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Weekend, July 31-August 1, 1999
Health & Body:
Pinups & Playmates!
Cartoonist Carol Lay at Glamourcon! (07/31/99)
People:
Rewind: Craig Breedlove By Michael Mattis
At age 62, one of the fastest men on Earth is preparing for a leisurely drive across the Nevada desert at, oh ... Mach 1. (07/31/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 40: Kiki's cryptic errand -- shady deals in the
apricot orchard. (07/31/99)
21st Challenge No. 24: Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Confused moms, hot jobs and
other e-mail virus come-ons. (07/31/99)
Travel:
Conquering Half Dome -- and the fear of falling By Don George
When a simple hike turns into a paralyzing ascent, a father has to overcome his terror. (07/31/99)
Friday, July 30, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Runaway Bride" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Richard Gere and Julia Roberts pair-up for a would-be "Pretty Woman" part two, but the thrill is long gone. (07/30/99)
Sharps & Flats By Andy Battaglia
"Best of the Vanguard Sessions" introduces John Fahey's chillingly beautiful six-string folk. (07/30/99)
Log Woodstock 99: Three days of peace, love and rape. By Bill Wyman
Rape accounts emerge in wake of music festival. (07/29/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for the weekend, July 30 - August 1, 1999. (07/30/99)
Books:
Summer reading By the staff of Salon Books
What the hot, the cool and the controversial are reading this season. (07/30/99)
Ivory Tower: Fire on the mountain By Alex Salkever
While astronomers celebrate the addition of another telescope to their prized star-gazing summit in Hawaii, environmentalists and natives mourn the loss of their beloved mountain. (07/30/99)
Log "Gorky Park" author defects: By Craig Offman
Even a bestselling writer can't afford to get too creative. (07/30/99)
Review "Tipping the Velvet" By Peter Kurth
An exuberant, lusty novel about a lesbian adventuress follows its heroine through the underworld of Victorian London. (07/30/99)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel
Drago's Story: Vengeance and lust in Kosovo. (07/30/99)
Health & Body:
Probed in space By Mary Roach
Alien medical-exam waiting rooms don't even have magazines. (07/30/99)
Letters:
Camille Paglia responds to her critics on JFK Jr. tragedy;
sleeping through "Eyes Wide Shut"; college stripper made the wrong choice. (07/30/99)
Media:
Conspicuous consumption By Jenn Shreve
Two scathing critiques of excessive consumerism. Plus: Need a headline? Try "Eyes Wide Shut"! It worked for Kubrick. (07/30/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Blood brothers By Sarah Beach
Cary and Steven Stayner were connected by violence. One is a murderer. The other, a victim, is remembered by a childhood friend. (07/30/99)
News:
Who's crying now? By Jeff Stein
Linda Tripp, whose secret tapes of a tearful Monica Lewinsky almost brought down a president, now faces the long arm of the law herself for recording those fateful tapes illegally. (07/30/99)
As Atlanta mourns, Washington waits By Jake Tapper
The massacre of 12 people comes on the eve of the House's consideration of this year's gun control legislation. Don't expect any tough new laws. (07/30/99)
R.I.P. Prop. 187 By Anthony York
California Gov. Gray Davis' flip-flop marks the end of immigrant bashing as a viable political tactic. (07/30/99)
So this is compassion? By Debra Dickerson
George Bush's compassionate conservatism sounds a lot like Al Gore's. But are faith-based charities really the answer to America's problems? (07/29/99)
People:
My Lunch With Lewis Lapham By Jenn Shreve
"President Clinton is a godsend because he's like a piñata. Every conceivable kind of story comes out of him." (07/30/99)
Courtney Love lights up Winnipeg By Steve Burgess
In which a wayfaring scribe innocently stumbles into a Hole concert, where a congregation of lager louts gets a quick, harsh lesson in timing. (07/30/99)
Technology:
A Linux lament By C. Scott Ananian
As Red Hat prepares to go public, one Linux hacker's dreams of IPO glory are crushed by The Man. (07/30/99)
Log Day trader madness: By Mark Gimein
For some, any day can be Black Monday. (07/30/99)
Log Fly the deal-making skies: By Mark Gimein
For would-be Net moguls, a flight to San Francisco can be a gift from the networking gods -- or a devilish tease. (07/29/99)
Travel:
Thais that bind By Zona Sage
One minute she's giving me a mean massage, the next she wants to steal me away on her motor scooter. (07/30/99)
Thursday, July 29, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Eyes opening up By Michael Sragow
Flip Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" into the VCR after dozing through Stanley Kubrick's valedictory and it registers like the shock pads on failed hearts in medical shows -- suddenly, you can feel again. (07/29/99)
Sharps & Flats By Andrew Hamlin
The Holy Modal Rounders are old-time counterculture folkies in form, but they're not afraid to toss a pie in the face of tradition. (07/29/99)
Log But the little girls understand: By Dawn Eden
At Maxwell's in New Jersey, Beulah and the Apples in Stereo treated the teens to bouts of bubblegum and fits of niceness. (07/29/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, July 29, 1999. (07/29/99)
Books:
An impatient man By David Bowman
Garry Wills talks about the wit of St. Augustine, the necessity for gun control and the arrogant ignorance of the New York Times. (07/29/99)
Log How to get on the cover of the New York Times Book Review: By Laura Miller
A dark-horse candidate is more likely to come up a winner in the months of July and August, when the torrent of review copies flowing into editors' offices slows to a trickle. (07/29/99)
Review "A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward" By Jonathan Miles
A spirited biography of a 19th century ballplayer smacks a pie in the face of baseball nostalgia. (07/29/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Greetings, Americans of the past! (07/29/99)
Health & Body:
Triumph of the cure By Arthur Allen
Lance Armstrong beat testicular cancer and then won the Tour de France. Was it a miracle or is he a poster boy for the power of modern medicine? (07/29/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl Episode 6 By Tracy Quan
Coming to America: I propositioned Professor Andrews at 13 and he accepted. (07/29/99)
Letters:
Readers bid farewell to Lamott;
In defense of Philip Glass; Kennedys more substantive than Bushes. (07/29/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Gay marriage in the Methodist Church By Suzanne Marmion
The Rev. Don Fado has put his ministry on the line for homosexual rights. "I wasn't being disobedient," he says. "The church was disobedient, losing sight of what it's meant to be." (07/29/99)
News:
Is Korea climbing back from economic collapse? By David Moberg
Strikes and Daewoo's near-bankruptcy undermine its political and financial turnaround. (07/29/99)
Shaheen draws a blank By Joe Conason
After a year-long probe, the Justice Department's special counsel finds "insufficient" evidence of Whitewater witness-tampering. (07/28/99)
People:
Suite for heartbreak and name dropping By Lorenzo W. Milam
In the midst of a deathly tome overflowing with her dratted ego, Judy Collins attempts to tell the unembellished tale of a sad death. And she pulls it off. (07/29/99)
Rogues' Gallery: Is the Mafia going the way of the great auk? By Douglas Cruickshank
Pas de deux in dreamland with a working-class hero. Extinction alert: Goodfellas now an endangered species. (07/29/99)
Nothing Personal Virginity: Going, going, gone! By Amy Reiter
Love for sale on eBay? Goliath's hormone problems; Posh Spice gobsmacked by goblet larceny. Plus: Dr. Bernard Lewinsky, father of the year. (07/29/99)
Technology:
Where the wild feeds are By Frank Houston
When Bill Gates uses the F-word, it doesn't show up on TV. But Web sites featuring raw satellite transmissions let it all hang out. (07/29/99)
Log Bess filter blocks Time magazine but not hardcore porn: By Janelle Brown
On the eve of its IPO, Internet filtering company N2H2 receives some bad marks from the Censorware Project. (07/29/99)
Travel:
Travel Advisor: I'm going to Disney World By Donald D. Groff
Our expert advises readers on the best Disney packages, the cheapest Tokyo-London flights and finding that authentic tamale south of the border. (07/29/99)
Wednesday, July 28, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The mockumentary cometh By Sarah Vowell
Documentaries are huge. Their perverse cousins are nipping at their heels. (07/28/99)
Nashville charm By Charles Taylor
On a Saturday night in New York, Mandy Barnett evoked the soul of Patsy Cline, and Billy Joe Shaver won over a crowd that was already his. (07/28/99)
Sharps & Flats By Jon Dolan
Why teenage girls will murder their grandmothers for a whiff of Backstreet Boys sweat. (07/28/99)
Log Not-so-slack motherfucker: By Lydia Vanderloo
Indie rock lives on at Merge Records' 10th anniversary party in Chapel Hill, N.C. (07/28/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, July 28, 1999. (07/28/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Lights, camera, dissatisfaction By Kenneth Rapoza
Every year, undergrad film programs release wide-eyed film majors into an unfriendly Hollywood. Ithaca College wants its students ready for the shock. (07/28/99)
Log The Odd Couple: By Craig Offman
In the interest of research, New York Times critic Neil Strauss moved in with ex-Chili Pepper Dave Navarro. (07/28/99)
