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Tuesday, February 29, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Inside out By Andy Battaglia
Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan talks about his downtown jazz, boho marriage and stately new record. (02/29/00)
The pink scare By Michael Zilberman
Slightly neurotic Russian superstar Zemfira is Elvis, the Sex Pistols and Courtney Love rolled into one. (02/29/00)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
Air's "Virgin Suicides" soundtrack sparkles with the sublimated passion of teenage occultism. (02/29/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Feb. 29, 2000 (02/29/00)
Books:
Strangers on a train By Garrison Keillor
We met in Scotland and fell in love. He never told me he lived with his mother. (02/28/2000)(02/29/00)
Bridget Jones at 80 By Lucinda Rosenfeld
Calorie counting and man chasing in the golden years. (02/29/00)
Born to rape? By Margaret Wertheim
All men are potential sex criminals, say two evolutionary psychology proponents in a controversial new book. (02/29/00)
"Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" by Helen Fielding By Maria Russo
She's back, she's got her weight down, she's got Mark Darcy and she's in a Thai jail on drug charges. (02/29/00)
Comics:
Carol Lay He didn't want to appear uncool,
so he lied
(02/29/00)
Health & Body:
I like 'em short By Julie Manis
What short men lack in height, they make up for in might. (02/29/00)
Penis gourds: The rebel uniform By Hank Hyena
Indonesia's government sees the garb worn by Dani tribesmen as backward and an act of defiance. (02/29/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Are impoverished children doomed? Plus: John Stossel's journalistic integrity; having a gas with flatulism story. (02/29/00)
Media:
Election-free TV By Sean Elder
The Big 3 networks are giving the candidates about 30 seconds of air time an evening. Hell, most ads are longer than that. (02/29/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Stealth merchandising By Shoshana Marchand
Why is the venerable Scholastic book club company peddling cheesy toys in classrooms? (02/29/00)
Babes in Willy Loman-land By Bob Whitby
Why does my kid have to sell stuff door-to-door for her school? (02/29/00)
Hooked on tutoring By Catherine Davis
After-school programs bleed Mom and Dad while dissing Junior's teachers. (02/29/00)
News:
Taking on the untouchables By Joe Conason
John McCain's decision to attack the leaders of the religious right is refreshing because Republican leaders have too long been cowed into submission by these bigots. (02/29/00)
Allah's pulpit thumper By Ted Kleine
Louis Farrakhan makes a bid to unify Islam in America -- and to be its No. 1 evangelist. (02/29/00)
Willful misbehavior or tragic accident? By Daryl Lindsey
The Justice Department would have a tough time proving police deprived Diallo of his civil rights when they shot him, one expert says. (02/29/00)
Politics 2000:
Bill Bradley takes his final shot By Jake Tapper
The Democratic challenger tries to conquer the media's indifference in
Washington state. (02/29/2000)
McCain blasts Reagan's coalition By Max Garrone
McCain puts Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton in the same camp, falls behind in the polls and skips a California debate, while Bradley limps to the finish line. (02/29/2000)
People:
Janet Malcolm By Craig Seligman
In her relentless pursuit of the truth she's left a few bodies in her wake, but isn't that part of a journalist's job? (02/29/00)
Almost true By Amy Reiter
Gershon, Wahlberg and Manheim act through their teeth; Hasselhoff in hasselhuff over character's exit. Plus: Like father, like pet. Rottweiler Anderson-Lee faces assault charges. (02/29/00)
Technology:
It hurts so bad By Jennifer Sullivan
Like other victims of repetitive stress injury, I was in agony while typing, but still I tapped out posts to an e-mail list of fellow miracle cure-seekers. (02/29/00)
A bad bet By Janelle Brown
Jay Cohen was too smart to set up his online gambling business in the United States, but that didn't keep the feds from nailing him. (02/29/00)
Travel & Food:
Thank you! By Elliott Neal Hester
A grateful, if trembling, reader writes: Flight attendants, they're worth their wings. (02/29/00)
Michelin shakes the stars By David Downie
The just-released edition of the legendary Red Guide destroys a cherished culinary myth. (02/29/00)
Vienna store seeks nude customers By J.A. Getzlaff
This enterprising clothing outlet offers new duds to the brave and bare. (02/29/00)
Monday, February 28, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
All in la familia! By Andrés Martínez
A week in the life of "La Vida en el Espejo," one of the hottest prime-time telenovelas. (02/28/00)
"La Vida" loca By Andrés Martínez
The modern Mexican telenovela is an oversexed stew of giddy promiscuity, weird couplings, substance abuse and repressed homosexuality. Let's watch! (02/28/00)
Sharps & Flats By Christopher Binkley
Smashing fey rockers with one hand, punching complacency with the other, Henry Rollins robotically returns to rock 'n' roll. (02/28/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, Feb. 28, 2000 (02/28/00)
Books:
Childproofing By Roz Chast
The New Yorker cartoonist picks five books you'd better hide from the kids. (02/28/00)
Slaves to science By William Speed Weed
For post-docs, finding a supernova is easier than finding a job. (02/28/00)
"The Dress Lodger" by Sheri Holman By Marion Lignana Rosenberg
A lurid and literary novel offers a tale of prostitution, cholera and body snatching in 19th century England. (02/28/00)
Comics:
Tom Tomorrow Campaign 2000:
Candidates take the high road
(02/28/00)
Health & Body:
Are we asking the right questions about hormones? By Robert Burton, M.D.
Medical research depends on knowing what you're looking for. (02/28/00)
Is there a connection between AIDS and circumcision? By Hank Hyena
Researchers claim decade-old evidence has been ignored. (02/28/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Gender is located between the ears, not the legs Plus: I'll be Trey Parker's Oscar date! "Al Gore-leone" is tasteless. (02/28/00)
Media:
Prime-time propagandist By David Mastio
Is ABC's John Stossel a reporter or a right-wing apparatchik? (02/25/00)
Mothers Who Think:
The family for sale By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
We take a week to examine the ravenous commercial forces that prey on us each day. (02/28/00)
What kind of mother are you? By Lisa Moskowitz
Marketing mavens dissect moms for eager advertisers. (02/28/00)
Shrinks and con men By Arthur Allen
The unholy alliance that targets kiddie consumers. (02/28/00)
News:
The Elián González of the Himalayas By Carole Zimmer
The 14-year-old Karmapa faces Chinese vengeance, accusations of espionage and the political intrigues of Tibetan Buddhism. (02/28/00)
Politics 2000:
Two for the price of one By David Horowitz
Republicans should rejoice over this spring's exciting primary race because either candidate is a winner. (02/28/00)
Bush dumps Bob Jones, accuses McCain of sleaze By Max Garrone
Bush "regrets" Bob Jones, his campaign manager slams McCain as sleazy; Giuliani plays footsie with McCain; Ventura says yes and maybe to being McCain's V.P. (02/28/2000)
People:
Thanks, Metatron! By Amy Reiter
Carlos Santana gives credit where it's probably not due; stepchild from hell? Hey! That's Shaun Cassidy you're talking about, mister! Plus: Barry White holds a really long grudge. (02/28/00)
"Main Event" By Stephen Lemons
A retrospective of Howard Bingham's photography recalls the Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle." (02/28/00)
Technology:
Where in the world? By Mark Compton
You can't push an ad for Viagra in Singapore, where it's illegal. But Digital Island CEO Ruann Ernst can spare you -- showing where users are located when they log in. (02/28/00)
Do they know where you live? By Damien Cave
ICraveTV wants to build geographic "borders" online so it can stream live TV to specific markets -- but would regional divisions be acceptable for a World Wide Web? (02/28/00)
Travel & Food:
Digging up Genghis Khan By J.A. Getzlaff
Chicago lawyer heads quest for the Mongolian warlord. (02/28/00)
Weekend, February 26-27, 2000
Health & Body:
Urge: Future sex By Stephen Lemons
For proud owners of a $5,000 Realdoll,
she's always ready when you're ready. But it takes a special kind of man to
get ready
for a hunk of silicone with three holes. (02/26/00)
News:
The beating goes on By Jill Nelson
Just another acquittal of police officers who
killed a black man. I'm angry, but I'm not surprised. (02/26/00)
How will acquittal play in Giuliani-Clinton Senate race? By Jesse
Drucker
"Let's move
this out of politics," the mayor says. Fat chance, when his opponent's
husband gets to decide whether federal civil rights laws apply. (02/26/00)
Brutal verdict By Bruce
Shapiro
Behind the acquittal of four officers is a clear
indictment of standard police procedure in Giuliani's New York. (02/26/00)
Politics 2000:
Ready to play? By Daniel
Kurtzman
Join our two leading men, Dubya and Al, as
they vie for the honor of winning the highest job in the land. (02/26/00)
The good, the bad and the Dubya By Alicia Montgomery
In front of a group of potential
voters on AOL's stage, Bush is a happy moderate; but standing before
reporters he's transformed into an angry attack dog. (02/26/00)
Primary suspect By Anthony York
Legislation promoted by Secretary of State Bill
Jones may keep John McCain from winning the California primary. So why is
Jones endorsing him? (02/26/00)
People:
Nothing Personal Weekend: Sleazy like a Fox By Amy Reiter
"American Beauty"
star laughs her way through on-screen sex; Jenny "I'm a little hottie!"
McCarthy rocks Kirk Douglas' lap. Plus: If there's one thing
multimillionaire groom Rockwell needs now, it's a motivational speech. (02/26/00)
Technology:
21st Challenge No. 31 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Shall I compare thee to a transistor?
