No gays or abortions allowed in my papers!

Throwing eggs at "Mr. Democracy"

Details goes bust

Salon's Politics2000 launch party

Pop stardom vs. deathless prose

And the weiner is ...

"Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed" by Dean King

Timothy Ferris

My daddy's gardens

The sky's the limit

Sunny's delectable fried okra

Beijing forbids sex and the West

Mike Nichols, what planet are you from?

Sharps & Flats

Blue Glow

Dance of destruction

My dot-com business mags have fallen on me and I can't get up!

Behind "Behind the Music"

The San Francisco Examiner, 1887-2000

Will Taiwan's president-elect defuse tension with China?

Letters to the editor

P is for Prozac