Review "Broke Heart Blues" By Michelle Goldberg
The novelist explores the repercussions of a violent act in a town where life ends with high school. (07/28/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Nude day -- an idea whose time has come! (07/28/99)
Health & Body:
Why we don't smell more By Susan McCarthy
Our olfactory sense is highly developed and underused. (07/28/99)
Letters:
Wendy Shalit's new prudery does women no favors;
changing attitudes on oral sex; in defense of Scientology critics. (07/28/99)
Mothers Who Think:
The pits By Mei Yan Leung
Summertime and the living would be easy -- if women didn't have to shave or wax constantly. (07/28/99)
News:
Let the circus begin By Suzi Parker
Rudy Giuliani visits Little Rock to ridicule his carpetbagging New York Senate rival, Hillary Clinton. (07/28/99)
China's new spiritual uprising By Orville Schell
Is the Falun Gong sect a real threat to the regime or simply a phantom menace? (07/27/99)
Revenge is theirs By Alex Todorovic
Kosovar Albanians step up Serbian killings as U.N. peacekeepers look on. (07/27/99)
People:
Margaret Cho: Celebrity as a disease By Cintra Wilson
She rocketed to fame, then crashed and burned. Now, in her new one-woman show, the former star of "All American Girl" talks about the dark trajectory of Hollywood Ruin. (07/28/99)
Nothing Personal Farrah's flip-out was mom's fault: By Amy Reiter
Fawcett shirks blame for wacko Letterman turn (but still takes responsibility for '70s hairdo); Jesse Helms has a big, big, big vocabulary. Plus: Israel says Tarzan's loincloth's gotta go! (07/28/99)
Technology:
Girl talk By Janelle Brown
Are frank online discussions of blow jobs and masturbation empowering teen girls -- or turning them into Lolitas? (07/28/99)
Cable à la modem By Mark Gimein
How did AT&T engineer its open-access victory in San Francisco? (07/27/99)
Log The Barbie fixation: By Janelle Brown
What do eBay's Meg Whitman and Apple's iBook have in common? Could it be sexist journalism? (07/28/99)
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 39: Hackers of the world, unite -- geeks plot palace coup (07/28/99)
Travel:
Out of Africa By Wendy Belcher
Why do so many travel books about the continent start the same way? (07/28/99)
Tuesday, July 27, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
What a riot By Jeff Stark
Diary of a Woodstock 99 survivor. (07/27/99)
Log Screw you, Elektra: By Charles Taylor
Brooklyn still loves Luna. (07/26/99)
Sharps & Flats By Philip Booth
Jazz bassist Charlie Haden evokes the heart-stopping romance and mournful melancholy of film noir on "The Art of the Song." (07/27/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 27, 1999. (07/27/99)
Books:
A Trotskyite libertarian cyberpunk? By Andrew Leonard
Ken MacLeod, science fiction's freshest new writer achieves the highly improbable with wit and style. (07/27/99)
An engine of anarchy By Andrew Leonard
Ken MacLeod talks about his rebellious youth, his political paradoxes and the visionary power of cyberpunk. (07/27/99)
The downloadable boy By Ken MacLeod
An excerpt from Ken MacLeod's "The Cassini Division." (07/27/99)
Dear Mr. Blue Is three a crowd? By Garrison Keillor
I'm happy with my boyfriend, but there's this woman ... (07/27/99)
Review "Interpreter of Maladies" By Charles Taylor
In a stunning debut collection about Asians in America, an author casts an empathetic eye on assimilation. (07/27/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Vanity fair. (07/27/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Sex secrets of the stars! By Virginia Vitzthum
A Taoist pimp offers an astrological seduction plan to make every sign a helpless love slave. (07/27/99)
Letters:
Zoloft didn't kill Phil Hartman;
pushing the Emmy envelope; David Letterman: Revolutionary or just cranky? (07/27/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Slow fade By Lu Vickers
In my memories of family vacations, I remember driving my mother's car, naked women and formaldehyde sharks. So why don't I remember my family? (07/27/99)
News:
Poor taste pundits By Joe Conason
The outbursts against the Kennedy family last week by Rush Limbaugh and John Podhoretz were a disgrace to the conservative movement. (07/27/99)
Keepers of the faith By Sarah Keech
Despite dwindling time and numbers, the anti-Clinton movement won't say die. (07/27/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Marcel Marceau By Leslie Crawford
He remains the unquestioned master of the art that dare not speak its name. That's his strength and the art's weakness. (07/27/99)
Nothing Personal The google-eyed gourmet: By Amy Reiter
Christopher Walken hot to cook and chug castor oil; Marilyn Chambers is back to her old tricks; Carrie Fisher on bonkin' Steve Martin. Plus: Mama Cass, Karen Carpenter and, uh, a brunch-related query. (07/27/99)
Technology:
Should journalists and IPOs mix? By Scott Rosenberg
A San Jose Mercury News columnist's suspension reveals less about ethics than about the newsroom's changing balance of power. (07/27/99)
Log Birthday spammers: By Andrew Leonard
It's your birthday -- and online marketers know just how to celebrate your special day. (07/27/99)
Travel:
The Barbecue Jesus and other epiphanies By Rolf Potts
Wandering off the Vietnamese budget travel trail in search of authenticity, our correspondent finds that authenticity isn't all it's cracked up to be. (07/27/99)
Monday, July 26, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The new house blend By Julie Caniglia
Terence Riley, curator of the new MOMA exhibit "The Un-Private House," talks about Martha Stewart, changing domestic ideals and why walking around your house naked is increasingly a public issue. (07/26/99)
Revenge on a control freak By Charles Taylor
Max Ophüls offers a savage portrait of Howard
Hughes in this tale of a sadistic millionaire terrorizing a naive girl. (07/26/99)
Sharps & Flats By Stephanie Zacharek
"Come on, baby, let me pay your rent": Songwriter Jack Logan wrote the year's most romantic verse. (07/26/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, July 26, 1999. (07/26/99)
Books:
Passing in reverse By Emily Wise Miller
She was down with the cause, but they didn't know she was a white girl. (07/26/99)
Book bag Back to the '50s By E.L. Doctorow
Five favorite novels from a decade that was wilder than you think. (07/26/99)
Review "The Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood" By Dante Ramos
A gay activist turns the revolutionary lens of the '70s on the sleepy politics of the '90s. (07/26/99)
Log Maas takes arms against a sea of shipwreck tales By Craig Offman
The author of "Serpico" and "Underboss" adds to the deluge of books about watery death. (07/26/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Celebrity grief orgy -- it's the American way! (07/26/99)
Health & Body:
Using up too much too soon By Andrew Taber
Pushing the body to athletic extremes may be harmful to your health. (07/26/99)
Urge: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl By Tracy Quan
Episode 5: Nancy does a music mogul -- safely. He's twice her age but she still knows how to make him feel young. (07/26/99)
Letters:
Don't sanitize America by censoring "South Park";
"Nancy Quan" glamorizes prostitution; "breast is best" for most (but not all) new moms. (07/26/99)
Mothers Who Think:
The invisible mother By Amy Halloran
If everyone is staring at my boobs, why do I feel that I am disappearing? (07/26/99)
The lactating feminist By Roxanne Beckford Hoge
I'm not a porn star. I'm not burning my bra. I'm just feeding my baby in public. (07/26/99)
News:
The Body vs. The Midget By Jake Tapper
Jesse Ventura's followers attempt to reform the Reform Party still headed by Ross Perot as the party prepares for the 2000 elections. (07/26/99)
Taking back the barrio By Koren L. Capoza
A youth center takes on Mexico's ubiquitous gang culture. (07/26/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Annie Rodham Hall? By Amy Reiter
Hillary's gonna have to make some hot 'n' heavy commodity trades to afford the Woodman's crib; Courtney Cox's glamour tips with matchsticks. Plus: bettin' the farm on a cleavage-enhancing bra! (07/26/99)
Technology:
My own private IPO By Carina Chocano
We invite your investment in our ill-defined but well-hyped venture. (07/26/99)
Weekend, July 24-25, 1999
Health & Body:
Urge: Topanga Canyon dreaming By Susie Bright
A visit to L.A. brings back memories of losing my virginity and the tag-team seductions of my teen years. (07/24/99)
News:
Serbian denial by Laura Rozen
As anti-Milosevic protests continue, Serbia stands on the brink of civil war. (07/24/99)
People:
Rewind: Lesley Gore By Stephanie Zacharek
Her songs were the ultimate battle cry of teenage brattismo, but they also explored the darker, murkier world of adult feelings. (07/24/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 38: TeraMemory stock catches fire; productivity plummets (07/24/99)
Log AOL vs. Microsoft: By Kaitlin Quistgaard
In this week's skirmish over online messaging, who's on the consumer's side? (07/24/99)
Travel:
Disturbing encounters in Iran By Mark Mordue
Did that gesture mean he wanted to slit my throat? Or that Iran was slitting its own? (07/24/99)
Friday, July 23, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Philosophy of the bedroom
Mary Gaitskill, Greil Marcus, David Gates and Lisa Zeidner weigh in on "Eyes Wide Shut." (07/23/99)
"Drop Dead Gorgeous" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
A mockumentary about a Midwestern teen beauty pageant turns out to be the guiltiest of this summer's guilty pleasures. (07/23/99)
