sense of the absurd autobiographical art of résumé creation
(09/16/98)
Unzipped 976-UGLY By Courtney Weaver
In Part Two of a conversation, a phone sex worker talks about the dark, disturbing side of her business
(09/16/98)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queen
Gag me: Cast your vote for the worst meal a mother ever served
(09/16/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Gentrification X: Far from the ejaculating masses: The New York Times Style section hails Wallpaper magazine, a style mag for monied hipsters
(09/16/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Lives of the Republicans, Part Two By David Neiwert
The strange case of Helen Chenoweth shows that playing the sex card against the Democrats as a political strategy can be, in Idaho parlance, as "dumb as a mud fence"
(09/16/98)
"This hypocrite broke up my family" By David Talbot
The secret affair of Henry Hyde, the man who will sit in judgment on President Clinton (09/16/98)
Editorial
Why we ran the Henry Hyde story
(09/16/98)
Letters Giuliani's unforgivable error; unraveling Monica and Bill's strange relationship
(09/16/98)
Wanderlust Where am I gonna go today? By Aaron Paulson
Finding a job overseas through the Internet
(09/16/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The evil that roommates do
(09/16/98)
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TUESDAY
Sept. 15, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles
Taylor
"Dodes'ka-den": Kurosawa in the shadows, a little-known gem
(09/15/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"King of the Hill" season premiere; new sitcom "Costello": No Elvis (09/15/98)
21st A kinder, gentler Usenet By Janelle Brown
Will putting a friendly face on the Internet's wilderness of newsgroups improve them -- or tame them?
(09/15/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by David L. Ulin
"Two Cities" by John Edgar Wideman: Tales of urban life in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, from a novelist
who continues to re-imagine the black experience in the United States
(09/15/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
The Starr report: Bill never inhaled and he never impaled
(09/15/98)
Waiting to die By Sara Kelly
The madness of life on Pennsylvania's death row
(09/15/98)
Ivory Tower Penile ponderings By Lori Gottlieb
In search of vestigial vaginas and other ethical dilemmas
(09/15/98)
Letters Burton's disgrace reveals right-wing hypocrisy; Salon's shameful legacy
(09/15/98)
Media Circus Throw the disk at him! By James Poniewozik
Forget the Web posting. The Starr Report's groaning arrival really demonstrates the power of large white cardboard boxes
(09/15/98)
Mothers Who Think
Hot Flash By Lisa Moskowitz
I want your sex: Forays into sex selection could result in a nation of girls
(09/15/98)
Newsreal White House adjusts its game plan By Jonathan Broder
"Forgive me or else" is abandoned for a softer approach as the president's camp braces for a likely impeachment battle
(09/15/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Regrets of a frozen head
(09/15/98)
Wanderlust
No man is a garden By Simon Firth
Treasures of the English gardener's art -- and the spirit at its heart
(09/15/98)
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MONDAY
Sept. 14, 1998
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21st Is cyberpunk still breathing? By Andrew Leonard
Two new science-fiction novels take a stab at an increasingly moribund genre
(09/14/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Strangeness in the night By Joyce Millman
What's a nice boy like Conan O'Brien doing in a place like late
night TV?
(09/14/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Whoopi's new "Hollywood Squares"; Roseanne invades Oprah's turf
(09/14/98)
Ivory Tower The $10,000 hoop By Zachary Karabell
Has higher education become an exercise in futility for most Americans? (09/14/98)
Mothers Who Think Wild Things By Polly
Shulman
Words that sing: Children's books that make words sing
(09/14/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Katharine Wolff
"At Home in the World": Joyce Maynard was 18, and J.D. Salinger 53, when they began a
short-lived affair, recounted in this unflattering tell-all memoir
(09/14/98)
Letters Salon too pro-Clinton; quit bashing Monica; run longer book reviews
(09/14/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Don't believe the liberal media! (09/14/98)
Wanderlust Chili con carne, anyone?