Shakespearean odes to technology. (02/26/00)
Travel:
Extravagant abandon By Don George
Helmut Teissl's photographs capture the
sensual heart of Rio's Carnival. (02/26/00)
Friday, February 25, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
"Judy Berlin" By Charles Taylor
First-time writer-director Eric Mendelsohn offers an unfashionably affectionate look at suburban angst. Edie Falco -- from "the Sopranos" -- stars. (02/25/00)
"Reindeer Games" By Charles Taylor
Ben Affleck provides a charismatic star turn, but John Frankenheimer's out-of-season heist thriller is dead on arrival. (02/25/00)
"Wonder Boys" By Andrew O'Hehir
Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire clash, connect and get baked in Curtis Hanson's literate upscale entertainment. (02/25/00)
Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
"Guarapero: Lost Blues 2" collects Will Oldham's stream-of-consciousness rants and odd tales of sexual dysfunction. (02/25/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Weekend, Feb. 25-27, 2000 (02/25/00)
Books:
Burroughs' last tape By Gary Kamiya
The final journals of Beat legend William S. Burroughs reveal the kinder, gentler last days of an "evil old man." (02/25/00)
Call the next witness By Jacqueline Carey
Our mystery columnist puts three legal thrillers on trial. (02/25/00)
Fox announces replacement for troubled show By Anthony Lappé
Next up will be "Who Wants
to Marry a Staggering Genius?" (02/25/00)
"A Trip to the Stars" by Nicholas Christopher By Polly Morrice
A kidnapped little boy, his lost aunt and a fantasy about people finding themselves in the days of flower power. (02/25/00)
Comics:
Dark Hotel Hollywood swoons over candidate Drago
(02/25/00)
Health & Body:
How to feel better about falling apart By Mary Roach
Here's how I cope with my disgusting, sagging middle-aged body. (02/25/00)
Leave me alone, AARP By Christopher Scanlan
Just because I turned 50 doesn't mean I want to retire. (02/25/00)
Feminist director forced to stop filming in holy city By Hank Hyena
Hindus burn effigies of Deepa Mehta to protest her film about India's child widows. (02/25/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Frat boys aren't stupid Plus: Zoetrope zingers par for the course; keep your name, change your religion, but don't blame the Catholic Church. (02/25/00)
Media:
Prime-time propagandist By David Mastio
Is ABC's John Stossel a reporter or a right-wing apparatchik? (02/25/00)
Mothers Who Think:
A ghetto mom talks back By Caroline Ruhle
The New York Times says inner-city youth need "middle-class" parenting. But it's poverty, not bad child-rearing, that holds poor kids back. (02/25/00)
The swimsuit issue is here! By Lee Quarnstrom
Wimpy, artsy, dishonest porn delivered to your door -- now in 3D! (02/25/00)
News:
Playing politics with death By Jim Sleeper
Protesting the police killing of Amadou Diallo is no way to organize a movement for social justice. (02/25/00)
Politics 2000:
Primary tip sheet By Anthony York
Here's how to handicap the runners in the coming month of Republican contests. (02/25/00)
Gore embraces hip-hop By Max Garrone
Gore gains a key hip-hop endorsement, McCain opens his coalition to pornographers and Republicans fight over who's more like Reagan. (02/25/00)
People:
Get motivated! By Amy Reiter
If there's one thing multimillionaire groom Rick Rockwell needs now, it's a motivational speech. Plus! Al Franken whisked offstage by a guy in a pirate suit. Yargh matey! (02/25/00)
eFaust eFoiled By Stephen Lemons
The real reason you can't sell your soul on eBay: There's just no way to prove you can make good to the winning bidder. (02/25/00)
Technology:
You said what?! By Janelle Brown
ENow wants to track every word you type in a chat room and peruse the results to divine the "global collective consciousness." (02/25/00)
Show and tell By Janelle Brown
A filmmaker relives the hysterics of high school in a serialized short film she's screening online. (02/25/00)
Travel & Food:
Throw another stereotype on the barbie By Christine Kenneally
An Aussie in New York wonders what it means when Mum's Sunday standby becomes Gotham's hot cuisine. (02/25/00)
Iraq and the U.N. duke it out over pencils By J.A. Getzlaff
Officials decide the recently donated writing implements don't violate sanctions. (02/25/00)
Seductive seafood By Michele Back
Spicy, tangy and oozing, cebiche makes a great aphrodisiac. At least that's what Jorge whispered to me, across the table from my parents. (02/25/00)
Thursday, February 24, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
A wizard of Hollywood By Michael Sragow
Steve Kloves, screenwriter for Curtis Hanson's new "Wonder Boys," takes on Hollywood's hottest property -- boy wonder Harry Potter. (02/24/00)
Oh, Rosie, shut up By Bill Wyman
A silly organization gives out frivolous awards to has-beens and evanescent pop -- for the 42nd year. (02/24/00)
The next PokŽmon? By Christina Nunez
Cartoonist to Disney: "Try to market depression." (02/24/00)
Sharps & Flats By Joe Heim
Caught between Patti and Patsy, between Dolly and the Dolls, Neko Case steamrolls your emotions, then whispers confessions you should probably never hear. (02/24/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2000 (02/24/00)
Books:
Forced crossing By Pam Rosenthal
An involuntary traveler across the gender line -- and the first man who went under the knife to become a woman. (02/24/00)
Pros and amateurs By Ann Marlowe
One way or another, men still expect to pay for sex -- and women pay for it, too, by keeping their financial goals low. (02/24/00)
"Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market" by Walter
Johnson By Matthew DeBord
A historian plunges deep into the ugly business of buying and selling
slaves. (02/24/00)
Comics:
Ruben Bolling Super-Fun-Pack Comix
(02/24/00)
Health & Body:
Dr. Fart speaks By Stephen G. Bloom
Everything you want to know about flatulence, and some things you don't. (02/24/00)
Man corralled into Malibu court By Hank Hyena
Carrot peddler ordered to stand trial for allegedly having sex with horses. (02/24/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Vive Laetitia Casta, busty symbol of France! Plus: Oxygen sucks the intellectual air out of women's television; just say no to the war on drugs. (02/24/00)
Media:
The emperor's new shows By Sean Elder
For Rupert Murdoch, being a media mogul means never having to say you're sorry. (02/24/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Damaged goods By Beth Broeker
The parents of a murderer sue adoption workers, claiming they should have been told about the boy's mentally ill birth mother. (02/24/00)
News:
Persian pop vs. the revolution By Vivienne Walt
Iran's strict laws have created two cultures: The official and the real. (02/24/00)
"We're patriotic Americans because we're Mexicans" By Gregory Rodriguez
Along the Texas-Mexico border, Latinos dress like George Washington and forge a new American identity. (02/24/00)
Iran on the cusp of change
Salon's coverage of the elections in Iran, the reform movement and the evolution of culture under the mullahs. (02/24/00)
Politics 2000:
The man Bush blames for Michigan By Kerry Lauerman
But is lawyer and political player Geoffrey Fieger a man of the people or a publicity whore? (02/24/00)
A circular firing squad By Max Garrone
Bush drowns in recriminations while McCain assembles a new governing coalition without Nancy Reagan and Bradley complains that he's not getting his due. (02/24/00)
People:
The odds couple By Amy Reiter
Who wants to bet on a royal marriage? British bookies find out. Plus: Darva Conger not ring monger; Margot Kidder's fun with mania; and coming soon to a store near you ... JFK with kung-fu grip! (02/24/00)
Oh, make me over By Steve Burgess
As a complete fashion dunce, I was dependent on the kindness of
sisters. Until my bosses took charge. (02/24/00)
Pick me! I'm a real multimillionaire! By Carina Chocano
A "shocked and outraged" Trey Parker speaks out on Fox's fumble. (02/24/00)
Technology:
Linux in every lap By Lydia Lee
Stars of the original Mac development team try to solve one of the hottest puzzles in technology today: How to make the Linux desktop user-friendly. (02/24/00)
Palm reading By Damien Cave
Though e-book sales have been sluggish, Microsoft says in 10 years they'll challenge the paper kind. (02/24/00)
Travel & Food:
Take me back By Donald D. Groff
How to find that great San Sebastian festival again, plus tips on getting to Uruguay and crossing the Canadian border. (02/24/00)
Viva la evolución By Rachel Louise Snyder
From Havana to Santiago, Cuba steps into the next millennium with hope for a new kind of revolution. (02/24/00)
Breaking the rules By Burt Wolf
California's Napa Valley is redefining our national cuisine. (02/24/00)
L'amour brings spelunker out of cave By J.A. Getzlaff
Valentine's Day lures him from the darkness. (02/24/00)
Wednesday, February 23, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Real art is murder By Michael Scott Moore
Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, died forgotten a decade ago. Now her never-produced play has been dusted off to combat NEA "censorship." (02/23/00)
Sharps & Flats By Jon Caramanica
