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FRIDAY
Feb 26, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Crips, Bloods in the Web 'hood By Greg Brouwer
Are gang sites for real or for wannabes?
(02/26/99)
21st Log
Turing Test transcripts -- is it bot or not? (02/26/99)
The 21st Challenge No. 19 By Charlie Varon and Jim
Rosenau
A motto for Silicon Valley (02/26/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Brian Blanchfield
"Ezra and
Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946" Edited by
Omar Pound and Robert Spoo: The letters of the poet and his long-suffering wife illuminate his
imprisonment for treason, their complicated marriage and his growing madness (02/26/99)
Dark Hotel Nora Smudge is on the case; Uncle Bill's switch-hitting Munich playground (02/26/99)
Today in Entertainment:
"8mm" Celluloid zeroes By Andrew O'Hehir
Joel Schumacher's sadistic "8mm" is expertly crafted crap (02/26/99)
"Jawbreaker" Very bad schwings By Mary Beth Williams
"Jawbreaker" is a T&A black comedy that teases more than it delivers (02/26/99)
"200 Cigarettes" Synth city By Mary Elizabeth Williams
The nostalgic '80s soundtrack is the star, but the love stories get lost in
shuffle-play (02/26/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Nora Smudge is on the case; Uncle Bill's switch-hitting Munich playground
(02/26/99)
Ivory Tower From here to fraternity By Rolf Potts
Longing for the college revelry he never had, a young man goes undercover in the land of spring break
(02/26/99)
Letters Campus "ghosts" make themselves heard; shed no tears for Tina's New Yorker; demise of a girl game
(02/26/99)
Money Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ... the Grateful Capitalists! By Larry Kanter
Taking their cue from counterculture success stories like the
Grateful Dead, radical marketers are building brand loyalty from the ground
up
(02/26/99)
Mothers Who Think Mother Time By Jennifer Bingham Hull
We have lots of some kinds of time, little of others -- which is why
people who live outside this zone, including many politicians, don't understand
our lives
(02/26/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Justice in Jasper By Faulkner Fox
In the face of naked evil, a community comes together
(02/26/99)
Russian roulette By Jeff Stein
Though all of the recent anthrax attacks against abortion clinics have turned out to be hoaxes, emergency crews responding to them have discovered a new problem (03/01/99)
Wanderlust Railway ties By Morrie Erickson
A traveler discovers the real Burma on a train to Mandalay
(02/26/99)
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THURSDAY
Feb. 25, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Hotline's civil war By Janelle Brown
The company behind a hot program takes its teenage inventor to court -- while devoted users stew
(02/25/99)
21st Log Senate to nation -- get serious about Y2K
(02/25/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: The Unexpurgated Edition" edited by Joan Acocella: Four notebooks, published uncensored for the first time, chart the descent into schizophrenia of the Russian dance genius (02/25/99)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The slowest morning in history (02/25/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Screen Savers Trans America By Jennie Yabroff
Documentary filmmakers Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir talk
about the story behind "The Brandon Teena Story" (02/25/99)
Musical chairs By Jonathan Cohen
R.E.M., Shawn Colvin, Cibo Matto, Philip Glass and others mix it
up at the Tibet House benefit concert
(02/25/99)
Hail, Sony! By Cintra Wilson
Amazingly, somehow, all the top sellers won Grammys (brought to you by Sony) again this year
(02/25/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Southern exposure: Dr. Benton goes to Mississippi on "ER"
(02/25/99)
Letters Salon: Investigate the Broaddrick story!
Plus: "Sports Night" fans, detractors face off
(02/25/99)
Media Circus Inside Outside By Susan Lehman
New editor flies into Mother Jones; Janeane Garofalo and her body double
(02/25/99)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
Amnesia: It's easy to pretend that we are not who we once were, to treat our
painful condition as an echo of someone else's mistakes. Reading my teenage
journals forced me to stop pretending
(02/25/99)
Newsreal Dumping scandal: The export of bad blood
By Suzi Parker
One thousand Canadian victims demand answers from Clinton and others about the export of contaminated blood products from U.S. prisons long after they were no longer sold domestically
(02/25/99)
Urge Doctor's orders By Janelle Brown
In the wake of a new Alabama law declaring vibrators illegal, a
provocative new book, "The Technology of Orgasm," sheds light on the
perversely puritanical evolution of the feminine joystick (02/25/99)
Wanderlust Escape from Tashkent
By Jeffrey Tayler
A Peace Corps worker unwittingly falls into a romantic adventure with a Russian waitress stranded in Uzbekistan
(02/25/99)
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WEDNESDAY
Feb. 24, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Hotline to the underground By Janelle Brown
It was invented
by a teenager. It's simple to use. And it can turn anyone's computer into a
server of legal or illegal files. First of two parts (02/24/99)
21st Log Pentium III serial numbers hacked
(02/24/99)
Today in Books:
Journey to the center of a race By Fetzer Mills, Jr.