Sharps & Flats By Charles Taylor
The evanescent Spinanes sharpen two songs from the Rolling Stones' catalog, chronicling the impulse to fight emotional weariness and the temptation to succumb to it. (07/23/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Friday, July 23, 1999. (07/23/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Dancing lessons By Nicole Grasse
I was a college girl stripper, and while I'm glad I got out, it beat the hell out of working at Starbucks. (07/23/99)
Review "Brown Dog of the Yaak" and "The Dream of the Marsh Wren" By Sally Eckhoff
Two authors confront the dramas of the natural world and the writing life. (07/23/99)
Health & Body:
Up in the air By Debra Ollivier
Can a 20-minute oxygen session counteract the effects of living in L.A.? (07/23/99)
Urge: The great bad sex in "Eyes Wide Shut" By Chris Colin
Yes, "Eyes Wide Shut" is wooden and static. And wooden and static never looked so good. (07/23/99)
Log By Jon Bowen
PETA babes dog Congress: National Hot Dog Day draws anti-meat activists to Capitol. (07/23/99)
Letters:
"Blair Witch" buzz is real, not faked;
multiple partners, multiple problems; Christian-bashing in "Son of Sam" story. (07/23/99)
Media:
Alt: The have nots By Jenn Shreve
Left-leaning journalists explore how the other side lives. Plus: The "S" and "F" words, Rick Springfield and a tell-all psychic friend. (07/23/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Tom and Nicole and Colin and Kathryn By Colin Harrison and Kathryn Harrison
"Eyes Wide Shut" provokes literary couple Colin and Kathryn Harrison to spar over marriage, passion, jealousy and the lure of dangerous sex in a vanilla world. (07/23/99)
News:
The "strange magic" of JFK Jr. By Joan Walsh
Something was going wrong in Kennedy's life before the plane crash, says Camille Paglia, who reflects on both the charisma and the emptiness of the son of the martyred president. (07/23/99)
The Kennedy way of grief By Joan Walsh
Is the clan's Irish stoicism linked to its history of alcoholism, risk-taking and self-destruction? (07/23/99)
Reform's raison d'être by Sarah Keech
Reform Party activists prepare for what could be a showdown between the forces of Ross Perot and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura. (07/23/99)
Rebirth of a nation By Daryl Lindsey
Iran's burgeoning democracy movement against the power of the fundamentalist establishment is led by students in blue jeans who like American music. (07/23/99)
People:
My Lunch With Paul Auster By Chris Colin
The author of the recent novel "Timbuktu" and the screenplays for "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face" discusses cynicism, sentimentality, Brooklyn and the strange things he creates. (07/23/99)
Nothing Personal Bill Bradley: Achingly funny and profound: By Amy Reiter
Dish-lovin' gal stumped by stilted Stepford candidate. Plus: More proof there is no God: Survey
shows the Donald nearly in a dead heat with Mini-Bush. (07/23/99)
Technology:
Boom or bubble? By Scott Rosenberg
Net honchos don't know whether it's the best or the worst of times -- but they're hiring and "monetizing" too fast to worry. (07/23/99)
Log A look at the iBook: By Chris Allbritton
Can the iBook top the iMac? Critics and fans consider the candy-colored clamshells -- and what they'll mean for Apple. (07/23/99)
Travel:
The foreigner as fetish By Carrie La Seur
An American woman is both isolated and embraced on a summer stay in Japan. (07/23/99)
Thursday, July 22, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"The Haunting" By Stephanie Zacharek
Catherine Zeta-Jones playing a lesbian in a fur-trimmed vest? That's not scary -- that's hilarious. (07/22/99)
Here he is By Michael Sragow
Michael Patrick Jann's beauty-pageant sendup "Drop Dead Gorgeous" lands the crown. (07/22/99)
Sharps & Flats By Amanda Nowinski
A new Astralwerks compilation takes the
electronic pulse of underground urban America. (07/22/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, July 22, 1999. (07/22/99)
Books:
Kiss and tell By Jennifer Kornreich
For a sex columnist who's crude, self-destructive and outrageous enough to make her colleagues cringe, Amy Sohn is a &*%$ good novelist. (07/22/99)
Review "Run Catch Kiss" By Lori Leibovich
Another view of Sohn's roman á clef finds it an
emotionally deficient Bridget Jones clone. (07/22/99)
Log Johnny Depp battles editor over comma By Craig Offman
The actor pens a tribute to the Beats for a new collection. (07/22/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The J.D. Salinger Home Shopping Network! (07/22/99)
Health & Body:
Risky business By Michael Alvear
Albert Einstein and Evel Knievel were both looking for the same high. (07/22/99)
Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl By Tracy Quan
Episode 4: Busty for an Oriental: Over the years my looks haven't changed, but the world has. (07/22/99)
Letters:
Sen. Patrick Leahy blasts Horowitz over Hillary;
JFK Jr. story lacked class; "Nazi family values"
was rife with prejudice. (07/22/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Y'all take care now By Anne Lamott
30,000 feet above Jackson, Miss., I came to believe it was time to start a novel. (07/22/99)
News:
It could have been me By Phaedra Hise
John F. Kennedy Jr. didn't make any serious judgment errors in his decision to fly to Martha's Vineyard on Friday night. (07/22/99)
Letters to the Editor
Pilots share their stories of vertigo, and tell us what we can learn from JFK Jr.'s tragic judgment. (07/22/99)
What's in a name? By Bruce Shapiro
Upon the death of the scion of America's greatest political dynasty, a quick survey of American politics reminds us how much it helps to have a famous name. (07/22/99)
Who will carry the Kennedy torch? By Bruce Shapiro
The third generation of this legendary political family has underachieved to date, but would-be leaders are waiting in the wings. (07/22/99)
People:
The Kevlar dictator By Douglas Cruickshank
Bullets can't touch him. He's impervious to poison. And bombs -- Ha! He laughs at your bombs! (07/22/99)
Nothing Personal Jar Jar Binks to battle clap in D.C.: By Amy Reiter
Rep. Coburn enlists "Phantom Menace" mob in STD wars; the queen's bowser was a boozer; 1,000-year-old king may be pushin' up pavement. Plus: New! Viagra for geraniums! (07/22/99)
Technology:
Copyright -- or wrong? By Janelle Brown
The Church of Scientology takes up a new
weapon in its ongoing battle with critics, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (07/22/99)
Log The magician of Macworld: By Chris Allbritton
There's no business like the show business of Steve Jobs, who pulled Apple's iBook and Pixar's "Toy Story II" from his Macworld hat. (07/22/99)
Travel:
The ramp less chosen By Donald D. Groff
Our expert advises readers on alternative,
non-walking fun in London, credit card purchases in China, historic battle site tours and hotel integrity. (07/22/99)
Letter from the Vineyard, Part 2 By William Mullins
The news sinks in. (07/22/99)
Wednesday, July 21, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Hacking toward Bethlehem By Jonathan Vankin
Abe Ingersoll, a former punk hacker and infamous "Road Rules" cast member, reflects on his ill-fated 15 minutes. (07/21/99)
"Monsters of Grace" By Stacey Kors
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson attempted to explore the intersection of the performing arts and digital culture. But a funny thing happened on the way to the theater. (07/21/99)
Sharps & Flats By Dave Clifford
Nick Cave and The Birthday Party adored the sound
of piercing feedback, physical exhaustion and collapse. (07/21/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, July 21, 1999. (07/21/99)
Books:
Who killed literature? By Jose Klein
An aging professor offers his last pleas to help his expiring vocation. (07/21/99)
Review "My Russian" By Stephanie Zacharek
A serious novel that's almost a thriller tells of a woman who assumes a disguise and hunkers down 11 blocks from home. (07/21/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The very friendly guest. (07/21/99)
Health & Body:
Sharing your life By Mike Perry
Why do people favor organ donation but balk at the final OK? (07/21/99)
Letters:
Who's afraid of "The Blair Witch Project"?
Plus: Making money with open source; did all the candidates shirk Vietnam service? (07/21/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Gen X's change of head By Shari Thurer
To the women who came of age in the '60s, oral sex was an act of great intimacy. To their daughters, it's about as intimate as shaking hands. (07/21/99)
The modesty debate By Lori Leibovich
Wendy Shalit: Stop pressuring young women to have sex! Leora Tanenbaum: Every girl is a potential 'slut.' (07/21/99)
News:
The Texas way of death By Robert Bryce
George W. Bush is subpoenaed over the alleged special treatment of a funeral-home mogul who's a big campaign contributor. (07/21/99)
Social absurdity By Ian Williams
The push to entrust the rapacious financial industry with our Social Security money is being led by a former advisor to murderous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. (07/21/99)
People:
Exit the Sandman By Larry Smith
Fond recollections of Morphine's lead singer, the cat with the so-cool countenance. (07/21/99)
Nothing Personal End of civilization imminent: By Amy Reiter
Proof that there is no God: Springer may run for Senate; Mary Bono denies bonkin' The Newt. Plus: Mira Sorvino's summer of the flesh-tone panties. (07/21/99)
Technology:
Short attention span theater By John Geirland
Is the Web the perfect place for short films?
