March 2000

"The Skulls" By Andrew O'Hehir
Evil lurks in the hallowed halls of higher education; so does lousy dialogue. (03/31/2000)

High Fidelity By Stephanie Zacharek
Love, rock 'n' roll, lists and record-store geeks come together swimmingly in the romantic filmed version of the Nick Hornby novel. (03/31/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Philip Booth
Galactic's swampy funk melds Meters-style riffs, acid-jazz grooves and jam-band spontaneity. (03/31/2000)

"Beau Travail" By Charles Taylor
Claire Denis' baffling and exhilarating "Billy Budd" smolders with heat-blasted rhythms and supercharged acting. (03/31/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 31-April 2, 2000 (03/31/2000)

"Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell" by Lyall Watson By Maggie Jones
How we smell, why we smell and (best of all) what we smell: A guide to the most provocative, sensual and misunderstood of the senses. (03/31/2000)

Party animals By Polly Shulman
Our science fiction columnist on Sean Stewart's dark tale of perpetual Carnival. (03/31/2000)

The digital reader By Laura Miller
In which I borrow an e-book and give up print for two weeks. (03/31/2000)

I'll hit you with my purse! By Jack Boulware
Man going through a sex change loses his/her temper. (03/31/2000)

Extreme Ritalin By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D.
The drug should not become the moral equivalent of, or substitute for, better parenting and schools. (03/31/2000)

Letters to the editor
Is crime the price of apartheid? Plus: The naked body is magnificent; was the plastic bag in "American Beauty" a rip-off? (03/31/2000)

No bottle feeders, no spankers By Amy Brill
Attachment parents stick to their guns. (03/31/2000)

I believed in the breast By Sue Robins
And then the control freaks at La Leche League buried me in bureaucracy, bare breasts and too much LLLove. (03/31/2000)

Bracing for Hurricane Elian By John Lantigua
Miami's Cuban-American community prepares for war against hometown girl Janet Reno. (03/31/2000)

The drug war gravy train By Daniel Forbes
How the White House rewarded U.S. News, Seventeen and other magazines for publishing anti-drug articles. (03/31/2000)

The fools' guide to history By Eugene Finerman
In commemoration of April Fools' Eve, we celebrate the Seven Blunderers of the World. (03/31/2000)

About a writer By Steffan Chirazi
Nick Hornby talks about soccer, writing and a highly faithful adaptation of "High Fidelity." (03/31/2000)

Celebrity free-fall-for-all By Amy Reiter
Swing from tall buildings, risk life and appendage ... some people will do anything for attention. Plus: This is Whitney Houston on something, for sure. (03/31/2000)

Author Anthony Powell dead at 94 By AUDREY WOODS
(03/31/2000)

The granny caught in the middle By Anthony York
Bush-Gore Internet wars ensnare 90-year-old great-grandmother. (03/31/2000)

Gore changes position on Elián Compiled by Max Garrone
McCain gives up some delegates, Bush adds to his education plan and Clinton picks on congressional Republicans. (03/31/2000)

We are family By Suzi Parker
Not only is George W. Bush related to 16 American presidents, but he's kin to half the country, too. (03/31/2000)

Bathe in Bali's Sun!
(03/31/2000)

Taxes got you down? Had enough?
(03/31/2000)

A sense of Well being By Jon Carroll, Farai Chideya, Mary Mackey, Susan McCarthy, Steve Silberman and Mary Elizabeth Williams
A most influential online community celebrates its 15th anniversary. (03/31/2000)

Quelle surprise! By J.A. Getzlaff
A customs dog recently sniffed out an impressive -- but illegal -- trouser snake in Paris. (03/31/2000)

Estranged on a train By Peter Selgin
My beautiful French compartment-mate promised she'd slink over to my bunk. (03/31/2000)

Slippery slope By Burt Wolf
Skiing started as transportation, ended up recreation. And Beaver Creek, Colo., offers some great recreation. (03/31/2000)

The return of the White Negro By Michael Sragow
Filmmaker James Toback talks about race, sex, Warren Beatty and his explosive new movie, "Black and White." (03/30/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, March 30, 2000 (03/30/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Joe Heim
English folkie David Gray is a star in the U.K. Can some electronic blips and an endorsement from Dave Matthews win him an audience in the States? (03/30/2000)

American BJ By Michael Sragow
How the New York Times helped along the "American Beauty" hype. (03/30/2000)

Cassandra complex By Brigitte Frase
Sven Birkerts says computers are destroying literature. He couldn't be more wrong. (03/30/2000)

"Being Dead" by Jim Crace By Gary Krist
A haunting novel about a couple caught and killed in flagrante delicto -- how they got there, and what happens before they're found. (03/30/2000)

Fans hate director picked for Harry Potter film By Laura Miller
"Home Alone" helmer called "worst kind of hack." (03/30/2000)

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Ruben Bolling (03/30/2000)

"Knock"-ing her up By Jack Boulware
Former Osaka Gov. Knock Yokoyama, 68, admits to feeling up a 21-year-old. (03/30/2000)

On immortality By Susan McCarthy
You might want to live forever, but should Hitler? (03/30/2000)

Letters to the editor
Life isn't like the movies, Conason Plus: Who will vouch for vouchers? Men respond to essays on rape. (03/30/2000)

Life as a fate worse than death By Beth Broeker
A lawyer tries to prevent the ultimate abuse of a tiny victim. (03/30/2000)

Daniel is good at not dying By Elizabeth Halling
A mother lives with the disciplined ambivalence of a do-not-resuscitate order. (03/30/2000)

Agony in the garden By John van der Zee
A California diocese recovers from a sex-abuse scandal, and finds that healing comes through facing the truth. (03/30/2000)

Drunk Boy vs. Eugene O'Neill By Cintra Wilson
In a booze-besotted Broadway battle, a trendy young MTV baby with a bad bleach job takes on "A Moon for the Misbegotten." (03/30/2000)

Balk this way By Amy Reiter
Liv livid over faux daddy/daughter nipple story; Kate Moss parties like she's made of kidneys; and what's in a reversible name? Brandon Teena/Teena Brandon's mom thought Swank's thanks stank. (03/30/2000)

The making of a boogeyman By Jesse Drucker
While Republicans demonize him, Al Sharpton's influence has never been greater. (03/30/2000)

V.P. hopes and racist jokes Compiled by Anthony York
New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman tags along with George W. Bush and basks in the speculation spotlight, while a Democratic Senate candidate from Jersey gets into hot water. (03/30/2000)

Napster -- friend or foe? By Scott Rosenberg
Fans have already embraced new music-distribution technologies. Musicians can fight them or join them. (03/30/2000)

"It's not broken but we're fixing it" By Damien Cave
The patent office reveals its new plan for examining "business method" patents, and, no, it says, it's not responding to industry pressure. (03/30/2000)

Candidate Clinton comes to Silicon Valley By Katharine Mieszkowski
Hillary cuts the "virtual ribbon" on a new Web company and shakes down dot-com millionaires for their support. (03/30/2000)

Patted down at the opera By J.A. Getzlaff
Rio de Janeiro may pass an aggressive metal detector law. (03/30/2000)

Really, I don't hug trees By Molly A. Scoles
Being a vegan doesn't make you a nut. But it does improve the world, a few animals at a time. (03/30/2000)

Rail good time By Donald D. Groff
How to see the West by train, visit France at the right time and find a bed at the New Orleans Jazz Fest. (03/30/2000)

How the other half eats By Christine Kenneally
During Restaurant Week, New York's hottest restaurants offer prix fixe lunches even commoners can afford. (03/30/2000)

All this useful beauty By Sarah Vowell
The hottest art show in America is never better than Tom Cruise in his underwear. Wouldn't a nice Kate Spade handbag be so much more practical? (03/29/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Don McLeese
Post-punk good ol' gal Kelly Hogan has a smoky alto that can effortlessly waltz between an uptown cabaret and a country roadhouse. (03/29/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, March 29, 2000 (03/29/2000)

"The Fig Eater" by Jody Shields By Maria Russo
A first-time novelist, recasting a Freudian case history as a psychosexual detective story, wonders what would have happened if "Dora" had been murdered. (03/29/2000)

Brave new e-books By Craig Offman
We've seen the future of publishing, and the wrong people are freaking out. (03/29/2000)

The Future of the Book tk
A Salon series examines how the digital revolution is changing what and how we read. (03/29/2000)

Poison pen By Lawrence Osborne
The execution of writer Robert Brasillach for "intellectual crimes" during World War II raises questions we still don't know how to answer. (03/29/2000)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Keith Knight (03/29/2000)

Nobel dude By William Speed Weed
Kary Mullis revolutionized genetic research but thumbs his nose at the scientific establishment. It thumbs its nose right back. (03/29/2000)

Cruisin' is confusin' By Jack Boulware
A British bereavement group called Cruse will change its name. (03/29/2000)

Letters to the editor
Cintra chews up the Oscars Plus: Should Elian stay or should he go? What's become of Joni Mitchell? (03/29/2000)

When the jailhouse is far from home By Nell Bernstein
Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration. (03/29/2000)

What the NYPD did right By Stanley Crouch
By exercising restraint against rioters after Patrick Dorismond's funeral, the police gave Giuliani a chance to regain the moral high ground -- but will he take it? (03/29/2000)

Locked lips cost lives By Amy Reiter
Daddy defends Lopez from on-set clutches of McConaughey; Bullock remembers said clutches fondly. Plus: Britney beaned, Sheen cleaned. (03/29/2000)

In the land of the Yomiuri Giants By Sasha Issenberg
In Tokyo Wednesday, a group of Americans engaged in a Japanese tradition more than a century old. The Americans are the Mets and the Cubs. The tradition is baseball. (03/29/2000)

Previous vice-presidential polls
(03/29/2000)

Bush's answer: Send teachers, books and money By Jake Tapper
But his plan immediately comes under fire by Gore, who a poll shows is losing the education issue to Bush. (03/29/2000)

Legal immigrants in limbo By Anthony York
While the Supreme Court avoids the issue of their rights, Bush and Gore have broached the subject -- but with great caution. (03/29/2000)

Forbes endorses Bush Compiled by Max Garrone
Bush makes an education proposal, the press is flogged for picking on Gore and Giuliani goes to court. (03/29/2000)

He's tough, but he isn't crazy By Robert A. George
Why does everyone want to put Rudy Giuliani on the couch when he throws a temper tantrum? (03/29/2000)

Opening the dungeon By Wagner James Au
Does game maker Wizards of the Coast really want to create an open-source Dungeons & Dragons, or is it just trying to capitalize on the buzz? (03/29/2000)

What'n the heck is MobShop? By Katharine Mieszkowski
People were making fun of the name of Accompany, so the group-discount shopping site changed it to, um, well ... (03/29/2000)

He's alive! By J.A. Getzlaff
Ghana man attends his own funeral in elaborate scheme to have hospital bills paid. (03/29/2000)

Earthy adventures in Italy By JoAnn C. Gutin
"A Garden in Lucca" offers many blossoms -- and a few thorns. (03/29/2000)

A tale of two cities By David Downie
Two exhibitions, one in London, the other in Paris, offer clashing views of "Paris 1900" -- and 2000. (03/29/2000)

"Buddy Boy" By Andrew O'Hehir
First-time director Mark Hanlon may have watched "Eraserhead" too many times, but he sure knows how to sustain a mood. (03/28/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
Aqua's radio confections match pomo knowingness with sugar-shocked swells. The insidious result: Pop that eats itself. (03/28/2000)

Love and death in Chicago By Jeff Stark
"Waking the Dead" director Keith Gordon on passion, compromise and working for the man. (03/28/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Tuesday, March 28, 2000 (03/28/2000)

Score! By Garrison Keillor
I'm having sex with my daughter's basketball coach and I'm terrified she'll find out. Should I bail out now or go for it? (03/28/2000)