Randall Kenan talks about the seven-year odyssey that led him from
Martha's Vineyard to Alaska in search of the truth about black life in
America
(02/24/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Ray Sawhill
"South of the Border, West of The Sun" by Haruki Murakami: A middle-aged "Casablanca" probes -- and probes and probes -- the forlornness of Japanese baby boomers
(02/24/99)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Armed and dangerous
(02/24/99)
Today in Entertainment:
American Squirm By Sarah Vowell
Roger and him: Remembering Gene Siskel, 1946-1999
(02/24/99)
Flesh and blood Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Kelly Willis' new album, "What I Deserve," is an antidote to the
slickness that's ruined country music
(02/24/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Rosie O'Donnell hosts the Grammys; Eddie Murphy times seven in
"Nutty Professor" (02/24/99)
Today in Ivory Tower:
Professor in drag By Jacqueline Swartz
Philosopher Michael Gilbert discusses the delights and enlightenment that come with wearing a dress
(02/24/99)
Camille on Campus By Camille Paglia
Butler vs. Nussbaum: When poststructuralist feminists begin to attack each other, the end of the PC dynasty is near
(02/24/99)
Letters Gay men cry "foul" on Paglia's barebacking theories;
in defense of Y2K survival guides and Leonard Nimoy
(02/24/99)
Mothers Who Think A dime bag for the schoolgirl
By Janet McDonald
I thought escaping Vassar to make Harlem drug runs meant I could be in the elite world, but not of it (02/24/99)
Newsreal Robertson redux By Frederick Clarkson
Robertson redux: Splits in the religious right will make it hard to recapture the Christian Coalition's glory days (02/24/99)
Wanderlust Ground zero by Ellen Meloy
A writer discovers the resiliency of life in the atomic testing grounds of the American southwest (02/24/99)
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TUESDAY
Feb. 23, 1999
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Today in 21st:
21st The Drudge dynasty By Janelle Brown
Matt isn't the only member of his family to stake out a place on the Web (02/23/99)
21st Log
Nuremberg Files anti-abortion site back online -- in Holland (02/23/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Anderson Tepper
"Childhood" by By Patrick Chamoiseau: The novelist's second memoir celebrates a boyhood spent in a storytelling family among the riotous richness of Martinique's Creole culture (02/23/99)
Brilliant Careers The Baron of Bakersfield By Gary Kaufman
With his unmistakable honky-tonk sound and 15 No. 1 hits in a row, Buck Owens owned country music (02/23/99)
Left Hook By Joe Conason
A silent wind blows: Conservatives seem to have nothing to say when it comes to racism, hate crimes and white supremacists
(02/23/99)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The woman who never blew men off (02/23/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats
Reviews of new CDs by Sleater-Kinney, the Meat Puppets, Lone Justice, Lisa Germano and the Jimmy Rogers All-Stars (02/23/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Hank Hill's day of the dolphin; how to tell if a commercial is
"gay-vague" (02/23/99)
LettersReaders sink their teeth into fluoride debate; Monica and Bill were equals (02/23/99)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Steady hand on the Tilley: The double "New York" issue finds David Remnick's New Yorker sailing smoothly. Maybe too smoothly
(02/23/99)
Mothers Who Think A nose for things By Debra Fay Holton
My mother was tidy and crisp, which is why Janine's vacant mother and messy house were just what I was looking for (02/23/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Flynt's revenge By Carol Lloyd
The porno king and Official Republican Humiliator tells why he did it, the real reason the Washington Post ran his ad and what he'd do if he had five more lives. (02/23/99)
Rush to defeat By Neal Pollack
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is a shoo-in thanks to a weak campaign by a congressman who should have been a contender (02/23/99)
Wanderlust Death in Ghana By Tanya Shaffer
A simple succession of events in an African village
leads to a tragedy -- and a traveler's haunting sense of hopelessness (02/23/99)
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MONDAY
Feb. 22, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Yay for Yahoo By Andrew Leonard
How do I love thee? Let me
count the pages
(02/22/99)
Boo for Yahoo By Aaron Weiss
How did the people's champ of the Net get so corporate and lazy?
(02/22/99)
21st Log
Girl game pioneer Purple Moon shuts down
(02/22/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Adam Goodheart
"Werewolves in
Their Youth" by Michael Chabon: By the author of "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," a surprisingly
Gothic new collection that's long on generosity and longer on charm
(02/22/99)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Tulipmania.com raises $900,000,000,000,000! (02/22/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Working stiffs By Joyce
Millman
Why are "Dilbert" and "Sports Night" like a day at the office?