A compilation of songs from this year's Grammy nominees aims for the hearts of soccer moms and Shrieking Teenage Girls. (02/23/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2000 (02/23/00)
Books:
Priceline U. By Brian Braiker
Make me an offer: At eCollegebid.org, students name their price for tuition. You may get a cut-rate deal -- at a no-name school. (02/23/00)
"Scar Vegas and Other Stories" by Tom Paine By Maria Russo
In an amazing debut, a fired-up writer takes aim at dumb American swaggerers and corporate greed. (02/23/00)
Comics:
Keith Knight Creative alternatives to sex
(02/23/00)
Health & Body:
Direct to you By Dena Bunis
Drug companies are spending big bucks so you'll ask your doctor for their products by name. (02/23/00)
From diapers to drugs By Arthur Allen
A new study shows a three-fold increase in mind-altering drugs being given to preschoolers. (02/23/00)
Kiwi student crucifies penis By Hank Hyena
Gross-out contest winner horrifies New Zealand. (02/23/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Readers welcome Stanley Crouch. Plus: White guilt doesn't help; will the Internet make you lonely? (02/23/00)
Media:
When bad shows become truly abominable By Frank Houston
Who was the real victim of the "Multi-millionaire" hoax? (02/23/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Don't call me Mrs. By Donna Cornachio
When the local Catholics couldn't face my surname, I went church shopping. (02/23/00)
Be fruitful and multiply By Michael Kress
Infertile couples who are members of strict religious organizations often find themselves vilified by the church. (02/23/00)
News:
Iran votes for change By Flore de Preneuf
Undaunted by jail, dissident journalists have fueled the nation's hunger for reform. (02/23/00)
Politics 2000:
Mud-slinging with a spin By Jake Tapper
Bush: McCain is intolerant for saying I'm too tolerant of the intolerant. Understand? (02/23/00)
McCain rebounds big By Anthony York
The insurgent wins a major GOP battle -- without much help from Michigan Republicans. (02/23/00)
The GOP's Titanic? By Alicia Montgomery and Daryl Lindsey
That great sucking sound Tuesday may have been the sinking of Republican chances to win in November, observers say. (02/23/00)
McComeback! By Max Garrone
McCain sweeps Michigan and Arizona without the Republican Party, pundits wonder whether the GOP has outrun its utility and Gore keeps on fighting. (02/23/00)
People:
Pols, guns and androgyny By Camille Paglia
A light-speed cultural flyover covering McCain, Koresh, guns, Hillary, "G.I. Blues," a heartfelt appeal to the Winslet Brigade, "Star Trek" and, well, you get the idea. (02/23/00)
Between a Rick and a hard place By Amy Reiter
As Rick "I'm going to make you so happy" Rockwell rocks Fox's world, Jenny "I'm a little hottie!" McCarthy rocks Kirk Douglas' lap. (02/23/00)
Alpha male epsilon By Andy Dehnart
Although an exact definition remains elusive, most people know a frat
boy when they see one. And suddenly, they're seen everywhere. (02/23/00)
Technology:
The essence of geekdom By Thomas Scoville
Can you create an accurate dissertation on nerd subculture by studying two young Idahoans? Jon Katz gives it a try in "Geeks." (02/23/00)
Playboy gets a Rouze By Janelle Brown
Playboy.com plucks a new CEO from Disney's Go Network and snaps up the men's portal site Rouze.com. (02/23/00)
Travel & Food:
This is my home By Pico Iyer
We clarify ourselves among the foreign, make camp where we'd least expect to. (02/23/00)
Junker By Rachel Louise Snyder
Our rental car wheezed through Cuba at the millennium. A new century on the horizon, Fidel's nation gathered up its last one right beneath our wheels. (02/23/00)
Prostitution wreaks havoc in Bangladesh park By J.A. Getzlaff
Local newspaper frowns on "floating prostitutes." (02/23/00)
Tuesday, February 22, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Airheads By Joyce Millman
Beneath all the retro stereotypes and bogus "you go, girl!" feminism, Oxygen's core message to American women is: Keep shopping! (02/22/00)
Sharps & Flats By John Perry
"BBC Sessions" captures the tension and drive of the Who's unlikely marriage of pop smarts and rock violence. (02/22/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000 (02/22/00)
Books:
The man of my dreams By Garrison Keillor
Emboldened by his declaration of love, I asked him about "the future." I wasn't banking on his honest answer. (02/22/00)
Hissy fit now By Laura Denham
Francis Ford Coppola's online writers workshop is part literary utopia, part hair-raising free-for-all. (02/22/00)
"Circumcision" by David L. Gollaher By Greg Villepique
A physician argues the case against lopping it off. (02/22/00)
Comics:
Carol Lay The devil's laundry
(02/22/00)
Health & Body:
Why does porn have to be so dumb? By Virginia Vitzthum
Porn and mainstream media abandon plot for "gonzo" reality. (02/22/00)
The elephant in the room By Michael Massing
Presidential candidates are silent on the failure of the U.S. war on drugs. (02/22/00)
Moonies rally against "free sex" By Hank Hyena
Waving signs declaring, "One man, one wife," students take to the streets of Seoul to promote chastity. (02/22/00)
Letters:
Readers clash over McCain's use of "gook"
Plus: Splitting up siblings heartbreakingly common; the thrill of playing God with a
Sim family. (02/22/00)
Media:
Laughing gas By Sean Elder
Modern Humorist wants to win our hearts by mocking the very things we hold dear. (02/22/00)
Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
Special all-Beatles edition! (02/22/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Brother knows best By Amy Benfer
Dave Eggers talks, with some reluctance, about the staggering work of being a genius parent. (02/22/00)
News:
Follow the money By David Horowitz
The pundits have it all wrong: Bush isn't the "big money" candidate, but just another grass-roots reformer like McCain. (02/22/00)
A California lawsuit makes Paris tremble By Mark Hunter
Did the toughest corporate raider in France play the stooge for a bank gone wrong? (02/22/00)
Politics 2000:
Playtime with Dubya By Anthony York
Between campaign stops, George W. Bush offers reporters a lesson on the laws of gravity. (02/22/2000)
Bush, branding and secret societies By Max Garrone
Skull and Bones tries to keep things quiet, the race in Michigan is too close to call and the Democrats debate in Harlem. (02/22/00)
People:
Cher By Cintra Wilson
Locked forever in Teflon celebrity, the woman with the world's most beautiful armpits always gets the last laugh ... or so she says. (02/22/00)
Annette Bening: Once you start having on-screen sex, it isn't embarrassing anymore By Amy Reiter
The "American Beauty" star should share her on-screen sex tips with "The Sopranos'" Alicia Witt. (02/22/00)
Technology:
DeCSS decoy By Damien Cave
A free-software fanatic unleashes a "useless" program to foil investigators looking for the DeCSS DVD decryption code. (02/22/00)
It's about relationships By Mark Compton
Do women have a natural edge in tech-support innovation? That's the word from Support.com CEO Radha Basu. (02/22/00)
Travel & Food:
Skepticism and salvation in Cyprus By Rolf Potts
An unorthodox tour of the second and final tomb of Lazarus puts a strange twist into our correspondent's Larnaca layover. (02/22/00)
A very foreign life By Pico Iyer
In Nara, Japan, a universe of connections and contradictions unfolds daily. (02/22/00)
The Great Firewall of China By J.A. Getzlaff
China installs speed bumps on the information superhighway. (02/22/00)
Weekend, February 19-20, 2000
Health & Body:
Urge: Brit's-eye view By Cathy Young
The specter of American gender
extremism is making ripples across the Atlantic. (02/19/00)
News:
"Good Friday is dead" By Margaret Spillane and Bruce Shapiro
A power-sharing government in Belfast may be
dead in the water as Northern Ireland faces the greatest crisis since the
current ceasefire began. (02/19/00)
Iran's chess war By Flore de Preneuf
The intellectual pastime is the latest symbol in
the struggle between the country's democratic reformers and Islamic
clerics. (02/19/00)
"An avalanche is coming!" By Vivienne Walt
As Iranians surge to the polls, a new
generation of liberal reformers is expected to be swept into office. But
it's not yet time to declare the mullahs powerless. (02/19/00)
Politics 2000:
Crunch time on the Straight Talk Express By Jake Tapper
Running dead even in the
South Carolina polls, McCain tries to stay positive as Bush goes into
attack mode. (02/19/00)
Trail Mix: Bush's magic theory of politics By Max Garrone
The South Carolina
contest goes down to the wire, Bush unveils his magic-wand theory of public
policy
and Bradley wonders whatever happened to his race. (02/19/00)
People:
Liberté, Egalité, 36C By Debra Ollivier
Why was a pneumatic Victoria's Secret model chosen as the embodiment of the French Republic? (02/19/00)
A bod for sin By Jennifer Kornreich
Jacqueline Tellalian has spent her life in a
wheelchair. And she still doesn't understand why men see it as a mechanical
monster that
threatens their manliness. (02/19/00)
Nothing Personal Weekend: Buffy, butts, Binoche and brides: Has Sarah
Michelle Gellar become a vamp naysayer? By Amy Reiter
Buffy, butts, Binoche and brides: Has Sarah
Michelle Gellar become a vamp naysayer? Billy bails! Can Ally McDeal?