"Passionate Minds" by Claudia Roth Pierpont By Polly Morrice
A writer to reckon with takes on a dozen women who were writers to reckon with. (03/28/2000)

John-John, I kinda knew ye By Craig Offman
And I'm going to make a bundle writing about you. A JFK Jr. underling pens a memoir. (03/28/2000)

The revolution that wasn't By Steven M. Zeitchik
Stephen King's e-book success proves that the new boss will be the same as the old. (03/28/2000)

Story Minute By Carol Lay
Carol Lay (03/28/2000)

Battle of the bra barons By Jack Boulware
There's a cat fight brewing over who is the mother of the latest cleavage creator. (03/28/2000)

The conversation By Jenn Shreve
There comes a time in every relationship when I've got to talk about my rape. (03/28/2000)

Stop raping my loved ones By Andrew Strickman
Dating a victim of sexual assault means learning, awfully, how rape touches everyone. (03/28/2000)

Letters to the editor
Does Napster rob artists? Plus: The secret lives of spokescharacters; switching race on the census. (03/28/2000)

Swag hags By Matthew DeBord
Mothers, driven by impure decorating motives, should not be allowed in bachelor pads. (03/28/2000)

Better dead than red, white and blue By Jeffrey Tayler
By electing Vladimir Putin president, Russians chose a product of the same repressive police state that has cost millions of lives -- because being a superpower is better than being a Western plaything. (03/28/2000)

Rape, robbery and anguish in the new South Africa By Jenefer Shute
I was arrested for fighting apartheid, but what good is freedom if rampant violence terrorizes blacks and whites alike? (03/28/2000)

Vouchers and the law: The rebuttals By Daryl Lindsey
In Round 2 of a Salon debate on school vouchers, our experts exchange barbs. (03/28/2000)

Lessons from "Erin Brockovich" By Joe Conason
If tort reformers like George W. Bush had their way, greedy corporations like California public utility PG&E would still be poisoning their neighbors. (03/28/2000)

Mary Ellen Mark By Andrew Long
With her strongly personal approach, she documents the lives of people on the edges of society -- from the prostitutes of Bombay to the street kids of Seattle to the cowboys of small-town Texas rodeos. (03/28/2000)

Brother's bleeper By Amy Reiter
Just how close are Angelina Jolie and her brother? NP readers want to know. Plus: Singaporean censors muzzle Ally and mouse house lifts mustache ban. (03/28/2000)

Big Al's big idea By Bruce Shapiro
The vice president unveils an original but flawed plan for campaign finance reform. (03/28/2000)

Gore and Bush jostle over reform By Anthony York
The vice president takes up campaign finance, and both parties spin for the upper hand. (03/28/2000)

Forbes to endorse Bush Compiled by Max Garrone
One Reform Party dispute is resolved; Rudy slips and New York gets tense. (03/28/2000)

A Heartwarming Tale of Staggering Generosity By Janelle Brown
Things were looking bleak for McSweeneys.net, until the McSweeneys of Massachusetts jumped in to save the Net zine. (03/28/2000)

Why leave your 'marks online? By Damien Cave
A bevy of companies wants you to move your bookmarks from your browser to the Web, but it's not clear how you'd benefit. (03/28/2000)

Be your own donkey By Rolf Potts
On an innocent walk into the Libyan Desert, our correspondent discovers just how easily fancied adventures can turn into real ones. (03/28/2000)

Quebec hair salon doubled as a brothel By J.A. Getzlaff
Customers got more than haircuts, police say. (03/28/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Joey Sweeney
Celebrating 10 years of David Byrne's Luaka Bop label, "Zero Accidents on the Job" shows how to do world music right. (03/27/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Monday, March 27, 2000 (03/27/2000)

Love hate By Ana Marie Cox
Jennifer Love Hewitt lacks charm, grace and magnetism. How in the world did she end up playing Audrey Hepburn? (03/27/2000)

Oscars 2000 By Cintra Wilson
Untethered hooters! Suave cocksmiths! But even Billy Crystal and Hilary Swank couldn't save a crushingly boring show. (03/27/2000)

Uninformed consent By Rachel Louise Snyder
What's missing from the fine print when students sign up as guinea pigs? (03/27/2000)

Tell-tale hearts By Stewart O'Nan
The author of "A Prayer for the Dying" picks five tales of creeping madness. (03/27/2000)

"Le Mariage" by Diane Johnson By Elizabeth Judd
Yanks abroad and French nationals still bewildering one another in a funny follow-up to the bestselling "Le Divorce." (03/27/2000)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow (03/27/2000)

The hardest question By Jeff Drayer
Even after doing it hundreds of times, it's never easy to ask someone whether they want you to let them die. (03/27/2000)

Bye-bye, pimpmobile By Jack Boulware
What's a guy supposed to do without wheels? (03/27/2000)

Letters to the editor
Bob Jones U. stunt isn't journalism . Plus: A U.S.-Canadian war, eh? Oscar doesn't curse careers. (03/27/2000)

When the revolution comes
We asked for grand plans and we got more than a few. (03/27/2000)

"Humanitarian cease-fire" in the war on drugs By Fiona Morgan
A Maine sheriff wants the Legislature to let authorities dole out confiscated pot to people who need medicinal marijuana. (03/27/2000)

Vouchers and the law By Daryl Lindsey
Experts argue the constitutionality of the school reform movement's most controversial proposal. (03/27/2000)

Keep a Web journal, get fired ... or worse By Jami Attenberg
Sure, you can pour your heart out online, but it may come back to haunt you. (03/27/2000)

Look out! Here comes a sound bite! By Amy Reiter
Being at the Academy Awards has a strange effect on the attendees. Some are moved to eloquence, some to idiocy, while others become just plain insufferable. (03/27/2000)

Stealing thunder By Amy Reiter
How the "Tumbleweeds" cast broke like the wind. Plus: A faux Brad Pitt goes home to Springfield; and "Growing Pains" movie reunion will be Leo-less. (03/27/2000)

Grand delusion By Cary Tennis
And the prize for lamest bunch of partying twits in tuxes goes to ... (03/27/2000)

A "poison" divides us By Alicia Montgomery
The man who has made it a personal mission to destroy affirmative action one state at a time explains why the policy is so damaging. (03/27/2000)

Gore proposes soft-money ban Compiled by Max Garrone
The GOP on why it likes Bush the boomer and early picks in the veepstakes. (03/27/2000)

Even "MacGyver" is no match for an AOL security breach By David Cassel
A computer security consultant loses his Instant Messenger account to a hacker, who finds the screen name too good to give up. (03/27/2000)

Cybersleuth By Mark Compton
Posing as a thief or informing the FBI about hacker behavior -- it's all in a day's work for AntiOnline founder John Vranesevich. (03/27/2000)

Kenyan women storm police station and demand sex By J.A. Getzlaff
"Our men have turned to vegetables," they say. (03/27/2000)

Sling shot By Kate Coleman
My sexologist date put me in a leather sling, in the hopes of inducing the elusive female ejaculation. (03/25/2000)

More Black Panther pain By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Did H. Rap Brown's radical past finally catch up with him? (03/25/2000)

Black and proud By Michael Finley
I'm white, but I told the census I'm African-American. Here's why. (03/25/2000)

Confessions of an awards whore By Steve Burgess
I sneered at the whole cheesy routine until I was nominated for one. Was I thrilled? I was Sally Field squared. (03/25/2000)

Where you find it By Russ Spencer
In a culture of detritus, "American Beauty" screenwriter Alan Ball discovers heartbreaking beauty in garbage. (03/25/2000)

The last Oscar speech By Deanne Stillman
On the night of the Academy Awards one actress will have the courage to stand onstage, her statuette clutched to her bosom, and speak directly from her heart ... (03/25/2000)

Deep in the heart of Clinton country By Suzi Parker
George W. Bush travels to Arkansas' Central High School to tout his education platform. (03/25/2000)

21st Challenge No. 32 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Credos of the high-tech world -- unencrypted! (03/25/2000)

At Copacabana By Mark Jolly
Rio de Janeiro boasts the most famous beach in the world. From dangerous muggers to skimpy ball hangers, the title was hard won. (03/25/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 24-26, 2000 (03/24/2000)

"Romeo Must Die" By Andrew O'Hehir
In this canny and ingeniously crafted action thriller, Jet Li glows with a quiet, unquantifiable something -- and he kicks butt. (03/24/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Dave McCoy
On "The Covers Record," Cat Power strips "Satisfaction" of Jagger's swagger and manages to velvet over the VU. (03/24/2000)

A chat with Mr. Oscar By Bill Wyman
Damien Bona talks about "American Beauty" and Warren Beatty, "Titanic" and Roberto Benigni and more than 70 years of the academy's hits and misses. (03/24/2000)

Artists to Napster: Drop dead! By Eric Boehlert
To many musicians, the MP3 trading software isn't a revolution -- it's a rip-off. (03/24/2000)

"The Invention of the Restaurant" by Rebecca L. Spang By Pete Wells
You didn't know that it was invented, did you? A scholar unearths the unlikely origins. (03/24/2000)

Blond ambition By Ann Marlowe
A cloying, half-baked book on the blond myth can't hold a candle to Helen Gurley Brown's gutsy new memoir, "I'm Wild Again." (03/24/2000)

Getting there By Jacqueline Carey
Are the ends supposed to justify the means? Or is it the other way around? (03/24/2000)

The sound of one leg bowling By Mary Roach
Things you didn't know about amputees. (03/24/2000)

Letters to the editor
The meaning of Jar Jar. Plus: Finally, a paper conservatives can call their own; is the Iditarod animal cruelty? (03/24/2000)

Naked to the world By Pegi Taylor
I've been a nude art model for 20 years. But am I brave enough to hang a photograph of me and my daughter in a gallery? (03/24/2000)

Loony Noonan By Sean Elder
A Wall Street Journal editorialist unloads on Hillary Clinton and shoots herself in the foot. (03/24/2000)

The Mr. Peanut chronicles By Ruth Shalit
Burned by past disasters, icon managers have learned the hard way that the suave mascot must never wear a wetsuit and that Ronald McDonald cannot hang out in bars. (03/24/2000)

Hunger strike in Jericho By Abigail Beshkin and Rob Mank
Fighting Yasser Arafat and a rival branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Sister Maria Stephanopoulos hopes the pope will help in one of the many religious turf wars in the holy lands. (03/24/2000)

Why Elian should stay in the U.S. By Cathy Young
Growing up as "state property" in the Soviet Union convinced me that freedom is as crucial as a father's love. (03/24/2000)

Henry Miller, hot pants and ants By Carlos Amantea
You think you've got problems? The Geezer's gotta cope with the 3 a.m. blues and that dratted Bob Marley. But then there's Flor, the rose of Castille ... (03/24/2000)

Thirsty heart By Amy Reiter
For The Boss, it's gotta be Hellmann's ... and orange bubbly. Plus: More mammarial madness from photogenic Scientologists! And: David Duchovny takes umbrage. (03/24/2000)

Rudy dines out big By Jesse Drucker
Senate hopeful packs in the heavy hitters, hoping to net as much as $1.5 million. (03/24/2000)

Scandals "r" us Compiled by Anthony York
Mysteriously hidden e-mails, Coelho's controversial Lisbon connection and Hillary's own personal Travelgate. (03/24/2000)

McCain's whirlwind week By Jake Tapper
The vanquished GOP contender talks to Salon about his return to the Senate, helping his party and forgiving -- if not forgetting -- the tactics of George W. Bush. (03/24/2000)

POTW POTW
POTW (03/24/2000)

Google: We're down with ODP By Mark Durham
Will the streamlined search engine's decision to mix in the 20,000 editors of the Open Directory Project mess with its mojo? (03/24/2000)

You've got marketing! By Katharine Mieszkowski
For all you Net junkies not sure how to get there, a new free keyboard offers push-button access to AOL. (03/24/2000)