Because watching them is a grind
(02/22/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Sonny and Cher for sweeps; Three Mile Island remembered (02/22/99)
Ivory Tower Ghosts on campus By Lori Gottlieb
Within the cozy community of campus life, there are plenty of cracks to fall through (02/22/99)
Letters Two Horowitz fans defend his new book; Clinton in college; how
children deal with death (02/22/99)
Mothers Who Think It's a microbe's life By Debra Ollivier
Land of the free, home of the clean freak -- the latest round of
microbial warfare has turned America into a paranoid hot zone
(02/22/99)
Newsreal The ugliest story yet By Joan Walsh
Why the Wall Street Journal ran the Clinton rape story that no other reputable news organization would touch (02/22/99)
Wanderlust Walking on silk By Thomas Golembeski
A massage teacher in Thailand changes a Westerner's life
(02/22/99)
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FRIDAY
Feb 19, 1999
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Today in 21st:
When candidates spam By Deborah Scoblionkov
A mass e-mailing by a New Jersey Republican stirs up an online
hornet's nest
(02/19/99)
21st Log
Name that movement -- open source or free software? (02/19/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"The Houdini
Girl" by Martyn Bedford: A British novelist lays out the darkly romantic story of a
grief-stricken (02/19/99)
Dark Hotel Welcome to the Dark Hotel (02/19/99)
Today in Entertainment:
"Office Space" Daydream believer By Andrew O'Hehir
Mike Judge's "Office Space" is a funny, well-meaning ode to anti-ambition (02/19/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Bill Murray back on "SNL"; Lucy and Desi's home movies
(02/19/99)
Ivory Tower What if they threw a revolution and nobody came? By Ben Fritz
Conservative foundations are pouring money into traditionally liberal campuses in the hopes of converting a new generation of right-wing radicals, but will their millions bear fruit?
(02/19/99)
Letters Berenstain Bears authors growl back at Salon; why Americans love Clinton; would SimCity put up with a Giuliani?
(02/19/99)
Money Epidemic of extravagance By Heather Chaplin
Economist Robert H. Frank has written a painstakingly researched new book offering a cure to our destructive love of luxury, but will anybody listen?
(02/19/99)
Mothers Who Think Flea market By Anne Lamott
It turns out faith is like a little cat that you let in once and feed, and it stays forever
(02/19/99)
Newsreal Sex and the single intern By Richard Goldstein
What does it mean that the president preyed upon an employee half his age?
(02/19/99)
Wanderlust This Week in Travel
Wanderlust's selective guide to travel-related news from across the globe.
(02/19/99)
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THURSDAY
Feb. 18, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Bear essentials By Tim Cavanaugh
Christopher Byron explains how
day traders have fueled the tech market roller derby
(02/18/99)
21st Log Linux bandwagon starts to groan
(02/18/99)
Today in Books:
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by David Hudson
"The Pyrotechnic
Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink" by Mark Dery: A cultural critic urges us to look, really look, at the horrors of
late-20th century American life (02/18/99)
Writing on Air By Geoff Edgers
Author David Halberstam tells the story behind his new book, "Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made" (02/18/99)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Australopithecine party animal! (02/18/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Screen Savers Single white filmmaker By Larry Getlen
Myles Berkowitz took a camera crew along on "20 Dates" and found
Ms. Right -- not to mention a distribution deal (02/18/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
The world's deadliest sweeps programming; Clooney's last "ER"
(02/18/99)
Letters Velma? Gay. Peppermint Patty? Gay. Chip and Dale? Gay.
Plus: Don't dis Tripp 'cause she's ugly
(02/18/99)
Mothers Who Think Wild Thing By Polly Shulman
Let-r play: Classic and iconoclastic books shake up the alphabet and take kids on a trip through the Dictionapolis of the written word
(02/18/99)
Newsreal A new racial era for San Francisco schools
By Joan Walsh
A court settlement ending the city's 16-year experiment in desegregation marks acceptance of California's new racial realities
(02/18/99)
Urge Dr. Block's little house of sexual horrors By Carol Lloyd
A grotesque L.A. event proves that when it comes to being unsexy, it's really hard to beat sex (02/18/99)
Wanderlust Don't go near the mountains
By Dawn MacKeen
From narco-tours to daily chit-chat about kidnappings, a stay in Cali, Colombia, is a plunge into the surreality of a pleasant nation engaged in an endless war
(02/18/99)
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WEDNESDAY
Feb. 17, 1999
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Today in 21st:
The war for Wired By Kevin Kelleher
Lycos' takeover of Wired's Web sites sparks a bitter shareholder battle that could kill the deal (02/17/99)
21st Log Disney to buy Apple and Pixar -- rumor at 11
(02/17/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Craig Seligman
"Ocean
Sea" by Alessandro Baricco: A group of eccentrics gathers at a mysterious seaside inn in this
brilliant fairy tale of a novel by the Italian master
(02/17/99)
Ask Camille Camille Paglia considers the allure of unsafe gay sex and fantasizes about the hot new power couple, Hillary Clinton and Queen Noor
(02/17/99)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Hangin' in Prague with Einstein, Kafka and Mozart
(02/17/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Neighborhood girl By David Bowman
Suzanne Vega talks about folk music, coveting a cruel streak and her new book, "The Passionate Eye"
(02/17/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Aliens among us: Tara Lipinski, Seven of Nine and Jerry Falwell (02/17/99)
Ivory Tower Internship hell By Andy Dehnart
Is previous experience really necessary for another summer of photocopying, filing and gofering?
