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Friday, April 30, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

"Idle Hands" Hand job By Mary Elizabeth Williams
A TV-addicted stoner loses his hand to evil temptation in the lame thriller "Idle Hands." (04/30/99)
"Entrapment" Stealing beauty By Stephanie Zacharek
"Entrapment" is a sexy art-heist thriller -- until it goes for the cash. (04/30/99)
Log Net benefits By Jeff Stark
Rock stars go online to help Kosovar refugees and the poor. (04/30/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"X-Files": Lone Gunmen in Vegas; dueling Adam Sandlers (04/30/99)

Books:

Ivory Tower Grad school jerk-offs By Betsy Andrews
What is the connection between solitary study and private pervdom? (04/30/99)
Log The Modern Library chooses the century's top 100 nonfiction books By Craig Offman
The Modern Library chooses the century's top 100 nonfiction books. (04/30/99)
Reviews "Time, Love, Memory" By Jonathan Weiner
Reviewed by Edward Neuert Can molecular biologists dissect our urges? (04/30/99)

Comics:

The Dark Hotel Aunt Billy's Xmas party swings SS-style; Peter Dook prepares to meet his doom (04/30/99)

Health & Body:

Cruel blows By Arthur Allen
Can medical technology save boxers from brain death? (04/30/99)

Letters:

Letters Americans obsessed with sex; clashing over David Horowitz. (04/30/99)

Media:

Log Steven Brill reveals his payday! By James Poniewozik
The mighty Brill turns the bright light of salary introspection on -- his Slate moiety. (04/30/99)
Alt Decorating for Communists! By Jenn Shreve
The Seattle Weekly combines politics and home and garden advice; Baltimore reporters explore the origins of movie trailers. (04/30/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Another Littleton waiting to explode? By Kelly Milner Halls
Death threats and an uncaring school system convince one mother to move. (04/30/99)
The old men and the C-cups By Erin J. Aubry
Hollywood's mania for depicting geezers with improbably young babes reflects the desperation of a generation that came of age in the youth-obsessed '60s. (04/30/99)

Newsreal:

Foul ball By Jeff Stein
State Department interferes with Cuba-Orioles game. (04/30/99)
Good news from teen America By Joan Walsh
While we're wringing our hands over Littleton, evidence of a sharp decline in teen birth rates, especially among blacks, shows that adults can make a difference. (04/30/99)
Burger Barn blues By Daryl Lindsey
Does anyone care about the working poor? (04/30/99)

People:

Nothing Personal Climbing to power on black trench coats By Amy Reiter
Buchanan, Quayle and other presidential candidates weigh in on Littleton; it's gotta be babies, not bunnies, for Hugh and Hurley.(04/30/99)

Technology:

The millennium bug bill battle By Jake Tapper
The tech industry's Washington lobby tries to play both sides of the aisle. Is it being pragmatic -- or just naive? (04/30/99)
Log Honda's electric car putt-putts its last By Janelle Brown
Automaker ends experiment with alternative-fuel vehicles. Who's to blame? (04/30/99)

Travel:

Wanderlust An erotic tour of Turkey By Sandra J. Goldstein
By day I would listen to lectures on history and art, but all I could think of was the night before, or the night to come. (04/30/99)

Thursday, April 29, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

You can never read too much into it By Alan E. Rapp
David Cronenberg on the dislocating experience of watching "Existenz," modernist moviemaking and technology as an extension of the human body. (04/29/99)
Something in the way he moves By Charles Taylor
In defense of Keanu Reeves. (04/29/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Frasier" tweaks Dr. Laura; Knievel's live Grand Canyon leap (04/29/99)

Books:

Poison penpals By Craig Offman
Salon interviews a serial killer groupie who corresponded with John, Richard, Chuck and Jeff. (04/29/99)
Log By Craig Offman
Dead letter office: Son of Sam deleted from "The Kid's Address Book"(04/29/99)
Reviews "The Spell" By Alan Hollinghurst
Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle: The British novelist Alan Hollinghurst returns with variations on a gay quartet. (04/29/99)

Comics:

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
God-Man tunes out Kosovo -- without a remote! (04/29/99)

Health & Body:

The hole story By Jon Bowen
Drilling your skull: Is it the way to bliss or just extremely dangerous? (04/29/99)

Letters:

Letters Amitai Etzioni defends privacy book; Bradley hasn't got a chance. (04/29/99)

Media:

Kill your TV By James Poniewozik
On two continents, American firepower knocks television programming off the air -- just in time for National TV-Turnoff Week. (04/29/99)

Mothers Who Think:

A heart's breath By Anne Lamott
For my birthday this year, God gave me the gift of grace. (04/29/99)

Newsreal:

Sucking it up By Jake Tapper
The Clintons think about boycotting the White House Correspondents' dinner because it's honoring Michael Isikoff (04/29/99)
More bad news for California's GOP By Anthony York
Rising star Jim Rogan won't challenge Dianne Feinstein. (04/29/99)

People:

Nothing Personal Y2K x 2 = Jacko! By Amy Reiter
Michael brings in the millennium; Reese Witherspoon cries the blues; Madonna's new look. (04/29/99)
Rogues' Gallery Amy Fisher, magical mistress of multitasking By Douglas Cruickshank
Lecherous judges, Marla's spurned shoes and Exxon's exxcellent adventure in non-payment. (04/29/99)
Obit: Melba Liston The brilliant trombonist who played with Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones moves on.(04/29/99)
Obit: Rory Calhoun The cowboy actor, who starred in "The Yellow Tomahawk" and CBS's "The Texan," rides into the sunset.(04/29/99)

Technology:

Mod love By Andrew Leonard
With their ears, their computers and a little code, "mod trackers" build their own worlds of sound. (04/29/99)
Log Does that cubicle come in "blueberry"? By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Owners of Apple's new blue-hued G3 get some style pointers on fun furniture to complement their machines. (04/29/99)

Travel:

Travel Advisor The lowdown on Lisbon By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert's tips for Portugal info, spa getaways, great road food and freighter trips. (04/29/99)