Cheaper and easier than a trip to the cinema, it may spawn a rebirth of the 10-minute talkie. (07/21/99)
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 37: Liz and Paul's dating game (07/21/99)
Log AOL domain-name madness: By Andrew Leonard
A screw-up in the Internic registry of Web addresses makes one man's life a living hell. (07/21/99)
Travel:
"No one ever called them Vineyarders" By William Mullins
Life on the island in the wake of JFK Jr.'s crash. (07/21/99)
Tuesday, July 20, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Bowery boys By Ira Robbins
A new Ramones anthology catches America's beloved punks sniffing glue and chewing rock 'n' roll bubble gum. (07/20/99)
Fujiyama Mama By David Hill
Wanda Jackson, the queen of rockabilly, erupted last weekend before a small crowd of reverent Denver fans. (07/20/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 20, 1999. (07/20/99)
Books:
Mr. Blue: case dismissed By Garrison Keillor
women who write using only lower-case
letters must be careful about love. they'll fall too easily for a cabbie, a pizza boy or a poet. (07/20/99)
Review "The Dragon Hunt" By Judith Coburn
In his first collection in English, an expatriate Vietnamese author tells grueling (and highly original) stories of suffering. (07/20/99)
Books Log Latest Salinger biographer slams New York publishers: By Craig Offman
They're all cowards, he claims. (07/20/99)
Health & Body:
Soft-contact safety questions By Dawn MacKeen
A new study shows a higher risk of infection with soft contacts, especially if worn overnight. (07/20/99)
Urge: White-collar gay porn stars By Jared Mitchell
By day they have high-paying, respectable jobs, but on nights and weekends they seek the fame that only money shots can bring. (07/20/99)
Letters:
"Hefty" centerfold isn't so voluptuous after all;
stay-at-home moms aren't there for the finances; finally, someone made a film about sex for girls. (07/20/99)
Media:
The contrition peddlers By Ruth Shalit
When you're a big corporation and you step in
racial doo-doo, you call Chisholm-Mingo -- your full-service agency for repentance, prevention and brand-burnishing. (07/20/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Formula for disaster, part 2 By Katie Allison Granju
Why do many doctors take a neutral or even
pro-formula stance with their patients -- despite evidence of the serious potential hazards of bottle-feeding? (07/20/99)
News:
Graveyard spiral By Joan Walsh, Daryl Lindsey and Anthony York
Did bad judgment or bad luck doom JFK Jr.? (07/20/99)
A pilot's story By Phaedra Hise
A veteran flyer recalls her near-death experience in a private plane on the New England coast. (07/20/99)
"I am Buzz Lightyear!" By Jeff Greenwald
Thirty years after he walked on the moon, Buzz Aldrin wants to send the rest of us. (07/20/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: David Letterman By Ken Tucker
He's dumped the dulled weapon of irony and become the Leon Trotsky of Talk: The Last Late-Night Revolutionary. (07/20/99)
Nothing Personal Actress comes clean: Porn stardom a dirty rumor: By Amy Reiter
Former Brady Buncher claims she's still alive; Groucho on abstinence; Marilyn Manson not a nerd. Plus: Madonna's peekaboo breast. (07/20/99)
Technology:
What will it take to survive the Web's evolution? By Janelle Brown
In "Digital Darwinism," Evan Schwarz predicts which online business models will prove the
fittest. (07/20/99)
Log Sidewalk sale: By Andrew Leonard
Microsoft trades its long-troubled city guides site for a stake in the competition, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch. (07/20/99)
Travel:
Camp Nostalgia By Louise Rafkin
As a traveler, my favorite trips are always the repeats. Do I dare head back to camp? (07/20/99)
Monday, July 19, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Pushing the envelopes By Joyce Millman
The list of Emmy nominees comes out this week. Will TV's best be on it? (07/19/99)
Sharps & Flats By Dawn Eden
The New York City duo Mannix crafts timeless power pop driven by sad songs that sound happy. (07/19/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, July 19, 1999. (07/19/99)
Books:
The never-ending war By Zachary Karabell
Even in hindsight, no one -- soldier or journalist, politician or scholar -- can agree on what went wrong. (07/19/99)
Book bag The wild side by Michael Cunningham
The author of "The Hours" picks five books from
the edge that belong in the center. (07/19/99)
Review "American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party " By Katharine Whittemore
A new biography explores the life and legacy of America's premier fascist. (07/19/99)
Books Log Useless books find new appreciation on the Web: By Craig Offman
Vendors on eBay hawk galleys and review copies, with mixed success. (07/19/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Terrible things will happen! (07/19/99)
Health & Body:
My antidepressant made me do it! By Rob Waters
The Hartman estate says Zoloft was to blame for a murder-suicide. (07/19/99)
Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl Episode 3 by Tracy Quan
The rules: When it comes to keeping a romance going, there's nothing like a big white lie. (07/19/99)
Letters:
India needs the Net's free
information;
Connie Chung's a bitch AND a lousy journalist; what's Hillary doing with Al Sharpton? (07/19/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Formula for disaster By Katie Allison Granju
Many new parents think infant formula is the next best thing to Mom, but nothing could be further from the truth. (07/19/99)
News:
The unbearable whiteness of being By Kathy Dobie
This year's hate killers are weak, lonely Caucasian men who murder those who have what they don't: A sense of belonging. (07/19/99)
Why Gore would censor "South Park" By David Horowitz
In the name of protecting kids, watch for the politically correct vice president and his friends to try and shut down the trash-talking, moon-faced midgets. (07/19/99)
People:
Storm chaser By Jenn Shreve
Tornado expert Howard Bluestein says that cows don't fly, but cars do. (07/19/99)
Nothing Personal Darth disses "Phantom Menace": By Amy Reiter
Actor: "Episode I" is a bowwow; Rene Russo's nudity approved by God. Plus: Britney Spears' mom: They're real, you ignorant goofballs! (07/19/99)
People Log John Junior in Bluesland: by Douglas Cruickshank
On a Mississippi afternoon, an old woman recalls the president's son who came to visit. (07/19/99)
Technology:
One step ahead of the law By Mark Boal
As the gory killsport game Kingpin hits the street,
the gaming industry toys with self-regulation to avoid government action. (07/19/99)
Log Hands off whose Net? By Andrew Leonard
A new series of television ads warns of the dangers of Internet regulation. The real story: Telecom industry bickering. (07/19/99)
Weekend, July 17-18, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Glory days are here again By Stephanie Zacharek
The reunited Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band bring it all back home to Jersey on the first night of their American tour -- and it's like they never left. (07/17/99)
Health & Body:
Stranger in a super-friendly land By Lady Chimmerly
On the planet of polyamory, eager-beavers and boneheads mingle with truly enlightened souls. (07/17/99)
Three's company; so is four or five By Jim Gerard
For polyamorists, responsibility and commitment replace jealousy and distrust. As long as everyone remembers who's who. (07/17/99)
News:
A good man, very fair, very witty, very loyal By Christopher Hitchens
While the world waits, Christopher Hitchens reflects on the life and career of John F. Kennedy Jr. (07/17/99)
The last Kennedy By David Horowitz
From the moment he was photographed as a three-year old saluting the coffin of his father, he had a place in America's collective heart. (07/17/99)
Boy wonder By Mary Elizabeth Williams
It wasn't just JFK Jr.'s looks that made him a sex symbol. (07/17/99)
The beautiful and the damned By Jake Tapper
Much has been given to the Kennedys, and much has been taken away. (07/17/99)
Can George survive without JFK Jr.? By Anthony York
The star-struck political magazine was losing money, ads and readers even before its founder's tragic disappearance. (07/18/99)
Famous for being famous By Bill Wyman
From his salute to his father through his career at George, JFK Jr.'s triumphs were mostly style over substance. (07/18/99)
The war over KPFA By Anthony York
Stupid management tricks at a Berkeley public radio station make people care about free speech there -- even if they don't listen to it anymore. (07/17/99)
People:
Rewind A computer in every hand! By David Pescovitz
Adam Osborne paved the way with the Osborne 1 -- the first portable PC. (07/17/99)
A saint in the city By Karen Croft
Bruce Springsteen is more than a rock legend; he's a god. (07/17/99)
Travel:
"Water" and other stories By Barry Yourgrau
A drowning, porcelain cows, a chubby sultan and more: Six original pieces turn travel on its dreamy ear. (07/17/99)
Friday, July 16, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Eyes Wide Shut" By Charles Taylor
With its pro-monogamy moralizing, Kubrick's supposedly steamy last film is ultimately anti-erotic -- nothing more than an art-house version of an army training film. (07/16/99)
"Lake Placid" By Andrew O'Hehir
David E. Kelley's first major feature hits some bumps but serves up one hell of a croc. (07/16/99)
Arts & Entertainment Log Shy smiles and half-hearted toss-offs: By Seth Mnookin
Welcome to the world of Vic Chestnutt live. (07/16/99)
Arts & Entertainment Log Let's talk about sex: By Jeff Craig
Cruise: "Eyes Wide Shut" "is not pornography -- it's me kissing and touching my wife." (07/16/99)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
With a series of dark acoustic records, Throwing Muses singer Kristin Hersh transformed herself from a post-punk Ophelia into a macabre folk singer. On "Sky Motel," she plugs in again. (07/16/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for the weekend, July 16-18, 1999. (07/16/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower Young heroes in an ancient land: By Carol Lloyd