(02/17/99)
Letters The real dicks of the '90s; why size matters at Victoria's
Secret; Clinton's dumbest education idea; bad hair in Congress
(02/17/99)
Media Pimps without portfolio By Steve Erickson
Even after the impeachment debacle revealed just how out of touch they are, the Washington media elite are still trying to hustle the American people
(02/17/99)
Mothers Who Think Traumas in adolescent life By Curtis Sittenfeld
A judge of the Seventeen magazine fiction contest recalls what endeared her to the writers of the 400 stories she read -- even the really bad ones (02/17/99)
Newsreal Fear of fluoride By Mark Hertsgaard and Philip Frazer
Questions about the safety of this cavity-fighting chemical aren't just for right-wing conspiracists anymore (02/17/99)
Wanderlust Captive in Kosovo by Susan Milligan
A journalist finds herself caught in the middle of the Drenica Mountains with a guerilla pressing a gun against her head (02/17/99)
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TUESDAY
Feb. 16, 1999
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21st The tomorrow tribe By Etelka Lehoczky
Virginia Postrel's "dynamism" manifesto reaches out to geeks (02/16/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by David Weir
"The Politics of Bad
Faith" by David Horowitz: In his latest book, the Salon columnist does what he
does best -- lights into the left (02/16/99)
Brilliant Careers She's Martha and you're not By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Martha Stewart made home cooking and flea market scavenging chic. Then she took it to the extreme (02/16/99)
Dear Mr. Blue By Garrison Keillor
The woman I love is a Gingrich conservative
(02/16/99)
Today in Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Why do liberals support Clinton? (02/16/99)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Invisible woman (02/16/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats
Reviews of new albums by Beth Orton, Del McCoury, the Damnations, Bad Livers (02/16/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
PBS to Fox: We can do real-life disaster-snuff sweeps
specials too! (02/16/99)
Letters Hitchens is a snitch like Orwell; SimCity 3000's totalitarian worldview (02/16/99)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
50 percent Off: The president's trial has come to an end, but the on-air vituperation isn't going anywhere
(02/16/99)
Mothers Who Think You're a good man, Dr. Smurf By Martha Beck
Two Harvard degrees taught me to fixate on appearances. My son, born with Down's syndrome, showed me the sweet core of ordinary things (02/16/99)
Newsreal Bull's-eye By Bruce Shapiro
The Brooklyn lawsuit that rocked the gun industry changes the argument from gun control to corporate responsibility (02/16/99)
Wanderlust Losing it in Cambodia By Morrie Erickson
Getting a haircut in Cambodia is a good deal -- especially if you like getting more than you bargained for (02/16/99)
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FRIDAY
Feb 12, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Confessions of an online sex columnist By Patrizia DiLucchio
Sure, talking about sex is fun. So is telling people what to do
(02/12/99)
21st Log
Slate drops fees, rejoins the Web (02/12/99)
21st Log
"Felicity" points to the Web (02/12/99)
The 21st Challenge No. 18 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim
Rosenau
Microsoft antitrust haiku (02/12/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Satyricon USA: A Journey Across the New Sexual Frontier" by Eurydice: A writer is so determined to prove sex takes place between the ears
that she forgets it also occurs between the legs (02/12/99)
Today in Entertainment:
I am Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, hear me roar By Charles Taylor
Susan Isaacs' ludicrous search for politically correct heroines
in movies, TV and books shows what happens when you reduce art to messages (02/12/99)
"Simply Irresistible" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sappy meal: A new food fetish romance may look good on the surface, but it's one stale tale (02/12/99)
"My Favorite Martian" Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Killing me softly: Despite its utter irrelevance, "My Favorite Martian" is a benignly
amusing family movie
(02/12/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Valentine's Day with the Simpsons and Stephen King; Presidents Day with the Clintons and Honest Abe
(02/12/99)
Ivory Tower The teachers we loved
Writers send valentines to the people who opened their minds
(02/12/99)
Letters Readers on the police shooting of Tyisha Miller
(02/12/99)
Money Van Gogh Inc. By Larry Kanter
You've seen the paintings. Now buy the lunch box
(02/12/99)
Today in Mothers Who Think
Cracks By Anne Lamott