By Vijai Maheshwari
In Moscow, buyers are snapping up whatever's on the shelves
(09/14/98)
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FRIDAY
Sept. 11, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Rounders Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Good will bluffing: The poker-faced "Rounders" deals some fine actors a bad hand
(09/11/98)
Courtney Love called me a retard By Lori Leibovich
And other celebrity skinny from the press tent at MTV's Video Music
Awards
(09/11/98)
Listen through this Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Hole's defiant "Celebrity Skin" suggests Courtney Love's scars have calloused over
(09/11/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Load up on the snacks: NBC's four-hour Emmy Awards gala
(09/11/98)
Today in 21st:
The Richard Stallman saga, redux By Andrew Leonard
New debates about the philosophy of the open-source movement (09/11/98)
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Rushing the Starr report to the Net is all about one thing: Delivering the juicy bits (09/11/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Hal Hinson
"The Baltimore Case" by Daniel J. Kevles: An exhaustive account of the travails of Nobel Prize-winning
scientist David Baltimore, who was falsely accused of fraud by a colleague
(09/11/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Sexpert sale: The two toughest things to unload at a Labor Day yard
sale are 10-year-old college textbooks and werewolf porn
(09/11/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
The beginning of the end: Starr report destroys Clinton
(09/11/98)
Letters "Slaves of the system" author Nina Siegal responds; praise for Jonathan Mann
(09/11/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts
By Sallie Tisdale
We're here, we're ... uh ... straight? Using prayer, therapy and makeup to help gays "return" to heterosexuality
(09/11/98)
Money The Reluctant Capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
Gluttons for a crash: Why so many investors are riding high on the new market lows
(09/11/98)
A call for moral renewal By Mark Hertsgaard
The destruction of President Clinton was a laudable first step, but restoring the ethical fiber of America requires more. All of official Washington must be cleansed! (09/11/98)
Today in Newsreal:
The other woman Commentary By Murray Waas
Of all the women swirling around President Clinton, there's perhaps only one who was a true victim
(09/11/98)
Secret lives of the Republicans, Part One By Jason Vest
How Dan Burton outed himself in a preemptive strike against an upcoming Vanity Fair exposé
(09/11/98)
Lucianne Goldberg dishes on the Starr Report By Jeff Stein
The woman behind the Lewinsky affair says Clinton will be tagged with 30 impeachable offenses
(09/11/98)
Where's Whitewater?
By Jonathan Broder
The independent counsel seems to have forgotten something on his way to the impeachment party
(09/11/98)
The voyeur general's report to Congress
By Gary Kamiya
Once its Peeping-Tom shock wears off, the Starr report is nothing more than an extreme close-up of what we already knew
(09/11/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies and TV (09/11/98)
Wanderlust From nudism to Buddhism By Tanya Shaffer
After a painful break-up, a writer seeks solace in three wildly different European retreats
(09/11/98)
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THURSDAY
Sept. 10, 1998
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21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
The iMac debate rages
on, as Apple's legions weigh in
(09/10/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Plain and Normal" by James Wilcox: In New York City, a drab, overworked gay businessman is beset by
eccentrics and gets dragged out of the closet against his will (09/10/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Touch of Evil Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Ballad of a fat man: Orson Welles' recently reissued noir classic "Touch of Evil" may be the sleaziest good movie ever made
(09/10/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Joan and Bette are back: Madonna and Courtney Love do the MTV
Video Awards
(09/10/98)
Mothers Who Think Rain on the parade
By Jeffrey Obser
The Million Youth March was supposed to empower and uplift young African-Americans. So how did it become a political circus starring adults?
(09/10/98)
Letters Branfman bashed for "We can't forgive Clinton because he got caught"; Ronald Radosh takes on Stephen Talbot
(09/10/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Protected witness By Murray Waas
How Ken Starr tried to prevent state prosecutors from charging
his prime witness with defrauding poor black people of burial insurance
(09/10/98)
The Salon Report on
Kenneth Starr By David Talbot
What the public should
know about the prosecutor
who may drive him from
office (09/10/98)
The cast of characters Compiled by Daryl Lindsey
(09/10/98)
"Everyone will be
punished" By Jonathan Broder
The embattled White House
tries out a new strategy to
fend off impeachment --
but if it doesn't work, stand
by for total war
(09/10/98)
Now he belongs to the ages
By Steve Kettmann
The swing heard 'round the
world: The meaning of
Mark McGwire's feat
(09/10/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
If the F.D.A. wrote marketing copy
(09/10/98)
Wanderlust Bangkok's got a brand new bag By Karl Vetas
Thailand's capital is transforming the sex change -- and the tourist -- industry
(09/10/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Sept. 9, 1998
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21st Death and the hard drive By Moira Muldoon
Data can be a precious link
to a lost loved one -- if you save it
(09/09/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Zachary Karabell
"King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild: A pitiless account of the evil King Leopold's atrocities in the
Belgian Congo, including the killing of more than 5 million people
(09/09/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new music by Medeski, Martin and Wood, Sloan, John
Hiatt, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and the Klezmatics
(09/09/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Drew Carey's nemesis Mimi joins the fun on "Whose Line?"