Wednesday, April 28, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Dancing with ghosts By Apollinaire Scherr
Merce Cunningham's "Biped" is a dramatic feat of computerized choreography. (04/28/99)
Log "Feel like dyin'" By Charles Taylor
Looking at the difference between fantasy and lies at Columbine and in the movies. (04/28/99)
"Election" Class struggle By Mary Elizabeth Williams
The wickedly funny "Election" runs a Pepsodent Reese Witherspoon against Matthew Broderick's rumpled loser. (04/28/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Party of Five": Julia experiments; "Voyager": Seven of Nine goes wild. (04/28/99)

Books:

Ivory Tower Horrible Harvard By Lori Gottlieb
An interview at Harvard Medical School reveals the ice behind the ivy. (04/28/99)
Log Korda's "Another Life" By Craig Offman
A star editor remembers his writers. (04/28/99)
Reviews "The Stakeholder Society" by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott
Reviewed by Dustin Beilke: Give everybody $80,000. After that they're on their own. (04/28/99)

Comics:

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Geeks of the world, unite! (04/28/99)

Health & Body:

Sauce b�arnaise syndrome By Susan McCarthy
Learned taste aversion may be nature's way of keeping us away from deadly foods. (04/28/99)

Letters:

Letters Unacceptable emotional violence; black men are not "beasts"; reading Japan wrong.(04/28/99)

Media:

Log Tragic timeliness By James Poniewozik
Feed's fine special issue on games went up just two days after the Littleton massacre. (04/28/99)

Mothers Who Think:

On not having a daughter By Jayne Anne Phillips
Something beyond life or death lingers of the girl I didn't get to mother. (04/28/99)

Newsreal:

Three days of dissent By Alex Todorovic
Vuk Draskovic removed from office for criticizing Milosevic. (04/28/99)
Has violence killed the anti-abortion movement? By Jeff Stein
Operation Rescue's Buffalo fizzle showed that big clinic protests are a thing of the past, but they may have already done their damage. (04/28/99)
"We are on our own" By Laura Rozen
Serbian dissidents are encouraged by Vuk Draskovic's moment of honesty amid Milosevic's propaganda. (04/28/99)

People:

Nothing Personal Massive Monica meltdown By Amy Reiter
Terry Gross skewers the portly pepperpot; Seattle runners go bananas; Michael Jordan family feud. (04/28/99)
American poison By Camille Paglia
The Littleton massacre is horrifying proof of our society's spiritually emptiness. (04/28/99)
Obit: Al Hirt "The King of the Trumpet" is gone. (04/28/99)

Technology:

Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 13: Executive pep talk -- managing for total chaos. (04/28/99)
The Web numbers game By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Everyone in the Web industry seems to agree that Media Metrix's numbers are incomplete. So why have they become a standard? (04/28/99)
Log Don't send this message to all your friends! By Janelle Brown
The latest chain letters circling the Net aren't inspiring action -- unless you count the frequent delete-key tapping.(04/28/99)

Travel:

Book Bag Wanderings in the world of imagination By Don George
The surreal tales in Barry Yourgrau's "Haunted Traveller" embody some hard-won real-world truths. (04/28/99)
"Carpet" and other tales By Barry Yourgrau
A magic carpet in a hotel room, a safari gone astray, a mysterious mission, a map mishap -- four excerpts take unexpected twists. (04/28/99)

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Sharps & Flats Reviews of new releases by Eminem, the Gourds and the Los Angeles Free Music Society, plus a Del-Fi Records compilation. (04/27/99)
Ain't nothin' funny about a drunk By Alex Pappademas
Tom Waits brings it all home. (04/27/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
A familiar face returns to "NYPD Blue" -- no, not Jimmy Smits. (04/27/99)
Log Talking Heads talk again By Michael Sragow
The Talking Heads reunite for the unveiling of a spanking-new Dolby Digital print of the already great-sounding movie they made with. (04/27/99)
Log "This is me saving my life" By Niall McKay
Sin�ad O'Connor, the troubled star who once tore up a picture of the pope, joins a Catholic sect. (04/27/99)

Books:

Mr. Blue Sex so awesome it scares me By Garrison Keillor
He took me to sexual heights I didn't know existed, but after six years he still won't commit.x (04/27/99)
Reviews "Anglomania" By Ian Buruma
Reviewed by JoAnn Gutin: Why, oh why, do we love the English so? (04/27/99)
Log Three new Raymond Carver stories discovered By Craig Offman
(04/27/99)

Comics:

Story Minute By Carol Lay
The Polterguy (04/27/99)

Health & Body:

Pamela Anderson's breasts, R.I.P. By Lily Burana
They may not have been yours, but you wore them well. (04/27/99)
Log Sjogren's syndrome By Jon Bowen
You don't know what it is, but you might have it (04/27/99)

Letters:

Letters There's nothing progressive about this war; ex-smoker is living in the past.(04/27/99)

Media:

Let the games begin! By Nikki Finke
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner may just be two rich white guys. (04/27/99)

Mothers Who Think:

The longest hours By Carol Ormandy
Waiting to find out if you've lost your child is the worst torture. (04/27/99)
Learning from Littleton By Fiona Morgan
Experts discuss the right lessons -- and the wrong ones. (04/27/99)

Newsreal:

Littleton every day By Jake Tapper
Guns kill a dozen kids daily, but nobody cares. (04/27/99)
The false trade-off By Michael Crowley
As New York struggles to rein in its police department, Boston brags about reducing crime and police brutality at the same time. (04/27/99)
Gay leaders fear Littleton backlash By Dave Cullen
Police, the media and the Christian right continue to track reports that at least one of the killers was gay.(04/27/99)
Giving NATO the middle finger By J.G. Freund
Belgrade tries to win the war of symbols. (04/27/99)
Giving NATO the middle finger By J.G. Freund
Belgrade tries to win the war of symbols. (04/27/99)

People:

Mad humanist By Frank Houston
In Kurt Vonnegut's world, free will is an open question, life is poignant and pointless and kindness is appreciated above all else. (04/27/99)
Nothing Personal Prudish Rudy strikes again By Amy Reiter
Cops crack down on naked models, giant spiders. And baby makes three: did Woody and Soon-Yi spawn? (04/27/99)

Technology:

Microsoft's flawed Linux vs. NT shootout By Andrew Leonard
The test lab looked for help online. But did it really want answers? (04/27/99)
Real-life "Truman Show" By Joe Ashbrook Nickell
Six students offer advertisers a chance to sponsor their daily lives -- online, unedited, 24 hours a day. (04/27/99)

Travel:

Out of the Blue Crime is in the air By Elliott Neal Hester
Sometimes even flight attendants can't believe the things that happen onboard. (04/27/99)

Monday, April 26, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Live nude girls By Stephanie Zacharek
There aren't as many in Hollywood as you think -- and there should be. (04/26/99)
"Ransom" Rich man, poor man By Charles Taylor
Ron Howard's "Ransom" takes a dark tumble into America's economic divide. (04/26/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Blue Glow Twin freaks: Stephen Baldwin and clone in "Mr. Murder"; Paula Poundstone, animated?(04/26/99)

Books:

Ivory Tower Reading genes in black and white By Chris Colin
Last month Florida State University exploded into a frenzy of polemic and rage when a soft-spoken psychology professor claimed he had evidence proving blacks intellectually inferior. (04/26/99)
Book Bag World English By Richard Powers
The author of "Gain" and "The Gold Bug Variations" picks five novels from the edge of a new language. (04/26/99)
Reviews "The Leper's Companion" By Julia Blackburn
Reviewed by Alex Abramovich In the year 1410, a tormented group of English villagers follow their priest on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. (04/26/99)
Log Photo finish By Craig Offman
A book jacket has a case of d�j� vu; Iowa defends its writers. (04/26/99)

Comics:

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Giuliani's new, improved cops: Killing you SOFTLY (04/26/99)

Health & Body:

"A razor in my bladder" By Nancy Evans
Interstitial cystitis causes excruciating pain -- but some doctors deny it even exists. (04/26/99)

Letters:

Letters Is true satire only from the left?; rejecting Wenner's world (04/26/99)

Media:

Sermon on the mint By James Poniewozik
Financial planner Suze Orman's best-selling gospel aims to heal your wounded inner Daddy Warbucks (04/26/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Stepmother in love By Arlene Green
I work twice as hard for my stepson's love -- and it's worth it. (04/26/99)

Newsreal:

Enemy of the people By David Horowitz
My visit to a small Maine college revealed the intolerant closed-mindedness of politically correct faculty and their indoctrinated students. (04/26/99)
Financial crack By Debra Dickerson
The credit industry is getting wilier about taking our money, and addicted-to-spending Americans are letting them have it. (04/26/99)

People:

Nothing Personal Nincompoopery on parade By Amy Reiter
Charlton Heston and Gov. Ventura need to holster their brains; Elle Macpherson designing intimates for men. (04/26/99)

Technology:

Privacy pleas By Mike Godwin
Amitai Etzioni's "The Limits of Privacy" sees civil libertarians as a danger and government as the solution to all our problems. (04/26/99)

Weekend, April 24-25, 1999

Health & Body:

Money-shot fever By Ann Marlowe
The current displays of jism only prove how pass� men have become. (04/24/99)

Newsreal:

Guess who's not coming to dinner By Jake Tapper
As the once-prestigious White House Correspondents dinner mutates into a grotesque symbol of the state of American journalism, the New York Times decides to boycott.(04/24/99)
The rumor that won't go away By Dave Cullen
Jocks say Littleton killers were gay, but friends deny it. (04/24/99)

People:

The Raw and the Cooked No satisfaction By Douglas Cruickshank
Keith Richards fails in the manly art of self-abuse; Merry Pranksters drive on left. (04/24/99)

Technology:

21st Challenge No. 21 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Prayers for the digital age (04/24/99)
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 12: Why Barry carries a MiG stick (04/24/99)

Travel:

Ways to disappear By Adam Bluestein
Three new friends on the Thailand-Burma border teach a traveler about gaining and losing. (04/24/99)

Friday, April 23, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

"Jeanne and the Perfect Guy" The bearable lightness of being French By Andrew O'Hehir
Leave it to the French to make a musical comedy about AIDS -- and to have it actually work. (04/23/99)
"Pushing Tin" Fly boys By Stephanie Zacharek
John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton play cowboys and Indians in the air traffic control comedy "Pushing Tin." (04/23/99)
"Existenz" Buzzed on metaphysics By Craig Seligman
David Cronenberg's "Existenz" imagines a dangerously exotic video game -- and it looks a lot like life. (04/23/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Duchovny behind the camera on "X-Files"; Irish cowpokes in "Durango" (04/23/99)

Books:

Ivory Tower Pearls before swine By Euny Hong Koral
Alvin Kernan's "In Plato's Cave" chronicles the democratization of the university. (04/23/99)
Reviews "Go West Young Fcked-Up Chick" By Rachek Resnick
Reviewed by Chris Lehmann: A first novelist sends her heroine down the rabbit hole of L.A., city of cow-killing Satanists and suicidal socialites. (04/22/99)
Log Boning up on the Balkans By Craig Offman
Has a history book influenced the president? Also: Khrushchev's granddaugher skewers Solzhenitsyn. (04/23/99)

Comics:

The Dark Hotel As Hitler's horror grows, Lady Blue plans the party of the year. (04/23/99)

Health & Body:

Lip balm anonymous By Mary Roach
When you put it on in your sleep, you have a problem. (04/23/99)

Letters:

Letters Readers respond with outrage and sadness after Littleton tragedy. (04/23/99)

Media:

Out of focus By Ruth Shalit
A peep through the one-way mirror at that great American institution, the focus group, reveals a glittering lineup of cheaters, repeaters and sad sacks who wash their hair with Jell-O. (04/23/99)
Alt Teenage wasteland By Jenn Shreve
The Boston Phoenix wins the "oops" award for a piece claiming that the gun-toting teen is a media myth -- one day after Littleton. (04/23/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Of course it happened here By Laura Fraser
Why the Littleton violence didn't surprise me. (04/23/99)