Despite meeting an intelligent Christian, I was not quite ready to give up a life of shame, failure, X-rated motels and Scotch just yet
(02/12/99)
Drama Queen contestants The strangest declarations of love: If you think ballpark proposals are weird, wait until you find out
what "I love you to pieces" really means
(02/12/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Mommie dearest By Gary Kamiya
Linda Tripp, America's favorite back-stabber and ghoul, kicks off her long-awaited National Rehabilitation Tour '99
(02/12/99)
I'm sorry, Tinky Winky By Michael Colton
The writer who outed the "gay" Teletubby in the Washington Post apologizes for bringing the wrath of Jerry Falwell upon him
(02/12/99)
Free at last By Joshua Micah Marshall
Trent Lott's concession to Tom Daschle on witnesses was the moment that mattered in the impeachment trial
(02/12/99)
Moral majority By Charles Taylor
The American people acquitted Clinton long ago
(02/12/99)
Word from the White House Just minutes after the Senate voted to let him keep his job, a
contrite President Clinton took to the White House Rose Garden to
apologize once again (02/12/99)
Rigoberta Menchú meets the press By James Poniewozik
The Nobel laureate, accused of misrepresenting her life, tries to simultaneously argue that she didn't lie and that if she did, it doesn't matter
(02/12/99)
The trouble with Rudy By Neal Pollack
Reaction to the killing of an African street vendor by police shows the growing protest power of the city's immigrant communities (02/12/99)
Wake-up call By Joel Dreyfuss
Police brutality has long been a problem for African-Americans, but it took immigrant blacks being brutalized for New Yorkers to take notice (02/12/99)
Salon Recommends "Still Crazy": A British charmer about middle-aged rockers. Plus: the week's best in books, music, movies, TV and games
(02/12/99)
Wanderlust This Week in Travel
Wanderlust's selective guide to travel-related news from across the globe
(02/12/99)
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THURSDAY
Feb. 11, 1999
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21st The scandal domain name game By Patrick J. Shields
Viewed through the lens of domain registrations, Monicagate looks tawdry in a whole new way
(02/11/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Laura Miller
"Heavy Water and
Other Stories" by Martin Amis: The British writer's latest collection of savagely satirical short
stories never delves too deep -- and perhaps that's best (02/11/99)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The drugs don't work! (02/11/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Screen Savers A funny thing happened on the way to the oncologist By Peggy Orenstein
Julia Sweeney talks about her new movie, "God Said 'Ha!'" -- the feel-good cancer comedy of the year (02/11/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Clooney on the ropes, Part One; the final episode of "Cupid"
(02/11/99)
Letters Monica on film; alleged plagiarism of "Shakespeare in Love"; is Hitchens deranged?
(02/11/99)
Media Circus Et tu, Christopher? By Susan Lehman
The Judas kiss -- or an act of principle? Steven Brill, Barbara Ehrenreich, Graydon Carter, Katha Pollitt and other media poobahs weigh in on the Hitchens-Blumenthal debacle
(02/11/99)
Mothers Who Think A sardine's story By Sallie Tisdale
A picture book that follows the life of a fish, all the way to her death and packaging in a can -- has some grown-ups squirming. Maybe kids need to help them face reality
(02/11/99)
Newsreal Clinton's dumbest education idea
By Joan Walsh
Ending "social promotion" won't cure what ails American schools
(02/11/99)
Urge Decade of the dick By Deanne Stillman
Bobbing from one scandal to the next, the male member has seized center stage at the close of the millennium (02/11/99)
Wanderlust "Man Eating Bugs" By Tim Cahill
You are what you eat (02/11/99)
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WEDNESDAY
Feb. 10, 1999
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Today in 21st:
To catch a thief By Wagner James Au
In this new 3-D game, the emphasis is on stealth instead of shooting (02/10/99)
21st Log Blurred lines in Times' Amazon story
(02/10/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Theodore Spencer
"The Year 1000" by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger: Two British writers describe the pestilent, impoverished and
disaster-prone conditions of life 1,000 years before Y2K
(02/10/99)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Would St. John please stop squeezing his wart?
(02/10/99)
Today in Entertainment:
American Squirm By Sarah Vowell
From Bauhaus to tract house: Architect Michael Graves turns his folly to the mass market
(02/10/99)
Modern art is a load of bullshit By Benjamin Ivry
Why can't the art world accept social satire from a black artist?