Free Software Project Resources
(03/24/2000)

Russian trainer sells "mercenary" dolphins to Iran By J.A. Getzlaff
The marine mammals were trained to kill. (03/24/2000)

A Black Sea affair By Jeffrey Tayler
On a Soviet cruise ship in 1985, we evaded the KGB agent trying to foil our international interlude. But in the end, we lost, and on a sad Moscow night years later, the truth came out. (03/24/2000)

Big golden-hearted city By Burt Wolf
A traveler's guide to the history and traditions of San Francisco (03/24/2000)

The disc master By Michael Sragow
A conversation with the Criterion Collection's Peter Becker, the man who created the ultimate DVD versions of "Grand Illusion," "This Is Spinal Tap" -- and "Armageddon." (03/23/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
Patti Smith explodes on "Gung Ho," the best record since she returned to rock. Joni Mitchell, meanwhile, collapses under jazz pretense and a ravaged voice. (03/23/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, March 23, 2000 (03/23/2000)

"Waterloo Sunset: Stories" by Ray Davies By Stephanie Zacharek
The legendary leader of the Kinks ventures gamely into fiction. (03/23/2000)

Shrink wars By Sally Eckoff
Dr. Joy may have beaten Dr. Laura to the tube, but she can't win on the bestseller lists. (03/23/2000)

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Ruben Bolling (03/23/2000)

Physicians, heal thyselves By Elkan Allan
The biblical injunction takes on new meaning as British doctors struggle to regain public confidence. (03/23/2000)

Letters to the editor
We don't care about Templegate, Horowitz Plus: Huh? Another subscription will make my life simpler? "Subtle energy researcher" says he'll take homeopathy challenge. (03/23/2000)

Belly wounds By Caroline Leavitt
My tummy is a misshapen battlefield, but I'm not ready to tuck it away. (03/23/2000)

The inner Doughboy By Ruth Shalit
How an army of admen battle to define and protect the true nature of the Jolly Green Giant, the Pillsbury Doughboy and other advertising spokescharacters. (03/23/2000)

Den of thieves By Merrill Goozner
Greedy CEOs like Bank of America's Hugh McColl are squeezing the shareholders for gigantic salaries, no matter how the company is doing. (03/23/2000)

Blame Canada? Hell, let's declare war! By Lance Gould
It's a vile, cold, wooded wasteland populated with propaganda-spewing lumberjacks and their irritating ilk. Who needs it? (03/23/2000)

Why do elephants paint? By Elizabeth Bukowski
Well, because there's a shortage of jobs in the logging industry these days. And, no, as a matter of fact, they don't sell their canvases for peanuts. (03/23/2000)

Monica's got a brand-new bag By Ana Marie Cox
And so, after one long day, do I. (03/23/2000)

Bush gets tough with Gore Compiled by Max Garrone
McCain tells Bush to get back on message, while trial lawyers set their sights on Gore. (03/23/2000)

"Beyond the Charts" By Janelle Brown
Bruce Haring sets out to tell the amazing story of how the MP3 movement turned the recording industry on its head, but misses the beat. (03/23/2000)

"AllThePornYouCanEat.Com" By Kaitlin Quistgaard
The increasingly humorless dot-com industry inspires a DIY revolution -- and lots of witty domain names. (03/23/2000)

Geeks to the rescue! By Katharine Mieszkowski
Three programmers try to spark a grass-roots movement on the Net to save global satellite network Iridium from a fiery death in space. (03/23/2000)

Bali's day of silence By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert offers tips on a Balinese holiday, flying with hamsters and car-rental insurance. (03/23/2000)

For sale: Denmark's Tivoli Gardens By J.A. Getzlaff
Mickey Mouse and Michael Jackson are potential buyers. (03/23/2000)

The perfect pasta sauce By Laura Fraser
At an Aeolian restaurant, two Italian men offer an American woman the ultimate challenge. (03/23/2000)

Who in the world watches the Oscars? By Lance Gould
The Academy Awards program claims to have billions of viewers in hundreds of countries. The truth is somewhat different. (03/22/2000)

George Lucas' Jedi mind trick By Alynda Wheat
The filmmaker says that we have to accept responsibility for our actions. So why can't he own up to his racist stereotypes? (03/22/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Amanda Nowinski
The three-disc "Points of Light" comp flies off to an expansive, airy space -- somewhere between jungle, jazz-fusion and outer space. (03/22/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, March 22, 2000 (03/22/2000)

Winners and losers By Donna Freydkin
Why have so many actors who've won Oscars seen their careers tank? (03/22/2000)

Makin' out at Bob Jones U. By Daniel Kraus
I lied so I could sin. But I need to thaw in hell after Bob Jones' deepfreeze. (03/22/2000)

"Altar Music" by Christin Lore Weber By Mary Elizabeth Williams
An ex-sister's tale of sexually confused priests and predatory nuns. (03/22/2000)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Keith Knight (03/22/2000)

Anger test
What do you do when you're mad? (03/22/2000)

Getting mad By Amy Standen
A new study shows women can keep anger in and still be OK. (03/22/2000)

Supreme Court rules on tobacco regulation By David McGuire
The next move will come from Congress. (03/22/2000)

Letters to the editor
Readers defend Scouts' honor Plus: Parsing the pope's apology; how revolutionary is broadband? (03/22/2000)

The story of your grandmothers By Susan Straight
It is the stuff of tragedy and myths and fairy tales. (03/22/2000)

Pilgrimage and public relations By Flore de Preneuf
Pope John Paul's historic visit to Israel is supposed to spread a message of peace, but Israeli and Palestinian spinmeisters are standing by to read in support of their causes. (03/22/2000)

Much ado about nothing By Bruce Shapiro
Inside the sweetheart deal the White House made for Smith & Wesson. (03/22/2000)

Hugs 'n' drugs By Amy Reiter
Mackenzie Phillips: "My father taught me how to shoot up"; Halle Berry: Why do bad drivers happen to good dogs? Plus: Mariah Carey says ninth-graders are hotter than she is! (03/22/2000)

Where the boys are By Jessica Hundley
A new wave of films shows a fresh element in filmmaking: The sexualization of the male actor by the female director. (03/22/2000)

Why Howard Safir must go By Jonathan Foreman
Rudy Giuliani's police commissioner has offered nothing but knee-jerk support for police officers who have killed three unarmed black men in 13 months. He should resign. (03/22/2000)

Rudy's favorite smear: You're nuts! By Anna Holmes
But what does his penchant for psychobabble tell us about the mayor's own mental health? (03/22/2000)

Has Rudy gone too far? By Jesse Drucker
Hillary Clinton attacks the mayor, and the race's two big issues -- Al Sharpton and Giuliani's anger -- take center stage. (03/22/2000)

Slugfest in New York Compiled by Max Garrone
Hillary and Rudy struggle to define each other in the wake of a police shooting and why Buchanan lights up the campaign. (03/22/2000)

Harper's bizarre By Janelle Brown
Where are the pizza boxes and polo shirts? A fashion mag shoots Silicon Valley and finds Prada in the cubes. (03/22/2000)

Howl.com By Thomas Scoville
(with apologies to Allen Ginsberg) (03/22/2000)

The odyssey of "Genghis Blues" By Jennifer New
The tale behind the Oscar-nominated documentary is as extraordinary as the Tuvan throat-singers it celebrates. (03/22/2000)

Swedish politician moonlights as a porn star By J.A. Getzlaff
The Leftist Party may oust him for his controversial extracurricular activities. (03/22/2000)

Monster mush? By Sally Eckhoff
The Alaskan Iditarod is supposed to be about huskies having fun, but that's not what animal rights groups think. (03/22/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Tuesday, March 21, 2000 (03/21/2000)

Behind "Behind the Music" By Julia Goldberg
Is there a VH1 special in your future? Take this simple quiz and find out now! (03/21/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
Pedro the Lion's acoustic pop aims to reconcile evil, pain and weakness with belief and compassion. (03/21/2000)

Dance of destruction By Garrison Keillor
My husband was charming and funny until I became successful; now his anger and resentment frighten me. Should I give up on him? (03/21/2000)

Pop stardom vs. deathless prose By Anthony S. Brandt
Is Stephen King as important as Toni Morrison? Is Danielle Steel our Dickens? It all depends on how you measure. (03/21/2000)

"Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed" by Dean King By Ian Williams
The bestselling novelist wasn't, it turns out, the man he claimed to be. (03/21/2000)

Story Minute By Carol Lay
Carol Lay (03/21/2000)

Mike Nichols, what planet are you from? By Virginia Vitzthum
In his latest dissection of the gender gap, the director of the great "Carnal Knowledge" trades earnest sexual consideration for a cheap, vibrating sight gag. (03/21/2000)

Letters to the editor
Homeopathy is quackery, cry experts. Plus: Are liberals wrong about guns? George W. doesn't have what it takes. (03/21/2000)

My daddy's gardens By Sunny Hemphill
They were a sign that he would keep his job for a while and we'd have food on the table. (03/21/2000)

Sunny's delectable fried okra By Sunny Hemphill
It's hellish in the picking, divine in the eating. (03/21/2000)

The San Francisco Examiner, 1887-2000 By Scott Rosenberg
Underfunded and outmanned, the scrappy afternoon paper could sometimes prevail over the competition -- but couldn't survive its own mismanagement. (03/21/2000)

Details goes bust By Sean Elder
It was gay then gender-bending then pure guy. Now, flailing for an identity, it's just gone. (03/21/2000)

P is for Prozac By Arianna Huffington
How a government corrupted by special interests is spawning a generation of medicated preschoolers. (03/21/2000)

Will Taiwan's president-elect defuse tension with China? By Brent Hannon
Chinese leaders say no to a proposal for peace talks as equals. (03/21/2000)

Throwing eggs at "Mr. Democracy" By Chris Taylor
After losing the election, Taiwanese Nationalists blame their party's leader for betraying the unification dream modern Taiwan has already abandoned. (03/21/2000)

And the weiner is ... By Carina Chocano
Opinions are like Oscars -- everyone's entitled to one. (03/21/2000)

Timothy Ferris By William Speed Weed
Disregarding our illusory firewalls of thought, he boldly goes where no science writer has gone before. (03/21/2000)

Another one cites the bust By Amy Reiter
"Love my breasts" disease strikes Zeta-Jones; Hef's a uniter, not a divider; and Beck on why he was bullied ... but in a fair way. (03/21/2000)

Salon's Politics2000 launch party  
  (03/21/2000)

McCain back to work Compiled by Max Garrone
Frugal Gore tops Bush in money, the NRA likes the polls and Buchanan still isn't taking it anymore. (03/21/2000)

My dot-com business mags have fallen on me and I can't get up! By Katharine Mieszkowski
Ad-fat magazines like the Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and the Red Herring have swelled to telephone-book size. But who has time to read 3,000 pages a month? (03/21/2000)

The sky's the limit By Elliott Neal Hester
Flight attendants can fly anywhere for almost nothing -- but sometimes, there's a catch. (03/21/2000)

Beijing forbids sex and the West By J.A. Getzlaff
Government bans steamy ads and Western magazines. (03/21/2000)

Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
(03/20/2000)

Warren Beatty By Stephanie Zacharek
The ambitious and radical star -- actor, producer, director -- crafted a remarkable and uncompromising slate of mainstream movies. (03/20/2000)

Sharps & Flats By David Hill
Former Lonesome Stranger Randy Weeks' thin, wobbly voice conveys the pain and emotion of a grown-up cowpunk. (03/20/2000)

Who wants to save a network? By Christina Nunez
New for fall TV -- more buzz, a Gifford embargo and 1 million "Millionaires." (03/20/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Monday, March 20, 2000 (03/20/2000)

The top 10 reasons David Letterman's heart bypass operation was a good thing By Joyce Millman
(03/20/2000)

