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Tuesday, August 31, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Everyone has their own clichés" By David Bowman
Richard Thompson gives us a peek -- just a peek, mind you -- into his bag of musical tricks. (08/31/99)
Sharps & Flats by Lydia Vanderloo
On the debut "Blush," Bows creak and skitter like a haunted house. (08/31/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, August 31, 1999. (08/31/99)
Books:
Dear Mr. Blue: Oral history By Garrison Keillor
He says he did it once and didn't like it. How can I get my boyfriend to go down on me? (08/31/99)
The suffering Irish By Daniel Reitz
What will Erin's literary artists write about now that their motherland has found its pot of gold? (08/31/99)
America the brutal By Andrew O'Hehir
In his follow-up to "Angela's Ashes" Frank McCourt confronts the indignities of immigrant life. (08/31/99)
Review"Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story" By Greg Villepique
An account of one of rock 'n' roll's legendary drummers doesn't go deep enough. (08/31/99)
Log: Unabomber finds literary success behind bars By Craig Offman
Book publishers and magazines give Theodore Kaczynski a platform for his incendiary views. (08/31/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Sometimes a great potion. (08/31/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: The gang's all here By Kevin Bisch
Hope flickers at the World's Biggest Gang Bang. (08/31/99)
Log: Stress causes girls? By Jon Bowen
A study suggests that stress at conception can make your baby more likely to be female. (08/31/99)
Letters:
11 million Net addicts? Who says?
Plus: China espionage; undergraduates' righteous rage; sexist claptrap from Mr. Blue? (08/31/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Single female seeks travel and romance-- with child By Joan Oleck
We single parents have cash, sex appeal and even our own sitcoms. Now, we have our own vacation resorts, too. (08/31/99)
News:
It's about character, stupid By Fred Branfman
Why the public needs to know whether, when and why George W. Bush used drugs. (08/31/99)
Bush won't have to testify in whistle-blower case By Robert Bryce
A Democratic judge rules Texas governor will not have to give a deposition in the so-called Formaldegate case. (08/31/99)
Don't ask, he'll tell By Amy Silverman
An openly gay Mormon Republican flouts the Clinton administration's gays-in-the-military policy. (08/31/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Warren Buffett By Larry Kanter
The Oracle of Omaha -- the world's greatest stock market investor -- lives in a house he bought for $31,500, dines on burgers and quotes Mae West. He's worth $36 billion ... give or take a few mil. (08/31/99)
Nothing Personal Simmons: No comment, sort of: By Amy Reiter
Exercise guru absolutely won't discuss his personal life -- unless you insist; Tammy and Jim's boy going Goth? India's giant sucking sound: Official blows it with Lewinsky remark. Plus: Kids would rather chill with an aardvark than with Clinton. (08/31/99)
Technology:
Song of Roland By David Futrelle
The Roland 303 bass synthesizer didn't inspire musicians at first -- but a software emulation of the techno sound now sings to many a fan. (08/31/99)
Log The 25-day bounce: By Mark Gimein
Why do new stocks often jump at exactly the same point after the initial public offering? (08/31/99)
Travel:
The carousels of Paris By Susan Hack
Long before Disneyland opened on its outskirts, the French capital gave children their own moveable feast. (08/31/99)
Monday, August 30, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"The Astronaut's Wife" By Charles Taylor
When you're dealing with Johnny Depp's demon spawn, who needs special effects to find childbirth scary? (08/30/99)
Sharps & Flats by Amanda Nowinski
DJ Krush reduces trip-hop to suggestive subtlety. (08/30/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, August 30, 1999. (08/30/99)
Log: Putting the sin back in cinema By Jeff Stark
Film buffs open the curtain on pre-code films -- Hollywood's last unexamined era. (08/30/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Misadventures in Marxism By Lawrence Osborne
How can well-meaning American academics continue their romance with Karl Marx? European scholars can only guess. (08/30/99)
Review "Days of Infamy: Great Military Blunders of the 20th Century" By Mark Schone
One of those mistakes was this book. (08/30/99)
Book Bag: Fiction, 9 to 5 By Ian McEwan
The author of "Black Dogs" and "Enduring Love" picks five favorite novels about work. (08/30/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
"I'm Sparky the Wonder Penguin, dammit!" (08/30/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl By Tracy Quan
Episode 15: Through the hooking glass: Nancy plays her part - but she can't decide what scene she's in. (08/30/99)
Ask Dr. Bob By Dr. Robert Burton, M.D.
Orgasms, cellulite and chronic fatigue: Who could ask for anything more? (08/30/99)
Letters:
Do criminals deserve prison rapes?
Plus: Funeral parlors, drugs and Dubya; faking depression. (08/30/99)
Mothers Who Think:
My Mother, the disaster By Laurel Touby
When my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, of course I came out to help. But I didn't expect her to seduce the doctor. (08/30/99)
News:
With conservatives like these, who needs liberals? By David Horowitz
By signing on to the war on Hollywood, the right has embraced another bad idea from the left. (08/30/99)
A question of faith By Michael Kress
Why religion-based social help, the pet issue of Al Gore and George W. Bush, may be the next president's first broken promise. (08/30/99)
Raising the stakes By Claudia Buck
California Democrats and Republicans unite to support a constitutional amendment allowing Indian tribes to run casinos. (08/30/99)
People:
The true adventures of a space buccaneer By Frank Houston
I think space will happen," Jim Benson says. "People will move off the planet." And when they do, he wants a piece of the action. (08/30/99)
Nothing Personal Is Captain RibMan dodging the coke question? By Amy Reiter
Suzanne Somers gets cartooned online; "Hard science" reveals missing link between Stephen Hawking and a whoopee cushion. Plus: Brad Pitt's deep thoughts on rape. (08/30/99)
Technology:
Click here to make me rich By Chip Rowe
Online merchants need customers, and they need 'em bad, so I'm letting them use my Web site -- for a cut, of course. (08/30/99)
Log Desperately seeking Silicon Valley studs: By Janelle Brown
Will the guys emerge from behind their monitors to meet potential mates when a matchmaker comes to town this fall? (08/30/99)
Travel:
Sacred places: England before the fall By Pico Iyer
A lifelong traveler reflects on his own piece of heaven. (08/28/99)
Weekend, August 28-29, 1999
Health & Body:
Teen transsexuals By Maria Russo
When do children have a right to decide their gender? (08/28/99)
News:
Delta team at Waco? By Jeff Stein
A former CIA official says Army commandos played a role in the deadly standoff. (08/28/99)
Texas judge rules against Bush By Robert Bryce
A motion to force Eliza May to give a deposition in the Texas "Formaldegate" matter was rejected. (08/28/99)
People:
News flash: You're a crackpot By Cary Tennis
To be in the news, try making some -- or at least what passes for it these days. (08/28/99)
Celebrity rehab in the new millennium By Steve Burgess
The famous will always fall from grace. A far more interesting topic: Whose reputation will be restored? (08/28/99)
Technology:
21st Challenge results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Take this job and post it! High-tech style help wanted ads for low-tech jobs. (08/28/99)
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 48: Strategic mergers -- Barry and Candy dine out in style. (08/28/99)
Travel:
Sacred places: England before the fall By Pico Iyer
A lifelong traveler reflects on his own piece of heaven. (08/28/99)
Friday, August 27, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The Muse By Stephanie Zacharek
Albert Brooks proves all too effective at playing a screenwriter who's lost the golden touch. (08/27/99)
"Dudley Do-Right" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Brendan Fraser does the sweet-but-stupid big lug shtick again -- and again, and again ... (08/27/99)
Sharps & Flats" By Jon Dolan
Teen queen Britney Spears invites you to hit her with your best shot. (08/27/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for the weekend, Aug. 27-29, 1999 (08/27/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Bone Wars By Juno Gregory
Are we not who we thought we were? A boy's 25,000-year-old remains call into question our very roots and kick up a nasty battle among scientists. (08/27/99)
Spiritual Chapter 11 By Michele Scarff
Novelist David Gates talks about his overeducated, self-tormenting characters, the genius of Dickens and the seductive pursuit of perfect taste. (08/27/99)
Review "Coal to Cream" By Casey Greenfield
An African-American writer discovers a raceless society in Brazil -- or so it seems at first. (08/27/99)
Log: Christopher Walken to star in musical version of "The Dead" By Craig Offman
James Joyce's short story is full of old Irish airs, but scholars are skeptical. (08/27/99)
Comics:
Dark Hotel
Drago's grandfather: "You must kill him within the next six months" (08/27/99)
Health & Body:
Sniff me hard, babe By Mary Roach
Do bottled sex pheromones work? (08/27/99)
Letters:
My response to Time magazine's slander By David Horowitz. (08/27/99)
Media:
Alt: Rag vs. rag By Jenn Shreve
Skeptic magazine should take a cue from its splashier, diametric opposite, Fate. Plus: Jerry Stahl on heroin -- again; yet another writer "discovers" eBay. (08/27/99)