Newsreal:

How to gore Al? By Jake Tapper
Bill Bradley looks for a winning issue. Is it Bill Clinton? (04/23/99)

People:

Log Cindy Crawford for $29.95: Stars realize there's gold in them thar "authorized" Web sites By Kat Giantis
Sick of fans and porn sites getting all the clicks and profits, image-conscious celebs are creating their own Net presence. (04/23/99)
Nothing Personal Taco dog goes to court By Amy Reiter
The famed spokesdog wants more than tortillas. (04/23/99)

Technology:

What year is it, anyway? By Paulina Borsook
A tech news quiz for the chronologically befuddled. (04/23/99)
Doom, Quake and mass murder By Janelle Brown
Gamers search their souls after discovering the Littleton killers were part of their clan. (04/23/99)

Travel:

Wanderlust Kinkiness in a B&B By Chris Colin
The discreet charm of a firm mattress is just one of the many lessons of a second-anniversary stay. (04/23/99)

Thursday, April 22, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

"Tout Truffaut" By Charles Taylor
Rediscovering François Truffaut's films is like finding an old friend. (04/22/99)
"Hands on a Hard Body" Life is fantastic By Dakota Smith
"Hands on a Hard Body" director S.R. Bindler on why small-town Texans will spend 83 grueling hours standing around a pickup truck. (04/22/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Will and Grace, in your face; "AFI Salute to Dustin Hoffman" (04/22/99)

Books:

Log The breaking point By Craig Offman
Gitta Sereny ponders the Colorado killings. (04/22/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Chris Lehmann
"Country of Exiles" by William Leach: In a nation stripped of allegiance to place, everybody knows this is nowhere. (04/22/99)

Comics:

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Super Fun-Pak Comix! (04/22/99)

Health & Body:

With enough aspirin By Luanne Armstrong
Living for now in pain's company. (04/22/99)

Letters:

Letters Kosovar refugees aren't like Palestinians; mommies worry because they like it.(04/22/99)

Media:

Kneejerk Mafia By James Poniewozik
After a new tragedy comes a familiar cry: Stop the Internet before it kills again. (04/22/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Foreigner in a familiar land By Sallie Tisdale
Americans are stuck in a vacuum of privacy and personal space. (04/22/99)

Newsreal:

Bill Bradley's fast break By Jake Tapper
With a big campaign war chest, he thinks he can upset Al Gore. (04/22/99)
Outsiders, even among the outsiders By Dave Cullen
Littleton killers didn't quite fit in, even with the "Trench Coat Mafia." (04/22/99)

People:

Rogues' Gallery The continuing saga of the beast with two soles By Douglas Cruickshank
Darryl Strawberry out-torques Torquemada; the Great Buddha of crime reporting catches a cab. (04/22/99)
Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
Lee Harvey Oswald's "girlfriend" checks in. (04/22/99)
Obit: Liz Tilberis Harper's Bazaar editor in chief, a legend in the world of fashion, dies of cancer at 51. (04/22/99)

Technology:

Is AltaVista on the take? By Scott Rosenberg
Paid search results aren't a despicable sellout -- they're a sign that the search engines can't keep up with their job. (04/22/99)
Log By Andrew Leonard
Cybersitter's maker responds to the Colorado tragedy by telling parents how to monitor kids' Web activities. (04/22/99)

Travel:

Travel Advisor Is Washington safe? By Donald D. Groff
How to save money at religious retreats; getting insurance for travel abroad. (04/22/99)

Wednesday, April 21, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

The artist currently known as Prince Paul By Adam Heimlich
Hip-hop's mastermind producer tries to explain what is real. (04/21/99)
Log Till death do us part By Meredith Ochs
On the road with Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris and the Indigo Girls. (04/21/99)
I feel fine By Sarah Vowell
In Steve Erickson's visionary new novel, it already is the end of the world -- and we don't know it. (04/21/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Got puck? NHL playoffs open; "Norm" in rehab (04/21/99)

Books:

Red flag By Stephanie Zacharek
In "The Curse," Karen Houppert rages against the shame women feel about menstruation. (04/21/99)
Ivory Tower Sister solar system By Chris Colin
Could San Francisco State astronomers have discovered the first signs that we are not unique? (04/21/99)
Log Babble-on revisited By Craig Offman
Pale, embittered writers ignore Club Med guests. (04/21/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Craig Seligman
"Last Things" by Jenny Offill: In a heartbreaking first novel, an 8-year-old watches her mother lose her mental bearings. (04/21/99)

Comics:

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Keith "Tony" Knight: I froze my ass in San Francisco (04/21/99)

Health & Body:

Dying to ride By Andrew Taber
As the pro cycling season begins, drug-use scandals continue to explode. (04/21/99)

Letters:

Letters Readers debate Paglia on Kosovo; electric vehicles aren't a panacea; are children inherently evil?(04/21/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Children's books in full bloom By Polly Shulman
Spring blooms eternal in this selection of children's books about flowers and fairies. (04/21/99)

Newsreal:

Massacre in suburban Denver By Dave Cullen
As many as 16 people are dead in a shooting at an affluent high school, with several other in serious or critical condition. Authorities are investigating the two suspects' "right-wing beliefs." (04/21/99)
"We called it 'Littlefun'" By Jeff Stark
A Columbine High School outsider looks back at his alma mater, and doesn't recognize it on TV. (04/21/99)

People:

Nothing Personal No sex toys, please; we're British By Amy Reiter
Rogue dildo brings down Airbus; Republicans enveloped in "Purple Haze"; Leo "shark bait" DiCaprio? (04/21/99)

Technology:

Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 11: Liz descends to the engineers' level (04/21/99)
Online gaming's store-shelf chains By Greg Costikyan
Does Battle.net's success mean that Net-based ventures are still dependent on retail sales? (04/21/99)
Log Polynesian techno-porn By Andrew Leonard
Search engine results turn into adult links, thanks to a sleazy programming hack. (04/21/99)