Writers and Lovers By Garrison Keillor
Mr Blue: Why does my husband keep writing short stories about having affairs with younger women with pierced tongues?
(09/09/98)
Unzipped Talking dirty By Courtney Weaver
Shoptalking with a professional dirty talker
(09/09/98)
Mothers Who Think Monica's betrayal By Jenn Shreve
When Monica Lewinsky told more than all, she sold her man down the river -- and violated the adulterer's code of honor
(09/09/98)
Media Circus Hush, hush, sweet Monica By Gary Kaufman
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the most famous person who's never been interviewed stayed that way?
(09/09/98)
Today in Newsreal:
True romance By Jack Hitt
Why did President Clinton risk everything for a perky intern? Because he was in love
(09/09/98)
Naked man without a plan By Jonathan Broder
Clinton's defense team prepares a tortured legalistic argument that may help him escape legal jeopardy, but it will only make impeachment all the more likely
(09/09/98)
Letters Former Mother Jones editor and art director responds; sex abuse in
prison
(09/09/98)
Wanderlust Have dress, will travel By Lori Leibovich
Test-driving Travelsmith's "Indispensable Black Travel Dress"
(09/09/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
(09/09/98)
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TUESDAY
Sept. 8, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Latin American Gothic By Charles Taylor
Roman Polanski's overwrought "Death and the
Maiden"
(09/08/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Mark McGwire or Hank Hill: Who's more macho? (09/08/98)
21st Inside the new high-tech lock-downs By Jim Rendon
Prison gadgetry promises to save money and reduce overcrowding -- but at what cost?
(09/08/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"The Voyage of the Narwhal" by Andrea Barrett: From the author of the National Book Award-winning "Ship Fever," an
account of a 19th century Arctic adventure and its aftermath
(09/08/98)
Left Hook One who mattered By Joe Conason
In an age when it is fashionable to dump on baby boomers, let me tell you about a 51-year-old healer and a sage
(09/08/98)
Letters Readers bean McNichol's "Field of Pills"; Paglia and the WNBA
(09/08/98)
Media Circus Torah! Torah! Torah! By Sarah Blustain
Lox, bagels and a shmear of Deuteronomy: Torah study-power breakfast for New York's cultural elite
(09/08/98)
Mothers Who Think
Back-to-school blues By Sandi Kahn Shelton
If school is so good for your kids, why does it make you look so bad?
(09/08/98)
Newsreal The year of reliving dangerously By David Horowitz
The unbearable heaviness of not remembering correctly
(09/08/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Remembering Gusto
(09/08/98)
Wanderlust
A legendary cafe-restaurant in Paris By David Downie
Le Pied Rare is celebrated in novels -- and by its pork-loving patrons
(09/08/98)
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FRIDAY
Sept. 04, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
The ennui and the ecstasy Reviewed by Janelle Brown
Simon Reynolds' "Generation Ecstasy" and Iara Lee's "Modulations" dryly document the rise and fall of rave (09/04/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Labor Day TV marathon mania: "Planet of the Apes," "90210,"
"M*A*S*H" and Jerry Lewis
(09/04/98)
Today in 21st:
Internet U. By Andrew Leonard
A new documentary looks at the benefits and hazards of the Net as global lecture hall (09/04/98)
The 21st Challenge No. 13 -- Status gadgets By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Devise a new high-tech device -- and win a prize! (09/04/98)
Today in Books:
Introducing the Garner Report By Dwight Garner
A highly subjective, monthly roundup of upcoming book titles
(09/04/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Daniel Reitz
"Filth" by Irvine Welsh: Inside the mind (and the churning bowels) of a misanthropic
Scottish policeman, from the author of "Trainspotting"
(09/04/98)
Letters More on Horowitz vs. Talbot; Unzipped; Lish
(09/04/98)
Mothers Who Think Red Square
By Janis Cooke Newman
What will I tell my son about the cold, strange city where he was born?