Mothers Who Think:
My son, the junkie By Wendy Mnookin
I finally had to let him save, or kill, himself. (08/27/99)
Harvard and heroin By Seth Mnookin
I coasted to an Ivy League degree as a drug addict, but forever damaged the bond between mother and son. (08/27/99)
News:
Espionage without evidence By Jeff Stein
Is it racism, or realism, to look at Chinese-Americans when trying to figure out who's spying for China? (08/27/99)
The little old hell-raiser from Pasadena By Suzi Parker
Granny D, 89, is walking across the U.S. to push for campaign finance reform. (08/27/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Sam Houston, we have a problem: By Amy Reiter
Here we go again: NewsMax.com claims prez used the thinking man's Dristan; is Rowdy Rodham Clinton ready for the ring? Plus: Exclusive! Salon correspondent Tapper denies he's a Mossad agent. (08/27/99)
Francis Veber plays the interview game ... and wins! By Michael Sragow
The man who gave us "The Dinner Game" and "La Cage aux Folles" is just as entertaining as his films. (08/27/99)
Technology:
Jay Walker's patent mania By Mark Gimein
Is the Priceline.com founder a genuine inventor -- or an intellectual-property parasite? (08/27/99)
Log: Directions to our offices By By Bill Wasik
Prepare to abandon hope as you turn left at the second light. (08/27/99)
Travel:
The gift of touch on an Indian bus By Angela Collins
A lonely traveler is saved by the kindness of strangers. (08/27/99)
Thursday, August 26, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The art of survival By Michael Sragow
Oscar winners Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders salute America's Vietnam War POWs in the awe-inspiring "Return with Honor." (08/26/99)
Sharps & Flats By D. Strauss
Who dropped the Bomb? The "Contents Under Pressure" compilation oddly normalizes hip-hop's avant-garde. (08/26/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, August 26,1999. (08/26/99)
Books:
The Clinton marriage By Jake Tapper
At this point, we'll believe anything, but a trashy new bestseller still strains credibility. (08/26/99)
Review "Flowers in the Dustbin: the rise of rock and roll, 1947-1977" By Gavin McNett
Do we need another history of rock? If it's this good, yes. (08/26/99)
Log: Edward Said to respond to claims he's not a true Palestinian By Craig Offman
Middle East scholar is accused of misrepresenting his past. (08/26/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Clash of the titans! God-man vs. Doc Darwin! (08/26/99)
Health & Body:
Hepatitis highway By Geoff Edgers
Why is there hepatitis hysteria and a syphilis scare along I-95 in North Carolina? (08/26/99)
Urge: Lesbian blind date By Tracy Quan
Nancy calls upon a mismatched couple and can't decide which lie is the truth. (08/26/99)
Letters:
Evolutionary theory asks "how," not "if"; give Superchunk a chance; generous dad is being suckered (08/26/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Emotional Handicap By Diane Lore
What do you do when your normally sweet, loving child wholeheartedly rejects his suddenly disabled, wheelchair-bound grandmother? (08/26/99)
News:
David Horowitz By David Horowitz
My response to Time magazine's "slander" (08/26/99)
John McCain plays Dumbo By Jake Tapper
Guns and elephants are not the same, the presidential hopeful says. You got that right, Senator. (08/26/99)
The blame game By Susan Crabtree
Bush's people are putting the Steve Forbes campaign on the defensive in the drug-use controversy. (08/26/99)
People:
Nothing Personal The art of crime: By Amy Reiter
Galleries making a killing any way they can; Unabomber's new editor ethically impaired? Sporty Spice declares herself the Antichrist. Plus: New Dubya scandal! He once got his kicks from a "roaring afterburner." Yeow! (08/26/99)
Blow me down! It's the Rime of the Ancient Unabomber By Douglas Cruickshank
Move over, James Cameron -- Ted Kaczynski has a boat story to tell! Plus: What's that moose doing in my pool? The backstroke! (08/26/99)
Technology:
Is the Web "contracting"? By Scott Rosenberg
The numbers show a bigger slice for the top sites -- but most of the pie remains in the hands of the little guys. (08/26/99)
Log: Bare the wealth By Andrew Leonard
A Linux programmer builds a "wealth monitor" that tracks Red Hat's valuation and who's getting rich off free software. (08/26/99)
Travel:
Coast to coast on a C-note By Don D. Groff
Our travel expert offers advice on finding that $99 San Francisco-East Coast fare, walking about Down Under and landing a job on a cruise ship. (08/26/99)
Wednesday, August 25, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Let us now give "Thanks" some praise By Sarah Vowell
It's no Arthur Miller masterpiece, but TV's silly, subversive "Thanks" just might be "The Crucible's" sitcom equivalent. (08/25/99)
Sharps & Flats By Simon Rodberg
Utah Phillips tells Old West tales and hardscrabble anecdotes. But don't call him a folk singer. (08/25/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, August 25,1999. (08/25/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: The devolving of evolution By Chris Colin
The University of Kansas contemplates a creationist future. (08/25/99)
Ivory Tower: Smell what? By Jill Reyna
A former Smell This editor responds to accusations of reverse racism. Or at least foggy thinking. (08/25/99)
Ted and Ollie By Zick Rubin
A long-lost first draft of "Love Story" reveals that the inspiration for Oliver Barrett IV was one lonely guy with a mighty big manifesto. (08/25/99)
Review "Hitler's Niece" By Nan Goldberg
A novel based on historical fact tells the story of the teenager the Führer loved. (08/25/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Horsefeathers (08/25/99)
Health & Body:
To have and to kill By Stephen Michaud
Sexual serial killers aren't acting out random bursts of depression or anger; they are trying to fill an emptiness in their souls. (08/25/99)
Letters:
Roger Ebert agrees: Critics get a raw deal Plus: Debating disabled scholarship; don't let AT&T control our Internet! (08/25/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Is hell satisfied? By Polly Shulman
In keeping with their authors' dark histories, "The Iron Giant" and other children's tales by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath tell ominous fables about ambition, despair and people's disregard for nature and one another. (08/25/99)
News:
The blame game By Susan Crabtree
Bush's people are putting the Steve Forbes campaign on the defensive in the drug-use controversy. (08/25/99)
"A noble hypocrisy" By Dave Shiflett
Conservatives grapple with George W.'s drug-rumor woes. (08/24/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Bush up to his arse in allegations! By Amy Reiter
Sharp-toothed e-mail, killer bees and bags of worms. Will this hound hunt? (08/25/99)
Jesus Christ, personal friend of surfing By Cintra Wilson
They come from all over to France's Lacanau Pro '99. The board riders' brains seem blasted away by the overpowering waters and they exhibit the weird, gentle majesty of giraffes or monks. (08/25/99)
Technology:
Who all is inside Bill Gates head? By Janelle Brown
In "The Plot to Get Bill Gates," Gary Rivlin provides a much-needed outsider's view of the Baron of Redmond -- and the rogues of Silicon Valley. (08/25/99)
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 47: The contractor's contractor -- migrant labor on steroids (08/25/99)
Log: Can Sega buy success for the Dreamcast? By Janelle Brown
The $100 million marketing budget is burning a hole in the company's pocket. But will all the hype sell the new gaming console? (08/25/99)
Travel:
Book Bag: Writers we love: Tim Cahill By Don George
As adventurous stylistically as physically, this writer-explorer takes us places we've never dared to go. (08/25/99)
Log: Crash therapy By Chris Colin
A new study finds airplane accident survivors emotionally healthier than those who have never crashed. (08/25/99)
Tuesday, August 24, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The adventures of Sir Peter Ustinov By Daniel Mangin
The actor, novelist, playwright and director talks about what it was like to follow in Mark Twain's footsteps -- literally. (08/24/99)
Sharps & Flats By Wendy Mitchell
On "Stars Forever," British cult singer Momus offered fans personalized, one-of-a-kind songs -- for $1,000 apiece. (08/24/99)
Log: Let's see if they'll play this By Dave Cullen
Randy Newman, Paul McCartney and Counting Crows were stars at this year's Gavin convention in Boulder, Colo. That's OK for a conference, but bad news for fans of good radio. (08/24/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, August 24,1999. (08/24/99)
Books:
The not-so-sweet life By Jeff Weinstein
A diabetic restaurant critic reflects on the disease that taught him how a body can die. (08/24/99)
Dear Mr. Blue: If he really loved you ... By Garrison Keillor
My friends tell me I shouldn't let my boyfriend go to Alaska without me. Am I being naive by trusting him? (08/24/99)
Review "Edward Albee: A Singular Journey" By Steve Vineberg
The first biography of the man who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is politer than it needs to be. (08/24/99)
Log: Guide to literary agents may send hopeful authors astray By Craig Offman
A much-needed reference is rife with errors. (08/24/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
A devilish scheme. (08/24/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Reach out and touch yourself By Virginia Vitzthum
A phone-sex virgin creates her own private marathon. (08/24/99)
Log: Kicking the PCP habit By Dawn MacKeen
Will doctors someday be able to use antibodies to treat drug addicts? (08/24/99)
Letters:
Why must Marsalis suffer to be considered good?