(02/10/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
American cheese: Sports Illustrated swimsuits, the TV edition (02/10/99)
Today in Ivory Tower:
The reluctant accuser By Alexandra Robbins
When faced with quasi-assault from a friend, a young student finds neither college counselors nor handbooks have an answer
(02/10/99)
Camille on Campus By Camille Paglia
Gender whores: Penned off in gilded ghettos, the scholars of sex miss the complex biological and cultural story of human sexual nature
(02/10/99)
Letters "Niggardly": Would miserliness by any other name create such a
ruckus? Plus:
Two historians deny Horowitz's charge they stopped speaking
(02/10/99)
Mothers Who Think The city of lost children By Katherine Ellison
Is a Brazilian judge stealing babies for American families? (02/10/99)
Newsreal Scandal's silver lining By Art Levine
Washington lobbyists are profiting from the impeachment upheaval (02/10/99)
Wanderlust Backstage on "The Beach" by Rolf Potts
A backpacker's quest to storm Leonardo DiCaprio's movie set ends in an epiphany that won't play in Peoria (02/10/99)
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TUESDAY
Feb. 9, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Video killed the
Microsoft star: The company's tape demonstrated its own ruthlessness (02/09/99)
21st Log
Tabloid sues Florida citrus growers over talking ham sandwich! (02/09/99)
Today in Books:
I know why the untuned Thunderbird pings By Todd Lappin
Maya Angelou delivered the inspirational speech to the National Automobile Dealers Association. And guess what? It worked (02/09/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Kate Sekules
"Sonny Liston Was a
Friend of Mine: Stories" by Thom Jones
Losers win in a third collection of brilliant, ironically cynical
stories from a former boxer with a knockout punch (02/09/99)
Brilliant Careers A gift for effrontery By Ken Tucker
Brash, jazzy and passionately idiosyncratic, Pauline Kael set the standard for American movie criticism (02/09/99)
Left Hook By Joe Conason
Taking it out on Sid: The frustrated House managers are helping Ken Starr go after one of the president's aides out of revenge
(02/09/99)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Present danger (02/09/99)
Today in Entertainment:
A major label in a minor key By Jeff Stark
Built to Spill hasn't abandoned their indie-rock origins -- or their guitar god-worshipping sound (02/09/99)
Sharps & Flats
Reviews of new albums by Sparklehorse, Adrian Belew, "Rushmore" soundtrack (02/09/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Pushing the envelopes: Live coverage of the Academy Award
nominees; new "NYPD Blue" (02/09/99)
Letters "Our Kind of People" author slammed; free speech vs. free choice
after Nuremburg Files (02/09/99)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Sid and Christopher's naked lunch: The Blumenthal-Hitchens flap reveals the dirty secret of Washington's elite journalists
(02/09/99)
Mothers Who Think The feminist queen of the Middle East By Geraldine Brooks
Queen Noor deserves much of the credit for Jordan's transformation from police state to cradle of political freedom (02/09/99)
Newsreal Stalking Sidney Blumenthal By Joshua Micah Marshall
Is it possible Christopher Hitchens and his "former friend" are both telling the truth? (02/09/99)
Wanderlust Storming "The Beach" By Rolf Potts
A backpacker in search of adventure in Thailand puts the moves on Leonardo DiCaprio (02/09/99)
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MONDAY
Feb. 8, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Lawyers, guns, money? By Janelle Brown
Pundits and insiders reveal their personal preparations for the Y2K disaster
(02/08/99)
21st Log
Gassée: Microsoft's full of Be-S
(02/08/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Jason Zengerle
"The Secret Lives
Of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life" by Thomas Geoghegan: A political thinker goes on a restless quest to discover what it
means to be a good citizen in late-20th century America
(02/08/99)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Matt Drudge: Super humble story-breaking guy (02/08/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Doc Hollywood By Joyce
Millman
On "ER," George Clooney was more than just a pretty face in the crowd
(02/08/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Dog lovers heaven: the Westminster Kennel Club Show; Ally
McBeal vs. God (02/08/99)
Ivory Tower Pact with the CEO By Jim C.Luh
As technology licensing programs gain more currency in American universities, universities will surely gain more American currency, but will research suffer? (02/08/99)
Letters What does puppet Rep. Mary Bono tell her children? Plus:
I miss the '80s; the debate over C-section rates (02/08/99)
Mothers Who ThinkWhat is Victoria's secret? By Coleen Hubbard
How do you explain to your little girl that we live in a world where
breasts get graded, and some of us flunk?
(02/08/99)
Today in Newsreal:
The mysterious death of Tyisha Miller By Lori Leibovich
Black leaders in Riverside, Calif., insist the 19-year-old victim of a hail of police bullets would be alive if she were white. But would she? (02/08/99)
The vanilla story By James Poniewozik
Our long national bad date is almost over (02/08/99)
Wanderlust Looking for Abdelati By Tanya Shaffer
An unexpected journey into the heart of a family in Casablanca
(02/08/99)
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FRIDAY
Feb 5, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Why is it so hard
to find a valid yardstick for measuring Web traffic?