Gwyneth wants Juliette Binoche in the worst way; Extra! Extra! Put the seat
down! Senate reporters forced to use coed loo. Plus: A chat with the shrink
to TV's recently married moneybags. (02/19/00)
Technology:
Cosmic interrupt By
Thomas Scoville
The stars are signaling a "stop and listen"
message -- but you'll need your horoscope for proper decoding tips. (02/19/00)
Travel:
The alien home By Pico Iyer
A globe-wandering writer discovers that home is
the most foreign place of all. (02/19/00)
Friday, February 18, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
"Boiler Room" By Stephanie Zacharek
Giovanni Ribisi shines as a decent guy turned boom-market scam artist (02/18/00)
"Pitch Black" By Andrew O'Hehir
The movie of the season for sci-fi and horror fans (02/18/00)
"The Whole Nine Yards" Andrew O'Hehir
Bruce Willis kill you would be preferable to sitting through this cheap gangster farce (02/18/00)
Sharps & Flats Tina Turner and Wynonna Judd want you to feel their pain (02/18/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Friday, Feb. 18, 2000 (02/18/00)
Books:
Polly Shulman on sci-fi and fantasy
The deliciously paranoid vision of Iain Banks (02/18/00)
E.L. Doctorow's "City of God" By Julia Gracen
Harrowing stories of war and vengeance interwoven with a quest for enlightenment (02/18/00)
Books Log By Charles Taylor
Play the New Yorker game: Compete to be noticed! (02/18/00)
Comics:
Dark Hotel
Before Drago, there was Boris Kirov, Soviet Super Hero (02/18/00)
Health & Body:
Smart souls By David Bowman
The authors of "SQ" talk about "spiritual intelligence" (02/18/00)
Urge: Naked World Beautiful barbers By Hank Hyena
do it in the buff in Moscow salon (02/18/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
For richer and richer: There's no holiness in this matrimony Plus: Not all religions are sexually repressive; Asian eyelids are beautiful without surgery (02/18/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Breaking the silence By Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Telling the secrets of Japanese internment (02/18/00)
News:
I was a guilty white liberal By Joan Walsh
A failed interracial romance taught me that I wasn't part of the solution to America's racial strife, I was part of the problem (02/18/00)
All mixed up
A Salon special report on multiracial America (02/18/00)
Stanley Crouch
In his debut column, the noted essayist and critic wonders if the GOP can stop pandering to its most bigoted faction (02/18/00)
A new revolution for Iran? By Vivienne Walt
21 years after the Shah's ouster, the nation's most freewheeling elections ever could begin to free its people from the grip of the mullahs (02/18/00)
Aerial ambulance chasing By Phaedra Hise
A lawsuit says the Alaska Air pilots should have landed instead of troubleshooting. In fact, they did the right thing (02/18/00)
Politics 2000:
Everyone loves McCain By Jake Tapper
McCain stands by an ugly word Former POW defends his use of the term "gooks" to describe his North Vietnamese torturers (02/18/2000)
Everyone loves McCain By Jake Tapper
South Carolina slime Is Bush slinging the mud, or is it his overzealous supporters? (02/18/2000)
People:
Appreciation: Screamin' Jay Hawkins By Whitman McGowan
The high priest of voodoo jive put a spell on us with his own fiery brand of psychotic rock 'n' roll (02/18/00)
Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
A chat with the multimillionaire groom's shrink (02/18/00)
Technology:
Scott Rosenberg
There they go again: The print media eats up the latest flawed study purporting to show how the Internet isolates people (02/18/00)
Technology Log By David Cassel
Internet cartoonists stitch together a Schulz memorial "quilt" (02/18/00)
Travel & Food:
Wanderlust: Ecstasy in Borneo By Chris Taylor
Two exotic dancers, a gangster pal and some recreational drugs: It's amazing what a Lion's Club connection can get you (02/18/00)
Made in Hong Kong By Jamie James
A culinary tour, dumpling-free (02/18/00)
Daily Planet What a croc! By J.A. Getzlaff
Large lizard lunges at Aussie child (02/18/00)
Thursday, February 17, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Our township By Michael Sragow
Writer-director Eric Mendelsohn talks about Thornton Wilder, Edie Falco, Madeline Kahn and the low-budget triumph of "Judy Berlin." (02/17/00)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
Cure fans know the band was at its best making shiny, happy pop. So why have the cartoon necrophiliacs gone back to wallowing in muddy gunk? (02/17/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2000 (02/17/00)
Books:
Turning out the lights on the old New Yorker By Gavin McNett
Was it Utopia? Camelot? Paradise? Or does the possibility exist that, as fine as it once was, it was still just a magazine? (02/17/00)
"Fasting, Feasting" by Anita Desai By Sylvia Brownrigg
Unhappy Indian families are unhappy in their own way, too, the author demonstrates in this Booker Prize finalist. (02/17/00)
Comics:
Ruben Bolling
John Rocker's Racial Sensitivity Camp (02/17/00)
Health & Body:
Mixed meds By Dawn MacKeen
Think twice before mixing your herbs and your prescription medicine. (02/17/00)
The rise and fall of erotica By Hank Hyena
Steamy soft-core cinema is phenomenally popular in Indonesia, but the government is slowing down production. (02/17/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Flirt at your own risk. Plus: Good Grief! "Peanuts" deserves some respect! Should Sherman Alexie speak for Native Americans? (02/17/00)
Media:
It's the candidate, stupid By Sean Elder
Don't blame reporters for putting McCain on the map. Like the senator, they are listening to the people. (02/16/00)
Mothers Who Think:
He loves me, he loves me not By Eleanor Stacy Parker
Race was never an issue in my life -- until I fell in love. (02/17/00)
Love strands By Susan Straight
My daughters are part me and part their father. The evidence is in their springy, curly, ready-to-dread hair. (02/17/00)
News:
It ain't gospel By Dave Shiflett
The decision by the country's most prestigious religious publisher to produce John and Patsy Ramsey's book is an insult to people of faith. (02/17/00)
Politics 2000:
Everyone loves McCain By Max Garrone
John McCain revels in a broad coalition's support while Arizona papers nibble at his heels. Bush is blowing through his campaign wad and the president talks about Al and Hillary. (02/17/2000)
People:
"Sex" and Synanon onstage By Cintra Wilson
The Draconian sexual mores of Mae West's era and the curious past of former cult kid Deborah Swisher turn up the heat in New York theater. (02/17/00)
Courtesy flush, please! By Amy Reiter
Extra! Extra! Put the seat down! Senate reporters forced to use coed loo; "American Pie" man Don McLean gets goopy over Madonna. Plus: The descent of man continues -- Carlos Santana announces his own clothing line. (02/17/00)
Technology:
The world according to Will By Daniel Sieberg
How do Sims die? How do they fight or fall in love? An interview with game creator Will Wright reveals the game's guiding philosophies. (02/17/00)
Next generation iCraveTV? By Damien Cave
Canadian comedians post iCraveiCraveTV to re-re-broadcast the TV shows iCraveTV intercepts and streams online. (02/17/00)
Sims in the hands of an angry God By Janelle Brown
Why are we so eager to torture the beings we've created? The latest game from Maxis opens a window into the psyche. (02/17/00)
Travel & Food:
Homeward bound By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert offers advice for immigrants heading home, tips for finding lodging in Guatemala and discouragement on the Madrid-Bilbao drive. (02/17/00)
A short guide to Curaçao By Burt Wolf
Our roving connoisseur explores the Caribbean island's history and highlights. (02/17/00)
Daredevil jumps from Pisa's Leaning Tower By J.A. Getzlaff
Italian police are still looking for the suspect. (02/17/00)
Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Honest Abe and Earnest Al By Sarah Vowell
Reciting Lincoln's words, Gore -- the geek candidate who cares about climate change in 10th century Mexico -- confronts America's most famous presidential ghost. (02/16/00)
"Beauty" pageant By Andrew O'Hehir
Oscar nominations for suburban satire and Denzel Washington; "Mr. Ripley" and Jim Carrey snubbed. (02/16/00)
Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
Nashville's Lambchop mixes Salvation Army band arrangements with '50s Stax R&B and country torch and twang. (02/16/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000 (02/16/00)
Books:
It's how they take you anywhere By Beth Kephart
A Rudyard Kipling story is all I need to transport an after-school classroom of rowdy 9-year-olds. (02/16/00)
Working-class zero By Beth Macy
President Clinton's College Opportunity Tax Cut plan offers tuition breaks -- but only to families who can already afford college. (02/16/00)
Readers' choice at the New Yorker By Laura Miller
A Valentine's-themed bash honors the magazine's book-award winners, chosen by its readers -- well, sort of. (02/16/00)
"Black Girl in Paris" by Shay Youngblood By Gaiutra Bahadur
A breathless novel traces the footsteps of Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, but sidles around the topic of race. (02/16/00)
Comics:
Keith Knight
The dot-com launch party: Free
food, naked Scrabble, girl of my dreams(02/16/00)
Health & Body:
Asian eyes By Christina Valhouli
Some turn to glue or surgery for a new "look." (02/16/00)
Monkey business By Hank Hyena
Men of the cloth are under a cloud of scandal in Japan and Cambodia. (02/16/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Is onscreen love colorblind? Plus: An unintended message on George W.'s Web site; dog breeding is un-American! (02/16/00)
Media:
It's the candidate, stupid By Sean Elder
Don't blame reporters for putting McCain on the map. Like the senator, they are listening to the people. (02/16/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Torn to pieces By Nell Bernstein
Brothers and sisters in foster care, rarely adopted together, are routinely split and scattered, never to see each other again. (02/16/00)
News:
"The stakes are a bit higher for us" By Daryl Lindsey
The NAACP's Washington bureau chief takes the Census Bureau to task for its new multiracial categories. (02/16/00)
Politics 2000:
McCain's ancestors owned slaves By Suzi Parker and Jake Tapper
The senator's family history includes a Civil War era plantation in Mississippi. (02/16/00)
Bush bobs, McCain weaves By Jake Tapper
The two favorites fillabluster as Keyes steals the show. (02/16/00)
McCain's endorsement surge By Max Garrone
Bauer and California Secretary of State Bill Jones join McCain as Keyes steals the show in the bickering posturing at the lone South Carolina debate. (02/16/2000)
People:
The passionate Ms. Paltrow By Amy Reiter