Plus: A vote for Sega is a vote for Microsoft; comics creator Stan Lee's disputed legacy. (08/24/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Disney rocks! By Lisa Moskowitz
Forget the long lines, the schlocky toys and the canned music. Disneyland will always be the Magic Kingdom for this life-long Mouseketeer. (08/24/99)
News:
Class will tell By Joe Conason
The Bush cocaine controversy should encourage an overdue debate on why drug abuse among the rich is a "disease" while among the poor it is a "crime." (08/24/99)
Louder than words By Robert Bryce
The Texas governor, who refuses to answer questions about his own drug use, slashed drug rehabilitation programs for inmates while ushering in tougher sentencing laws. (08/24/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Randy Newman By Sean Elder
For decades, he has pulled us in two directions at once by expressing sentiments we don't want to hear in songs we never tire of hearing. (08/24/99)
Nothing Personal A vast left-wing conspiracy? By Amy Reiter
Will Dubya get ground up in the rumor mill? A "clumsy" remark by a senator may have given birth to a brand-new bouncing baby rumor. (08/24/99)
Technology:
Palestinian refugees get wired By Flore de Preneuf
What can the Internet bring to a culture that has been scattered across the world? (08/24/99)
Log: 11 million Net addicts? Come on! By Janelle Brown
Is there really anything to "Net addiction," or are complusive gamblers, shoppers and sex fiends just doing their thing online? (08/24/99)
Travel:
Retch-22: Laos in the time of cholera By Rolf Potts
The official analysis was "diarrhea, with vomiting." Right. (08/24/99)
Monday, August 23, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The color of money By Joyce Millman
Of course there are blacks on TV. You just have to pay to see them. (08/23/99)
Sharps & Flats By Andy Battaglia
"I Am the Greatest" captures the boastful rants of a young boxer caught between Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali. (08/23/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, August 23,1999. (08/23/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Make black the night By Tanya Shaffer
Was planning a march against violence against women an inherently racist undertaking? (08/23/99)
Book bag: What children know By Wendy Lesser
The editor of the Threepenny Review selects her five favorite novels about childhood. (08/23/99)
Review "The Boy on the Green Bicycle" By John Freeman
A writer remembers the horror of her brother's death when she was 9 -- and the pain and growth that came of it. (08/23/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Jesus doesn't need any sniveling whiners on his team! (08/23/99)
Health & Body:
Debunking depression By Robert Burton, M.D.
Many people who claim they are clinically depressed may only be disgruntled. (08/23/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl By Tracy Quan
Episode 13: Crossed love lines: Nancy's double standarad leads to double trouble. (08/23/99)
Letters:
Readers rage over Horowitz "racism";
a little TV won't kill your kids; will celibacy make you happier? (08/23/99)
Media:
Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
(08/23/99)
Mothers Who Think:
The dark side of Disney By Samuel G. Freedman
There's no escaping the commodification of childhood. (08/23/99)
News:
Rape as a disciplinary tactic By Christian Parenti
Prison guards often ignore inmate rape, and even encourage it to punish prisoners who step out of line. (08/23/99)
People:
Tell Laura I love her By Lorenzo W. Milam
Though the National Nag is snippish, overbearing and often insulting, some of us can't help but admire Schlessinger. Most of all we love her for her bubbles. (08/23/99)
Nothing Personal Going gets strange, strange get going: By Amy Reiter
Hottest sideshow on earth packing it in; one Fat Lady eulogized eggsactly the way she would have liked; is that a gun in your paw or the new NRA-sponsored Milkbone? (08/23/99)
Technology:
We have computers. Why aren't we more productive? By Cate T. Corcoran
Technology doesn't usually save companies time or money -- but in a competitive world, it often keeps them in business. (08/23/99)
Log: At least the Web doesn't waste paper By Janelle Brown
Gil Bates and Greta Garbage take tech novelty books too far. (08/23/99)
Weekend, August 21-22, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Phishers of men By Felix Vikhman
Young Jews by the thousands follow the Phish tour, looking for God in a haze of mushrooms and acid. A rock 'n' roll rabbi wants to lead them out of mammon into the land of milk and honey. (08/21/99)
Log: The Flaming Lips live (sort of) at Tramps By Seth Mnookin
The Oklahoma City trio left left their drum set at home for their New York concert. Luckily they had Sebadoh, Robyn Hitchcock, Cornelius and ICU to pick up the slack. (08/21/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Herpes nation By Susie Bright
Readers praise and blast me for saying the virus is no big deal. Let's clear up a few things. (08/21/99)
News:
Austin, we have a problem By Jake Tapper
What does his clumsy, evasive handling of rumors of cocaine use do to George W. Bush's much-heralded "electability"? (08/20/99)
People:
Rewind: Sam the Sham By Steve Burgess
The man who led the Pharaohs out of Memphis with one of the most enduring party classics in rock 'n' roll history was always the real deal. And still is. (08/21/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 46: Green tea and red ink -- Barry loses millions over breakfast. (08/21/99)
Travel:
The Brahmin of the Burning Ghats By Jeffrey Tayler
Lost in the fiery back alleys of Varanasi, a wanderer stumbles into an unforgettable encounter. (08/21/99)
Friday, August 20, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Teaching Mrs. Tingle" By Andrew O'Hehir
Kevin Williamson wrote "Scream," "Dawson's Creek" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer," but his first feature as a director should have stayed in his desk. (08/20/99)
"Mickey Blue Eyes" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hugh Grant's bumbling allure wears thin in a tired comedy of mob rule. (08/20/99)
"Head On" By Daniel Mangin
Using rough sex and rougher drugs to escape the marriage-mortgage trap. (08/20/99)
Sharps & Flats By Alex Pappademas
Kool Keith is an alien. Kool Keith is Elvis. But why isn't the rapper weird anymore? (08/20/99)
Log: Cuban revolution By Eric Boehlert
Ry Cooder on "Buena Vista Social Club": "This record has its own rules." (08/20/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Friday, August 20,1999. (08/20/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Extracurricular class By Simon Rodberg
A Yale student glimpses behind the ivy-covered myth that all students are equal. (08/20/99)
"To my executors" By Ken Kalfus
Witnessing the furor over posthumously published books by Ernest Hemingway and Ralph Ellison, a novelist engineers his own literary legacy. (08/20/99)
Review "Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings" By Saul Anton
In his essays on the topic, the author grimaces at the effects of 2,000 years of Judeo-Christian morality. (08/20/99)
Log: "Blair Witch Project" book P.I. may be real after all By Craig Offman
An apparently bogus private detective and his psychic friend are tracked down in Florida. (08/20/99)
Comics:
Dark Hotel
Drago returns to the Balkans on a mission of vengeance. (08/20/99)
Health & Body:
Plato not Prozac By Christina Valhouli
A new movement in America uses philosophy instead of Freud as a basis for therapy. (08/20/99)
Letters:
The problem with President "Bulworth";
even Alfred Hitchcock wasn't perfect; don't use children as an emotional crutch! (08/20/99)
Media:
Alt: Therapy is painless By Jenn Shreve
From Freud to divorce court: A therapist to meet your every need. Plus: Dan Savage vs. the Republicans; Elvis' "black satin-like" pajamas on the auction block. (08/20/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Wake up, Sleeping Beauty! By Margot Mifflin
Classic fairy tales get a feminist makeover for parents who don't like their princesses tricked out, locked up or comatose. But were the old ones really that bad? (08/20/99)
News:
Who is Eliza May? By Robert Bryce
Is the woman at the center of the Texas funeral home scandal a wronged government watchdog or a Democrat with a political agenda? (08/20/99)
The funeral scandal time line Compiled by Robert Bryce
A chronology of the battle between the Texas Funeral Service Commission and Security Corporation International. (08/20/99)
Feingold's new gimmick By Jake Tapper
In his never-ending quest for campaign finance reform, Russ Feingold has been calling out monied special interests before important Senate votes. (08/20/99)
People:
Julia Child: Still cookin' after all these years By Kathryn Kellinger
At 87, America's most famous and influential chef is about to serve up a new book and a new TV series, and again take us into her culinary embrace. (08/20/99)
Nothing Personal Everybody wants a piece of "The Body": By Amy Reiter
Nevada brothel to commemorate governor's visit; Brooke Shields' biological clock's a-rockin'; Stiller and Garofalo didn't do it -- really. Plus: Exciting results of Gore vs. Bradley cockroach race. (08/20/99)
Technology:
Six-packs, macaroni and software By Mark Gimein
Does stuff you like make for stocks you should hold? And why do companies offer "affinity groups" cheap stock when they go public? (08/20/99)
Log: Godhatesfags.com feels the love By Dave Cullen
The infamous anti-homosexual Web site is redirected to godlovesfags.com, and its new owner isn't returning the domain name any time soon. (08/20/99)
Travel:
Island life By Bill Noble
Six days on a Puget Sound island -- you can't help but learn to love. (08/20/99)
Thursday, August 19, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"It's about how much craziness you have to accept" By Michael Sragow
Director Paul Mazursky on Warren Beatty's relentless charm, Woody Allen's inferiority complex and Peter Sellers' maddening talent. (08/19/99)
Sharps & Flats By Dave McCoy
On "Come Pick Me Up" the once-great power-pop of Superchunk rots with its own complacency. (08/19/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, August 19, 1999. (08/19/99)
Books:
Counter-evolutionary By Mark Wallace
Baffled by the dumping of Darwin in the Sunflower State? Bone up on creationism and Kansas. (08/19/99)
Review "How the Body Prays" By Ruth Henrich
A beautiful novel examines the toll that pride takes on a Southern family. (08/19/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Clinically insane shopping! (08/19/99)
Health & Body:
My first biopsy By Eleanor Stacy Parker
Medical tests revealed a most insidious disease: Fear. (08/19/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl By Tracy Quan
Episode 12: Heard and not seen: She's a bad girl in the working world but too wholesome for her boyfriend. (08/19/99)
Log Hypothyroidism in pregnant women can affect baby's IQ: By Dawn MacKeen
Women should be screened for thyroid disease during the first trimester, says the author of a new study. (08/19/99)
Letters:
Keep lawyers out of my deep links!