"The Book of Revelation" by Rupert Thomson By Jonathan Miles
From the English novelist, a tale of brief sexual slavery and the years of dissipation that follow. (03/20/2000)

Abecedarian delights By Jim Lewis
The author of "Why The Tree Loves the Ax" picks five great alphabetical books. (03/20/2000)

The junior Nobel Prize pageant By Lucas Hanft
It was like a dream: One moment I'm in homeroom and the next I'm sipping Shirley Temples on a private jet. (03/20/2000)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow (03/20/2000)

Stress By Robert Burton, M.D.
Act more like a zebra and it won't kill you. (03/20/2000)

Letters to the editor
Does the debunker need debunking? Plus: Up with the Sponge! "Mission to Mars" doesn't get off the ground. (03/20/2000)

Pack of wolves By Stephen G. Bloom
When my son joined the Cub Scouts, I didn't expect him to learn about peckers, pedophiles and Jesus Christ. (03/20/2000)

Clean living By Sean Elder
As Time Inc.'s latest magazine demonstrates, trying to sell the simple life is a slippery task. (03/20/2000)

Templegate By David Horowitz
Al Gore is benefiting from the most massive and dangerous coverup of a fund-raising scandal in the history of our republic. (03/20/2000)

Dead man talking By Ashley Fantz
A death row inmate in Tennessee could be the last to die in Ol' Sparky, unless new evidence can get him a retrial. (03/20/2000)

No gays or abortions allowed in my papers! By Stephen Lemons
Right-wing Catholic David Weyrich prints all the news that fits his agenda. (03/20/2000)

Dirty Gerald By Daniel Kraus
The sheriff of Davidson County, N.C., is a big-screen lawman for a TV nation. (03/20/2000)

Victoria's penitentiary By Linda Robertson
Lingerie or weapon? Off with the underwire bra if you want to go behind bars. (03/20/2000)

Everybody loves Ted By Amy Reiter
The crowd goes wild for Ted Turner at the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation annual banquet and celebration of the First Amendment. The world is indeed full of wonders. Plus! Jennifer Love Hewitt's secret clerical obsession. (03/20/2000)

Colin Powell the untouchable By David Corn
He always tops the GOP vice-president list and is "defined by the word 'trust.'" So when will he face questions about his honesty? (03/20/2000)

Bush's secret weapon By Steve Kettmann
Condoleezza Rice discusses her candidate's strong foreign policy convictions, but it's clear she's the brains of the operation. (03/20/2000)

Is Bush really a reformer? Compiled by Max Garrone
He tries to regain the compassionate-conservative mantle, the gun wars escalate and McCain returns to the Senate. (03/20/2000)

John McCain returns By Alicia Montgomery
The Arizona senator goes back to work on Capitol Hill in a day crowded with the media but light on news. (03/20/2000)

Don't shoot that iMac! By Lydia Lee
Online reviewers convince Epinions not to run a TV ad featuring a Mac being blown to smithereens by a PC lover. (03/20/2000)

Vote naked in the privacy of your own home! By Lydia Lee
While Arizona Democrats cast online ballots in the primary, Election.com CEO Joe Mohen patrolled the virtual booths for illegal hanky-panky. (03/20/2000)

Colombian woman caught with cocaine in her unmentionables By J.A. Getzlaff
Smuggler's bra-stuffing scheme will cost her big. (03/20/2000)

The voices in my head By Cary Tennis
They've been narrating my sexual fantasies and calling me names since I was 9, and that's ... OK. (03/18/2000)

Indictments issued in Sacramento synagogue arsons By Sam Stanton and Gary Delsohn
Two months after one of the suspects admitted to the crimes, the Justice Department finally acts in a high-profile hate case. (03/18/2000)

Warren Zevon By David Bowman
The man who brought us "Lawyers, Guns and Money" talks about everything but. (03/18/2000)

The Flockhart-Winslet Liberation Front By Amy Reiter
Hollywood's favorite girl-gripe is back! What do savvy Hollywood insiders do when they see Halle Berry's car coming? Run! Plus: Sally Jessy Raphakl producer busted in on-set after-hours porn scandal! (03/18/2000)

I love a parade By Jesse Drucker
Hillary marches in the St. Patrick's Day parade, braving the snow, Rudy and catcalls from the left and the right. (03/18/2000)

Back from the brink By Anthony York
Bush keeps a California office after all, trying to reassure Golden State Republicans he won't give up on the state. (03/18/2000)

Algorithm and blues By Thomas Scoville
Are you to blame for the hideous dot-commification of planet Earth? The algorithm method could prevent further contributions to this mess. (03/18/2000)

Why we travel By Pico Iyer
It whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head. (03/18/2000)

"Erin Brockovich" By Charles Taylor
In this sexy, exciting legal drama, Steven Soderbergh delivers his most straightforward movie -- and Julia Roberts her best performance. (03/17/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 17-19, 2000 (03/17/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Joseph Patel
The positive hip-hop of Blackalicious and Anti-Pop Consortium celebrates hip-hop past, present and future. (03/17/2000)

Idea epidemics By Gavin McNett
In "The Tipping Point," Malcolm Gladwell makes a valuable contribution to the literature of contagion. But is it worth its $1 million advance? (03/17/2000)

"A Plague of Frogs: The Horrifying True Story" by William Souder By Edward Neuert
Does a sudden upsurge of five-legged croakers spell the end of the world? (03/17/2000)

A drinking rant By David Bowman
A former bartender on amateurs, hangovers, Russians and believing you're Irish. (03/17/2000)

Letters to the editor
Should gays pack heat? Plus: Feminism is dangerous to women? Baloney! Methadone won't work alone. (03/17/2000)

I miss lesbian reproductive sex By Laurie Essig
Little purple sticks, big metal tanks and doing it whether we wanted to or not -- now that's hot. (03/17/2000)

Angels of justice By Alicia Montgomery
Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates. (03/17/2000)

Banned in Boston? By Kenneth Rapoza
A rumor that the city's housing authority targeted shamrocks as hate symbols just wouldn't die in embattled Southie. (03/17/2000)

Thirty reasons why By David Goodman
See, I say to myself, even your parents expect you to be rocking in Vegas on your 30th birthday. (03/17/2000)

Rejection made easy By Stephen J. Lyons
This exciting new tutorial provides quick, clear, step-by-step instructions on how to tell hopeful writers that their chances are hopeless. (03/17/2000)

A dress makes the heart grow Fonda By Amy Reiter
Julia feels for HRC; Jane falls for Vera Wang. Plus: Will she or won't she? 'Course she will! Darva Conger makes it last and last. And: Hoax on us! Esquire's fabricated "It" girl now actual "It" girl. (03/17/2000)

Bush retreats on McCain By Max Garrone
Filegate debunked, Gore sets up summer attacks, Bob Jones again and the "Body" dispenses Minnesota-style straight talk. (03/17/2000)

Post of the Week Post of the Week
Post of the Week (03/17/2000)

Give my regards to broadband By Scott Rosenberg
High-speed access is great -- but it doesn't turn the Internet back into TV. (03/17/2000)

Greyscale paradise By Janelle Brown
At Soulbath, a British design firm creates an ASCII wonderland. (03/17/2000)

Poland moves to ban skin flicks and magazines By J.A. Getzlaff
Parliament approves the conservative bill. (03/17/2000)

No pain, no pleasure By S. Forester Hayes
For exhibitors and tasters at the annual Fiery Foods Show, merely tongue-numbing is sissy stuff. (03/17/2000)

How I lost my man in Cameroon By Shana Liebman
In New York, he was a failure. But here, he was a king. (03/17/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Alex Pappademas
Beck's Kraftwerk-meets-Kraft-cheese funk -- and more audio fromage from Sonic Youth, Pavement, Cibo Matto and Air -- on "At Home With the Groovebox." (03/16/2000)

Cinema cage match! By Michael Sragow
A longtime writer for Eddie Murphy directs an alluring doc on the weird world of pro wrestling. Why is WWF capo Vince McMahon trying to pile-drive it? (03/16/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, March 16, 2000 (03/16/2000)

A nerd's rhapsody By Ray Sawhill
In defense of "Mission to Mars." (03/16/2000)

Skull wars By Lawrence Osborne
Native American activists battle scientists for bones that may prove they had white ancestors. (03/16/2000)

"Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quiñonez By Anderson Tepper
A streetwise, darkly lyrical first novel celebrates Spanish Harlem. (03/16/2000)

Pauline Kael on the fun of writing disrespectfully By Pauline Kael
The movie critic's speech for the National Book Critics Circle awards. (03/16/2000)

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Ruben Bolling (03/16/2000)

Homeopathy By Debra Ollivier
It's not wizardry; in fact, it's based on the same principle as vaccination. (03/16/2000)

Letters to the editor
Readers squawk over Conason's offer of crow Plus: Electronic music isn't dead; a new club for Bush watchers. (03/16/2000)

Power play By Amy Sunshine
What kind of kid would break up with his mother? Mine, apparently. (03/16/2000)

Esquire redux By Sean Elder
The monthly sweeps five National Magazine Award nominations, but its resurrection is still a work in progress. (03/16/2000)

Venus envy By Jami Attenberg
As my perfect breasts begin to lose their bounce, I find myself taking young Hollywood perkiness personally. (03/16/2000)

Sally get out the hoses By Amy Reiter
Sally Jessy Raphaël producer busted in on-set after-hours porn scandal. And now this: Mark Fuhrman's opinions on TV; Britney Spears disgorges in print. (03/16/2000)

The Negro Problem By Cintra Wilson
Yes, there is life outside the L.A. music biz; two self-made troubadours tell how (and why) they live it. (03/16/2000)

Republicans rebuff Bush By Max Garrone and Anthony York
McCain to get his own PAC, Democrats and Republicans working together and the Bush campaign's kosher faux pas. (03/16/2000)

The $6 million man By Mark Kukis
From golfing with Jack Nicholson to rubber-chicken dinners in Ohio, President Clinton's full-time fund-raising tour is tough for anybody to keep up with. Especially the GOP. (03/16/2000)

Does W. have a death wish? By Joan Walsh
Yes: The swaggering bully doesn't want the job enough to reach out to John McCain. (03/16/2000)

Does W. have a death wish? By Anthony York
No: His handlers should back off and let the guy be his own man. (03/16/2000)

Patently Bezos By Damien Cave
The Amazon CEO's plan for patent reform is not all new, but it's not all bad, either. (03/16/2000)

Cruising the Mediterranean By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert offers tips on small cruise ships, Grand Canyon white-water trips and swimming with dolphins. (03/16/2000)

Dead fish stink up Rio's Carnival By J.A. Getzlaff
Polluted harbor has partyers holding their noses. (03/16/2000)

"T for Texas/T for Tennessee" By Sarah Vowell
From "Waltz Across Texas" to "The Tennessee Waltz": Will Bush or Gore dance his way to the White House? (03/15/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Jon Caramanica
Hyped hip-hop star Beanie Sigel tells "The Truth," the whole truth and everything but the truth. (03/15/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, March 15, 2000 (03/15/2000)

"Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People" by John Conroy By Patricia Kean
Why do torturers torture? An author goes in search of answers. (03/15/2000)

I was a bad pornographer By Fiona Maazel
What a shock it was to discover I didn't have a clue how to write dirty prose. (03/15/2000)

The Scrooge of science By Jennifer Ouellette
In his book "Voodoo Science," physicist Robert Park responds to alternative medicine and cold fusion with a resounding "Bah, humbug!" (03/15/2000)

Keith Knight By Keith Knight
Keith Knight (03/15/2000)

Spongeworthiness By Jenn Shreve
The Today Sponge survives the strange saga of its five-year disappearance. (03/15/2000)

Letters to the editor
Left, right, left: Who will march for gun control? Plus: Pine Ridge is off the media's map; Palestinian poetry doesn't belong in Israeli classrooms. (03/15/2000)