Gwyneth wants Juliette Binoche in the worst way; Pogue punkster says he'll sue SinŽad for dropping the dime on his jones; Munchkin huffers, get the hook. Plus: No! No! Say it ain't so! Kiss about to kiss off forevah! (02/16/00)
The right stuff for the Red Planet By William Speed Weed
At 35, Dava Newman's an MIT engineer with a lab that would put James Bond's "Q" to shame and a passion for sending people to Mars. (02/16/00)
Say uncle By Stephen Lemons
The man who claimed to be Steven Spielberg's nephew had other fond wishes -- to be a transvestite porn star was one of them. (02/16/00)
Technology:
Dot-com addiction By Damien Cave
The resolution of a few domain-name disputes offers some breathing room in the crowded Net name arena. But is it enough? (02/16/00)
Travel & Food:
Key to the city By Lucy McCauley
The door to Rilke's room in Spain was locked, but it turned out there are other doors to the culture. (02/16/00)
Platform shoes get the boot in Osaka By J.A. Getzlaff
Police say the precipitous platforms are dangerous. (02/16/00)
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Welcome to the Machine By Carlene Bauer
The women behind "The Mechanic's Guide to Putting Out Records" take up a new battle to save the indies. (02/15/00)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
For all its pretentions, William Orbit's "Pieces in a Modern Style" makes for seductive secret listening. (02/15/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2000 (02/15/00)
Books:
The way we clean now By Laura Morgan Green
Is "Home Comforts," the
new bestseller on housecleaning, an essential
reference work or a scary sign of anti-feminist
backlash? (02/15/00)
Can men and women truly be friends? By Garrison Keillor
My therapist thinks my male pal dumped me because he has the hots for me. Do I need to worry about my other guy pals now? (02/15/00)
Sherman Alexie's cultural imperialism By Jonathan Miles
The Native American novelist thinks Ian Frazier had no business writing "On the Rez." He may have some trespasses of his own to answer for. (02/15/00)
"Nobrow" by John Seabrook and "No Logo" by Naomi Klein By Austin Bunn
A self-revealing reflection on the sick fixations of the media elite stalls out. Is a guerrilla war enough to wake them up? (02/15/00)
Comics:
Carol Lay
Closed captioning brought to you by:
A better writer than the scriptwriter (02/15/00)
Health & Body:
Strangers in the night By Christine Schoefer
Europeans have such a flair for flirting that it must be transmitted via breast milk. Why don't Americans get it? (02/15/00)
The sex-switching saga of "Bruce-to-Brenda" By Hank Hyena
A failed attempt to "reassign" the gender of a Canadian boy after a
clumsy circumcision has become a focal point in the debate over gender identity. (02/15/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
A good nanny is hard to find -- so is a good employer. Plus: Lonely Planet writer defends guidebooks from author of "The Beach"; should celebrities' writings remain private? (02/15/00)
Media:
The medium in the message By Sean Elder
If you surf the Web sites of this year's presidential candidates, it's not hard to figure out who has the buzz -- and who's still asleep in the server room. But will it matter come November? (02/15/00)
Mothers Who Think:
War of the dust-busters By Pamela Gordon
Cheryl Mendelson may have written "Home Comforts," but my grandmothers could out-scrub her any day. (02/15/00)
Beware of "women's culture" By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Francine Prose issues a stern warning in the New York Times about
market-driven pablum for women -- who are as silly, powerless and
narcissistic as a gender can get. (02/15/00)
News:
Why is McCain backing off? By Joe Conason
The puzzling decision to let Bush off the hook about crony-style campaign fund-raising could sink the Arizona senator's insurgency. (02/15/00)
Do the multiracial count? By Gregory Rodriguez
This year the Census Bureau will finally let mixed-race Americans tell the truth about their backgrounds. So why are civil rights groups upset? (02/15/00)
More Columbine carnage By Dave Cullen
Drugs are suspected in the latest round of killings in Littleton -- this time at a sandwich shop. (02/15/00)
Politics 2000:
Gore's hay day By R.U. Sirius
The leader of the classic hippie-haven the Farm is running for president just like his old friend Al Gore -- whom he's not so happy with these days. (02/15/00)
GOP rallies in S.C. By Max Garrone
Bush and McCain rally over negative ads, New York Post columnists weigh in on the campaign and Bush veers to the right. (02/15/2000)
People:
Edward Gorey By Amy Benfer
No one sheds light on darkness from quite the same perspective as this Cape Cod specialist in morbid, fine-lined jocularity. (02/15/00)
Bye-bye, Billy By Amy Reiter
Billy bails! Can Ally McDeal? Plus: Ben Affleck learns a lesson in self-respect; Rex Reed finds out what those dressing room signs are all about; and laaaaa-ady! Jerry Lewis wants you off that stage! (02/15/00)
Technology:
"Sex and Rockets" By John Geirland
When JPL co-founder and occultist Jack Parsons wasn't busy building rockets, he was chatting up the "whore of Babylon." (02/15/00)
Banks had advance warning of hacks
Days before attacks against major commercial Web sites, computer experts at some of the nation's largest financial institutions received detailed warnings of impending threats. (02/15/00)
Travel & Food:
Tests, drugs and swollen bladders By Elliott Neal Hester
Random drug tests for flight attendants mean saving a bladder full of urine. Fair enough, but the tests aren't always right. (02/15/00)
Hong Kong's rent-a-hawker syndicate busted By J.A. Getzlaff
Illegal street vendors and corrupt officials were in cahoots. (02/15/00)
Monday, February 14, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Black and white and taboo all over By Charles Taylor
Hollywood is more phobic than ever about interracial love, but now it's blacks who are putting on the brakes. (02/14/00)
Sharps & Flats By Joseph Patel
Infused with pop culture and heady literary theory, Paul Barman's Ivy League rhymes crackle with clever jokes and silly wit. (02/14/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, Feb. 14, 2000 (02/14/00)
Books:
The Ex-Files: New Stories About Old Flames By Virginia Heffernan
Twenty-eight writers try to figure out what we want from our ex-lovers. (02/14/00)
Bit parts By David Gates
The author of "Wonders of the Invisible World" picks five great literary walk-ons. (02/14/00)
Suspicious minds By Annie Murphy Paul
In his new book, "The Dangerous Passion," psychologist David Buss proposes that jealousy is an evolutionary necessity. (02/14/00)
Comics:
Tom Tomorrow
Lethal injections R us! (02/14/00)
Health & Body:
Kissing therapy By Jon Bowen
Smooching with a loved one may be good for your health. (02/14/00)
How do fools fall in love? By Hank Hyena
Give a Dane a Valentine and wait for an Easter egg -- Valentine's Day traditions from around the globe. (02/14/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
How much blame can the '60s take? Plus: Scantily clad women have replaced Joe Camel; Japenese girls shouldn't encourage panty freaks. (02/14/00)
Media:
The medium in the message By Sean Elder
If you surf the Web sites of this year's presidential candidates, it's not hard to figure out who has the buzz -- and who's still asleep in the server room. But will it matter come November? (02/14/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Dear Jon; Love, Jon By Jonathan Poletti
In which a young Romeo pens verses of true love -- to himself. (02/14/00)
Subway love By Jori Finkel
Gone is the stench of urine. Into its void rushes a whiff of pheromones. (02/14/00)
News:
Why the Columbine report is delayed By Dave Cullen
Still fielding attacks over leaked video footage and grim timing, the sheriff's department is waiting for the right moment to release the full details of the high school massacre. (02/14/00)
All mixed up
Salon presents a special report on multiracial America. (02/14/00)
Politics 2000:
Al Gore: Born to run By Alexandra Starr
A child of Washington is within arm's reach of the Democratic presidential nomination. (02/14/00)
The godfather from Dallas ends the party By Micah L. Sifry
By throwing Jesse Ventura's followers out of the Reform Party, Ross Perot's faction destroyed its chances of affecting this year's elections. (02/14/00)
Bush, McCain dead even By Kerry Lauerman
Trump quits, more reasons not to love John McCain and Keyes has one strange ValentineÕs Day (02/14/00)
People:
In the Buffy By Amy Reiter
Has Sarah Michelle Gellar become a vamp naysayer? Would a flying rock by any other name smell like perfume? In a world full of uncertainty, one thing's for sure ... three hours of Roberto Benigni at the Oscars are three hours too many. (02/14/00)
Mutts: Praising the purity of the impure By Jean Hanff Korelitz
The true champions are nowhere to be found at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. (02/14/00)
Mr. and Mrs. Perfect Couple By Denise Dowling
Wanted: A down-to-earth twosome who will promote the values of marriage and aren't afraid of a little friendly competition. (02/14/00)
Cartoonist Charles Schulz dies at 77 By Mary Ann Lickteig
"Peanuts" made its debut in 1950 and eventually ran in more than 2,600
newspapers in 75 countries. (02/14/00)
Technology:
How much for that doggie in the dot-com ad? By Lydia Lee
Pets.com auctions off its mascot, a singing sock puppet-pooch, raising some serious cash for charity. (02/14/00)
Studio technician By Damien Cave
MPAA president Jack Valenti has never downloaded an MP3, but he could have a huge impact on the future of online entertainment. (02/14/00)
Travel & Food:
Surrealist sculpture stolen in Mexico City By J.A. Getzlaff
Thieves dump it days later. (02/14/00)
Weekend, February 12-13, 2000
Health & Body:
Urge: Placebo love By Jonathon Keats
Valentine's Day is as romantic as a
trip to the pharmacy. (02/12/00)
News:
The rise and fall of Mexico's Madonna By
Scarlet Pruitt
Pop goddess Gloria Trevi
captivated a nation and became an icon of female sexuality and power --
until allegations of her involvement in a lurid child-sex scandal. (02/12/00)
Politics 2000:
Friendly fire By Jake Tapper
Veterans get dragged into the war between
GOP candidates John McCain and George W. Bush. (02/12/00)
Trail Mix: George W. hears footsteps By Anthony York
McCain makes Bush backers in New
York nervous, while Bradley goes to the bench hoping for some last-minute
heroics. (02/12/00)
Primary color By Jack Hitt
A lawsuit accuses the South Carolina GOP of excluding
blacks from the vote. (02/12/00)
He's no Teddy Roosevelt, but he's not Gary Bauer, either By Daryl
Lindsey
On the
environment and gay rights, McCain is a mainstream Republican. (02/12/00)
The case against John McCain By Joan Walsh
Mr. Maverick seduced me too, but deep
down, I know he's still a right-winger. (02/12/00)
Divorce, Reform-style By Micah L. Sifry
As he walks away from the Reform Party, Jesse