(02/05/99)
21st Log
Is Microsoft disinformation rumor bogus? (02/05/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"The Crime of
Sheila McGough" by Janet Malcolm: The journalist continues her ruminations, this time on an attorney
whose tenacity brought the wrath of the legal system down on her (02/05/99)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
A call to hearts: Being single on Valentine's Day doesn't have to be a downer (02/05/99)
Today in Entertainment:
"Rushmore" Deadpan poet's society Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Wes Anderson "Rushmore" is a work of comic genius. (And Bill Murray's not even trying to be funny) (02/05/99)
Neither a borrower ... By Craig Offman
Were parts of the hit movie "Shakespeare in Love" lifted from an obscure 1941 novel? (02/05/99)
Get an afterlife Reviewed by Joyce Millman
Chris Elliott's long-lost cult sitcom is born again on home video
(02/05/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
George Carlin live; the "X-Files" we've been waiting for (maybe)
(02/05/99)
Ivory Tower Death wishes By Daren Fonda
George Minois' exhaustive study traces the long, strange history of suicide
(02/05/99)
Letters Gabriel García Márquez demeans self with paltry political commentary. Plus: Salon shocked -- shocked! -- by beer on campus
(02/05/99)
Money House flash By Heather Chaplin
If you're struck with the biological urge to own a home, consider first whether it's a good time to buy
(02/05/99)
Mothers Who Think Lichen By Anne Lamott
My father believed that "nature bats last" -- and it did, unfolding my family's destiny
(02/05/99)
Today in Newsreal:
What did the president touch, and when did he touch it? By Michael Bérubé
As the impeachment trial moves into its millennial phase, Republican leaders call for "live re-enactments" of Clinton's Monica encounters
(02/05/99)
Peace with honor? By Joshua Micah Marshall
Republicans say no to more Monica, and look for a way to end the trial
(02/05/99)
The last plantation By Debra Dickerson
The "niggardly" scandal should teach whites to watch their language, and blacks to toughen up (02/05/99)
Salon Recommends A graphic memoir of foul romance and self-discovery. Plus: the week's best in books, music, movies and games
(02/05/99)
Wanderlust This Week in Travel
Wanderlust's selective guide to travel-related news from across the globe
(02/05/99)
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THURSDAY
Feb. 4, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Night of the living day traders By Dana Blankenhorn
They buy and sell at ultrasonic speeds. They rarely leave their desks. And they're obsessed with the Net (02/04/99)
Tools of the trade By Dana Blankenhorn
New electronic networks like the Island are enabling the
day-trading boom (02/04/99)
21st Log Windows when-did-you-say-again?
(02/04/99)
Today in Books:
Black but not like me By Jill Nelson
A journalist slouches into a party celebrating the black elite -- whatever that is (02/04/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Karen Grigsby Bates
"Our Kind of
People: Inside America's Black Upper Class" by Lawrence Otis Graham: An aspirant to the African-American nobility tells what they won't (02/04/99)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
All humans agree -- the free market always works! (02/04/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Screen Savers Another day in Hollywood By Jenn Shreve
Why Larry Clark tried to do "the traditional movie thing" (and why he got censored anyway) (02/04/99)
A decade in two days By Charles Kaiser
NBC's painfully mediocre miniseries "The '60s" may be just what that generation deserves (02/04/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Pacino vs. DeNiro on new "Deathmatch"; Woody and Frasier,
together again
(02/04/99)
Letters One of the 400 historians responds to David Horowitz
(02/04/99)
Media Circus By Susan Lehman
Rolling Stone gathers a $50 million lawsuit; Condé Nast's firing line, part 57
(02/04/99)
Mothers Who Think Stop using our children By Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Don't tell me the president's sexual liaisons are the most important national issue we have to discuss with our children
(02/04/99)
Newsreal Tom DeLay, defender of sweatshops
By Jeff Stein
The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine
(02/04/99)
Urge Boogie bites By Jenn Shreve
Porn star activists want to pave the way for a new era of enlightened porn ... but isn't this an oxymoron? (02/04/99)
Wanderlust Dead ends in London By Laura Billings
Jack the Ripper returns to life on a grisly but gripping tour
(02/04/99)
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WEDNESDAY
Feb. 3, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Aliens blew up my garbage dump By Andrew Leonard
SimCity is back -- and managing municipal utilities has never been so much fun (02/03/99)
21st Log eBay's purloined prize for sale -- on eBay
(02/03/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Beth Wolfensberger Singer
"While
I Was Gone" by Sue Miller: In Sue Miller's novel, an aging woman's flirtation with her wild
past threatens to destroy her marriage
(02/03/99)
Ask Camille Are women soft on liars?