Travel:

Entering-the-Company Ceremony By T.R. Reid
On April 1, Japanese business grinds to a halt as companies pause to ritually welcome their new employees. (04/21/99)
Book Bag Expatriates on Japan By Don George
In his new book, T.R. Reid follows a grand tradition: Western writers evoking and explaining daily life in their adopted home. (04/21/99)

Tuesday, April 20, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Rough trade show By Albert Mobilio
Despite Cyberdildonics and tantric sex swings, the sex biz trade show Erotica USA is a decidedly unsexy event. (04/20/99)
Log We are the world By Banning Eyre
Jim Austin wants to make Houston America's world music capital. (04/20/99)
Sharps & flats Reviews of new releases from the Cranberries, Medeski, Martin & Wood, the Mary Janes, Danny Gatton (04/20/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Felicity": Did she or didn't she?; Jim Rockford redux (04/20/99)

Books:

Fightin' words By Jennifer Kabat
The British are talking trash and taking bets in the tussle over the U.K.'s next poet laureate. (04/20/99)
Log Word power By Craig Offman
Who picks the U.S. poet laureate? (04/20/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)" by Stacy Schiff: Sister Souljah gives herself a starring role in her first novel. (04/20/99)

Comics:

Story Minute By Carol Lay
A clear-cut mistake
(04/20/99)

Health & Body:

My cancer time bomb By Christopher Scanlan
A child smoker who quit now fears that the first puff was the worst. (04/20/99)

Letters:

Letters By Dowd's win was shocking; are "alties" all the same? (04/20/99)

Media:

Log New kids, on the block By James Poniewozik
A publicity-savvy Web site, whose name the author can't recall, wants to sell itself for $3 million -- on Ebay. (04/20/99)
Log Brill's Content opens eyes, zips up wallet By James Poniewozik
When it comes to running stories about how much money media figures make, the watchdog magazine apparently figures "full disclosure" doesn't apply. (04/20/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Pride and prejudice By Fiona Morgan
Is Novato a breeding ground for hatred -- or just like every other American suburb? (04/20/99)

Newsreal:

The big buildup By Laura Rozen
On the ground in Macedonia, it's beginning to look a lot like a ground war is coming. (04/20/99)
Campbell stirs the soup By Jake Tapper
The Silicon Valley Republican is trying to force President Clinton to obey the War Powers Act, but first he'll have to convince GOP colleagues. (04/20/99)
The "progressives' war" By Joe Conason
Nothing shows how outdated our concepts of "left" and "right" are more than the confusing politics behind NATO's war in Yugoslavia (04/20/99)

People:

Wenner's world By David Weir
The evolution of Jann Wenner: How the ultimate '60s rock groupie built his fantasy into a media empire. (04/20/99)
Obit: Señor Wences
The master ventriloquist who delighted "Ed Sullivan Show" audiences with his improvised puppets dies at age 103. (04/20/99)
Nothing Personal Newspaper editors get stoned on Stone By Amy Reiter
Actress gives spacey speech; Monica's dad on Linda Tripp and President Clinton. (04/20/99)

Technology:

Caveat poster By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Online anonymity is under siege by a barrage of court orders -- and no one is fighting them. (04/20/99)
Log Ebay.com, the magazine? By Janelle Brown
The Net's hottest auction site adopts a new medium to reach its fans -- paper. (04/20/99)

Travel:

Vagabonding Getting stoned with Mr. X By Rolf Potts
Our correspondent wanders in search of an Indiana Jones adventure in Thailand's gem country. (04/20/99)

Monday, April 19, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Truth and consequences By Joyce Millman
Michael Moore shows the snarky boys how it's done in "The Awful Truth." (04/19/99)
Log Back in black By Stephanie Zacharek
TNT's tribute to Johnny Cash was a reverent -- and occasionally rocking -- affair (04/19/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, April 19, 1999 (04/19/99)

Books:

Ivory Tower Rescuing the feminist book By Maria Russo
Martha Nussbaum reimagines the women's movement -- from global poverty to the right to be hot. (04/19/99)
Book Bag L.A. stories By Steve Erickson
The author of "The Sea Came in at Midnight" recommends five great contemporary novels about Los Angeles. (04/19/99)
Log Dmitri Nabokov's quandary By Craig Offman
Should he release his father's unfinished novel? (04/19/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Scott Whitney
"The Lexus and the Olive Tree"" by Thomas L. Friedmanh: New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman offers an important message about the new world economy: Globalize or die. (04/19/99)

Comics:

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
William Shatner says buy.com! buy.com! buy! (04/17/99)

Health & Body:

Journal wars By Dawn MacKeen
Will the debut of Medscape General Medicine, the first online publication of its kind, change the way health news is delivered? (04/19/99)

Letters:

Letters The "military drawdown" is a myth; readers split over Out of the Blue; and Reiter took a needless slap at Michael Moore. (04/19/99)

Media:

God bless you, Laura Ingraham! By James Poniewozik
The Kosovo squabbling of yesterday's Monicagate hacks may be dumb -- but it beats flag-waving silence. (04/19/99)
Log Dee Dee, squared By James Poniewozik
Former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers' appearance on "Hollywood Squares" may seem odd -- but she was just doing what she was trained to do. (04/19/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Marriage of two minds By Allegra Goodman
Can a novelist and mathematician coexist? (04/19/99)

Newsreal:

Did Eric Rudolph try to surrender? By Jeff Stein
A national anti-abortion activist says he was asked to help the fugitive bombing suspect turn himself in to authorities last year -- but "nothing came of it." (04/19/99)
Sending out an SOS By Jake Tapper
Since 1990, former Sen. Bob Dole has been warning the world -- and two U.S. presidents -- about Serbian tyrant Slobodan Milosevic's pending bloodletting. Why wasn't anyone listening? (04/19/99)
Shadow dancing in Buffalo By Jeff Stein
A drag show kicks off a week of abortion protests, as gays and pro-life Christians square off in a culture-war showdown. (04/19/99)