Iranian student protesters differ from American ones in two ways: They're risking their lives, and their nation trusts them. (07/16/99)
Unrequired Reading By Ray Sawhill
Publishing jobs turn the pleasure of reading into a chore. Here's what editors read when they're playing hooky. (07/16/99)
Review "Cinnamon Gardens" By Akash Kapur
An epic novel captures Sri Lankan high society at the turn of the century, starched but beginning to wrinkle. (07/16/99)
Books Log A 14-year-old publishes her first novel: By Craig Offman
An interest in vampires leads a teenager to a book contract. (07/16/99)
Health & Body:
Lift those weights! By Mary Roach
Kegeling promises to help prevent incontinence and "enhance physical intimacy." (07/16/99)
Letters:
Mumia
-- watershed or waste of time?; Anne Lamott is wrong on Vietnam; the Web helps
racists find friends. (07/16/99)
Media:
Mundane titillation By Jenn Shreve
This week's stories prove that a good writer can make the most mundane subject riveting, while a hack can turn the sexiest topic into a colossal snooze. (07/16/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Son of hope By Cintra Wilson
In a video aimed at turning young thugs into Christians, serial killer David Berkowitz confesses, "I was a real jerk." (07/16/99)
News:
Sambos in the shadows By Debra Dickerson
George W. Bush's restrictive deed covenant
provides an audit trail to our racist past. (07/16/99)
Shootout among Arkansas Republicans By Suzi Parker
Why did a conservative Arkansas magazine allege that Sen. Tim Hutchinson is having an affair? (07/16/99)
People:
My Lunch With Ira Glass By Rachel Louise Snyder
"This American Life" has become a public radio sensation. And that's amazing because the host is basically just protein. (07/16/99)
Nothing Personal Is Ricky Martin on the mommy track? By Amy Reiter
Singer says he wants grande family; Jerry Hall on the unfathomableness of love; this week's fun
couple: Richard Simmons and Janet Reno. Plus: Rosie O'Donnell, editor in chief? (07/16/99)
Technology:
Did "The Blair Witch Project" fake its online fan base? By Patrizia DiLucchio
Glowing reviews and fan sites raise suspicions that Hollywood is planting ready-made buzz on the Net. (07/16/99)
Log Red Hat snags Atomic designers: By Andrew Leonard
The leading Linux vendor hires a boatload of Web designers -- perhaps for a portal play? (07/16/99)
Travel:
Cinema verities By Jonah Blank
They cast me as the white guy with the Indian lover. But my Indian lover found me untouchable. (07/16/99)
Thursday, July 15, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
From "Tootsie" to "Eyes Wide Shut" By Michael Sragow
Sydney Pollack directed Dustin Hoffman romping around in a skirt. Now he's co-starring as the orgy master who guides Tom Cruise through the debaucherous center of Stanley Kubrick's final film. (07/15/99)
Arts & Entertainment Log The films of Stanley Kubrick on DVD: Triumph or tragedy? By Bill Wyman
Warner Home Video recently released its new Stanley Kubrick video and DVD collection -- and already the purists are pointing out its appalling imperfections. (07/15/99)
Sharps & Flats By Douglas Wolk
Pastoral pop group Belle and Sebastian finally re-release their out of print debut "Tigermilk," which once sold for $1,200. The excellent disc is worth the long wait, if not the inflated auction price. (07/15/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, July 15, 1999. (07/15/99)
Books:
Dr. Strange Love By Curt Holman
Arthur Schnitzler's paranoid, erotic 1926 novella
inspired Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut." (07/15/99)
Review "Caravaggio: A Life" By George Rafael
A gripping biography of the painter turns up one living, kicking corpse. (07/15/99)
Books Log Washington Post Book World editor steps down: By Craig Offman
Heir apparent's personal life may complicate matters. (07/15/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
All about Bob! (07/15/99)
Health & Body:
Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl By Tracy Quan
Episode 2: The just-in-time orgasm:
When love is your business, pleasure takes a serious toll. (07/15/99)
Spin doctoring By Susan McCarthy
Expectations about your health or illness can cause reality to follow suit. (07/15/99)
Letters:
Dignifying hate
with media attention; George W.'s military service no longer matters; refugees need the hopefulness of American movies. (07/15/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Nazi family values By Amy Benfer
Chewing the fat with a white-supremacist mom and her 6-year-old daughter at an Idaho barbecue. (07/15/99)
News:
Hillary's hypocrisy By David Horowitz
Why did the first lady put New York's dairy cartel before the interests of children, and why doesn't anyone care? (07/15/99)
Media circus By Jake Tapper
Congressional representatives join "The Price Is Right" host Bob Barker in a made-for-media clarion call for elephants' rights in India. (07/15/99)
People:
Rogues' Gallery: Busted! Speed-shopping while black By Douglas Cruickshank
Armed with an AmEx card designed to function silently, a scalawag aliased Raydog pulls a fast one. (07/15/99)
Charles Aznavour By Jody Rosen
After six decades, the man who reinvented the French chanson, composed more than 600 songs and sold more than 100 million records is still a star and one of the last classic pop stylists. (07/15/99)
Nothing Personal What is it about noses and nookie? By Amy Reiter
Leapin' lizards! Paula Jones' snoot doc has zipper problem; Newt set to bore nation to tears -- again; Helen Hunt afflicted with terrible head-swelling. (07/15/99)
Technology:
Is the Internet the new heaven? By Gavin McNett
"The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" examines the spiritual realm of non-physical space -- and finds that Giotto painted VR frescoes. (07/15/99)
Log What's it gonna Be? By Etelka Lehoczky
After nine years of building an operating system, Be is going public. But has the company figured out what it wants to be? (07/15/99)
Log Prankster gives away Excite's domain: By Janelle Brown
Network Solutions transferred two domain names to an unsuspecting network administrator on Tuesday night. (07/14/99)
Travel:
Too much duty By Donald D. Groff
Our expert offers advice on duty-free goods,
allegedly smoke-free rooms, golfing packages and San Francisco lodging, revisited. (07/15/99)
Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Movie mad By Charles Taylor
The "The Blair Witch Project" directors wanted to create a film that was "100 percent real." Why did they bother making a movie? (07/14/99)
To Paris Las Vegas, with love By Sarah Vowell
A few tips on keepin' it real for the folks who are bringing the City of Light to America. (07/14/99)
Sharps & Flats By Robbie Woliver
On "Goodbye, So What," New York trio Cake Like play power pop with sweet and sour kiss-offs. (07/14/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, July 14, 1999. (07/14/99)
Books:
Endless summer school By Alex Salkever
At the University of Plymouth's new surf-science program, getting barreled is downright respectable. (07/14/99)
He remembers Papa By Jon B. Rhine
They fought about politics, he stole Hemingway's girl. An old war buddy reminisces. (07/14/99)
Review "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" By Roger Gathman
Weaving fact with fiction, a novelist creates a brilliant fantasia on the modern history of Newfoundland. (07/14/99)
Books Log By Craig Offman
Hemingway furniture has legs. (07/14/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
(07/14/99)
Health & Body:
A thing of beauty By Jon Bowen
Should we flush our colons or leave them alone? (07/14/99)
Letters:
Overdosing
on "ecstasy" scare stories; why are female sportswriters whining? (07/14/99)
News:
Free-for-all at Free Republic By Jeff Stein
Lucianne Goldberg, Matt Drudge and other friends abandon the Clinton-bashing Web site over its attacks on George W. Bush. (07/14/99)
People:
Walk a mile in my hypocritical sack of shit By Cintra Wilson
Hard at work on my anti-celebrity culture book, I was summoned, urgently, to be in a Sandra
Bullock movie. (07/14/99)
Nothing Personal Courtney Love: Baby talk: By Amy Reiter
Tells mag she likes "porno 44DD" girls, "and they have to be really aggressive." (07/14/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 35: Comdex burlesque -- Barry preaches to the choir as Paul duct-tapes the demos. (07/14/99)
Is Red Hat becoming Linux's Microsoft? By Andrew Leonard
Hardly. But as the lovey-dovey Linux business matures, elbows are beginning to fly. (07/14/99)
Log Masticating the millennium: By Janelle Brown
Tired of the Y2K hoopla? The Millennium Lunch Club invites you to join in the simplest celebration yet. (07/14/99)
Travel:
The art of survival and other stories By Don George
Two new books offer tips and tales from the
wild wide world. (07/14/99)
Tuesday, July 13, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The Blair Witch Project By Mary Elizabeth Williams
We have nothing to fear but fear itself -- and fear, it turns out, is scarier than hell. (07/13/99)
Something wicked By Brett Mannes
"Blair Witch Project" co-star Joshua Leonard on method filmmaking and other terrifying games of conscience. (07/13/99)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
On "The Seduction of Claude Debussy," Art of Noise offer a playfully pretentious tribute to the father of modern music. (07/13/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 13, 1999. (07/13/99)
Books:
Dear Mr. Blue: The plot thickens By Garrison Keillor
I love my girlfriend, but I lust after her best friend. Now they want us all to live together. Is there any way it can work out? (07/13/99)
The Matt Drudge of porn By Michelle Goldberg
A tortured conservative Jew dishes Internet
gossip on the industry he lusts to hate. (07/13/99)
Review "Deliberate Intent" By Jonathan Groner
Does the First Amendment protect a how-to manual for hit men? (07/13/99)
Books Log By Laura Miller
Mailer vs. Greer: The bout that wasn't. (07/13/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Too many people! (07/13/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: The cost of free love By Virginia Vitzthum