Plus: My "incompletes" ate my life; philosophical support for the Second Amendment. (08/19/99)
Mothers Who Think:
There goes my baby By Stephen J. Lyons
Once, I thought my daughter would win the Nobel Prize. Now that she's started college, I just hope she keeps her phone, her power, her housing -- and remembers to wake up for class. (08/19/99)
News:
There's no place like home By Elsa Davidson
Three Albanian-Americans who fought for the KLA struggle to find their place after the war. (08/19/99)
Contempt charges sought against Bush By Robert Bryce
Did the Republican front-runner lie in his sworn affidavit? It all depends on what the meaning of a conversation is. (08/19/99)
People:
Rogues' Gallery: Tony: Portrait of a cereal killer By Douglas Cruickshank
When hot tubs are outlawed; what if God was a doper? Son of Sam killer not lookin' back; and the importance of knowing where your wallet is at all times. (08/19/99)
Nothing Personal Of plummeting pants and racing roaches: By Amy Reiter
Charlize Theron: "I drop trou all the time ..."; a couple of cockroaches named Gore and Bradley; Hef sez: Thumbs down on Nick Cage. Plus: Newt spares no expense on his horn-blowin' honey. (08/19/99)
Technology:
A PC in every pot By Janelle Brown
When we have free computers in every room, will alternative operating systems like Linux, Be and Amiga rule the world? (08/19/99)
Log Fear, marketing and Microsoft: By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Will software-piracy busts and the coming of a new millennium scare you into buying more software? (08/19/99)
Travel:
Can I go to Cuba without breaking the law? By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert offers advice on making your way to Cuba, lost traveler's checks, pricing a Disney/Universal Studios trip and finding that Florida healing center. (08/19/99)
Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Critics: Who needs 'em? By Charles Taylor
In a culture increasingly driven by hype, you do. (08/18/99)
Basketball diary By Robert Wilonsky
Showtime's sorry drama "The Hoop Life" and its young writer want to dramatize the sporting life, but on the court or off, reality is always far more interesting than fiction. (08/18/99)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
DJ Raymond Roker's bleak and claustrophobic "Altered States of Drum & Bass" crushes the warm beats of hip-hop and strangles the gasping voice of house. (08/18/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, August 18, 1999. (08/18/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Enabling disabled scholarship By Norah Vincent
A budding intellectual movement asks scholars to redefine normal. But who are these postmodern theories really helping? (08/18/99)
Uncle Sam wants you -- in the dark By Jeff Stein
The Navy is trying to sink an exposé of the phony "gay" scandal behind the explosion on the USS Iowa. (08/18/99)
Review "Disco Bloodbath" By Peter Kurth
Violent death doesn't get more FABULOUS than the murder of drug dealer Angel Melendez by party promoter Michael Alig. (08/18/99)
Log Shy dominatrix author considers a TV stand-in: By Craig Offman
Her publisher may hire an actress to flog her book of sex tips. (08/18/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Among the geeks at the comic-book convention. (08/18/99)
Health & Body:
Voyage into the great unflossed By Susan McCarthy
A dental-phobic writer takes a trip into the cavity we call the mouth. (08/18/99)
Letters:
Make men deal with birth control
Plus: race, music and Macy Gray; Lycos should run "Jews for Jesus" ads. (08/18/99)
Mothers Who Think:
First crush By Maurine Shores
When you're a girl, a grown man's attention can make a woman out of you. (08/18/99)
News:
The great Arkansas railway mystery By Suzi Parker
Twelve years ago, two teenagers were murdered on a rural railroad track. Right-wing conspiracy theorists who blamed then-Gov. Bill Clinton for the killings have now lost a $600,000 libel suit in the case. (08/18/99)
Hungary's gentleman bandit By Adam LeBor
In a country rife with corruption, a chivalrous, whiskey-drinking criminal has captured the popular imagination. (08/18/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Gulp! Deep Throat disclosure hard to swallow: By Amy Reiter
Limelight-lovin' 19-year-old uses anagrams to "unmask" mysterious Watergate source; Marilyn Quayle disses Dubya. Plus: Busted! "Dick" star's fans defend breast boasting. (08/18/99)
Technology:
More on "deep links," journalists and IPOs By Scott Rosenberg
Why you don't need lawyers to block links -- and hot reactions to the Chris Nolan story. (08/18/99)
Log Here comes the Media Mobile: By Janelle Brown
An old school bus outfitted with iMacs, wireless Net access, even a video studio, hits the road to teach kids about the media. (08/18/99)
Silicon Follies Chapter 45: By Thomas Scoville
The bad news -- WHIP gets whipped by pundits. (08/18/99)
Travel:
Book bag: Writers we love: Jan Morris By Don George
This Welsh writer creates masterful, idiosyncratic illuminations of the world. (08/18/99)
Tuesday, August 17, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Illuminata" By Andrew O'Hehir
In John Turturro's ambitious and arresting American tragicomedy, the actor-director invents himself an artistic tradition. (08/17/99)
Here comes a Nazarene...looks good in a magazine By Michelle Goldberg
On "Juxtapose," Tricky negotiates the tension between B-boy roots and raw, tender soul. (08/17/99)
Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
Wynton Marsalis was born with a silver trumpet in his mouth. Maybe that's why his jazz compositions are so stiffly academic. (08/17/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, August 17, 1999. (08/17/99)
Books:
Dear Mr. Blue: Secrets and lies By Garrison Keillor
I have a past life that would raise the hair on your neck. Do I have to tell my boyfriend? (08/17/99)
Crackpot authorities By Mark Wallace
From Wilhelm Reich to Julian Jaynes to H.W. Fowler, I sing of the brilliant, the ambitious and the just a bit mad. (08/17/99)
Review "Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst" By Daniel Mangin
A life of one of the great trash novelists argues that (clunky metaphors aside) it's time for a revival. (08/17/99)
Log Hate books still for sale on Web: By Craig Offman
Some smaller booksellers offer books banned in other nations. (08/17/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Must ... kill ... all ... breeders! (08/17/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Coming of age By Steve Burgess
A 40-year-old man masturbates for the first time. (08/17/99)
Letters:
Was it guns or racism that caused last week's shooting?