People:

Nothing Personal Here's your award; now shut the hell up By Amy Reiter
Rudy Giuliani gets Muzzled; Jennifer Lopez's new career; Ripley's longs for Pamela's breasts. (04/19/99)
Obit: Skip Spence By Johnny Angel
His troubled life might serve as a parable of the dark side of the '60s -- but his amazing music lives on. (04/19/99)

Technology:

Log Richard Stallman's plans for Microsoft By Janelle Brown
The free software guru lays out his prescription for punishing Microsoft if it loses its antitrust battle. (04/19/99)
Pez mania By Susan Moran
What inspired the founders of Ebay? What's the focus of a thriving community, online and off? Little candy dispensers. (04/19/99)

Weekend, April 17-18, 1999

Health & Body:

Porn start By Susie Bright
An average guy lands his first role in an adult video. (04/17/99)
Gay nuptials under Christian fire By Hank Hyena
Hate-mongering Christian protest casts shadow over mass gay marriage. (04/17/99)

Newsreal:

Off and running? By Joan Walsh and Anthony York
Hillary Clinton moves to hire a New York campaign staff.. (04/17/99)
Celebrating murder By Jeff Stein
As Hillary Clinton consoles the widow of a slain abortion doctor, anti-abortion forces prepare to launch a week of protests near his Buaffalo. clinic (04/17/99)

Technology:

Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 10: The WHIP comes down on Paul (04/17/99)

Travel:

Bewitched on Bali By Pico Iyer
All love affairs are like journeys, deep into a foreign country, where you can't read the signs. (04/17/99)

Friday, April 16, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

"Life" The facts of "Life" By Andrew O'Hehir
Though it's played for laughs, Eddie Murphy's new comedy offers a dose of realism about the African-American experience. (04/16/99)
"Hideous Kinky" Road to nowhere By Charles Taylor
Despite Kate Winslet's enlightening performance, "Hideous Kinky" is a mess. (04/16/99)
"SLC Punk" Anarchy in the UT By Mary Elizabeth Williams
"SLC Punk" is a slam-dancing "Afterschool Special." (04/16/99)
Log Twenty thumbs up By Jeff Stark
Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival takes a second look at films that haven't yet found the audiences they deserve. (04/16/99)
Log Dalaipalooza By Jeff Stark
Adam Yauch, Sean Lennon and Jon Stewart announce Tibetan Freedom Concerts roster. (04/16/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Springsteen, Willie Nelson head "All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash"; Scully picks another loser (04/16/99)

Books:

A touch of vulgarity By Laura Miller
Salman Rushdie talks about Bob Dylan, Princess Di, the brutality of love, the banality of the rock 'n' roll scene and the end of the fatwa. (04/16/99)
Ivory Tower Boys of paradise By Denise Dowling
Deep Springs students slaughter cattle, read Derrida and hire their teachers, but living in utopia ain't easy. (04/16/99)
Ivory Tower Contemplating Deeper Springs By Whet Moser
Between herding cattle and scribbling essays, one young man finds the time to dance disco under a black light. (04/16/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King: Stephen King turns the Red Sox relief pitcher into a lost girl's guardian angel. (04/16/99)
Log Bosnian writer prefers Chicago, thanks By Craig Offman
The New Yorker's recent discovery sheds few tears for his homeland, which Wim Wenders collaborator Peter Handke does. (04/16/99)

Comics:

The Dark Hotel Tangelina's stripper sting; Hitler's goons put a violent end to the Munich Post (04/16/99)

Health & Body:

Passionate eating By Debra Ollivier
An American expat discovers why eating very bad things is very good for you. (04/16/99)

Letters:

Letters Why geeks need college; in defense of the Beats; McDougal is no martyr. (04/16/99)

Media:

Alt Project Censored's annual guilt trip is back! By Jenn Shreve
Plus: Why Gore may flop in Washington; sex assaults up in Boston schools; and more tales from the alternative press. (04/16/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Damned to diaper duty By Jennifer Bingham Hull
If the devil's in the details, why is it always mommy who's possessed? (04/16/99)

Newsreal:

Latinos, or the law? By Anthony York
California Gov. Gray Davis rode a wave of Latino support to the statehouse, but in his first big test, he went to bat for Prop. 187 -- the law Latinos hate. (04/16/99)

People:

Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
A tell-all from Lee Harvey Oswald's girlfriend? Plus: Eisner vs. Katzenberg -- who gives more to charity? (04/16/99)

Technology:

Must AOL pay "community leaders"? By Janelle Brown
Labor Department inquiry raises thorny questions about volunteers' role in online communities. (04/16/99)
Log Free encryption takes a big step By Andrew Leonard
Does FreeS/WAN herald the crypto-libertarian utopia? (04/16/99)

Travel:

Wanderlust Santorini summer By Rachel Elson
I fell for Robert on a sunlit Greek isle, but how could the girl my mother had raised give up her voyage for a man? (04/16/99)

Thursday , April 15, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

"Goodbye Lover" To live and lie in L.A. By Charles Taylor
Roland Joff� does some self-conscious slumming with the sleazy "Goodbye Lover." (04/15/99)
Log More power to low-power! By Douglas Wolk
Broadcasters balk as the FCC considers opening up the radio airwaves (04/15/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Scared Straight!" revisited: Just when you thought it was safe to be a juvenile offender (04/15/99)

Books:

Bad dirt By Bill Donohue
The author of "Peyton Place" implicated her neighbors in many sins. Now, they're returning the favor. (04/15/99)
An excerpt from "Peyton Place" By Grace Metalious
Grace Metalious re-creates a notorious Gilmanton murder. (04/15/99)
Log What have I done to deserve this? By Craig Offman
The Pet Shop Boys are suing philosopher Roger Scruton for libel. (04/15/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Craig Seligman
"The World Through a Monocle" by Mary F.Corey: A new study explores race, class and the New Yorker. (04/15/99)

Comics:

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Ruben Bolling: Idiotic things citizens can do to help the state! (04/15/99)

Health & Body:

The crack-up By Steven Scott Smith
Falling apart may have been just what this overachiever needed. (04/15/99)

Letters:

Letters Ducking the issues in "Prodigal Son"; readers debate homophobia in Cunanan book. (04/15/99)

Mothers Who Think:

On a shoestring By Anne Lamott
In the midst of war in Kosovo, my brother's marriage sanctifies the exchange of love and light in a flurry of bubbles and rose petals. (04/15/99)

Newsreal:

War is hell -- for GOP politicians By Harry Jaffe
Torn between internationalism and isolationism, Republicans try to make the best of Kosovo. (04/15/99)
Miss Israel visits the Balkans By Flore de Preneuf
A Jewish relief agency flies a planeload of Kosovar refugees to Israel, where the country's mixed feelings about a Muslim "Greater Albania" -- and its own Arabs -- awaits them. (04/15/99)
Hoosier daddy By Jake Tapper
Presidential candidate Dan Quayle notes that Murphy Brown is long gone now, but he's still here, "fighting for the American family." (04/15/99)

People:

Obit: Anthony Newley The British star of "Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off" and "Doctor Doolittle" and former husband of Joan Collins dies of cancer. (04/16/99)
Rogues' Gallery Killer, Ellroy and Marla's pumps By Douglas Cruickshank
What do the Osaka mafia, Snoop Dogg, Chuck Jones and Charles Keating Jr. have in common? (04/15/99)
Nothing Personal Oprah in the Oval Office? By Amy Reiter
Who's the people's choice -- Oprah, Al or Liddy? Get on the Love Jet. Nancy Reagan cracks them up. (04/15/99)

Technology:

Why Linux needs help By Andrew Leonard
Can free software geeks learn how to write for "stupid users"? (04/15/99)
Log Online tax filing: why bother? By Kaitlin Quistgaard
So far, the combination of TurboTax and the Internet doesn't seem to have made electronic filing a very appealing choice. (04/15/99)

Travel:

The best Caribbean bargains By Donald D. Groff
Our expert answers readers' questions on island bargains, London flats, Costa del Sol classics and Florida fortunetellers. (04/15/99)

Wednesday, April 14, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

I want my MTV to want me By Jennifer Weiner
I was one of 2,000 contestants in MTV's "Wanna Be a VJ" contest. (04/14/99)
Log Shakespeare's bargain basement By Stephanie Zacharek
The Rose Theater reopens, sort of. (04/14/99)
Log Blaine's world By Benedict Cosgrove
Magician David Blaine spent seven days buried alive and all he got was a one-hour ABC special. (04/14/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
David Blaine's tricky treats; HBO's grim "Black Tar Heroin" (04/14/99)

Books:

Ivory Tower Nude Olympics By Jeannette Johnston
Bare-assed and freezing, one cautious Princeton sophomore learns what it means to be bad. (04/14/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Elizabeth Judd
"Roger Fishbite" by Emily Prager: Emily Prager's brilliant parody of "Lolita" rockets the famous '50s nymphet into the '90s. (04/14/99)
Log Literary luau By Craig Offman
Club Med tempts vacationers with pale, bitter novelists. (04/14/99)

Comics:

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
These kids today and their nutty handshakes! (04/14/99)

Health & Body:

The pelvic By Ellen Lerner Rothman, M.D.
A Harvard med student must separate sex from science when she does her first pelvic and prostate exams. (04/14/99)

Letters:

Letters Paglia attracts modest proposals for MIT's gender woes; is Mary Roach a misanthrope?
(04/14/99)

Media:

Hating Dowd for all the wrong reasons By James Poniewozik
The New York Times columnist is an embarrassing, nasty writer. Does that mean she shouldn't have gotten the Pulitzer? (04/14/99)

Mothers Who Think:

The bad seed By Beth Kephart
In "Cries Unheard," Gitta Sereny wants to prove that children are not monsters. She only partially succeeds. (04/14/99)
See no evil By Beth Kephart
Vivian Paley's belief in the inherent kindness of children makes her ill-equipped to explain their unkind behavior. (04/14/99)

Newsreal:

Murdered by Milosevic By J.G. Freund
At a dissident's funeral, Belgrade's democracy movement worries about its future. (04/14/99)
Electric cars vs. suburban assault vehicles By Jim Motavalli
Can Henry Ford's great-grandson win over the environmental movement? (04/14/99)
Back from the dead By Laura Rozen
A Kosovo journalist NATO reported killed is working to get news out to refugees in Macedonia. (04/14/99)

People:

Obit: BoxCar WillieBest-known for his songs about trains and his adopted hobo persona, an unusual entertainer passes on.
(04/14/99)
Nothing Personal Rupert Everett insults the world By Amy Reiter
The British bad boy knocks Shakespeare and Boy George; John Updike turns feminist with praise for Dorothy Parker and E. Annie Proulx. (04/14/99)
Our Kosovo idiocy By Camille Paglia
Expensive bombing won't change this slaughterhouse of medieval hatreds Plus: Have S.F. drag queens gone too far in mocking Catholicism? (04/14/99)

Technology:

Shaking the family tree By Kaitlin Quistgaard
The Mormon Church takes its vast database online -- and gives the genealogy world a charge. (04/14/99)
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 9: Liz faces the wrath of the Nerd King. (04/14/99)
Log By Janelle Brown
Bill Gates' $20 million donation to MIT may find an unlikely -- and unhappy -- beneficiary.(04/14/99)

Travel:

Book bag Frances Mayes and the riches of Tuscany By Don George
The poet-turned-memoirist talks about Italy, writing and how a bestseller changed her life. (04/14/99)
Bella Tuscany By Frances Mayes
A pilgrimage to Bagno Vignoni reveals the daily miracles of Italian life. (04/14/99)

Tuesday, April 13, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Television By Joyce Millman
Viva las divas: Cher, Whitney, Elton and Tina do VH1 gala (04/13/99)
Sharps and flats Reviews of new releases from Tom Petty and the Latin Playboys, plus a tribute to Madonna and a Kill Rock Stars radio compilation. (04/13/99)
Blue riffs parkway By Stephanie Zacharek
Fountains of Wayne wears its melancholy lightly on the near-perfect pop songs of "Utopia Parkway." (04/13/99)