After Helen's libertine days turned sour, she began to wonder: Was it about desire or just another way to conform? (07/13/99)
Health & Body Log Got milk? By Jon Bowen
New tests point to a fat compound in milk as a possible STD fighter. (07/13/99)
Letters:
Horowitz wrong
on gun laws Children's parties are out of control; Salon wasted Bill Gates' time. (07/13/99)
Media:
Top-heavy By Jenn Shreve
Playboy's Miss August tips the scales of centerfold history. (07/13/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Silence By Karen Grigsby Bates
Quality time may be overrated -- unless it's with yourself. (07/13/99)
Stay-home economics By Phaedra Hise
One mom crunches the numbers on the assumption that quitting work is cheaper than paying for life as a working parent. (07/13/99)
News:
Selective service By Joe Conason
Republican presidential contenders, except for John McCain, stumble over questions of their Vietnam-era military service. (07/13/99)
City slickers By Jake Tapper
New Orleans, Boston, Detroit and Alameda County, Calif., are suing gun manufacturers and dealers for distributing what they deem a dangerous product -- and then turning around and selling guns themselves. (07/13/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Willie Mays By Joan Walsh
In the mid-'60s, whites weren't ready for the best baseball player to be black, and blacks weren't ready for him to be black like Mays. (07/13/99)
Inside baseball By Joan Walsh
Willie Mays talks about stickball in Harlem,
today's best players and his ban from the game. (07/13/99)
Nothing Personal Did Little John make Robin Hood's quiver shiver? By Amy Reiter
Professor says "merrie men" were making merry, but not making Maid Marian. (07/13/99)
Technology:
They got game By Moira Muldoon
Talented players make good money selling characters on eBay. Are they denigrating gaming -- or turning it into a profession? (07/13/99)
Log MP3.com: A billion-dollar business? By Janelle Brown
On the eve of its IPO, the digital music site ups its valuation; all the more money to stand up to the recording industry. (07/13/99)
Travel:
Sex and the thin-walled room By Elliott Neal Hester
When you spend half your life in hotels, you learn a lot about your neighbors. (07/13/99)
Monday, July 12, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Shit-eating grins By Stephanie Zacharek
In defense of Adam Sandler, "South Park" and the proud tradition of poop humor. (07/12/99)
Sharps & Flats By Wendy Mitchell
Now celebrating a 10th anniversary with a compilation featuring Rocket From the Crypt, Superchunk and Neutral Milk Hotel, Merge Records is the little label that could, and did. (07/12/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, July 12, 1999. (07/12/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Life, liberty and the pursuit of aliens By Jon Bowen
At an annual conference, UFO believers argue for acceptance from the academy. (07/12/99)
Book bag By Peter Carey
Peerless: The author of "Oscar and Lucinda" picks five very original works of fiction (07/12/99)
Review "Paris Trance" By Greg Bottoms
Working without plot, a novelist creates a prose photograph of a time and a place. (07/12/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Let us now praise obscenely rich twerps. (07/12/99)
Health & Body:
Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan call girl By Tracy Quan
Episode One: Secret books and other tricks of the trade. (07/12/99)
Ginkgo below By Stephen G. Michaud
Chinese herbalists consider ginkgo an aphrodisiac. So does at least one man in Dallas. (07/12/99)
Letters:
Readers to British expat Toby Young:
Go home!; Rudy Rucker defends his novel (and his spirituality). (07/12/99)
Mothers Who Think:
You can halve it all By Jennifer Bingham Hull
You can get your husband to do his share if you demand it -- or threaten divorce. (07/12/99)
News:
Run, Hillary, run By Christopher Hitchens
The first lady should run for the Senate, so she can be asked the ethical questions she's so far evaded. (07/12/99)
People:
Appreciation: Mark O'Brien By Lorenzo W. Milam
From age 6, the writer, poet and subject of the Academy Award-winning "Breathing Lessons" had the use of just one muscle in his right foot, one muscle in his neck and one in his jaw. He used them to steer his monster machine and to bang with a stick on the keys of a computer -- to write, cajole, editorialize, storm, cry, laugh and rage. (07/12/99)
Flirting with success By Jenn Shreve
Expert flirt Francesca Gentille holds forth on the fine art of making eye contact, mirroring, transmitting scent, heat and wavelength.
(07/12/99)
Nothing Personal Tori: "Get ready, 'cause here I come!" By Amy Reiter
Spelling says next lover better prepare for a passionate workout; Elsie the Cow: those lips, those eyes; Murdoch barred from his own office; woman battles sexism by donning pork chops. Plus: Check it out, Janet Reno mistaken for grocery clerk! (07/12/99)
Technology:
The overtime stigma By Alicia Neumann
Plenty of tech workers could rightfully demand fatter paychecks, but fear that asking for overtime could be a costly faux pas. (07/12/99)
Log Do we really need an Internet time capsule? By Janelle Brown
Al Gore and AT&T ask students to upload pictures of their pet kitties for future generations to enjoy. Here's to online history! (07/12/99)
Weekend, July 10-11, 1999
Health & Body:
A guy's guide to lousy sex By Susie Bright
Why should women have all the misery? (07/10/99)
Media:
Talk of the town By David Carr
Tina Brown's new magazine hits newsstands Aug. 2; here's a look at the chatter about Talk -- and what may be in the first issue. (07/10/99)
News:
Where the boys are By Cathy Young
The rise in popularity of women's sports highlights paradoxical intersections between athletics and feminism. (07/10/99)
Mumia's millions By Joan Walsh
The calls of gullible whites for a Mumia Abu-Jamal retrial is reminiscent of their Black Panther worship in the '60s. (07/10/99)
Barak recommits Israel to Middle East peace By Larry Derfner
After meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, new Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak puts the peace process back on track. (07/10/99)
People:
Rewind: Connie Chung By Jenn Shreve
America's most bitchin' broadcaster: At the start of this decade, Connie Chung was the hottest item on network news; then several public missteps caused her popularity to fall into the chill zone. (07/10/99)
Travel:
Rapids, ruins and the end of the river By Rolf Potts
In which our correspondent wanders the tranquil streets of Thakaek and weathers a dangerous descent. (07/10/99)
Friday, July 9, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Genghis Blues" By Daniel Mangin
Blues musician Paul Pena heads to Central Asia to unlock the secrets of the ancient art of throat-singing. (07/09/99)
"American Pie" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
He's gotta have it in this male-masturbation comedy, but the still unreleased "Coming Soon" shows that girls need their fun, too. (07/09/99)
Don't you know that it's different for girls? By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
"Coming Soon" director Colette Berson talks about a girl's inalienable right to better sex, the old Hollywood double standard and why the MPAA board has got to go. (07/09/99)
"Arlington Road" By Andrew O'Hehir
Hitchcock worship smothers the plot twists and suburban paranoia of a summer thriller. (07/09/99)
Sharps & Flats By David Hill
"Cold Hard Truth" is peppered with dark ballads about lost love and regretful decisions. George Jones, country's greatest living voice, knows his subject well. (07/09/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for the weekend, July 9-11, 1999. (07/09/99)
Books:
No easy answers By Michael Scott Moore
Does the SAT predict anything meaningful about
how students will do in college? (07/09/99)
Review "Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga" By Douglas McGray
Time hasn't healed the former secretary-general's wounds or lessened his bitterness. (07/09/99)
Health & Body:
A second opinion By Dr. Robert Burton
One doctor's enlightenment through pain. (07/09/99)
Who can see your medical records? By Arthur Allen
Congress passes a bill under the banner of protecting privacy. Critics say it does anything but
that. (07/08/99)
Letters:
Microsoft's
not the only Web host that wants your content; George W. is a puppet and a paper tiger. (07/09/99)
Media:
Alt.: Generation R.I.P. By Jenn Shreve
The Village Voice pronounces Generation X as dead as Kurt Cobain, as irrelevant as a Cheesy Poof. Plus: Alternative health stories that don't suck. (07/09/99)
Mothers Who Think:
All you need is love -- and a marriage license By Joan Oleck
If Jesse Helms has his way, new legislation could limit international adoptions for everyone
but married straight couples. (07/09/99)
News:
Heroes of horror By Peter Landesman
Risking snipers, facing sights so dreadful that they weep along with the victims' families, forensics teams from around the world -- including a team from the FBI -- are performing the heartbreaking but essential task of recording Serbian atrocities in Kosovo. (07/09/99)
"The ones who fell on top of me saved my life" By Peter Landesman
A man who miraculously survived a Serbian massacre tells his terrible story. (07/09/99)
You can call me Al By Keith Moore
In her effort to line up political support, Hillary Clinton extends an olive branch, and a White House invite, to Rev. Al Sharpton. (07/09/99)
People:
Mario Puzo By Albert Mobilio
His saga of a Mafia family is one of the most familiar stories in American culture, and Don Vito Corleone surely keeps company with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby as one of the most indelible icons of American fiction. (07/09/99)
All pets go to heaven By Kathy Dobie
"They laughed," she says. "But later, the same people were sitting in here crying. You don't know how you're going to feel until it happens to you." (07/09/99)
Nothing Personal Faux hooters help save cojones: By Amy Reiter
Robbie Williams makes a boob of himself to save your balls; doomsday cult takes a hike, vaporizes; Kubrick wanted Steve Martin instead of Cruise.