Divorce karma By Lee Uttmark Wicks
My husband dumped me for a very young, very beautiful woman. Then his new love dumped him -- for another woman. (03/15/2000)

The return of the dead-tree media By Sean Elder
Analysts are comparing the merger of Times Mirror and the Tribune Company to AOL-Time Warner, but the combined company looks more like an industrial age holdout than a 21st century media giant. (03/15/2000)

Addicted to violence By Stanley Crouch
American culture and politics have glorified violence for years. So why are we surprised when 6-year-olds kill? (03/15/2000)

Paranoid city By Laura Rozen
Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again. (03/15/2000)

Drug money By Arianna Huffington
With our foreign policy toward Colombia hogtied by campaign finance and business interests, the war on drugs could be better waged against Washington. (03/15/2000)

Sometimes sorry isn't good enough By Colman McCarthy
The pope's vague act of contrition does nothing to address the Vatican's pro-war policies. (03/15/2000)

Take my wife, please By James Hibberd
After his televised nuptial debacle, quasi-multimillionaire and erstwhile groom Rick Rockwell milks it -- for a lot less comedy than it's worth. (03/15/2000)

Halle on wheels By Amy Reiter
What do savvy Hollywood insiders do when they see Halle Berry's car coming? Run. Plus: Sex and the senior gal Helen Gurley Brown's still milking it after all these years. (03/15/2000)

The pussy-whipped princelings of the press corps By Camille Paglia
Shame on the media for mistaking a stunted Uriah Heep for a real man; all hail Rush Limbaugh's cultural indispensability! (03/15/2000)

The trouble with the Whitneys By Frank Houston
Artwork that slams Rudy Giuliani's reaction to "Sensation" leads to a little dynastic squabble that may cause the family to withdraw its name -- and not-so-little fortune -- from the museum. (03/15/2000)

Southern sweep on "Stupid Tuesday" By Max Garrone
Another presidential contender, the latest on Bob Jones, more on guns and gas and politicians as porn stars. (03/15/2000)

Gore's met the enemy By Bruce Shapiro
The vice president's multiple fund-raising scandals don't add up to much legally or politically until you factor in his ability to stick his foot in his mouth. (03/15/2000)

Enter to Win Your Own Salon.com Presidential Action Figures
EXCLUSIVE. AS SEEN ON T.V. (03/15/2000)

Did AOL eat Gnutella for lunch? By Janelle Brown
Nullsoft's engineers released a Napster clone without America Online's permission. The media got a peek and then the site was gone. (03/15/2000)

The crime scene By Jenn Shreve
What good is a site that lets Oakland, Calif., residents check on neighborhood crime stats if the people in those neighborhoods aren't online? (03/15/2000)

The Net as canvas By Janelle Brown
Web art is being included in this year's Whitney Biennial, but will the museum's validation make it any easier to buy, sell or even define Internet art? (03/15/2000)

Uncovering Cairo By Rolf Potts
In which our correspondent makes rabbit stew, views an Egyptian film comedy about America and sees the pyramids in a new light. (03/15/2000)

Bird's-eye view By José Klein
On the way to film school, I spent a week in the former Yugoslavia. Amid the rubble, I found that movies provide a strange entree to real-life devastation. (03/15/2000)

Thailand bans caffeine By J.A. Getzlaff
No more coffee or tea in the country's northern provinces, in an attempt to curb methamphetamine manufacturers. (03/15/2000)

Oscar Watch tk
Salon's critics consider the Oscar-nominated movies of 1999. (03/14/2000)

Sophisticated skank By Gary Kamiya
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker return with the first new Steely Dan album in 20 years. (03/14/2000)

Who sold out electronic music? By Michelle Goldberg
Did a Rhino rave compilation kill the subculture? Sure, except that it was never a subculture to begin with. (03/14/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Andy Battaglia
What happens when a band like Oasis, known for youthful swagger and insouciance, actually grow up? You fall asleep of boredom. (03/14/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, March 14, 2000 (03/14/2000)

Scooping the Oscars By Joe Mader
Does the Wall Street Journal know who will win? Not if the academy can help it. (03/14/2000)

Brotherly love By Dan Savage
Dave Eggers' memoir, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," has charms to break the Savage heart. (03/14/2000)

"Use Me" by Elissa Schappell By Stephanie Zacharek
A disarming debut collection tracks a woman's life from teenage passion to grown-up grief. (03/14/2000)

Story Minute by Carol Lay
Carol Lay (03/14/2000)

Methadone Rx By Harry Jaffe
Your local pharmacy may be the next place to treat heroin addicts. (03/14/2000)

Letters to the editor
Pediatric psychiatric drugs aren't a panacea Plus: Camille Paglia responds to criticism; are Krispy Kreme donuts literally addictive? (03/14/2000)

Sisterhood is powerless By Jennifer Foote Sweeney and Alisa Smith
How feminism has made men's lives safer -- and women's more dangerous. (03/14/2000)

Fresh feathers, Mr. Safire? By Joe Conason
You always wanted to have your crow and eat it too on the Clinton scandals, so now it's time for you to keep your word. (03/14/2000)

Pink pistols By Jonathan Rauch
The gay movement often portrays homosexuals as helpless victims. Here's an alternative: Arm them. (03/14/2000)

"Hey Nineteen" By Steve Burgess
Hearing Steely Dan's new single sent me back to adolescence and reminded me of the future I had forgotten. (03/14/2000)

Bobby "Blue" Bland By Sean Elder
A master musician with extraordinary staying power, for decades his evocative vocal style has taken the blues out of the barroom and into the bedroom. (03/14/2000)

Gobsmacked II By Amy Reiter
Rupert Everett muses on transubstantiation; Trevor-Rees Jones dabbles in exploitation; Julia Roberts half-naked before the nation. We're gobsmacked! (03/14/2000)

Smoke and mirrors By David Horowitz
When Gore says he wants to ban "soft money" what he's really trying to do is divert attention from his role in the biggest fund-raising scandal in history. (03/14/2000)

Hillary spurns her roots By Max Garrone
Money, money everywhere, Bob Jones University as national issue, a nasty spat over guns and more on campaign finance reform. [UPDATED] (03/14/2000)

Look away, Dixieland By Suzi Parker
George W. Bush and Al Gore are coasting in the latest primaries, which are now just formalities. (03/14/2000)

Why I'm still scribbling for a living By Chris Nolan
When a stock trade cost me my job writing about Silicon Valley, everyone assumed I would join a dot-com and get rich. But I'm a newspaper journalist. (03/14/2000)

Backpackers' ball at the Sultan Hotel By Rolf Potts
With Flaubert's 1850 letters as a guide, our correspondent explores the enduring allure of opera, orgasm, belly-dancing and other Cairo clichis. (03/14/2000)

New York will shock pigeons By J.A. Getzlaff
The dirty birds are to receive non-lethal electric treatment. (03/14/2000)

Island fever By Dylan James
I was willing to spring my gay porn past on my unsuspecting family if it would get me on the TV show "Survivor." But would it? (03/13/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Monday, March 13, 2000 (03/13/2000)

The wacky world of television By Gavin McNett
On American game shows, you answer questions and win money. In the rest of the world, you get naked and bob for false teeth in a bucket of pig eyeballs. (03/13/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Don McLeese
On Rhino's exhaustive "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions," the Stooges obliterate the line between dumb joke and visionary achievement. (03/13/2000)

Age and the academy By Jeff Stark
A new study of Oscar nominees shows that older guys and younger women get the statuettes. (03/13/2000)

"Mondo Desperado" by Patrick McCabe By Austin Bunn
By the author of "The Butcher Boy," a collection of stories pitch-black down to their funny Irish toes. (03/13/2000)

Ruling passions By Jeffrey Toobin
The bestselling author of "A Vast Conspiracy" picks five favorite political books. (03/13/2000)

Trading places By Michael Alvear
When traditionally privileged professors are the campus minority, they turn into white panthers. (03/13/2000)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow (03/13/2000)

Going Dutch By David Downie
Can America learn from the Netherlands' drug policy of tolerance and ambiguity? (03/13/2000)

A child shoots a child By Beth Broeker
It isn't about guns; it's about neglect. (03/13/2000)

What a few good women can do By Jean Hanff Korelitz
On Mother's Day, a million mothers will march for gun control. (03/13/2000)

The magic's gone By Sean Elder
What will the all-news networks do now that the McCain and Bradley dramas are over? (03/13/2000)

"Who the hell cares?" By David Horowitz
The lead investigator in the murder of 6-year-old Kayla Rolland asks me what race has to do with it. (03/13/2000)

Bury the news at Wounded Knee By Julie Winokur
In the poorest county in America, you can take over the government and the media won't even notice. (03/13/2000)

When liberals lie about guns By Cathy Young
Zealots are polarizing the debate over how to stop violent crime -- and whether firearms can help. (03/13/2000)

Throw me a quote By Stephanie Gregory
All I needed were a few pithy comments from celebs on the subject of sports gear. After hundreds of messages, I've finally realized that Hollywood doesn't like me. (03/13/2000)

"The Real Island" By Carina Chocano
It's not what you know, but who you know -- and what they think of your hair -- that determines whether you'll survive! (03/13/2000)

Re-heat after me By Amy Reiter
Hollywood's favorite girl-gripe is back! Also: Dino De Laurentiis gets cranky about Clarice; Chrissie Hynde's gonna use her knife; and Paul MCartney shakes his bootie on the bar at Hogs and Heifers. (03/13/2000)

Can Bush carry California? By Anthony York
He'll need the support of Latinos, but his campaign is giving mixed signals about how hard it plans to fight. (03/13/2000)

Rudy does "Saturday Night Fever" By Max Garrone
Giuliani gets down in drag, Bush and Gore go at it and journalists are desperate without McCain. (03/13/2000)

John McCain's loyalty test By Arianna Huffington
Should he return to the GOP "Death Star" or make a third-party run? (03/13/2000)

Travel to Jamaica!
(03/13/2000)

Thoroughly modern eMillie By Penny Perkins
In the land of e-everything, parents practice the e-naming of Gen E babies: eLiza, eThan -- anything with an e-prefix. (03/13/2000)

The privacy police? By Lydia Lee
TRUSTe CEO Bob Lewin explains how even sites selling personal data can get the nonprofit's privacy seal of approval. (03/13/2000)

Germany OKs drug-injection rooms By J.A. Getzlaff
Heroin users can shoot up off the streets, unless the U.N. has its way. (03/13/2000)

Former George editor peddles JFK Jr. memoir By Craig Offman
He fired contributors then for what he's doing now. (03/11/2000)

The Rembrandt of pulp By Denise Dowling
John Willie's bondage illustrations made hurting look so good. (03/11/2000)

Letters to the editor
Not-so-super Tuesday Plus: Beware gang green; female-to-male conference wasn't just about sex. (03/11/2000)

The Palestinian verses By Flore de Preneuf
The teaching of lyrical poetry by a former PLO leader throws Israel's government for a loop. (03/11/2000)

Jawboning with Snakeburger By Bryan Mealer
A conversation with the man the rattlesnakes love to sink their teeth into. (03/11/2000)

Sex, flames, egos and eggs By Amy Reiter
Extra! Extra! Sharon Stone's just like a lesbian, except not a lesbian; online columnist death match! Walls and Drudge duke it out on Page Six; Plus: Salman Rushdie goes to Hollywood. (03/11/2000)

The McCain paradox By Daryl Lindsey
His insurgent campaign drove up Republican turnout -- but that may have helped to defeat him. (03/11/2000)

21st Challenge No. 31 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
"Pez Dispens'd" and other couplets in praise of tech gadgets. (03/11/2000)

Naxos nights By Laurie Gough
A lotus-eating stay on a Greek island ends with a life-changing midnight encounter. (03/11/2000)