Plus: Mourning Times Square; Cintra's sour grapes. (08/17/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Take my TV! By Jacques Leslie
The American Academy of Pediatrics says children under 2 should not watch TV. Why would any parent disagree? (08/17/99)
News:
How much mourning is enough? By Dave Cullen
As Columbine High goes back to school, parents and students wrestle with how to remember while also trying to move on. (08/17/99)
How not to stifle a racist By Debra Dickerson
The California Supreme Court may have been well-meaning when it banned racial slurs in a hostile workplace, but in the process it damaged the Bill of Rights. (08/16/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Stan Lee By Frank Houston
The father of Spider-Man and the Silver Surfer invented the modern superhero, revived a dying industry and created a mythology. (08/17/99)
Nothing Personal In the eye of the Newt storm: Thar she blows! By Amy Reiter
Gingrich affair heating up D.C. Exactly when did it begin? Somebody say "blackmail"? Finally, some good news: Cher definitely not involved; and more good news: Experts say Prince Philip is not an idiot! (08/17/99)
Technology:
Fast track By Mark Gimein
Elon Musk is poised to become Silicon Valley's Next Big Thing. What put him in the driver's seat? (08/17/99)
Log Local regulators and the Net: By Mark Gimein
AT&T's battle against open access to its cable system is about Internet infrastructure. What if it were about Internet content? (08/17/99)
Travel:
The passenger from hell By Elliott Neal Hester
When a man goes berserk on board, what can a flight attendant do? (08/17/99)
Monday, August 16, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Theater in black and white By David Moberg
Two Chicago plays -- "Jitney" and "Spinning into Butter" -- tackle racial issues from opposite sides of the tracks. (08/16/99)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
Growing up all wrong: The anti-electronic anthems of Bis make hypocrites out of youngsters who should know better. (08/16/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, August 16, 1999. (08/16/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Who owns the clones? By Alex Salkever
A scientist sues the University of Hawaii for the rights to his research. (08/16/99)
Review "Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know" By Akash Kapur
A mixture of reportage and legal discussion adds up to an encylopedia of evil. (08/16/99)
Book Bag: Smart and sexy By Erica Jong
The author of "Fear of Flying" selects six novels for those who believe that the brain is the most important erogenous zone. (08/16/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
George W. Bush's cocaine blues. (08/16/99)
Health & Body:
Love those chips! By Liz Krieger
One woman's olestra saga can be a lesson for us all. (08/16/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 11 By Tracy Quan
Out, damned cuff link! When Milt called about an emergency visit, little did she suspect just how desperate he was. (08/16/99)
Letters:
George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is a lie
Plus: Tibetans don't deserve their oppression; is "sex ed" just a way of controlling teenagers? (08/16/99)
Mothers Who Think:
TV can be a good parent. By Ariel Gore
The American Academy of Pediatrics says television watching is harmful to babies and toddlers. This mama says: I don't think so. (08/16/99)
News:
They feed horses, don't they? By Jake Tapper
Bush and Forbes finished one-two in the Iowa straw poll, and why not? They paid for this circus, after all. (08/16/99)
Who owns the Columbine tragedy? By Dave Cullen
As reporters swarm on the first day of school, students will try to "take back" their high school and put the massacre behind them. (08/16/99)
Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do By David Horowitz
The NAACP's ludicrous idea to sue gun manufacturers is yet another attempt by the left to avoid personal responsibility for some indivduals' bad behavior. (08/16/99)
People:
Loren Coleman, Loch Ness snowman of cryptozoology By Steve Burgess
In the magical land where all things are possible, he's a god, who insists that his adopted field is not just a cataloging of myths. (08/16/99)
Nothing Personal Sizing up "Tattoo's" lost years: By Amy Reiter
Late "Fantasy Island" actor focus of tell-all profile; mama of Jagger's new nipper ignites flag furor in Brazil. Plus: Michelle Williams afflicted with new virus that causes celebrities to publicly praise their own breasts. (08/16/99)
Technology:
Can the Dreamcast save Sega? By Moira Muldoon
Sega wants to lift its gaming console marketshare out of the single digits. Will $100 million in ads and fresh leadership do the trick? (08/16/99)
Log The teeny-weeny Web server: By Jamais Cascio
It's the size of a match head and costs a buck, but can serve audio clips and thousands of Web pages. (08/16/99)
Weekend, August 14-15, 1999
Health & Body:
Urge: Giving it up By Lily Burana
The new cult of celibacy claims to offer an escape hatch for lovelorn, messed up women, but can not having sex really change the world we live in? (08/14/99)
Urge: Heavy petting By Lisa Tomer
For the born-again virgin, abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. (08/14/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Buford Furrow's worst nightmare By Joan Walsh
It's not just the Jews at the JCC who got to him -- it's the way they mix up the American melting pot. (08/14/99)
Wake up to Furrow's wake-up call By Mona Gable
When my son was young, we went to the JCC to learn Jewish songs, fingerpaint and be part of a community -- one that included Jews, Catholics and agnostics too. (08/14/99)
News:
Hollywood can wait By Anthony York
Americans are frustrated with the gridlocked two-party system. Is the answer Warren Beatty? (08/14/99)
"Nuke 'em. Nuke the bastards" By Anthony York
So said Bill Pullman in "Independence Day." But what would he say at the State of the Union? (08/14/99)
People:
Rewind: Cat Stevens By Amy Reiter
By the early '70s he was rich, famous, filling stadiums and partying like the pop star he'd become. But before the decade was over he walked away from it all. (08/14/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 44: Barry barbecues his board of directors (08/14/99)
21st Challenge No. 25: Take this job and post it! By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Tech-style "help wanted" ads for the rest of us. (08/14/99)
Travel:
Malaria dreams By Tanya Shaffer
I was invincible in Africa -- until the mosquitoes got me. (08/14/99)
Friday, August 13, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
All in the family By Michael Sragow
Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell recalls working with her father, Alfred, on "Strangers on a Train" and "Psycho." (08/13/99)
The savage id By Michael Sragow
Camille Paglia talks about why Hitchcock has more to do with Madonna than he does with pomo theorists. (08/13/99)
Master of imperfection By Steve Burgess
Hitchcock may have been a master of many things, but his goofy endings were like a dead cockroach found at the bottom of a near-perfect cinematic sundae. (08/13/99)
"Brokedown Palace" By Stephanie Zacharek
Claire Danes stars in her first -- and hopefully last -- women's prison flick. (08/13/99)
"Detroit Rock City" By Stephanie Zacharek
Shout it out loud: You'll be in sweet pain after a retro glimpse at four kids smoking through the '70s heyday of Kiss. (08/13/99)
Sharps & Flats By Amanda Nowinski
House music will never die: The hyped -- but worth it -- Basement Jaxx testifies. (08/13/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for the weekend, August 13-15, 1999. (08/13/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: My life ate my homework By Eric Umansky
Six years after that tremulous phone call, a guilt-ridden, longtime student confesses to his academic sins. (08/13/99)
Review "The Judge and the Historian" By Jonathan Groner
Denouncing a miscarriage of justice, a historian compares Italy's courts to the Inquisition's. (08/13/99)
Log Controversial Eisner bio finds home despite Disney: By Craig Offman
Was it an angry mouse that spiked Kim Masters' book on Michael Eisner, or was it just her first editor's hubris? (08/13/99)
Comics:
Dark Hotel
A crazy bastard with a machine pistol. (08/13/99)
Health & Body:
Living infomercial By Mary Roach
Our intrepid reporter checks out cannulas and after-surgery underwear, and sees a banana tattooed! (08/13/99)
Log Friday the 13th: By Jon Bowen
Should you stay in bed all day? (08/13/99)
Letters:
Are vaccines killing our kids?