(02/03/99)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Evil Canadians removed my pal's nether cheeks
(02/03/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Eat this song By Clea Simon
A writer fondly remembers the horrible, beautiful rush of seeing X for the first time
(02/03/99)
It's heeeeeeeeere By Gavin McNett
Rhino's new collection announces that '80s retro has finally arrived -- and not a moment too soon
(02/03/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Party of Five": Julia and Sarah, Queens of Denial; encore for
Chris Noth's "Exiled"
(02/03/99)
Ivory Tower Stalking Kurt Vonnegut By Dan Stern
A young writer attempts to turn his literary hero into a neighborhood pal
(02/03/99)
Letters Monica's bodacious bod; Ralph Nader was wrong about Corvairs; strap-ons overrated; Reaganomics vs. Clintonomics
(02/03/99)
Media Mammary dreams By Steve Erickson
Behind men's moral outrage at Clinton's behavior seethes the fear that his compulsion is just one step beyond our own
(02/03/99)
Mothers Who Think The limits of free speech By Sallie Tisdale
A lifelong advocate of both free speech and women's right to abortions agonizes over a ruling that may protect doctors but shrink free speech (02/03/99)
Today in Newsreal:
When Sid meets Jim By Harry Jaffe
The Rogan-Blumenthal showdown could be the most important confrontation in the impeachment trial (02/03/99)
Combover Congress By Cynthia Heimel
How can we trust our leaders to manage impeachment when they can't even manage their hair? (02/03/99)
Wanderlust Korea's no-man's-land Rolf Potts
The DMZ is one of the planet's oddest tourist attractions, where visitors can pick up everything from propaganda to perfume (02/03/99)
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TUESDAY
Feb. 2, 1999
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Today in 21st:
First Amendment wins another round online By Janelle Brown
A federal judge rules that the COPA,the Net censorship bill, probably
won't pass constitutional muster (02/02/99)
21st Log
Apache leader joins O'Reilly clan (02/02/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Joyce Millman
"A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day With the Clash" by Johnny Green
and Garry Barker: A former roadie remembers the great days of a great punk band (02/02/99)
Brilliant Careers Mann among men By Michael Sragow
Always an unpredictable individualist, writer-director Michael Mann continues to bring his unique brand of macho melodrama to both the big and little screens (02/02/99)
Dear Mr. Blue By Garrison Keillor
Dear Windbag: You're no writer -- you're just a schlump who wants to screw a colleague (02/02/99)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Scarecrow (02/02/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats
Reviews of a concert by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, plus new CDs by Ani DiFranco, Frank Frost and Sam Carr, and Charlie Byrd (02/02/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Outrunning AIDS on "Nova"; spooky bee kids on "X-Files"
conspiracy marathon (02/02/99)
Letters Computers in shoes? Get a life! Plus: Funny Canadians vs. funny
Americans; library porn; born-again athletes (02/02/99)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
The little N-word: So we're all cool with "niggardly" now. Uh ... aren't we?
(02/02/99)
Mothers Who Think Bearly there By Kathryn Olney
Are the Berenstain Bears just lowbrow morality tales, or have they crudely tapped into what contemporary kids think of the average dad? (02/02/99)
Newsreal The mysteries of Bill Clinton By Gabriel García Márquez
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez compares the president's fate to that of
Hester Prynne (02/02/99)
Wanderlust Suite liberties By Chris Haines
A travel magazine employee gets free luxury hotel rooms and four-course feasts -- but there's always a price to pay (02/02/99)
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MONDAY
Feb. 1, 1999
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Today in 21st:
The resurrection of Golgotha By Howard Wen
Volunteer programmers rescue a defunct company's software -- and produce a do-it-yourself tool for building 3-D games
(02/01/99)
21st Log
Kinder, gentler Y2K pundits
(02/01/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Heather McCabe
"Project Girl" by Janet McDonald: A powerful memoir about growing up in Brooklyn's projects, from a
woman who went on to become a successful corporate lawyer in Paris
(02/01/99)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
The Iraq bombing was a monstrous fraud! Let's party! (02/01/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Sublime teamwork By Charles Taylor
Tracy and Hepburn make an equal partnership look easy in George
Cukor's slangy screwball comedy "Pat and Mike"
(02/01/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
PBS's "I'll Make Me a World": 100 years of black artists; Dr.
Laura uncovered on "Biography" (02/01/99)
Right On! The vast left-wing conspiracy By David Horowitz
How will American universities repair the damage caused by the partisan politicization of the impeachment debacle?
(02/01/99)
Ivory Tower Barhopping with the Bud Girls By James Hibberd
Despite widespread publicity about the dangers of teen binge drinking, beer
distributers use curvy babes and frat-boy reps to saturate the largely
underage college market (02/01/99)
Letters Readers bomb Debra Dickerson, and they're proud (02/01/99)
Mothers Who Think AWOL from the enlisted life By Elizabeth Rapoport
Once you start making lists, their tyrannical reign over your life becomes a fate worse than disorganization
(02/01/99)
Wanderlust The new great place By Jeff Greenwald
Luang Prabang has been discovered -- and once laid-back Laos will never be the same
(02/01/99)
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