Ventura not only undermines its likely nominee, Pat Buchanan, but fuels
rumors of more surprise moves to come. (02/12/00)
People:
Da $126 million kid By Joe Gioia
What does it take to become the young
darling of the NBA? Arms and legs that go on for days and standards that
are very, very high. (02/12/00)
Nothing Personal Weekend By Amy Reiter
No Pussy Posse, says DiCaprio: Is he or
isn't he? Mr. Clean tells all; Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be
celebrity parents; Leo sez: Don't believe everything you read; Let's See
Action! Who fans boo Cindy Margolis. Plus: Aaron Spelling shares special
moments with starlets! (02/12/00)
Technology:
21st Challenge No. 30 Results: Cloudy crystal-balling By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
When
techno-predictions go awry. (02/12/00)
Travel:
Snakes and rapids and paradise, oh my! By
Bill Belleville
Seeking refuge in Guyana's
Cashew Rains, I went to the brink, bushmaster snakes notwithstanding. (02/12/00)
Friday, February 11, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
"The Beach" By Stephanie Zacharek
No phone, no lights, no motorcar -- not a single luxury! Leonardo DiCaprio and the "Trainspotting" creators can't rescue Alex Garland's trouble-in-paradise bestseller from trite moralizing. (02/11/00)
"Not One Less" By Andrew O'Hehir
Zhang Yimou's modest Chinese fable uses elegant realism to examine the underside of childhood in the Information Age. (02/11/00)
Sharps & Flats By David Hill
Never before released on CD, "Country Favorites -- Willie Nelson Style" introduces the quirky singer before he became the Red Headed Stranger. (02/11/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, Feb. 11-13, 2000 (02/11/00)
Books:
New world orders By Melanie Rehak
Two new poetry collections, one that toys with the ghosts of the 20th century and one steeped in the pleasures of the here and now. (02/11/00)
Pundits of pain By Andreas Killen
In the wake of Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo, academics turn trauma studies into a hot discipline. (02/11/00)
Kate Millett finds a new house By Craig Offman
After five years in the wilderness, "Sexual Politics" returns to print. (02/11/00)
"Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln" by Richard Slotkin By Laura Miller
A splendid piece of mythmaking views the young hero's coming of age through the lens of Huckleberry Finn. (02/11/00)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel
Buttons the bellboy remembers
the '30s battles between the fascists and the
communists (02/11/00)
Health & Body:
Like a precious gem By Lesley Stern
Watching David Bowie pretend to smoke is a sensual experience. (02/11/00)
You don't even need to light up! By Mary Roach
Smoking rooms at airports are pretty ugly, but soon they'll be attractive and filled with food. (02/11/00)
Busted By Hank Hyena
Rosemeri da Costa emerges as Brazil's bare-breasted folk hero after spending eight hours in jail for slipping off her top. (02/11/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Extra time on the SAT? You're not only cheating yourself Plus: A minivan is not a sexy accessory, but you can't transport the kids in a pair of motorcycle boots; death penalty foe hurts his own cause (02/11/00)
Media:
No more Ms.-takes By Karyn Hunt
By doing away with the arcane convention of courtesy titles for women, the Associated Press has finally joined the 20th, er, 21st century. (02/11/00)
Mothers Who Think:
United nations of nannies By Cecelie S. Berry
I wanted to be Lady Liberty, but my nannies from foreign lands never became part of the family. (02/11/00)
News:
Opportunity clicks By Daryl Lindsey
Why President Clinton's plan to wire the poor is a good start. (02/11/00)
Politics 2000:
Checkout time By Alicia Montgomery
Maybe somebody should have told Steve Forbes $60 million ago that money can't buy you love. (02/11/00)
Bush's good ol' money boys By Robert Bryce
A Texas group hammers George W. for his close ties to lobbyists. (02/11/00)
George W. hears footsteps By Anthony York
McCain makes Bush backers in New York nervous, while Bradley goes to the bench hoping for some last-minute heroics. (02/11/2000)
People:
Hell, 90210 By Amy Reiter
Aaron Spelling shares special moments with starlets; is Kevin Costner Catherine Zeta-Jonesing or just following her around? And Neve vs. Jamie Lee ... she who screams last? (02/11/00)
Snubdance: The musical By David Goodman
The story is just like any other, except it's very cold. And people eat each other. (02/11/00)
Technology:
The agents of Silicon Valley By Janelle Brown
The new executive recruiters don't just find talent for a hefty fee -- they're players, making or breaking careers and companies. (02/11/00)
Travel & Food:
Live from the trans-global Beach Nation By Rolf Potts
Leo's new movie may be fiction, but its portrayal of a crowded travel world is based in fact. Our correspondent reports -- from the unlikeliest of places -- on just what is happening. (02/11/00)
Beach nut By Sue Wheat
An interview with Alex Garland, bestselling and occasionally controversial author of "The Beach." (02/11/00)
Rio Carnival's 398-pound king put on a diet By J.A. Getzlaff
His doctor pleads with "King Momo" to lose weight. (02/11/00)
Salon on "The Beach"
Our coverage and criticism of Alex Garland's bestselling 1997 novel and its 2000 movie adaptation. (02/11/2000)
Thursday, February 10, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Window washers By Michael Sragow
Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz bring the reds, whites, blacks and blues back into Hitchcock's nimble masterpiece about the burden of perception. (02/10/00)
Jude looks like a lady By Merideth Finn
In the new Hollywood, men look like women, women look androgynous and no one is having sex. (02/10/00)
Sharps & Flats By Geoff Edgers
Herbie Hancock's "Future Shock" annoyed the critics and offended the purists in 1983, but the new reissue just sounds like a Bill Laswell record that spawned an unfortunate series of fusion projects. (02/10/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Feb. 10, 2000 (02/10/00)
Books:
$125 for my thoughts? By Diana Abu-Jaber
I never expected anyone to save all my letters -- but I really didn't think they'd sell them. (02/10/00)
"Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator" by Arthur Herman By Dante Ramos
A revisionist biography argues that the red-hunting senator got a bum rap. (02/10/00)
Comics:
Ruben Bolling The forbidden fantasies of
Bob!
(02/10/00)
Health & Body:
Marlboro Man lives By Alex Salkever
Big Tobacco money is being spent differently than before, but it's still targeting our youth. (02/10/00)
The truth about vaginas By Hank Hyena
After playing God in the film "Dogma," rock's goddess of angst will star in an off-Broadway play about female genitalia. (02/10/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Smoking or nonsmoking? Readers take sides; Plus: Learning from Austria's past; celibacy as a reaction to feminism. (02/10/00)
Media:
No more Ms.-takes By Karyn Hunt
By doing away with the arcane convention of courtesy titles for women, the Associated Press has finally joined the 20th, er, 21st century. (02/10/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Pet a lamb, go to prison By Monica Finch
Law and order in Ann Arbor is tougher than you think. (02/10/00)
News:
A "boneheaded" bombing By Laura Rozen
A former Army intelligence officer claims he knows what the CIA meant to hit when it hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. (02/10/00)
What went wrong? By Max J. Castro
The Florida governor's kindler, gentler affirmative action reform draws a firestorm of protest from the very people it aims to help. (02/10/00)
Payoffs, fear and bloody conflict By Laura Rozen
With his usual bag of dirty tricks, Slobodan Milosevic looks to be preparing Serbia to reelect him. (02/10/00)
Politics 2000:
The roar of the dowager By Alicia Montgomery
While the rest of the country gets a look at the new George, Barbara Bush plays to her same old crowd. (02/10/00)
Keyes like me By Terence Samuel
It's tough when everybody mistakes you for a presidential contender, that is, until you start getting used to it. (02/10/00)
People:
We won't get boobed again! By Amy Reiter
Let's See Action! Who fans boo Cindy Margolis; Gwyneth banishes statuette; and -- horrors! -- the man behind the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync forms another Frankenband! (02/10/00)
Hardly workin' By Steve Kurutz
Nothing says unemployable like being unemployed in a boom economy. (02/10/00)
Technology:
The Net scare By Scott Rosenberg
The Web will survive this week's spate of site attacks. Can it get past the hysteria? (02/10/00)
Mozilla dreams By Andrew Leonard
Can the open-source browser redeem Netscape's name and give Microsoft a run for its money? (02/10/00)
Free the night life! By Andrew Leonard
Former Netscape programmer Jamie Zawinski has spent his life making software free. Now he wants to liberate San Francisco's moribund club scene. (02/10/00)
The Web whodunit By Salon Technology Staff
No one knows who's behind the wave of attacks on big sites -- but everyone's got a theory. (02/10/00)
Travel & Food:
Flying Turkey By Donald D. Groff
For about $100, you can skip the buses and zip across Turkey by air. Plus advice on a Fiji marriage and not missing those international flights. (02/10/00)
Extra-large, eat your heart out By Richard Goodman
Sanary-sur-Mer hosts the world's largest bouillabaisse. And lives to tell. (02/10/00)
Czech man posts subterranean Valentine By J.A. Getzlaff
A mystery Valentine kept riders of Prague's subway guessing last month when an anonymous man took out ad space in 105 subway cars in hopes of recovering his lost love. (02/10/00)
Wednesday, February 09, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
"The Bitch Is Back" By Jeff Stark
Exclusive: Secret production notes for "Blair Witch Project" sequel revealed. (02/09/00)
People have the power By Seth Mnookin
Patti Smith, David Byrne, Angelique Kidjo, Philip Glass and others throw a New Year's benefit party for Tibet. (02/09/00)
Sharps & Flats By Jon Caramanica
New Jack Swingers Guy killed old-school R&B. On "III," the trio gets what's coming. (02/09/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2000 (02/09/00)
Books:
Himmelfarb vs. the '60s By Charles Taylor
There's no room for real life in Gertie's America. (02/09/00)
Buying time By Michael Scott Moore
Disability becomes fashionable among the prep-school set when it equals extra time on the SAT. (02/09/00)
Oprah pick sends publisher scrambling By Craig Offman
But with "Gap Creek" on the bestseller list, nobody's complaining. (02/09/00)
"Gertrude and Claudius" by John Updike By John Freeman
In his 19th novel, Updike spins a tale of feverish and furtive sex and death in a masterly prequel to "Hamlet." (02/09/00)
Comics:
Keith Knight Chris Isaak is a cheap bastard!