The writing on the wall By Apollinaire Scherr
Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt doesn't do his own work, doesn't make originals and doesn't follow his own rules. Thirty years on, he's still making people nervous. (03/10/2000)

"Mission to Mars" By Andrew O'Hehir
In space, no one can hear you jeer. (03/10/2000)

"The Ninth Gate" By Charles Taylor
Johnny Depp stars in Roman Polanski's newest, an amusing and deadpan literary thriller. (03/10/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 10-12, 2000 (03/10/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Lydia Vanderloo
The sad, dangerous sounds of the Dirty Three capture the wisdom of pain and experience. (03/10/2000)

"Disney, we have a problem" By the Salon arts staff
Film critics hoot at Brian De Palma's $100 million space epic. (03/10/2000)

My book for dummies By Katharine Weber
Did I really want a reading group guide telling people how to read my novel? (03/10/2000)

"Burt Lancaster: An American Life" by Kate Buford By Daniel Mangin
This gorgeous hunk with a limited range became one of the finest and best-loved actors in Hollywood. (03/10/2000)

Earthly desires By Melanie Rehak
Gorgeous new poems about human entanglements and the fantasy of escape. (03/10/2000)

Psych meds for kids: Too much, too soon? By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D.
Some psychiatric drugs do help children, but school and family are crucial, too. (03/10/2000)

Hepatitis C sweeps Egypt By Arthur Allen
The epidemic is thought to have been caused by anti-parasitic shots given decades ago. (03/10/2000)

Letters to the editor
Hey, Horowitz: Gun locks are about safety, not ideology. Plus: Is LASIK all the better to see with? Deepak Chopra's legal battles do not diminish his spirituality. (03/10/2000)

My brother's keeper By Chris Colin
I have saved him all my life, but now there are too many miles between me and the paraded condoms, the muffled awe. (03/10/2000)

Conduct unbecoming By Dave Cullen
A new report details the sharp increase in harassment of gays in the military. (03/10/2000)

Fred's dead. Or is he? By Carlos Amantea
In Puerto Perdido they're still talking about the double death of Captain Hook, going buggy with machetes and the penalty for unholy hanky-panky. (03/10/2000)

Egomania! By Amy Reiter
Lucianne Goldberg's is monumental; Judge Jerry's is bigger than Judge Judy's; Rick Rockwell's is black-and-blue; but Muhammad Ali's is definitely the greatest of all time. (03/10/2000)

Bush's Faustian bargain By David Corn
Why was George W. allied with a man who called his father, the former president, a tool of Satan? (03/10/2000)

He'll be back By Jake Tapper
John McCain keeps his exit strategy vague. But George Bush's problems with his vanquished rival aren't over. (03/10/2000)

Second acts and new attacks By Max Garrone
Hillary and Gore under fire, Bradley and McCain refrain from open anger, Bush starts a new attack and a portrait of Giuliani places him in the Third Reich. [UPDATED] (03/10/2000)

Thanks, but no thanks By Samuel G. Freedman
Catholics are too successful and secure in their identity as Americans to fall for McCain's attempt to paint them as "victims" of the Bob Jones fringe. (03/10/2000)

Post of the Week Post of the Week
Post of the Week (03/10/2000)

Tim & Jeff's excellent patent show By Damien Cave
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, after a discussion with publisher Tim O'Reilly, calls for patent reform -- while clinging to those his company has. (03/10/2000)

Their names are legion By Scott Rosenberg
The Verisign-Network Solutions deal shows how the scramble for domain-name turf has gone from frenzy to insanity. (03/10/2000)

Dungeons & Dragons to go open-source? By Andrew Leonard
A gaming executive ponders an "open gaming license" for role-playing games. (03/10/2000)

Holy pastry By Thomas Scoville
What is the sound of one hand eating a doughnut? Angelenos make a spiritual journey to a jammed Krispy Kreme. (03/10/2000)

Krazy kravings By Mary MacVean
L.A. lines up for Krispy Kreme and other doughnut spots. (03/10/2000)

Belarus cracks down on bottle traders By J.A. Getzlaff
Customs officials stop empty bottles from crossing borders. (03/10/2000)

Haunted honeymoon By Ann Reavis
What's with the homicidal drug-dealing hotel manager? After 50 years, certain things have changed at this Italian honeymoon spot. (03/10/2000)

"Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" By Stephanie Zacharek
Jim Jarmusch adds lyrical violence to a Zen meditation on warriors hip-hop and ancient. (03/09/2000)

Sharps & Flats By David Cantwell
Zen cowboy Jimmie Dale Gilmore expresses the beauty of sadness and the perfection of sorrow. (03/09/2000)

The secret behind "Boys Don't Cry" By Michael Sragow
Director Kimberly Peirce says it's fun -- until the bitter end. (03/09/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, March 9, 2000 (03/09/2000)

Green market By Tom Gogola
Conservative Peter Huber says capitalism can save the environment, but he's fudging the bottom line. (03/09/2000)

"On Parole" by Akira Yoshimura By Emily Gordon
A bestselling Japanese novelist depicts the grim aftermath of a grisly crime. (03/09/2000)

Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling
Ruben Bolling (03/09/2000)

Kids on drugs By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D.
A behavioral pediatrician questions the wisdom of medicating our children. (03/09/2000)

Letters to the editor Letters to the editor
Author Joe McGinniss says Janet Malcolm's opus is "riddled with errors." Plus: "Freaks and Geeks" is head of the class; should genes be patented? (03/09/2000)

Witness for the persecution By Kate Moses
Croatian novelist and journalist Slavenka Drakulic tells a story of breathtaking brutality. We interview her about her new novel and her experiences. (03/09/2000)

"Terminus" By Nicholas Christopher
A harrowing poem about rape and murder in the Balkans. (03/09/2000)

Tom Robbins By Tracy Johnson
As new waves of 20-year-olds wash up on his shores, the favorite novelist of the attitudinal post-adolescent set keeps writing with a pen dipped in acid. (03/09/2000)

Salman and the sea of offers By Amy Reiter
Rushdie goes to Hollywood; Fiona Apple's tantrum apology ... Mea culpa? Not mea culpa? Hard to say; and Jennifer Lopez finds creative new uses for male pattern baldness. (03/09/2000)

Made for each other By Jason Vest
Why do residents in a depressed corner of the Midwest keep sending back to Washington the man perhaps least likely to improve their fate? (03/09/2000)

Bradley and McCain bow out Compiled by Max Garrone
[UPDATED] Giuliani's shadowy finances, pundits react to McCain while candidates scramble to be like him and V.P. speculation sweeps the nation. (03/09/2000)

"Dollar Bill" never sold out By Anthony York
He was an honorable antidote to Clinton, but for an electorate conditioned to empathy from their leaders, Bradley didn't work. (03/09/2000)

Debut of a sexy new plaything By Moira Muldoon
Sony's PlayStation2 is a hot seller at its Japan launch, but how will it stack up against Sega's Dreamcast? (03/09/2000)

Maybe the Net doesn't change everything By Katharine Mieszkowski
In "The Social Life of Information," John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid send technology futurists back to reexamine their crystal ball. (03/09/2000)

Olympics or bust By Donald D. Groff
Expert advice on cheap flights to Sydney, plus arranging a Tuscany tour and getting to the core of the Big Apple. (03/09/2000)

Birthdays all over By Burt Wolf
Next time you sing "Happy Birthday," you'll know what you're singing about. (03/09/2000)

Aussie prostitutes limber up for 2000 Olympics By J.A. Getzlaff
They're ready to entertain Down Under. (03/09/2000)

The John Irving rules By Jeff Stark
Oscar watch: The author of "The Cider House Rules" talks about his Academy Award nomination, abortion and his strange fixation on oral sex. (03/08/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, March 8, 2000 (03/08/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Jon Caramanica
Socially conscious hip-hop pioneers the Jungle Brothers find the dance floor. Pointlessness ensues. (03/08/2000)

The Tao of "Seinfeld" By James Nestor
A sitcom that forbade hugging and learning becomes a tool for teaching Aristotle. Not that there's anything wrong with that. (03/08/2000)

The tell-tale cipher By Jeffery Kurz
Could a mysterious cryptograph be a final message from Edgar Allan Poe? (03/08/2000)

"Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy" by Frances Kiernan By Pam Rosenthal
A host of gossips weighs in on the left-wing scrapper and wickedly erotic novelist. (03/08/2000)

New Geffen bio dishes up some tantrums By Craig Offman
The spat-happy mogul threatened Michael Ovitz and Cher. (03/08/2000)

The K Chronicles by Keith Knight
Keith Knight (03/08/2000)

The LASIK "miracle" By Tate Gunnerson
Thousands of people swear by the laser eye surgery, but are they throwing away their glasses too soon? (03/08/2000)

Letters to the editor Letters to the editor
Are black leaders hypocritical in their response to hate crime? Plus: Limbaugh's rush to judgment on McCain; do teachers necessitate tutors? (03/08/2000)

Abortions in TV land By Audrey Fisch
Good girls don't get them; bad girls do and pay a price. (03/08/2000)

Rushing to judgment By Sean Elder
Having nailed down exit poll data the same way Bush and Gore nailed down their nominations, the network anchors were free to opine smugly on Super Tuesday. (03/08/2000)

Should he stay or should he go? By John Lantigua
Miami exiles and Havana dissidents split on Elian Gonzalez and the future of Cuba. (03/08/2000)

Prague's native daughter By Steve Kettmann
Once her stint as secretary of state is up, will Madeleine Albright give up the perks of Washington life to give her native Czech Republic a boost? (03/08/2000)

Hello kitties By Malena Watrous
In a country that favors group-feeling to individualism, two fashion-based subcultures, "egg girls" and "little gals," cause a big stir. (03/08/2000)

Egg on his chest? By Amy Reiter
Online columnist death match! Walls and Drudge duke it out on Page Six; a post-apocalyptic Doors musical? Time to set the stage on fire. Plus: The Muppets return! (03/08/2000)

Key Bush advisor back in control By Robert Bryce
After surviving speculation about his candidate's political death -- and his own -- Karl Rove looks mighty happy. (03/08/2000)

All for Al By Daryl Lindsey
After losing ugly, Bradley seems a new man. (03/08/2000)

This isn't Michigan By Jason Vest
Unlike their neighbors to the north, Ohio voters go with the front-runners -- and bury the insurgents. (03/08/2000)

Down and out By Suzi Parker
John McCain never even tried to win in Georgia, and it showed on Tuesday as George Bush blew him away big time. (03/08/2000)

No ground swell in Harlem By Daryl Lindsey
Across from the Apollo Theater where Gore and Bradley vied for votes just two weeks ago, people apparently had better things to do than vote Tuesday. (03/08/2000)

In McCain's corner, one long day By Jake Tapper
Behind the scenes as an insurgency watches its moment seem to pass. (03/08/2000)

Will MCain bolt the GOP? By Max Garrone
Plus: who won what, still more on exit polls and it's time to start thinking about November. (03/08/2000)

Post-Super Tuesday poll: Now what? Compiled by Salon staff
Fran Lebowitz, Lucianne Goldberg, David Horowitz, Andrew Sullivan and others make sense of the results. (03/08/2000)

California makes its choices By Fiona Morgan
Money talks as voters say no to gay marriage, yes to cracking-down on juvenile crime and maybe to more money for schools. (03/08/2000)

Enter to Win Salon.com Presidential Action Figures
EXCLUSIVE. AS SEEN ON T.V. (03/08/2000)

Music to Napster fans' ears By Janelle Brown
A bandwidth management tool may help lift a ban on MP3-sharing software imposed by colleges across the country. (03/08/2000)

Heart in darkness By David Kushner
Blood-spattering violence is par for the course in the black-as-night world of the gamer-geeks building Daikatana -- but there are also moments of sweet comfort. (03/08/2000)

Is VeriSign a network solution? By Damien Cave
Will the security specialist succeed in providing soup-to-nuts services for Web sites? (03/08/2000)