Plus: "Hannibal" is just too gory; new economy, same old ethics. (08/13/99)
Media:
Names that live in infamy By David Brin
Killers want notoriety. Let's not give it to them. (08/13/99)
Alt: The malling of America By Jenn Shreve
Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces. (08/13/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Sleeping with children By Dulcie Leimbach
In the middle of the night, the smell, feel and touch of a small child soothes a restless mother. (08/13/99)
News:
The "big" one that got away By David Corn
Five years ago, I chased the story that Speaker Newt "Family Values" Gingrich was messing around with a young Capitol Hill staffer, but I just couldn't pin it down. Now the tabloids have "outed" him. (08/13/99)
The NRA's big guns By Jake Tapper
Meet the 10 biggest obstacles to gun reform legislation. (08/13/99)
Lunatic fringe By Samuel G. Freedman
Jews can't let crackpots like Buford Furrow convince them that anti-Semitism is rising in America. (08/13/99)
"He doesn't care if he dies" By Vivienne Walt
A former racist skinhead remembers spending Hitler's birthday with Buford Furrow. (08/13/99)
People:
The shocking Frederica Sagor Maas By Jenn Shreve
A 99-year-old former screenwriter remembers Joan Crawford as a gum-chewing tart and producer Irving Thalberg as a mama's boy. (08/13/99)
Nothing Personal Sharon Stone tells all and then some: By Amy Reiter
She's "very happy" with her breasts, not very happy with Steven Seagal; Pat Boone reveals his dark side; America wants to put Ryan Phillippe in tights. Plus: Sprockets! (08/13/99)
Rick Lazio: Is he or isn't he? And who the heck is he? By Keith Moore
He's the man who might have been the next senator from New York. If he were a candidate. If he could beat Hillary. If Rudy weren't around. (08/13/99)
Technology:
Inside the Red Hat IPO By C. Scott Ananian
A free software hacker gets in on the ground floor of the first Linux company public offering, but pays a price to do so. (08/13/99)
Log Cashing out: By Mark Gimein
Several Priceline executives sold millions of dollars worth of Priceline stock on Wednesday. Is anything wrong with that? (08/13/99)
Travel:
After Ed By Kiersten Aschauer
With some help from Bali, I learned how to let go again. (08/13/99)
Thursday, August 12, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Bowfinger" By Andrew O'Hehir
Martin and Murphy team up for a good-natured sendup of the mindless summer blockbuster -- and just barely avoid making one themselves. (08/12/99)
"Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember" By Charles Taylor
A warm documentary honors the Latin lover who was more than a pair of dark liquid eyes. (08/12/99)
Sharps & Flats By David Bowman
More than 25 years after country songwriter Gram Parsons died, Emmylou Harris still carries a torch for him. (08/12/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, August 12, 1999. (08/12/99)
Books:
My "Outlander" thing By Gavin McNett
How a brainy guy like me wound up reading historical romance novels and loving them. (08/12/99)
Review "Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sport" By Kate Sekules
Some things do change: In a new anthology, women jocks take up the pen. (08/12/99)
Log Stephen Hawking's ex-wife writes tell-all: By Craig Offman
Jane Hawking chronicles the misery of her marriage. (08/12/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Finally -- a practical movie-rating system! (08/12/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 10 By Tracy Quan
Thighs wide shut: Hillary Clinton fund-raiser leads to a close encounter with a client. (08/12/99)
Navel battle By Jon Bowen
Most bellybutton innies don't realize that outies feel like outcasts. (08/12/99)
Letters:
Limp Bizkit's rants would be acceptable if they were black;
getting it right on Goth; are you sheltering your children or setting them up? (08/12/99)
Media:
Logo wars By Gale Holland
For the 24/7 news channels drunk on tragedy, vivid labels are increasingly important. (08/12/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Furrow's people By Amy Benfer
At a compound in Idaho, Nazis explain that they're not about hate -- they just love their own kind. (08/12/99)
News:
Guns and money By Jake Tapper
The owner of the firm that made the assault rifle used in the L.A. shooting was, until recently, a key George W. Bush fund-raiser. (08/11/99)
"Christian Identity is for pantywaists" By Jeff Stein
Right-wingers debate Buford Furrow's goals and his organizational ties. (08/12/99)
No surrender By Vivienne Walt
The shooting rampage in a Los Angeles Jewish day-care center draws attention from around the world, but does little to soften the resolve of gun supporters. (08/12/99)
People:
Rogues' Gallery: Last roundup at the Mustang Ranch By Douglas Cruickshank
Bordellos R Us: In the Nevada desert, a new management style is coming to the world's oldest profession. (08/12/99)
Nothing Personal Aargh! Online celebrity surgery! By Amy Reiter
Maybe they're right about regulating the Internet: Carnie Wilson goes live with her gastric bypass; Claire Danes, urine the movies now. Plus: Look out, Hillary, look out, Rudy, here comes Grandpa Munster! (08/12/99)
Technology:
Red Hot By Andrew Leonard
The open source movement basks in the glow of a successful IPO for Red Hat, the first Linux company to go public. (08/12/99)
Don't link or I'll sue! By Scott Rosenberg
"Deep linking" lawsuits threaten everything that makes the Web work right. (08/12/99)
Log The burger machine: By Mark Gimein
Who needs Ronald McDonald when you can order two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun from a machine? (08/12/99)
Travel:
Rendezvous of the sun and the moon By Jeff Greenwald
Our eclipse correspondent witnesses ancient treasures and a modern miracle in Iran. (08/12/99)
Travel advisor: On location By Donald D. Groff
Our expert steers you toward those famous movie settings you've always wanted to see, plus offers the lowdown on travel insurance, accessibility information and that elusive Dutch B&B. (08/12/99)
Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Lights, cameo, action! By Sarah Vowell
Alfred Hitchcock's first rule of directing was to treat actors like cattle -- and even in his own cameos, he was no sacred cow. (08/11/99)
The last of the Lilith Fairs By Gavin McNett
Plenty of Chrissie, Sheryl, Sarah and Sandra -- but nary a female drummer. (08/11/99)
"The Thomas Crown Affair" By Charles Taylor
Glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex: This remake is a deluxe vacation for adults, frills included. (08/11/99)
Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
New York combo Hasidic New Wave illustrates the difference between klezmer and Jewish jazz. (08/11/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, August 11, 1999. (08/11/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Quantum vibe By Douglas Merrill
At Potsdam's string theory conference, Einstein's heirs try to tie up an explanation for gravity. (08/11/99)
Review "The Kind I'm Likely to Get" By Charles Taylor
Yet another collection of stories tackles downtown anomie, but this one has real feeling. (08/11/99)
Review "Walker Evans" By Andrew Long
A more critical eye could have taken this wonderfully researched life of the photographer to another level. (08/11/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Thank God Woodstock '99 wasn't Rapstock '99! (08/11/99)
Health & Body:
Brave new world? By Dawn MacKeen
Some researchers say we're on the cusp of a contraceptive revolution. Carl Djerassi, the father of the Pill, doesn't think so. (08/11/99)
Letters:
Al Gore is slumming again;
Mr. Blue chooses insensitivity over prudery; who says Barbie computers are for girls? (08/11/99)
Media:
Shark attack By Nikki Finke
ICM superagent Jim Wiatt defects to William Morris. Hollywood watches as all-out agency war looms. (08/11/99)
Mothers Who Think:
"All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy" By Katie Allison Granju
Online confession queen Spike Gillespie dishes on bad boys and reveals her true love -- her son. (08/11/99)
News:
America the armed By Harold Meyerson
Today anti-Semitism is virulent but rare, while guns are everywhere. (08/11/99)
"We do not know it was a hate crime" By Vivienne Walt
Suspect in L.A. shootings named, linked to white supremacist movement. (08/11/99)
Bill Bradley: The next black president? By Keith Moore
His campaign purports to make race a central issue, but so far it's more style than substance. (08/11/99)
Will Barak stop "ethnic cleansing" of East Jerusalem? By Ian Williams
The fight of a Jerusalem-born Palestinian scholar to keep his residency could prove a key test of the new Israeli government's commitment to peace. (08/11/99)
People:
God is dead. So is art... Show us your tits! By Cintra Wilson
Museums are supposed to be the last outposts of cultural experience, inspiring us to be less idiotic. Instead, they're sucking down to our lowest impulses. (08/11/99)
Nothing Personal If this boat's a-rockin'... By Amy Reiter
Jerry Hall and Paul Allen makin' waves in French waters? Oasis members get good and gobsmacked. The cut-ups at the K.C. Star take clowning too far. Plus: Money talks, "Bulworth" walks, Beatty for prez! (08/11/99)
Technology:
Artists do the rights thing By Janelle Brown
The Web gives bands like the Beastie Boys a place to market music and merchandise -- but only if they can hold onto their digital rights. (08/11/99)
Silicon Follies Chapter 43: By Thomas Scoville
Geek apocalypse: Four days to ship, and the bugs are everywhere. (08/11/99)
Log Wired's futurists, past and present: By Janelle Brown
The magazine issues its first CD -- a compilation of "Music Futurists." (08/11/99)
Travel:
Total eclipse By Jeff Greenwald
Encountering Iran on the cusp of change. (08/11/99)
Tuesday, August 10, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Porn-lite and bland biography By Joyce Millman
MTV can't get enough sex, while VH1 keeps strip-mining rock history. (08/10/99)
Log Aimeeable: By Stephanie Zacharek
In the midst of an ugly battle with her record label, Aimee Mann puts on a graceful show in New York. (08/10/99)