(09/04/98)
Money Separate checkbooks
By Hank Hyena and Carol Lloyd
One couple violates the sanctity of shared income and lives to tell
the tale
(09/04/98)
Newsreal Commentary By Fred Branfman
Why we need Clinton to resign: The clock is ticking on how long we can handle the cognitive dissonance between his behavior and our grandiose expectations of the presidency
(09/04/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies, TV (09/04/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
I'm sick of everything!! (09/04/98)
Wanderlust Raving in Goa By Karl Taro Greenfeld
Our correspondent ventures into the dark heart of the Indian hangout's newest scene, with an unlikely guide-cum-drug-dealer named Ian
(09/04/98)
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THURSDAY
Sept. 03, 1998
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21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Sad and lonely in cyberspace? The new Net depression study is something to get bummed about
(09/03/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester: A fascinating account of the 70-year development of the OED, and a profile of its most unlikely major contributor -- an inmate at a prison for the criminally insane (09/03/98)
Today in Entertainment:
"How Stella Got Her Groove Back," "Dance with Me," "Next Stop, Wonderland" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Next Stop, Hollywood: Hollywood's glossy good-time gal movies put indie-hit "Next Stop, Wonderland" to shame
(09/03/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Koppel sprung from slammer; Lilith flirts with Frasier
(09/03/98)
Zap splits!
By Bob Callahan
When R. Crumb told his underground-comics peers he wanted out of the club, things got ugly -- then they got interesting
(09/03/98)
Mothers Who Think Back to the future
By Kate Moses
Summer isn't endless after all: The first day of school
(09/03/98)
Letters Horowitz vs. Talbot; why Syd Field?; in defense of David Cash
(09/03/98)
Newsreal Field of pills By Tom McNichol
The hugely overdeveloped Mark McGwire may soon break the hallowed home run record, but only thanks to his steroid drug abuse habit
(09/03/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Science cannot explain EVERYTHING!
(09/03/98)
Wanderlust Confessions of a hoteloholic By Jan Morris
A lifelong traveler reveals her addiction to the theater and ritual of grand hotels
(09/03/98)
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WEDNESDAY
Sept. 02, 1998
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21st Look, Ma, no ink! By Janelle Brown
The technology industry tries to invent a better book. Will publishers bite? (09/02/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Mr. White's Confession" by Robert Clark: A spooky highbrow thriller, set in St. Paul, Minn., in the 1930s, about murders among the city's dime-a-dance girls (09/02/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
New CDs by Willie Nelson, Juliana Hatfield, Keb' Mo' Belle and Sebastian and Six Finger Satellite (09/02/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
The real Steve Rubell: Studio 54 founder on "Biography" (09/02/98)
Unzipped Scheming chitchat By Courtney Weaver
While women chat, men fish for a date (09/02/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
The Star Report: Are we turning critics into rating machines? Also: Jon Katz takes his Glorious New Media
Revolution show on the road (09/02/98)
Mothers Who Think By Clea Simon
Litter Mate: Can lovers truly share a cat? (09/02/98)
Newsreal By Jonathan Broder
Yale finance expert David DeRosa predicts that Wall Street will withstand the globe's economic convulsions (09/02/98)
Letters We're all insane, not
just a child-killer and his pal (09/02/98)
Wanderlust The Deep Fried Potato Bug By Richard Sterling
An American challenges a Frenchman to a culinary duel (09/02/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Never
go grocery shopping with a stoner (09/02/98)
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TUESDAY
Sept. 1, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies Idyll worship By Charles Taylor
"Haut/bas/fragile": The ecstasy of everyday Parisian life (09/01/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Star Trek" returns; premiere dates for "ER," "X-Files" and more (09/01/98)
21st The long bust? By Andrew Leonard
With the collapse of stock prices, Silicon Valley hype also takes a fall
(09/01/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Beverly Gage
"Prison Writing in 20th-Century America" by H. Bruce Franklin: A lively and often surprising anthology -- writers include Nelson Algren, Malcolm X and Robert Lowell -- that offers a peek into America's
criminal justice system (09/01/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Clinton's little cigar, McGwire's big bat and Drudge's Winchell hat
(09/01/98)
Letters The silence of the
Newt; bin Laden; XY files (09/01/98)
Media Circus Lashed by Lish By David Bowman
A former student emerges unscathed from the legendary fiction editor's writing workshops
(09/01/98)
Mothers Who Think By Nina Siegel
Slaves to the system: For vast numbers of women behind bars, prison is a hell of sexual terror (09/01/98)
Today in Newsreal:
Who lost Russia? By Jonathan Broder
As Moscow teeters on the brink, Russian experts blame years of bad American advice (09/01/98)
Clinton's dog days By Charlie Varon
The New York Times gives Buddy a bone (09/01/98)
Days of rage (cont.) By Stephen Talbot
The filmmaker fires back at David Horowitz over his PBS documentary "1968"
(09/01/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The lock
and the key (09/01/98)
Wanderlust
Camel Trophy's grand finale By Melanie D. Goldman
Haircuts and kissing games at the end of the world (09/01/98)
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