Raël love By Taras Grescoe
A gorgeous group of alien spawn hones a hedonistic hankering for sex. (03/08/2000)

Monkeys stone Kenyan to death By J.A. Getzlaff
The drought made them do it. (03/08/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
On "Buildings and Grounds," Boston trio Papas Fritas prefer precious pretense to prescient emotion. (03/07/2000)

Public radio's bad dream By Susan Emerling
Joe Frank conjures up the nightmares that "This American Life" and "A Prairie Home Companion" have when they go home at night. (03/07/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, March 7, 2000 (03/07/2000)

"A Conspiracy of Paper" by David Liss By Andrew Roe
A series of murders in the sordid London of 1719 lead a "Philip Marlowe in tights" to the financial giants of the day. (03/07/2000)

Does Al Gore have a heart? By Marjorie Williams
A new bio suggests that underneath the stiff, zombielike striver we've come to know is a real guy. (03/07/2000)

Murder novel becomes true crime with author's arrest By Laura Martz
A grisly manuscript about killing one's wife gets another look since the author killed his. (03/07/2000)

Story Minute Carol Lay
Carol Lay (03/07/2000)

Gender warriors By Virginia Vitzthum
Female-to-males convene to talk about shooting testosterone, psychic hard-ons and passing for male. (03/07/2000)

Who owns your DNA? By Arthur Allen
Genetic research that can save lives is often stymied by biotech companies' greedy patent claims. (03/07/2000)

Letters to the editor Letters to the editor
Does eating British food require a stiff upper lip? Plus: Harry Potter triumphs over "feminism"; emergency room patients often aren't. (03/07/2000)

Ode to "Joy" By Lloyd Fonvielle
The sacred text of the kitchen has a powerful and lasting resonance. (03/07/2000)

Hard-cooked eggs
A vintage hit of "The Joy of Cooking" gives poetic advice for a practical skill. (03/07/2000)

A perfect three-minute egg By Melissa Pasanen
During a long month of bed rest, days and chefs went by, and I rediscovered the meaning of comfort food. (03/07/2000)

Melissa Pasanen's Egg Salad By Melissa Pasanen
A big bowl of comfort, to be eaten by the spoonful, or between crisp toast. (03/07/2000)

A flood of relief By Vivienne Walt
An international showcase of aid in Mozambique could mean a long-term boon for the impoverished country. (03/07/2000)

A deafening silence By Sandra Hernandez
Why haven't Latino leaders spoken out about the LAPD scandal? (03/07/2000)

Arthur C. Clarke By Frank Houston
For decades, the author of the science-fiction classics "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Childhood's End" has exhibited an uncanny ability to see the future. (03/07/2000)

Beach bummer blaze-a-thon By Amy Reiter
Thais still burning mad over DiCaprio's movie; Robert Downey Jr. has prison revelation: It's not a nice place! Bijou Phillips to Howard Stern: All rumors are true! Katie Couric's inside edition. Plus: Porn star Lolo "58F" Ferrari is called home. (03/07/2000)

The art of the spiritual smackdown By Stephen Lemons
Deepak Chopra, the high lama of litigation, may be a pussycat on TV, but cross him in the courtroom and you'll have a tiger on your tail. (03/07/2000)

State-by-state winners and losers Compiled by Max Garrone
And the winners are...up to the minute results on Super Tuesday's winners and losers. [ UPDATED ] (03/07/2000)

Swaggering towards Washington By Anthony York
Bush has a Super Tuesday, and starts thinking about how to battle Al Gore. (03/07/2000)

How do game developers hack it? By David Kushner
All-nighters, 18-hour days, sleeping at the office -- John Romero's posse keeps up a "death schedule" to get Daikatana out of beta. (03/07/2000)

Who wants to be the sexiest geek alive? By Katharine Mieszkowski
Instead of cheesecake poses, techies on parade answer questions like "What's a meta tag?" in a geek pageant that the media is eating up. (03/07/2000)

Hong Kong pop star goes berserk on airplane By J.A. Getzlaff
Flight is forced to detour in Anchorage. (03/07/2000)

The other Scotland By Alicia Rebensdorf
Looking for the non-Disney version of the Outer Hebrides, I found it's not such a small world after all. (03/07/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
Day One find beauty in the sidewalk cracks without glossing over the British lower-middle-class milieu. (03/06/2000)

Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
(03/06/2000)

Give "Freaks" a chance By Joyce Millman
Why is NBC keeping its endearing high school comedy in detention? (03/06/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, March 6, 2000 (03/06/2000)

Indispensable frivolity By Richard Howard
The poet and translator picks five seriously ridiculous novels. (03/06/2000)

"The Vision of Emma Blau" by Ursula Hegi By Sarah Harrison Smith
In a sweeping and ambitious novel, the author brings home the plight of German-Americans during and after World War II. (03/06/2000)

Chains of love By Annie Murphy Paul
Always fall for losers? According to some evolutionary psychiatrists, the brain has little control over choices of the heart. (03/06/2000)

Tom Tomorrow Tom Tomorrow
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Is it all in your head? By Michael Alvear
Yes, but that doesn't make the pain any less real. (03/06/2000)

Letters to the editor Letters to the editor
The divide between blacks and jobs isn't digital Plus: How to improve the election process; was "Kiss Me, Kate" worth reviving? (03/06/2000)

Lessons in consumption By Nick Gillespie
Only by immersing our children in marketing can we teach them to choose. (03/06/2000)

Consumed by consumption By Amy Benfer
Shoplifting brand-name jeans is more honest than buying them. (03/06/2000)

Different hero, different war By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
John McCain's first wife won't say a harsh word about the man who dumped her. Is she a spineless wimp or a quiet hero? (03/06/2000)

A Black Panther's last hurrah By Kate Coleman
David Hilliard wants to win an Oakland City Council seat by flogging the legacy of the group that still haunts the city. His failure to gain support shows how little the Panthers matter to its future. (03/06/2000)

Shame on liberal hypocrites! By David Horowitz
By exploiting a 6-year-old's tragic murder, liberals reveal the moral idiocy of their ideology. (03/06/2000)

Smearing Hillary By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
The first lady's lost Whitewater billing records were supposed to be the smoking gun that would lead to her indictment. Instead, they corroborated her claims of innocence. (03/06/2000)

Why are black leaders silent on black hate crimes? By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Their failure to denounce violence against whites, like the suburban Pittsburgh killings, cedes the moral high ground to white supremacists. (03/06/2000)

The decorous libertine By Charles Taylor
At the heart of Roger Vadim's films was a guiltless celebration of the pleasures of sex, love, food, sea and sun. (03/06/2000)

If these walls could address large crowds By Amy Reiter
Sharon Stone's just like a lesbian, except not a lesbian; Camryn Manheim's not one either. And Harrison Ford, while not a lesbian, is terrified of public speaking. Go figure. Plus! Renie Zellweger as Bridget Jones? V.v. annoying! (03/06/2000)

Bush's Yom Kippur By Max Garrone
Dubya undergoes a spiritual cleansing at the Simon Wiesenthal Center; McCain comes face-to-face with activists in California. (03/06/2000)

The call of the rebel By Suzi Parker
Carrying muddy campaign signs recycled from the South Carolina primary, a ragtag army of McCain volunteers is marching on the Bush stronghold in Georgia. (03/06/2000)

Not so fast By Anthony York
Though the press declared Bush the "winner" in last week's Washington primary, the absentee ballots are still being counted, and it's awfully close. (03/06/2000)

Boy on the bus By Jake Tapper
John McCain's impulsive, inspired and angry ride misses a few turns before getting back on the road. But can he catch up? (03/06/2000)

Smells like team spirit By Anthony York
Now that it thinks it has California wrapped up, the Bush team is trying to unite the GOP for a showdown with Gore. (03/06/2000)

Tit for tat? By Joe Conason
How the Texas brothers who secretly funded attack ads against McCain have made millions managing state money under the Bush administration in Austin. (03/06/2000)

Coming home to the GOP By Bruce Shapiro
Thanks to John McCain, Northeastern moderates may be returning to the Republican Party for the first time since being shunted aside by the Reagan right. (03/06/2000)

McCain's success means Democratic distress By Michael Lind
The GOP insurgent has been successful with the help of frustrated Democrats -- who are poised to dump their party. (03/06/2000)

McCain files federal complaint By Jake Tapper
Senator says Bush TV ads paid for by Texas' Wyly brothers violate election law. (03/06/2000)

Chapter 1: Boot Time By Andrew Leonard
Part 1: Linus Torvalds at the Villa Montalvo (03/06/2000)

Chapter one: Boot time
Part 2: Starting points (03/06/2000)

"Opt-in rules!" By Lydia Lee
How does 24/7 Media CEO David Moore target ads without raising the ire of privacy activists? He asks permission. (03/06/2000)

Can't take a joke? By Damien Cave
Web game site purveyor John Zuccarini declared war on a site depicting animal mutilation -- in cartoons. But is pet protection his real motivation? (03/06/2000)

Chapter 1: Boot Time
Part 3: The Bamboo Forest (03/06/2000)

Germans too small for condoms? By J.A. Getzlaff
Ja, says Munich's Focus magazine. Compared to the rest of Europe, one size does not fit all. (03/06/2000)

About Salon's Free Software Project
This Web site is a work in progress. (03/05/2000)

Free software glossary
Definitions and links. (03/05/2000)

Complete book outline
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Andrew Leonard biography
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Table of Contents
Complete list of chapters published so far, along with related discussions. (03/05/2000)

Sinnin' and fornicatin' By Suzi Parker
Sex is so much sweeter when the preacher is damning you to Hell. (03/04/2000)

Impeachment's little elves By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
How a pack of conservative lawyers used Matt Drudge and Clinton-accuser Kathleen Willey to scuttle a deal in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. (03/04/2000)

The North American intellectual tradition By Camille Paglia
To hell with European philosophers: The breakthroughs of non-European thinkers are the 1960s' greatest legacy. (03/04/2000)

French-kissed by an angel? By Amy Reiter
Carlos Santana gives credit where it's probably not due; Walls vs. Drudge, dish diggers duke it out. Plus: It's her concert and she'll cry if she wants to: Fiona Apple melts down! (03/04/2000)

The big, less-fat bully By Eric Boehlert
John McCain's supporters are wondering why conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is going after their man. (03/04/2000)

Aussie epiphany By Laura Miller
How I learned to stop hurrying and love the Great Barrier Reef. (03/04/2000)

"What Planet Are You From?" By Stephanie Zacharek
It's a sad day for cinema when a vibrating penis upstages a perfectly good actress. (03/03/2000)

"The Next Best Thing" By Stephanie Zacharek
Madonna and Rupert Everett star in a gay-themed family comedy that goes seriously awry. (03/03/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Jon Caramanica
Wu-Tang Clan's grandest gastronome, Ghostface Killah, slips between chaotic crime and silly non sequiturs. (03/03/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for
Weekend, March 3-5, 2000 (03/03/2000)

"3 Strikes" By Andrew O'Hehir
The loosey-goosey South Central romp could use a translator for Clueless White People, but it's packed with physical comedy yuks. (03/03/2000)

"Drowning Mona" By Charles Taylor
Bette Midler, Casey Affleck and Danny DeVito star in a backwoods slapstick that lacks the anarchy needed for true farce. (03/03/2000)

Hands off Harry Potter! By Chris Gregory
Have critics of J.K. Rowlings' books even read them? (03/03/2000)

"Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife By Gavin McNett
It's weird, it's counterintuitive and the Greeks hated it. (03/03/2000)

The one great recipe By Ann Hodgman
If you single out a recipe, will all the other recipes in the book feel unloved? (03/03/2000)

Stupid Patient of the Year By J.B. Orenstein, M.D.
An emergency room doctor selects the best and the brightest. (03/03/2000)