Sharps & Flats By Kandia Crazy Horse
I'm the lamest craze: Macy Gray is nothing but a new soul pretender. (08/10/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, August 10, 1999. (08/10/99)
Books:
You meet the nicest folks in porn theaters By Craig Seligman
Gay writer Samuel Delany mourns
the late, great and sweetly raunchy Times Square. (08/10/99)
Log Son of blotches and drips: By Craig Offman
Book jacket look-alikes (08/10/99)
Dear Mr. Blue: Wanted: Experienced Woman of 40 By Garrison Keillor
When you're 30 and can't get women your age to give you the time of day, it's time to open up the field. (08/10/99)
Review "A Certain Age" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
In her best work in years, Tama Janowitz shows she's been studying at the Wharton school. (08/10/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
My life as a freak, continued. (08/10/99)
Health & Body:
Lip service By Virginia Vitzthum
Is kissing the most intimate act or a coming attraction for sex? (08/10/99)
Letters:
David Horowitz can't blame all progressives for the SLA's crimes;
Salon's Zacharek is too old to rock; don't cry for Linda Tripp. (08/10/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Ketchup and convertibles By Karen Ackland
My stepdaughters insisted on camping with ketchup, Pepsi and showers. I'd rather be opening a bottle of white wine with the women in the red Mustang convertible. (08/10/99)
News:
Why won't Kenneth Starr release the Shaheen report? By Joe Conason
Imagine if the White House claimed it was exonerated by an investigation, but wouldn't release the results. (08/10/99)
Did Bush lie under oath in funeral home case? By Robert Bryce and Anthony York
An SCI attorney says the Texas governor talked to him about a state agency investigation, contradicting Bush's affidavit in the case. (08/10/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Fred Rogers By Joyce Millman
For three decades, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" has been an oasis of peace and calm, familiarity and safety in a kid-unfriendly world. (08/10/99)
Nothing Personal Dennis Rodman, auteur: By Amy Reiter
Ex-hoops star revealed to be creative visionary; Hugh Grant on scintillating secrets of celebrity nostril evacuation. Plus: We bid adieu to Tish, a great and noble fish, though a wee bit moody on occasion. (08/10/99)
Technology:
Software that writes software By Alexis Willihnganz
Genetic programming is the new frontier: A human creates the environment, and a computer hacks the code. (08/10/99)
Log Future imperfect: By Andrew Leonard
The Industry Standard sees a future filled with "culture-clash" stories from LinuxWorld. But things seem a little cloudy in its crystal ball. (08/10/99)
Travel:
Searching for Binh Hoa By Rolf Potts
Hoping to find an obscure Vietnam War killing field, our correspondent discovers that some lessons of history teach themselves. (08/10/99)
Weekend, August 7-9, 1999
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
At-risk youth, and other euphemisms. (08/07/99)
Health & Body:
Don't be sore By Susie Bright
The hysteria over herpes is way overblown. (08/07/99)
Media:
Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
(08/07/99)
News:
Gov. Death By Christopher Hitchens
George W. Bush has presided over an execution in Texas almost every two weeks since his election. Why isn't that a campaign issue? (08/07/99)
People:
Rewind: Jean-Luc Godard By Charles Taylor
The French New Wave filmmaker directed some of the most exciting, alive films ever made. Forty years later, they're still ahead of their time. (08/07/99)
Technology:
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 42: Bidding for a date with the CFO on the eBay of Love (08/07/99)
Travel:
China good? China bad? By Hank Hyena
Nothing is simple in Tibet. (08/07/99)
Friday, August 6, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Mystery Men" By Stephanie Zacharek
This droopy action comedy saps Hollywood's best comic actors of their superpowers. (08/06/99)
"The Sixth Sense" By Charles Taylor
A clumsy supernatural thriller searches -- and searches and searches -- for the soul of a little boy, but finds only the edge of exploitation. (08/06/99)
"The Iron Giant" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
The metal-machine sci-fi cartoon delivers robot action, retro nostalgia and stony metaphysics. (08/06/99)
Sharps & Flats By Alex Pappademas
µ-Ziq's forbidding electronic music paraphrases the cool minimalism of Philip Glass. (08/06/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for the weekend, August 6-9, 1999. (08/06/99)
Books:
Log Writer dogged by her jock past: By Maria Russo
Susan Perabo has a plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame -- but what's that got to do with her book? (08/06/99)
Ivory Tower: Sweating the big stuff By Tara Zahra
For anti-sweatshop campus agitators, post-'60s activism is trickier than bra-burning. (08/06/99)
Review "A Short History of Rudeness" By Greg Villepique
How can a writer investigate manners when his definition of manners includes everything we do? (08/06/99)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel
The accordions await! (08/06/99)
Health & Body:
Slather it on! By Debra Ollivier
Caviar facials leave you shiny and opalescent. (08/06/99)
House debates vaccine safety By Arthur Allen
Critics say mandatory inoculations may do more harm than good. But what about all the lives that have been saved? (08/06/99)
Letters:
Give the needy compassion, not preaching;
Methodists' tolerance doesn't extend to gay marriage; stop whining over Linux IPO! (08/06/99)
Media:
Log Yes, sir, that's my cannibal: By Nikki Finke
Things change: Universal now will film ultra-grisly "Hannibal." (08/06/99)
Alt: Nudity for all! By Jenn Shreve
Too hot? Lose the swimsuit, say several venerable publications. Plus: Reform Party madness, TV racial quotas and a ridiculous theory on recent violence. (08/06/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Counter spy By Maria Dolan
I waitressed in the restaurant of nothingness where the menu was a work of fiction. There was no Coke. There was no bleu cheese. There was no dinner salad and there never would be. (08/06/99)
News:
"He's going to have to hit a sitting jump shot" By Jake Tapper
Bob Kerrey talks about why -- against the odds -- he endorsed Bill Bradley for president. (08/06/99)
The thinker By Joshua Micah Marshall
Bill Bradley may have "big ideas," but as a notoriously cautious senator he sat out the big political fights. (08/06/99)
Pulling a Clinton? By Robert Bryce
George W. Bush is locked in a legal battle to keep him off the witness stand in a growing influence-peddling scandal. (08/06/99)
People:
Portraits By Steve McCurry
A new photography book offers more than 500 compelling images of human faces taken throughout the world during two decades. (08/06/99)
Nothing Personal Camilla to Charles: "Oh, behave!" By Amy Reiter
The prince and Parker Bowles will, ahem, "vacation" together; John Wayne Bobbitt loses it -- again! Plus: Did Robin Hood and King Edward II have a thang goin' on? (08/06/99)
Technology:
New ethics for the new economy? By Janelle Brown
Technology journalists aren't supposed to own stock in the companies they cover. But to participate in the high-flying tech sector, some are writing a new definition of "conflict of interest."(08/06/99)
Log Dissecting the Barbie debate: By Janelle Brown
Why did my criticism of John Dvorak's iBook critique incite a media firestorm? (08/06/99)
Travel:
Seduced in Bologna By Tom Di Egidio
Like the Bolognese towers in the background, we inclined toward each other for two and a half blissful days. (08/06/99)
Thursday, August 5, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Iron without irony By Michael Sragow
With "The Iron Giant," cartoon whiz Brad Bird brings an elegiac Ted Hughes fable to life -- and he's not embarrassed about making you cry. (08/05/99)
The sounds of science By Andy Battaglia
British electronic musician Scanner's illicit phone taps examine the technology of communication and the vanishing border between public and private space. (08/05/99)
Log The 90 best reasons to read Spin: By Gavin McNett
The music magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s" list posits a canon of vanguardist populism. (08/05/99)
Sharps & Flats By Jon Dolan
Why Limp Bizkit's idiotic rap-metal represents a cresting wave of alt-rock conservatism.(08/05/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, August 5, 1999. (08/05/99)
Books:
Wild children By Charles Taylor
Gloomy, morbid, doomed and glorious, Goth kids frighten adults, but they're part of a grand -- and essential -- tradition of outsider audacity. (08/05/99)
Log By Craig Offman
Fancy book design has "Toyer" author fuming: The 12 different covers for Gardner McKay's first novel wowed design award judges, but he hates them. (08/05/99)
Review "Magnificent Corpses" By Frank Browning
A guide to saints' relics in Europe should satisfy the most grisly-minded readers. (08/05/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Generation ape! (08/05/99)
Health & Body:
Mental medicine By Michael Alvear
Prescriptions and divorces are granted freely, but there are taboos against both. (08/05/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl By Tracy Quan
Allison's addiction: A forlorn working girl tries to break the habit. (08/05/99)
Letters:
Defending one of California's "blood brothers";
Conason got it wrong; stop demonizing the Backstreet Boys. (08/05/99)
Mothers Who Think:
A cold-blooded killing in the neighborhood By Heather Donovan
My children believe in tooth fairies. Do I have to tell them about the murder across the street? (08/05/99)
News:
Fanatics of the far right By Jake Tapper
Ex-GOP Sen. Bob Smith is thinking about joining the U.S. Taxpayers Party. He should think again. (08/05/99)
Bedlam by the Bay By Anthony York
S.F. Mayor Willie Brown has a 30-percent approval rating. But can anyone knock him out of office? (08/05/99)
People:
Rogues' Gallery: NataS er'uoy siht daer nac uoy fI By Douglas Cruickshank