(02/09/00)
Health & Body:
The Gitane affair By Debra Ollivier
Forget McDonald's and Coca-Cola; the French see American-style anti-tobacco lawsuits as one of the greatest threats to French culture. (02/09/00)
Albanian gangsters kidnapping women and girls to service troops By Hank Hyena
Kosovo has not been part of the Eastern European sex trade that has flourished since the collapse of communism, but the lure of a 45,000-strong army has made it a new business. (02/09/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
The mixed blessing of adoption; Plus: Readers shocked to find themselves agreeing with David Horowitz; Christopher Buckley "sincerely disgusted." (02/09/00)
Media:
Pity the poor immigrant By Sean Elder
The cast of characters in the Diallo trial -- from Rudy's NYPD to the Rev. Al Sharpton -- is priceless, so why does TV drag in Bernhard Goetz? (02/09/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Oxymorvan By Laurie Wagner
My husband wants me to be a mother in a minivan. I want to be a hot mama in motorcycle boots. (02/09/00)
News:
Executioner's swan song? By Michael Kroll
Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. (02/09/00)
Turkey at the crossroads By Laurie Udesky
The government seeks to turn around its abysmal human-rights record and gain European Union membership. (02/09/00)
Politics 2000:
I set up President Clinton By William Speed Weed
Confessions of an advance man. (02/09/00)
Show me the money shot By William Speed Weed
Which candidates give good face -- and which ones don't. (02/09/00)
Forbes bows out By Max Garrone
Publisher stops the press after finishing third in Delaware, Buchanan ruminates on fascism (02/09/00)
People:
Little frankfurter lost By Amy Reiter
Leo sez: Don't believe everything you read ... even if it's true. Plus: It's a sad day under the big top; and Winslet won't play Bridget, v. bad! (02/09/00)
The 7 vices of highly creative people By D.A. Blyler
If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it. (02/09/00)
Technology:
Criminal code? By C. Scott Ananian
A judge's decision to ban a DVD-playing Linux program and all discussion about it outrages the free-software community. (02/09/00)
You, too, can be a drug kingpin By Damien Cave
The Dope Wars drug-running game strikes a nerve among the "buy low, sell high" crowd. (02/09/00)
MP3.com bites back By Janelle Brown
A lawsuit asks if the litigious Recording Industry Association of America is sabotaging MP3.com's business. (02/09/00)
Travel & Food:
The queen and I By James Heer
Deep in a New Delhi forest, Doberman pinschers be damned, I begged to see the queen. (02/09/00)
Swiss secrets By Burt Wolf
Our roving connoisseur uncovers the truth about the dragons of Mount Pilatus and the original Swiss Army knife. (02/09/00)
Titanic II averted By J.A. Getzlaff
A cruise ship is freed from the Antarctic ice. (02/09/00)
Tuesday, February 08, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats By Andy Battaglia
"Clicks + Cuts" reconciles avant-electronic music with the politics of dancing. (02/08/00)
The other man on the moon By Connell Barrett
From Letterman sidekick to "Get a Life" to, um, Dogbert, Chris Elliott -- a true alt-comedy innovator who might be funnier than Andy Kaufman -- just can't get no respect. (02/08/00)
Everyone's a critic -- even Bill Clinton By Stephanie Zacharek
The president joins Roger Ebert at the movies. (02/08/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2000 (02/08/00)
Books:
Bogus bride By Andrew Richard Albanese
The University of Arizona Press passed off "I Married Wyatt Earp" as a historical document. It's not. (02/08/00)
"S.: A Novel About the Balkans" by Slavenka Drakulic By Brigitte Frase
A fierce novel brings home the horrors of the Bosnian war -- rape, torture and the sexual slavery of Muslim women. (02/08/00)
Dear Mr. Blue: Faithful for now By Garrison Keillor
Does my crush on another woman mean
there's something wrong with my marriage? (02/08/00)
Comics:
Carol Lay
The bearer of bad news (02/08/00)
Health & Body:
Annie Sprinkle swims forward By Virginia Vitzthum
A sex icon takes stock in the aftermath of her devastating houseboat fire and finds satisfaction as a mermaid. (02/08/00)
I am a smoker By Carina Chocano
I hate you, too. (02/08/00)
Camels and cowboys By Tate Gunnerson
I'll always be a smoker, even when I quit. (02/08/00)
Burkina Faso women break their silence on forced vows By Hank Hyena
Gender equality is guaranteed under the 1991 constitution, but in practice, change has come slowly for the largely rural, illiterate populace. (02/08/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Why the French can have their cake and eat it too; Plus: Napster is good for consumers but bad for recording artists. (02/08/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Meatballs of love By Toby Sonneman
The wooing of a kosher vegetarian. (02/08/00)
Spicy meatballs By Toby Sonneman
Crispy, juicy instruments of seduction. (02/08/00)
News:
So much for singing nuns By John Marks
The rise of Joerg Haider forces Austria to face the truth about its history -- and puts the European Union in a bind. (02/08/00)
Executioner's swan song? By Michael Kroll
Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. (02/08/2000)
Politics 2000:
The abortion dilemma By Bruce Shapiro
George W. Bush has reinvented himself as a true conservative. But will pandering to the right on abortion make him unelectable in November? (02/08/00)
The gloves are already off By Jake Tapper
A Vince Foster bumper sticker is just a sign of things to come in the New York Senate race. (02/08/00)
Trump out of race? Max Garrone
McCain scores media valentines, Giuliani gets Freudian and which candidate was arrested 150 times? (02/08/00)
People:
William Wegman By Kevin Conley
His wry, wildly popular photography owes a great debt to the gifted performance artists he works with. (02/08/00)
The parent claptrap By Amy Reiter
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be celebrity parents ... Jade Jagger, Sara Karloff and Prince William feel the pain. (02/08/00)
Technology:
The waiting game By Howard Wen
Will John Romero's Daikatana ever hit the shelves? When it does, will first-person shooter players still care? (02/08/00)
The force of "G" By Janelle Brown
Filmmaker Rolf Gibbs smashed more than a few camcorders while making a film that replicates a 30,000-foot free-fall. (02/08/00)
Travel & Food:
Get lost By Michele Shapiro
All that "beaten path" stuff is true -- travel's better when you're lost. (02/08/00)
Thief gets caught in his own tracks By J.A. Getzlaff
Virginian robbed while shoveling snow. (02/08/00)
Monday, February 07, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats By Mike
Britten
On "Trio 99>00," Pat Metheny's
stipped-down outfit rips and soars above off-the-metronome grooves. (02/07/00)
Nights of the living dead By Joyce Millman
"Homicide: The Movie" brings the canceled,
classic cop show back for a final bow; "Mary and Rhoda": Do not resuscitate. (02/07/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, February 07, 2000 (02/07/00)
Books:
Ivory Tower: The tedious life of a TA serf By James Nestor
I volunteered to TA so
I could learn to teach. Pretty soon I was buying Chanukah presents for a
tenured dinosaur's niece. (02/07/00)
Book Bag: New bohemian classics By Ann Powers
The author of "Weird Like Us: My
Bohemian America" picks five must-reads for a new generation. (02/07/00)
"Two Moons" by Thomas Mallon By Christopher Shea
A beautiful but heavy-handed new novel
by the author of "Henry and Clara" evokes a post-Civil War Washington of
scheming politicians and love-struck astronomers. (02/07/00)
Books Log: Lindbergh family bashes biographer By
Craig Offman
They claim she told
them she wasn't writing a biography; she claims she told them she was. (02/07/00)
Comics:
Tom Tomorrow
Mad about George W.! (02/07/00)
Health & Body:
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em? By David McGuire
No one has studied
casual smokers but their risks may be lower than expected. (02/07/00)
Urge: Naked World: You'll never meet Mr. Right with your bed facing
north By Hank Hyena
Can Chinese interior design turn a lonely bedroom into a lusty love
nest? It worked for Karen. She moved her bed, painted the walls and met
Mike. (02/07/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Readers concur: Orson Scott Card interview really WAS the worst (02/07/00)
Media:
Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
(02/07/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Goodbye forever By Beth
Broeker
A mother signs away her son. (02/07/00)
News:
Party crashers By David Horowitz
Alan Keyes and other religious radicals are
preventing the Republican Party from attaining its rightful place as
America's majority party. (02/07/00)
Politics 2000:
McCain rattles his light saber By
Ashley Craddock
Citing Ronald Reagan and "Star Wars," the Arizona senator goes Hollywood to
try to convert California's GOP faithful. (02/07/00)
Hillary makes it official By Jake
Tapper
President Clinton stands by his woman as the candidate gets a full image makeover.
(02/07/00)
Return of the
Reaganite By Max Garrone
McCain says he's Luke Skywalker and Ronald Reagan incarnate
while Bush retires to Texas to contemplate his future and crackpot conspiracies go prime time.