Plus: Have they no shame? Sophia Loren in bed, in public, with Mohamed Al Fayed. (07/09/99)
Technology:
The Web can't make racists By Scott Rosenberg
But it can help expose them and their ideas to the light of the truth. (07/09/99)
Log Will Digital Coast push Silicon Alley off the map? By Janelle Brown
The Silicon Alley Reporter's editor in chief has spoken: High-tech Los Angeles will overtake New York in no time. (07/09/99)
Travel:
The perils of the harem By Jeffrey Tayler
Beguiled by beauties in negligées, a Peace Corps volunteer stumbles into a romantic misadventure in Marrakech. (07/09/99)
In Vientiane, a lull before the storm By Rolf Potts
Our correspondent enjoys a drowsy detour in the Lao capital before preparing to take over
as second mate on the Mik Sip. (07/09/99)
Thursday, July 8, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Taxi Driver II By Michael Sragow
"My Son the Fanatic" director Udayan Prasad on Hanif Kureishi, the spiritual life of Pakistani cab drivers and the art of stealing ideas from those more talented than you. (07/08/99)
Idea man By Jeff Stark
Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne believes in the thrill of wonder, the miracle of everday life and the extraordinary sound in his head. (07/08/99)
FilmAid By Peter Landesman
When some Hollywood producers tried to bring the cinema -- and a few celebrities -- to an Albanian refugee camp, they found their audience, though appreciative, had more pressing dramas to deal with. (07/08/99)
Sharps & Flats By Amanda Nowinski
Proudly synthetic, the electronic duo 2 Lone Swordsmen prove that man is more intelligent than machine. (07/08/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, July 8, 1999. (07/08/99)
Books:
Profiler By David Bowman
John Douglas, the real-life model for Thomas Harris' serial-killer expert handicaps the O.J., Ramsey and Dahmer cases. Oh, and David Byrne, too. (07/08/99)
Review "Boy in the Water" By Sean Elder
Naked teenagers, mutilated animals and a serial killer terrorize a guilt-ridden shrink at a boarding school. (07/08/99)
Log Salty World War II vet storms the publishing world: By Craig Offman
Sam Halpert is leading the charge for his first novel. (07/08/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Going ape. (07/08/99)
Health & Body:
Sleepstabbing By Jeff Stryker
The strange science of sleep behavior and one
verdict: Guilty! (07/08/99)
Letters:
Don't give up
gay pride to get gay equality; why is Cintra bitter about Clapton auction? (07/08/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Prisoners of a crappy war By Anne Lamott
I don't regret protesting Vietnam, but "Return with Honor" has humbled me before the heroism of our military. (07/08/99)
American history ex By Vivienne Walt
A former skinhead talks about how young people like him -- and Benjamin Smith -- get recruited. (07/08/99)
News:
"My fiancé wants me to be a racist!" By Anthony York
Before Benjamin Nathaniel Smith's killing spree got him on CNN, Rev. Matt Hale was consigned to the Jerry Springer show, where he sparred with black and Jewish viewers and defended hate as a religion. (07/08/99)
The not-so-good war By Jake Tapper
Just like President Clinton, eight of 10 Vietnam-era GOP presidential candidates managed to avoid going to Vietnam -- and the wealthiest wound up in the National Guard. Does it still matter? (07/08/99)
On her own By Anthony York
Hillary takes two steps -- one substantive, one
stylistic -- to get out of her husband's political shadow. (07/08/99)
Politics the KLA way By Laura Rozen
Divisions between rebel leaders manifest as some leaders split off to form a political party. (07/08/99)
People:
Rogues' Gallery: The muddle people By Douglas Cruickshank
Hey, knuckleheads! Ya wanta live in our kountry, learn to speak our langkwage; Hitler's paintings: No wonder he went into the dictator business. Plus: Woman hurtles off cliff, hangs onto cell phone, rescuer gripes about audio quality. (07/08/99)
Father of invention By Frank Houston
He lent his name to a new solid-body electric guitar, and Les Paul became synonymous with rock 'n' roll's weapon of choice. (07/08/99)
Nothing Personal New, improved and ever-so-polite: By Amy Reiter
Nothing Personal starts minding its manners; Greg Brady's platinum record aspirations; the toilet seat that lowers itself. Plus: Brad Pitt says, "What, me worry?" (07/08/99)
Technology:
The education of Alice By Art Levine
Are white supremacists and
anti-Semites using the Net to recruit upscale followers? (07/08/99)
Log India darkens Dawn: By Andrew Leonard
The giant nation's online censorship of a Pakistani newspaper highlights its disturbing hold on
the Internet. (07/08/99)
Travel:
I want an exotic marriage! By Donald D. Groff
Our expert offers advice on knockout nuptials, travel in Croatia, the ins and outs of rental car
insurance and finding New Year's charm in Portugal. (07/08/99)
A lucky break in Paklay By Rolf Potts
In which our correspondent gets drunk on rice whiskey one night and finds himself invited onto a boat the morning after. (07/08/99)
Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Late August, Early September" By Charles Taylor
Idealism gives way to compromise for a group of frustrated friends in Olivier Assayas' modest yet moving new film. (07/07/99)
Keeping it (kind of) real By Wes Tooke
Lots of action -- and a little angst -- at ESPN's biggest X Games event ever. (07/07/99)
Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
Béla Fleck ditches the jammy, New Age dreck for an album of smokin' jazzgrass. (07/07/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, July 7, 1999. (07/07/99)
Books:
Salinger and me By J.B. Miller
My excellent adventures with the author of "The Catcher in the Rye." (07/07/99)
Leaving the stage By Sherryl Kleinman
One young professor dares to quit lecturing and listen to her students. (07/07/99)
Review "Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes" By Sean Elder
Was the redoubtable detective a mouthpiece for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's spiritual beliefs? (07/06/99)
Log Kubrick gets a Herr piece: By Craig Offman
Michael Herr remembers Stanley Kubrick. (07/07/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The perils of celebrity. (07/07/99)
Health & Body:
The big E By Dawn MacKeen
Doctors, law enforcement and ravers are scrutinizing
ecstasy's possible long-term effects as the drug pours into the U.S. in record numbers. (07/07/99)
Log It's all in your head: By Jon Bowen
Viagra may get the gears in motion, but if the gal thinks lust is lacking, she may take a hike. (07/07/99)
Letters:
Tom Cruise is sexy to everyone, not just gays; doctors have become cogs in the health care machine. (07/07/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Playing from behind By Steve Kettmann
The trials and tribulations of being a female sportswriter were highlighted by last week's Samantha Stevenson-Julius Erving story. (07/07/99)
News:
"Jews have been the villains, not the victims"
The outgoing message on the World Church of the Creator's answering machine offers diet advice, tips for raising "strong, natural, instinctive" white children and a warning to its opponents. (07/07/99)
Clinton poverty plan: Let them eat tax breaks By Merrill Goozner
Clinton's New Markets Initiative is just another attempt to rebuild the inner city through tax incentives for business, and it won't work. (07/07/99)
Throwing the book at it By Suzi Parker
Allegations of deceptive politics and public giveaways shroud plans for the Clinton presidential library. (07/07/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Gates the Elder forced to change name: By Amy Reiter
Hey, Pops! Who do you want to be today? Clampetts about to morph into the Corleones: Beverly Hillbillies casino on the way; Prince Charles gets flashed by British bad girl. Plus: Latest from the Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. (07/07/99)
Technology:
Dangling conversations By Janelle Brown
Can Third Voice's approach to Web community evolve beyond drive-by scrawls? (07/07/99)
Log Blame the consumer! By Andrew Leonard
Slate argues that developers shouldn't be faulted for bloated software. (07/07/99)
Silicon Follies Chapter 33: By Thomas Scoville
Steve draws a bead on The Man. (07/07/99)
Travel:
The grace of danger in our lives By Don George
A new anthology presents a heart-pumping array of survivors' tales. (07/07/99)
Lotus-eating in Luang Prabang By Rolf Potts
Buddhist temples, watermelon shakes and crazed speedboat racers meet in the ancient Lao capital. (07/07/99)
Tuesday, July 6, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The secret world of Pokémon By Joyce Millman
With a TV show, video game and trading cards, the pocket monsters have come for your children. (07/06/99)
Give Pokémon a chance By Cynthia Joyce
Ten-year-old Sean Levine talks about the limitless potential of Pokémon. (07/06/99)
Sharps & Flats By Geoff Edgers
1960s socialite Mrs. Miller sang the Beatles and Sinatra worse than anyone. For the first time, her ungodly awful -- and hilarious -- repertoire appears on CD. (07/06/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 6, 1999. (07/06/99)
Books:
Dear Mr. Blue: A bumpy ride By Garrison Keillor
My taxi driver boyfriend slept with one of his fares. Can I ever trust him again? (07/06/99)
The pissed-off muse By Abby Ellin
She dreamed of being immortalized
in literature -- until he showed her his manuscript. (07/06/99)
Review "The Good Times" By Todd Pruzan
Sharp, staccato Scottish dialogue more macho than Mamet's fills James Kelman's new story collection. (07/06/99)
Review "Bucket of Tongues" By Steve McQuiddy
A former janitor's gritty tales of Scottish street life. (07/06/99)
Log By Craig Offman
Terrorist tell-all backfires. (07/06/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Mommie dearest. (07/06/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Weapon or toy? By David Steinberg
One seasoned sex explorer gets more than he expected from a run-in with airport security. (07/06/99)
Letters:
Why Japan doesn't get the Internet (yet); Neil LaBute's violence is shocking, but not surprising. (07/06/99)
Mothers Who Think:
And many more ... By Janet Mazur
Kids' birthday parties are out of hand.