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Whose generation is it anyway? Plus: No sympathy for Hitler apologist; is Dr. Laura's mantra "Now go take on the gays?" (03/03/2000)

When the revolution comes By Jennifer Foote Sweeney and Amy Benfer
We invite readers to respond to the Family for Sale series with grand plans, brainstorms and blueprints for a better tomorrow. (03/03/2000)

The tyranny of "Abercrappie" By Damien Cave
My brother is under the spell of a company that promotes the frat-boy free-for-all. (03/03/2000)

Watching TV on the bus By Carina Chocano
Teen TV novelizations invade bookstores and void the teenage mind. (03/03/2000)

Back to school days By Sean Elder
Our media columnist offers a satirical look at campuses presidential candidates should skip if they want to avoid a Bob Jones University scandal of their own. (03/03/2000)

Washington's hot date with Al Sharpton By Alicia Montgomery
The star of the Diallo trial takes his show to the capital. (03/03/2000)

The bad seed-victim debate By Fiona Morgan
Is the public tiring of the crackdown on kids? (03/03/2000)

Nabbing David Hale By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
Kenneth Starr's key Whitewater witness turned his government-funded loan company into an ATM machine for his politically connected friends. When the feds caught on, he tried to blame President Clinton. (03/03/2000)

Lassie, get lost By David Goodman
When relationships go to the dogs, they go to the dogs. (03/03/2000)

What a fionasco By Amy Reiter
It's her concert and she'll cry if she wants to: Fiona Apple melts down. Plus: Yoko Ono goes ga-ga over baby Lennon. And: Howard Stern has decisions to make. (03/03/2000)

Attack gets personal By Jake Tapper
Bush slams McCain for being insensitive to a disease -- one battled by McCain's sister. (03/03/2000)

Live from Los Angeles By Anthony York
Bush, McCain and Keyes joust about death row, public schools and abortion, but avoid jokes about David Letterman's heart. (03/03/2000)

Bush ads backfire Compiled by Max Garrone
Bush and his supporters smear McCain on the environment and breast cancer while McCain's "Southern strategy" fails but up north in New York he's got a secret sharer in Giuliani. (03/03/2000)

Taking stock of politics By Gary Krist
The market may be surging, but stay away from Reform Party Over-the-Counter Penny Stocks. (03/03/2000)

Seduced and destroyed? By Anthony York
The California GOP came drooling after George W. Bush last year as the man who could save the party. It didn't anticipate the batting eyes of John McCain. (03/03/2000)

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Who decides who's who in Silicon Alley? By Janelle Brown
Jason Calacanis creates an annual "it" list of New York new media -- but not everyone is intrigued by the eclectic digerati he sprinkles in among the CEOs. (03/03/2000)

Death of a David.com By Scott Rosenberg
Even free publicity in the New York Times, which portrayed a tiny Amazon.com competitor busily "Killing Goliath.com," couldn't save bookseller Positively-You.com. (03/03/2000)

Patently absurd? By Damien Cave
Amazon.com's patent on its affiliate program has roiled the Web, but such protections may actually promote innovation. (03/03/2000)

Not my cup of tea By Emily Wise Miller
Complaining about British food may be old hat, but, well, it's just so awful. (03/03/2000)

Sexual healing, jungle style By Deirdre Guthrie
On a Costa Rican yoga retreat, I got touched like I never could in Chicago. (03/03/2000)

Indonesian "sorcerer" commanded women into bed By J.A. Getzlaff
Police have the 36-year-old fraud in custody for his own protection. (03/03/2000)

Samurai liar By Michael Sragow
Hidden identities, an aborted marriage and a hooker without a heart of gold inhabit Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's droll "Mifune." (03/02/2000)

Dreaming in television By Daniel Kunitz
Nam June Paik's TV installations paint the Guggenheim Museum with the psychedelic colors of the cathode ray. (03/02/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
Reggae legend and Massive Attack collaborator Horace Andy returns to the rootsy style and socially conscious work of his early Studio One career. (03/02/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, March 2, 2000 (03/02/2000)

Needle and the damage done By Alex Pappademas
DJ Kid Koala demos "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome." (03/02/2000)

"Basil Street Blues: A Memoir" by Michael Holroyd By Janice P. Nimura
The distinguished British biographer turns the spotlight on his dubious family and himself. (03/02/2000)

The love rabbi By Sarah Blustain
Shmuley Boteach's sex-positive, gentile-friendly Orthodox Judaism sounds too good to be true. It is. (03/02/2000)

Everyday genius By Kate Moses
Joanna Scott's visionary new novel tells the story of an orphan torn between black and white grandparents. (03/02/2000)

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Citizen warning: Dangerous gang terrorizing Los Angeles (03/02/2000)

The truth about the polygraph By Susan McCarthy
It's junk science, but proponents say it can be a useful tool in interrogations, and even a deterrent. (03/02/2000)

Passing the polygraph By Susan McCarthy
Professional criminals are the ones most likely to beat the lie detector. (03/02/2000)

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Has evolution ensured survival of the rapists? Plus: Kiddie sales force is exploitation; hot and bothered over RealDolls sex dolls. (03/02/2000)

Home labor By Nora Macaluso
Stay-at-home moms chase pocket money and "a life" through a revived home-party selling industry. The overhead is low -- and so are their earnings. (03/02/2000)

Don't ask, don't sell By Kerry Ose
My parents' experience as network marketers soured me for the new wave of home parties. (03/02/2000)

Is the digital divide a black thing? By Lee Hubbard
As Jesse Jackson opens his Silicon Valley office, some black tech execs say the issue is class, not race. (03/02/2000)

Temps for the vast right-wing conspiracy By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
Richard Mellon Scaife and other leaders in the effort to bring down President Clinton were driven by ideology. Meet Larry Nichols and Larry Case, who were in it for the money. (03/02/2000)

Kiss off, Kate By Cintra Wilson
Give me a ralphing Pilgrim, a dolphin porn movie and sex-shy turtles over some reheated Broadway operetta any day. (03/02/2000)

Flowergate! By Amy Reiter
MSNBC pundit Norah O'Donnell plucks up! Plus: Porn stars do it for democracy. And: Jennifer Lopez's dress voted most popular. Butt refuses to comment. (03/02/2000)

Dems debate while Republicans take late night Compiled by Max Garrone
Bradley and Gore stage their last debate, the GOP contenders appear with Letterman and Leno and the New York campaign really heats up. (03/02/2000)

The gloves stay on By Jake Tapper
But why is Bill Bradley so confident? (03/02/2000)

The new callousness By Arianna Huffington
California's Prop. 21 shows that politicians would rather put troubled kids behind bars than rehabilitate them. (03/02/2000)

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Big Bouncer is watching you By Lydia Lee
Biometric smart-card scanners are keeping undesirable elements out of Dutch clubs. (03/02/2000)

Where do you want to work today? By Katharine Mieszkowski
Microsoft goes for "station domination," wallpapering a San Francisco subway station with recruiting ads. (03/02/2000)

Sexual license, cross-dressing and other healthy behavior By Burt Wolf
Why we need the excesses of Carnival. (03/02/2000)

The fine print By Donald D. Groff
What to do when airlines bait and switch, plus advice on the Delaware-Virginia question and nonpackage tours of England and Ireland. (03/02/2000)

Fowl play in an English village By J.A. Getzlaff
Townspeople are stumped by a chicken-style whodunit. (03/02/2000)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, March 1, 2000 (03/01/2000)

The ballad of Luther and Johnny By Sarah Vowell
In the jungles of Southeast Asia, 12-year-old twins lead a band of rebels. My twin sister and I got into trouble a lot, too. (03/01/2000)

Sharps & Flats By Joe Heim
Message to Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan: You are not God. (03/01/2000)

Who really killed the video star? By Andy Dehnart
It took 18 years for MTV to air 1 million videos. How long will the next million take? We do the math. (03/01/2000)

"Scandalmonger" by William Safire By Katharine Whittemore
The pundit and language columnist crafts a potboiler of sleaze and slander in the republic's infancy. (03/01/2000)

Carrying justice By David Moberg
Why is the job of overturning wrongful death penalty convictions being left to a handful of students and academics? (03/01/2000)

The empty man By Chris Lehmann
Is lots and lots of money all there is to George W. Bush? Molly Ivins says yes, Elizabeth Mitchell says no. (03/01/2000)

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The chemical knife By Kevin Giordano
Will Tennessee be the next state to approve castration for sex offenders? (03/01/2000)

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Reactions to Diallo verdict Plus: Hard work pays off for post-docs; does AARP stand for Association for the Advancement of Rich People? (03/01/2000)

We obsess, therefore we buy By Karen Karbo
Parenting manuals multiply along with parental insecurities. (03/01/2000)

Fear with a shot of vanity By Pia Hinckle
Marketers capitalize on the insecurity and ignorance of new parents. (03/01/2000)

Hitler's apologist By Heather World
In a London courtroom, Holocaust denier David Irving gets to argue the details of the persecution of the Jews against the world's leading experts. (03/01/2000)

Diallo is a martyr, but the cops aren't murderers By Stanley Crouch
Racism didn't kill the African immigrant, but his death has forced the police and the community to reckon better with one another. (03/01/2000)

A tale of two killings By Jesse Drucker
Did politics play a role when Rudy Giuliani demanded a federal civil rights suit against the killer of Yankel Rosenbaum, but opposed one in the Diallo case? Ya think? (03/01/2000)

My generation sucks! By Jim Rasenberger
Help! I'm suffering from genvy: The acute envy of one generation for another. (03/01/2000)

Lust and bullets at Rumba Beach By Carlos Amantea
If Chaucer had retired to a trailer in Margaritaville, would he spend his evenings watching Fellini movies? He might. (03/01/2000)

This Walls can talk By Amy Reiter
Walls vs. Drudge, dish diggers duke it out. Also, the pants off her back: There's nothing Jessica Simpson's mom wouldn't do for her daughter. Plus: Who's gonna talk about Cody? Kathie Lee to leave "Live." (03/01/2000)

Bradley's grim march By Jake Tapper
The campaign denies rumors that the candidate is dropping out in the face of another primary loss. (03/01/2000)

Bush strikes back By Daryl Lindsey
McCain's insurgency may play well with the Yankees, but down here south of the Mason-Dixon line, it's solid Bush country. (03/01/2000)

No upset.com this time By Alicia Montgomery
Northern Virginia's newly wealthy tech belt didn't provide the bounce McCain needed to overcome Bush's entrenched power in Tuesday's primary. (03/01/2000)

Return to go Compiled by Salon staff
They made a good run, and it's been fun, but McCain and Bradley are doomed. The voters, in turn, are doomed to Bush and Gore in the fall. (03/01/2000)

McCain meltdown! Oops, never mind Compiled by Max Garrone
The Bush campaign plays up a McCain "incident", Al "take no prisoners" Gore doesn't know when to stop beating a dead man and gun play enters the New York Senate race with Charlton Heston and Sean "Puffy" Combs playing supporting roles. [ UPDATED ] (03/01/2000)

Smirk from the past By Jacques Leslie
In college, George W. Bush and his membership in Skull and Bones seemed to represent an Old World patronage on the brink of collapse. Or so I thought. (03/01/2000)

Should your boss know about those visits to the shrink? By Thomas Scoville
Employers sniffing through medical records, would-be forgers having UPS deliver your signature -- Simson Garfinkel reveals a world rife with privacy violations in "Database Nation." (03/01/2000)

StopDrLaura.com By Donna Ladd
Gay activists go after Paramount, demanding that it cancel plans for a TV show starring the talk-radio moralist. (03/01/2000)

Swedish telecommunications company goofs By J.A. Getzlaff
Mock hijacking of bus goes haywire. (03/01/2000)

"Bruce Chatwin: A Biography" By Jonathan Miles
A superb portrayal of the restless and randy travel writer brings us as close to his hidden heart as we're likely to get. (03/01/2000)