(02/07/00)
People:
Striptease U. By Russ Spencer
A new school turns wannabe strippers into dancers
with roadies, fog machines and diversified portfolios. (02/07/00)
Nothing Personal: Coming clean By Amy Reiter
Is he or isn't he? Mr. Clean tells
all; Randy on the set! Will & Grace & uncontrollable urges. And a helpful
reminder from Liam: Oasis and the Beatles, different band. (02/07/00)
Technology:
View From the Top: Bill Gates' other CEO By Patrizia DiLucchio
Steve Davis' early
career as a human rights attorney sharpened his skills for running the
Corbis digital image archive. (02/07/00)
Technology Log: Site for gays in the military hits the auction block By Damien Cave
Will the identity of Homobase.com, an online community for gay servicemen
and women, be threatened by the highest bidder? (02/07/00)
Travel & Food:
Daily Planet: Taipei mayor surprised by floating corpse By J.A. Getzlaff
A river
clean-up yields more than garbage. (02/07/00)
Weekend, February 05-06, 2000
Health & Body:
Urge: Love is just a moment By Cathy Young
Forget about finding
Mr. Right. Finding oneself is more exciting than romance. These celebrated
feminists sound more like hosts of "The View" than sisters of the struggle. (02/05/00)
Politics 2000:
The governors' club By Robert George
The Republican Governors Association
rallies around George W. Bush after his humiliating New Hampshire defeat. (02/05/00)
The Empire backs down By Andrea Bernstein
The McCain insurgency battles its way onto the
New York state GOP primary ballot and forces the Bush machine to
capitulate. (02/05/00)
Bush whacked By Anthony York
South Carolina Democrats give John McCain a boost by
dumping their primary. (02/05/00)
Trail Mix: McCain rakes in the dough and the votes By Max Garrone
McCain raises a
million dollars on the New Hampshire bounce, Bush turns to the right in
South Carolina while the Democratic duo hopscotch around the nation shoring
up their campaigns. (02/05/00)
People:
Nothing Personal Weekend: Our breast week ever! By Amy Reiter
"I was the fifth
Teletubby"; Saul Obarzanek, tailor to the political stars, on Tipper, the
nipper and presidential zippers; Michaeldouglas.com would like to apologize
for any inconvenience; Kevin Eubanks says no doggie implants! Plus: Isn't
he great? The press does John McCain. (02/05/00)
Travel:
Will Britain lose its Marbles? By Elkan Allen
If the British Museum returned the
Elgin Marbles to Greece, how safe would any loot be?
Friday, February 04, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
"Simpatico" By Charles Taylor
Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges lead this adaptation of Sam Shepard's play about broken promises, not-quite-abandoned dreams and silky smooth corruption. (02/04/00)
"Scream 3" By Andrew O'Hehir
The final installment of Wes Craven's trilogy may be too wrapped up in its own
cleverness, but it's still a fond farewell. (02/04/00)
Sharps & Flats By Andy Battaglia
Stockhausen's "Helicopter String Quartet" gives a whole new meaning to in-flight recording. (02/04/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, Feb. 4-6, 2000 (02/04/00)
Books:
"Rattling the Cage" By Susan McCarthy
In his new book, animal rights law professor Steven Wise argues that chimps are persons too. (02/04/00)
"What's Love Got To Do with It? A Critical Look at American Charity" by David Wagner By Frank Browning
An argument that American charity lines the pockets of the well-heeled while it screws the poor. (02/04/00)
Oversexed, talky
and inspired By Ann Hodgman
Three new cookbooks run the gamut from the ridiculous to the truly essential. (02/04/00)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel
"Does killing a man with a
pitchfork count?" Drago wows them at kooky
independent candidates convention (02/04/00)
Health & Body:
A new urgency By Emily Bass
With his country at the epicenter of an AIDS epidemic, the special advisor to South health minister quietly makes his first trip to an important research conference. (02/04/00)
Stressed sailor, bored waitress bare all By Hank Hyena
Sailor dances in his birthday suit at Aussie football match. English waitress brightens up bowls championship in the buff. (02/04/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
"The sheriff showed up with naked pictures of my daughter!" Plus: Pregnancy happens -- deal with it; Conason's stance on Bradley. (02/04/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Welcome to Planet Pinkwater By Paul LaFarge
Who could resist a place where chickens sing, avocados think and real estate agents are extraterrestrials? (02/04/00)
News:
Caught in the LAPD cross-fire By Sandra Hernandez
Does the Los Angeles Police Department's war on gangs target even those who are trying to end the violence? (02/04/00)
Politics 2000:
Jonesing for votes By Jake Tapper
George W. Bush's speech at a college that bans interracial dating raises questions about his compassion. (02/04/00)
Burning Bush By John B. Judis
Can John McCain possibly defeat the GOP's anointed candidate? (02/04/00)
McCain rakes in the dough and the votes By Max Garrone
McCain raises a million dollars on the New Hampshire bounce, Bush turns to the right in South Carolina while the Democratic duo hopscotch around the nation shoring up their campaigns. (02/04/00)
People:
Reporters who love too much By Amy Reiter
Isn't he great? The press does John McCain; Spalding on balding, death and dyeing; and Naomi Campbell throttles assistant, blames occupational, uh, stress. Plus: Songs to binge and purge to. (02/04/00)
King of pain By Stephen Lemons
Clive Barker talks about the connection between pleasure and pain, and why everyone is a "book of blood." (02/04/00)
Technology:
The Napster files By Scott Rosenberg
A little MP3 file-sharing program outlines the shape of things to come in the music industry -- and it's not what the big labels think. (02/04/00)
The shape of open source to come By Andrew Leonard
VA Linux purchases Andover.net, corporate parent to Slashdot. Will the "news for nerds" site maintain its editorial independence? (02/04/00)
Texas' death-row peep show By Donna Ladd
The state doesn't just hold a record for executions -- it proudly posts online the macabre details of hundreds of convicts' last suppers and final words. (02/04/00)
Travel & Food:
The French Paradox By Laura Fraser
Americans still don't understand how the French eat whatever they want and live to tell about it. (02/04/00)
Drunken businesswoman accused of slugging flight attendant By J.A. Getzlaff
Trial ongoing in England. (02/04/00)
M(r). Butterfly By Megan McNamer
At the heart of my Orient Escapade, R-o-n briefly fluttered by. (02/04/00)
Thursday, February 03, 2000
Arts & Entertainment:
Amazon.comrade By Michael Sragow
Sigourney Weaver spills the beans on the unexpurgated "Galaxy Quest" and explains how her work in Roman Polanski's neglected "Death and the Maiden" fueled her powerhouse acting in "A Map of the World." (02/03/00)
Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
Morphine's last record, completed just before singer Mark Sandman's death, bids farewell to the rocker who wanted to walk across a carpet of stars. (02/03/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Feb. 3, 2000 (02/03/00)
Books:
"Playing Botticelli" by Liza Nelson By Fiona Morgan
Fans of Anne Lamott will go for this novel about the inevitable clash between an ex-flower-child mom and her desperate, rebellious daughter. (02/03/00)
My favorite author,
my worst interview By Donna Minkowitz
I worshipped militaristic
Mormon science-fiction writer
Orson Scott Card -- until we
met. (02/03/00)
Comics:
Ruben Bolling Ruben Bolling
Ruben Bolling (02/03/00)
Health & Body:
Living the paradox By Valerie Frankel
How do the French eat all that cheese and still lose weight? I had to find out. (02/03/00)
The panty police nab one of their own By Hank Hyena
Osaka cop fired for trying to take panty pix of unsuspecting schoolgirl. (02/03/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Why not David Crosby? Ugly men can be sperm donors too! Plus: AOL-ers defend their habit -- it's not just for newbies anymore; violence isn't sexy. (02/03/00)
Media:
Character flaws By Sean Elder
The TV networks obsess over personality while the candidates try to use them to convey some substance. (02/03/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Filthy living By Jonathan Kronstadt
Our kitchen after supper looks like the Meadowlands after a Stones concert. (02/03/00)
News:
Do airlines ever cut corners on maintenance? By Phaedra Hise
Pilots and mechanics admit privately that sometimes whether a part -- or a plane -- needs work is a matter of opinion and negotiation. (02/03/00)
Back-stabbing, CIA-style By Jeff Stein
The John Deutch scandal shows that the spooks spend more time trying to ruin each other than they do chasing down security breaches. (02/03/00)
CIA chief testifies in Deutch probe By Tom Raum
(02/03/00)
Politics 2000:
McCain's hidden treasure By Max Garrone
McCain cleans up on the Internet, Republicans vote liberal to hurt Gore, Bradley accuses Gore of slinging mud (literally). (02/03/00)
People:
Hollywood maggots eat dead ideas By Cintra Wilson
If you have any love for the infinite possibilities of film, you can't avoid being horrified by what the movie industry has become. (02/03/00)
Man's breast friend By Amy Reiter
Hoochie coochie poochies? Kevin Eubanks says no doggie implants! Madonna, Winslet, Affleck on the urge to procreate; and ABBA turns down $1 billion. It's just money, money, money. (02/03/00)
Show me your indies By Daniel Kraus
Think it's hard getting into Sundance? Try getting into Lapdance. A report from the Indiewood trenches. (02/03/00)
Technology:
MP3 free-for-all By Janelle Brown
The tiny Napster is shaking the music industry to its foundation. (02/03/00)
This e-mail brought to you by ... a bad idea By Janelle Brown
Epidemic.com, which compensates people for spamming their friends, is making me ill. (02/03/00)
The shape of open source to come By Andrew Leonard
VA Linux purchases Andover.net, corporate parent to Slashdot. Will the "news for nerds" site maintain its editorial independence? (02/03/2000)
Travel & Food:
Sunbathing in the nude By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert helps readers find a spot to strip down in Texas. Plus lodging advice for Santa Fe and Costa Rica trips. (02/03/00)
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