Whatever happened to cake, ice cream and pin the tail on the donkey? (07/06/99)
News:
What's gun control got to do with it? By David Horowitz
The 20,000 laws already on the books couldn't stop the Columbine massacre, and one more won't either, but liberals just don't get that. (07/06/99)
Quién es más macho? By Anthony York
Below are nine excerpts from the speeches of Al Gore and George W. Bush. Which one is which? (07/02/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Russell Simmons By Jeff Stark
The founder of Def Jam Records brought hip-hop culture into the American mainstream, and his empire is growing. (07/06/99)
Nothing Personal Real-life fembots! By Amy Reiter
New GPS-equipped bra enables authorities to locate your breasts; Brit bookies say Gore's gonna get it; Nicole Kidman: Call Pamela Anderson Lee; Lennon more popular than Jesus in new poll. Plus: Be very afraid -- Loni Anderson is back! (07/06/99)
Technology:
My five minutes with Bill Gates By Gary Rivlin
After a three-month campaign to get a word in with the World's Richest Man, a reporter gets all he had hoped for. (07/06/99)
Log Linux is like a Chinese peasant uprising: By Andrew Leonard
When the oppressed recognize their suffering, they find the strength to overthrow
those in power, reports Beijing's China Youth Daily. (07/06/99)
Travel:
Guns, muskmelon breasts and the Laotian Gandhi By Rolf Potts
An American takes a Mark Twain-like journey by riverboat down the Mekong. (07/06/99)
Weekend, July 3-5, 1999
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Thou shalt not godlessly secularize! (07/03/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Private dancers By Annalee Newitz
From North Beach bars to the Mitchell Brothers' high-priced flesh emporium, she went in search of women to dance in her lap. (07/03/99)
News:
Scorned on the Fourth of July By Toby Young
A British expat reflects on America's insensitivity to its British residents, taxation without representation and the wonders of the "lucky sperm club." (07/03/99)
The murder that shocked Washington By Paul Hofer
Helen Foster-El was shot
protecting children from gunfire. The man whose home she cleaned eulogizes the housekeeper-turned-local hero whose death has galvanized the city. (07/02/99)
People:
Rocket man By Jenn Shreve
Pyrotechnician Jeff Thomas tells of an all-green fireworks show, working past midnight on New Year's 1999 and his mortal enemy: Fog. (07/03/99)
Becoming an American By Dianne Jacob
Who knew that applying for citizenship would require me to swear I'm not a torturer or a gambler, submit a photo with my "right ear showing" and write "I am wearing a brown jacket" even
though I was wearing a green one? (07/03/99)
The Raw & the Cooked: An arse by any other name By Douglas Cruickshank
Plus: Sex 'n' roll, Hell-Fire Dick, the dwarf war and other rattling mumpers. (07/03/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 32: Kiki's story -- Barry and
the big red bong. (07/02/99)
21st Challenge No. 23 results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
How to destroy your computer, and other lousy ideas for online learning. (07/03/99)
Travel:
Paris for voyeurs By David Downie
For those who walk at night, imagination soars in the City of Light. (07/03/99)
Friday, July 2, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" By Stephanie Zacharek
Beneath the veneer of fake dicks and fart jokes, it's really a righteous paean to saying whatever the hell you want. (07/02/99)
Sharps & flats By Robbie Woliver
Greenwich Village folk tribute covers Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel and Tim Buckley. But how can Chrissie Hynde and Marshall Crenshaw, among others, forget that some art belongs to its creator? (07/02/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for the weekend, July 2-5, 1999. (07/02/99)
Books:
The ethics of baby-killing By Jason Zinoman
His protesters call him a Nazi, a hater and a snob, but the most interesting truth about Peter Singer is that there are many more like him. (07/02/99)
Totally RIP-ed By Jonathon Keats
The strange story of Lenin's embalmers and a collection of cheeky epitaphs suggest that the Reaper may not be so grim after all. (07/02/99)
Review "Rebels in White Gloves: The tie-dyed debutantes of Hillary's graduating class: By Liesl Schillinger
The times were turbulent, and these decorous young ladies weren't about to be left behind. (07/02/99)
Health & Body:
Why doesn't anyone have dropsy anymore? By Mary Roach
The 1899 Merck Manual is being released along with the 1999 version. (07/02/99)
Letters:
Ann Coulter free-for-all! Standing up for the KLA. (07/02/99)
Media:
Alt: Alternative juju By Jenn Shreve
Unconventional remedies are ripe
for journalistic inquiry, but are weeklies up to the job? Plus: The secrets of mosquitoes, Osama bin Laden's hiding place and Internet IPOs revealed! (07/02/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Bare, naked ladies By Jennifer New
There's not much room to commune with your own nudity, or anyone else's, in a swimming-pool locker room full of wary onlookers. (07/02/99)
News:
Where the girls are By Jake Tapper
Preteens, flag-wrapped fans and President Clinton get Women's World Cup fever, as the U.S. team defeats Germany. (07/02/99)
I'm not Hillary By Jake Tapper
What do Tipper Gore, Laura Bush, Ernestine Bradley and Cindy McCain have in common? See above. (07/02/99)
Follow the leader By Laura Rozen
As Kosovo recovers from Serbian-inflicted devastation, rival political factions jockey for position. (07/02/99)
All things to all checkbooks By Anthony York
The smoothly humming Bush machine makes sure that no one gets a chance to find out just who that man in the driver's seat really is. (07/02/99)
People:
You deserve a borscht today By Jenn Shreve
Over a Big Mac and fries, the man
who brought McDonald's to Russia discusses burgers, communism and Boris Yeltsin's craving for salt. (07/02/99)
Nothing Personal Panties fit for a princess: By Amy Reiter
Now you can wear undies inspired by Di; speaking of which, Marv Albert's back; white-chick folkfest is not a white-chick folkfest; der party poopers at Deutsche Bank throw wet blanket on currency toss. Plus: Hillary Clinton
and Janet Reno deemed strangely sexy. (07/02/99)
Technology:
Scenes from the Web's callow youth By Scott Rosenberg
"Home Page" documentary offers 1996's look and feel, but not much in the way of insight. (07/02/99)
Technology Log Microsoft wants you, too: By Andrew Leonard
Amid protests of Yahoo's ownership claims to Geocities' home pages, Microsoft debuts its "Windows Way" community. (07/02/99)
Travel:
Some enchanted evening By Todd Gottlieb
A romantic traveler meets his destiny -- and a beautiful Romanian named Anika -- for one brief night in Barcelona. (07/02/99)
Thursday, July 1, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Making film is making music" By Michael Sragow
Director François Girard on the art of making art. (07/01/99)
Sharps & flats By D. Strauss
Gang Starr introduced the hip-hop nation to jazz, but a new retrospective proves that you don't have to blame them for letting vital music devolve into bourgeois R&B. (07/01/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, July 1, 1999. (07/01/99)
Log Punk rock dies (again): By Gavin McNett
The Epicenter Zone was the kind of vital, snotty teen collective that every city needs. Our writer eulogizes the shuttered San Francisco record store. (07/01/99)
Books:
Making a monster By Laura Miller
"White Oleander" author Janet Fitch talks about creating a wicked woman, the debacle of film school and becoming an overnight success after 20 years. (07/01/99)
Log By Craig Offman
Clare Naylor: Not just another "Bridget Jones." (07/01/99)
Review "The Broken Estate" and "When the Kissing Had to Stop": By Euny Hong Koral
Literary criticism remains alive and well (the novel is another story) in the work of two masters of the form. (07/01/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
(07/01/99)
Health & Body:
Don't worry, darling, I have giant fennel By Susan McCarthy
The history and mystery of the plant that may have been one of the first contraceptives. (07/01/99)
Letters:
Competing for the perfect man Cisneros, an imperfect man. (07/01/99)
Media:
Talking to Tina By Bill Wyman
"Tina, how in the hell were you spending $35 million a year to put out the New Yorker?" (07/01/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Optimistic complaints By Sallie Tisdale
Of course, mothers think -- and every once in a while they even complain. (07/01/99)
News:
Now what's blocking Richard Holbrooke's confirmation? By Ian Williams
The United States goes without a U.N. ambassador while the right wing protects one of its own. (07/01/99)
We're here, we're queer, I'm sick of it By Christopher Ott
The gay pride agenda is about partying, not politics. It's time to talk about "gay equality." (07/01/99)
People:
Rogues' Gallery Flash: Bond bandit bites baguette! By Douglas Cruickshank
And other information you don't need, but the Times of London insists on giving you. (07/01/99)
Nothing Personal Sick and slick: By Amy Reiter
Haute couture hits hospitals; capitalism tribute: German wacko prepares to throw 100,000 marks off the Reichstag; veggies bitch about Sophia Loren's cooking; and (surprise, surprise) a recent poll reveals that Americans are nincompoops. (07/01/99)
Technology:
Penguin wiggles its flippers By Andrew Leonard
Can an upstart Linux box-maker grow like mad -- and still keep its soul? (07/01/99)
Technology Log Can AOL silence its critics? By Janelle Brown
The latest anti-AOL site to be burned by America Online's heat is peeved, but not surprised. (07/01/99)
Travel:
A cheap sleep in San Francisco By Donald D. Groff
Our expert offers tips on top budget hotels in San Francisco and Alsace, airlines' emergency ticket-fee waivers and Maine's coastal treasures. (07/01/99)
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