"Mexican Madonna" on the run from sex charges; did singer include secret satanic messages on her records? And how do you play a CD backward? (08/05/99)
Nothing Personal Mary Poppins Spice? By Amy Reiter
Sadistic Geri Halliwell threatens world with "nanny" role; researchers find CK cologne more romantic than rat droppings. Plus: Robin Leach's lifestyles of the naked and chocolate-covered. (08/05/99)
Technology:
Life or death software By Andrew Leonard
A proposal for open-source anesthesia software heightens the drama of the question: Who's at fault when software fails? (08/05/99)
Log Why won't Amazon help you compare prices? By Mark Gimein
Amazon could tell you the lowest price for anything you want to buy on the Web, but it doesn't. (08/05/99)
Travel:
Expatriate, with olives By Lucy McCauley
In a Spanish grove, I found an ancient grace. (08/05/99)
Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Dick" By Stephanie Zacharek
A flinty little comedy gives the Nixon years another turn. (08/04/99)
Log Even more "Tales of the City": By Stacey Kors
Armistead Maupin and the San Francisco Opera imagine toking transsexual Anna Madrigal as a mezzo-soprano. (08/04/99)
Sharps & Flats By Jon Dolan
"Freedom Blues" presents the tunes of South African jazz artists under apartheid -- and they sound a lot like John Coltrane. (08/04/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, August 4, 1999. (08/04/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: Biofunk By Virginia Eubanks
Are we becoming post-human or simply more in love with machines? (08/04/99)
Log By Craig Offman
Canadian agent riles stodgy Torontonians. (08/04/99)
Review "My Father, Dancing" By Adam Kirsch
A debut collection of stories about fathers and daughters proves the author sovereign over a very small terrain. (08/04/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
A boy named sushi. (08/04/99)
Health & Body:
Sisters of seizure By Michael Alvear
Beliefs fly out the window when crisis walks in the door. (08/04/99)
Letters:
Apple knows what girls (and grown-ups) want;
pity poor famous Margaret Cho; does Giuliani have anything to talk about besides carpetbagging? (08/04/99)
Media:
Old dog, new tricks By Sean Elder
Tina Brown's first Talk hits the stands. (08/03/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Take me to a hospital! By Susan Gerhard
What possessed me to think there was something appealing about cleaning up after the birth of my own child? (08/04/99)
News:
"I'm not peaking too early" By Jake Tapper
Al Gore takes on his critics and the substance-averse media, who've savaged the vice president for all the wrong things. (08/04/99)
Chaos in Kosovo By Laura Rozen
Kosovar gangs pick up where the Serbs left off. (08/04/99)
People:
The surfing rabbi By Denise Dowling
Nachum Shifren says shooting the curl kosher-style helps Jews focus on the sea's spiritual power and reminds them, "Being religious is cool!" (08/04/99)
Nothing Personal Hyperbole is hell: By Amy Reiter
Talkin' trash about Talk; Chris Rock & Tyson cry the blues in the bosom of fame; did Bernstein's son cough up Deep Throat's identity? Plus: Gotti on Clinton. (08/04/99)
Technology:
The yuks server By Mark Gimein
Laff.net has crafted, copied and stolen 50,000 jokes. Soon it will unleash them on you. (08/04/99)
Log Will a Barbie computer make math easy? By Janelle Brown
Mattel is making a pink Barbie computer and a blue Hot Wheels computer, but why is it choosing such different software for each? (08/04/99)
Silicon Follies Chapter 41: By Thomas Scoville
IPO -- where'd Paul's office go? (08/04/99)
Travel:
Celebrating the Grand Canyon By Don George
A new anthology helps a visitor appreciate the vast complexities of one of earth's most spectacular sights. (08/04/99)
Tuesday, August 3, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Guided by vices By Dawn Eden
Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard on schizoid writing, pre-show drinking and the search for the perfect pop song. (08/03/99)
Wolves in sheep's clothing By Philip Booth
On "This Time," the members of Los Lobos traded their berets and goatees for guitar wail and pop hooks. (08/03/99)
Sharps & Flats By Joe Heim
Wigga wit attitude: Why white hip-hopper G. Love needs to ditch his "Amos 'n' Andy" routine. (08/03/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, August 3, 1999. (08/03/99)
Books:
Shelve it under unfiction By Andrea Siegel
Requests for books on send, R and taxidermy were the easy questions during my first month at a bookstore info desk. (08/03/99)
Dear Mr. Blue: Porn widow By Garrison Keillor
My husband says his four-hour-a-night, $200-a-month porn habit isn't affecting our marriage. I beg to differ. (08/03/99)
Review "The Big Con" By Steve McQuiddy
Six decades after its original publication, an investigation of larceny stakes its claim as an American classic. (08/03/99)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
No good deed goes unpunished. (08/03/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Feel his guns? By Michael Easterbrook
Have straight guys finally transcended their queer fear, or is their flirtation just another version of homophobia? (08/03/99)
Log Soothing songs: By Jon Bowen
New research shows music may be as good as morphine. (08/03/99)
Letters:
Ishmael Reed responds to "Passing in Reverse";
trashing the Kennedys; Woodstock then and now (08/03/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Give me drugs! By Nina Shapiro
What's so feminist about a painful childbirth? (08/03/99)
News:
Atlanta's burning By Mike Alvear
The city too busy to hate has found plenty of time for violence lately, and nobody knows why. (08/03/99)
East is not always east By William Wong
The effort to urge Japan to pay reparations to China for World War II atrocities has divided the nation's Asian-American communities. (08/03/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Aretha Franklin By Al Young
A poet and novelist who knew the Queen of Soul as a
teenager looks back at the forces and influences that shaped one of the world's greatest singers. (08/03/99)
Respect: Aretha Franklin, 1967 By Al Young
The Queen on the radio and a taxi driver's volcanic rant bring a whole new meaning to human connectedness and mutual R-E-S-P-E-C-T. (08/03/99)
Nothing Personal Superhero too sexy for his tights! By Amy Reiter
Kapow! Schwing! Boy Wonder was busting out all over; Goldie Hawn sheds mental debris in small room; Brazilian star insures her caboose. Plus: Report warns of heavy snowfall on Dr. Laura's shoulders! (08/03/99)
Technology:
For your information By Christopher Ott
The Web has long been loaded with data, but nothing this helpful. Info markets promise specialized answers to your every question. (08/03/99)
Log Loyalty matters: By Kaitlin Quistgaard
A new portal site hopes to entice members by offering free stock for frequent visits. (08/03/99)
Travel:
When fists flew on the San Juan Special By Elliott Neal Hester
Only the strongest flight attendants survived this legendary New York-Puerto Rico flight. (08/03/99)
Monday, August 2, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
I'm so bored with the USA By Stephanie Zacharek
Why do American music magazines have to suck? (08/02/99)
Sharps & Flats By Geoff Edgers
Garage days revisited: Two reissues re-introduce the trashy sounds and perverted pop of the Flamin' Groovies. (08/02/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, August 2, 1999. (08/02/99)
Books:
Ivory Tower: When things fall apart By Hank Hyena
Last month's brutal massacre was just another crime by Nigeria's most feared criminal organizations, student cults. But just who these cultists are is a matter of some dispute. (08/02/99)
Book Bag: "This is it!" By Penelope Fitzgerald
The author of "The Blue Flower" picks five novels that rocked her world. (08/02/99)
Log Blair Witch book has mysterious past: By Craig Offman
A private detective and an author prove as hard to find as Heather Donahue (08/02/99)
Review "Italian Fever" By Stephanie Zacharek
In the land of Bernini and amore, an unassuming New Yorker discovers herself. (08/02/99)
Comics:
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Musical memories from a decade of tragedy and suffering! (08/02/99)
Health & Body:
Long and short of it By Michael Easterbrook
The search for the "inner penis" can involve botched surgery, dangling weights and pain. (08/02/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl By Tracy Quan
Episode 7: New business? A call from a mysterious stranger drives her straight to Allison's secret book. (08/02/99)
Letters:
If you're breast-feeding in public, you are an exhibit;
in defense of the easy, three-hour run. (08/02/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Cut me open! By Jean Hanff Korelitz
I just had my second scheduled Caesarean and, yes, I still consider myself a feminist. (08/02/99)
News:
From red-line to renaissance By Keith Moore
Things are looking up in Harlem, but some poor black families are being driven out by the neighborhood renewal. (08/02/99)
Mercy for a terrorist? By David Horowitz
Being a radical means never having to say you're sorry for violent crimes against innocent people yesteryear. (08/02/99)
People:
What's Your Story? John Lopez, body piercer: By Jenn Shreve
He pierces everything from tongues to nipples to, well, everything, but it's most fun when it's done with meaning. (08/02/99)
Technology:
The $4 billion warehouse By Mark Gimein
Silicon Valley bids up dreams of grandeur, knowing it can sell them to the public. (08/02/99)
Log Can a petition silence China's MP3 pirates? By Janelle Brown
More music is pirated than paid for in China, says an upstart music label. It's asking listeners to pledge allegiance to artists. (08/02/99)
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)
Nothing Personal: The high whine of top models By Amy Reiter
It ain't so pretty bein' beautiful; Cruise shows mom his Clockwork Orgy; key to men's minds: the Three Stooges. Plus: eBay says online hooking violates user agreement. (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)
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