Books:

Mr. Blue Should I take the plunge? By Garrison Keillor
I'm so ripe for an affair it isn't even funny. (04/13/99)
Log Multitude of wins By Craig Offman
Michael Cunningham nabs the Pulitzer; Leonardo DiCaprio grabs "Dreamland;" U. Michigan hits fiction MFA gold. (04/13/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Roger Gathman
"Bone by bone" by Peter Matthiessen: The third installment in the Everglades trilogy revisits a lynching -- this time from the victim's point of view. (04/13/99)

Comics:

Story Minute By Carol Lay
The hideous secret (04/13/99)

Health & Body:

Heal thyself.com By Arthur Allen
As wired patients go online for medical help, the question is: Can a little knowledge be a dangerous thing? (04/13/99)

Letters:

Letters The geeks weigh in on Melissa; don't blame Clinton for the Balkans' woes.
(04/13/99)

Mothers Who Think:

The lucky ones By Laura Rozen
At a refugee camp in Macedonia, women and children tell of the horrible price of freedom. (04/13/99)

Newsreal:

"Joan of Arkansas" defeats Kenneth Starr By Suzi Parker
Susan McDougal acquitted of obstruction of justice; mistrial declared on contempt charges. (04/13/99)
A specter haunting Europe By Tamara Straus
The war in Yugoslavia brings U.S.-Russian relations to the brink. (04/13/99)
It takes a (global) village By Daryl Lindsey
As the humanitarian relief effort in Albania and Macedonia mounts, international organizations are seeking the cash and kindness of strangers. (04/13/99)

People:

Happy birthday, Miss Welty By Kate Moses
America's greatest living short story writer turns 90. (04/13/99)
Nothing Personal Sex and other sorrows By Amy Reiter
Sex is dull, Conde Nast is cursed and MIT worships the Car Talk couple (04/13/99)

Technology:

Microsoft's open-source gambitBy Scott Rosenberg
Is Redmond seriously "thinking" about releasing its source code -- or just trying to confuse the opposition? (04/13/99)
Log Young investors love the Net By Janelle Brown
Internet optimists are under 40 and not so wealthy, survey finds. (04/13/99)

Travel:

Out of the Blue Bad passenger, bad! By Elliott Neal Hester
Ah, the glamorous life of the flight attendant, where you get punched, kicked and defecated upon. (04/13/99)

Monday, April 12, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Log Karaoke cool By Kat Giantis
Several new movies and TV shows are making karaoke the hippest new craze. (04/12/99)
Elf-conscious By Charles Taylor
A new collection of music videos captures the fairy tale vision of Bj�rk (04/12/99)
Log By Jeff Stark
Rumors of George Michael replacing Freddie Mercury, and other bad ideas (04/12/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Love Letters": The guy from "Wings" digs the wife from "The Truman Show" (04/12/99)

Books:

Breaking up with the Beats By David Gates
Kerouac and Ginsberg were my first literary loves -- but I had to get off their road. (04/12/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Sean Elder
"The Coldest Winter Ever" by Sister Souljah: Sister Souljah gives herself a starring role in her first novel. (04/12/99)
Log Pistils drawn By Craig Offman
The publisher of the 1-800-FLOWERS CEO's memoir blames him for the book's failure. (04/12/99)
Book Bag Overlooked By David Foster Wallace
Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels. (04/12/99)

Comics:

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Iowa crop dusters strafe NYC strongman Giuliani with dung -- state vows not to use ground forces (04/12/99)

Health & Body:

Heartburn or cardiac arrest By Dawn MacKeen
A cardiologist offers the first proof that his little-used test for heart attacks not only could save lives but billions of dollars. (04/12/99)

Letters:

Letters Readers blast our redesign; the Balkans isn't a "race thing." (04/12/99)

Media:

Got art? By James Poniewozik
Keanu, meet the Gap: "The Matrix" is the latest example of the growing cultural reach of advertising.
(04/12/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Bowing out By Ana Castillo
A silent Eastern tradition means more than words between a boy and his mama-san.
(04/12/99)

Newsreal:

Prince of deception By David Horowitz
Clinton has squandered our most precious asset -- the credibility of our military as a deterrent -- and now he is poised on the slippery slope toward a ground war. (04/12/99)
"The first yuppie war" By Jeff Stein
Politics, not bad weather, keeps NATO airstrikes from decisive damage in Yugoslavia. (04/12/99)
Mushroom cloud over Denver By Mark Hertsgaard
A top Department of Energy official is caught on tape worrying that security is lax at Rocky Flats weapons facility. (04/12/99)

People:

Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
How you can ring in the millennium with Andrew Morton, and just watch what Rudy Giuliani does to Michael Moore's little Times Square porn emporium. (04/12/99)
Obit: Red Norvo By Ted Gioia
The jazz world may have written off this mallet instrument pioneer, but his musical legacy speaks for itself. (04/12/99)

Technology:

Do geeks need to go to college? By Lisa Schmeiser
Bill Gates didn't graduate. And many Web workers today feel they don't need a technology degree to succeed. (04/12/99)
Netcenter forums win a wan reprieve By Janelle Brown
Netscape's community area will remain open for 30 days, officials say -- but users still can't get in. (04/12/99)

Travel:

Lost and found By Lenny Karpman
An early-morning visit to Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market leads to a surprising catch.
(04/12/99)

Weekend, April 9-11, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Pete's Peak By Jenn Shreve
Actor Pete Postlethwaite scales dizzying heights in "Among Giants" -- and tackles his first romantic role. (04/09/99)
Do not pass "Go" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
The follow-up to"Swingers" is an amiable slice of Tarantino Lite. (04/09/99)
Too cool for school By Stephanie Zacharek
Playing the ugly duckling is a role even Drew Barrymore can't handle. (04/09/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
When Michael Moore attacks!; Homer Simpson, artiste (04/09/99)

Books:

True crime By Ted Gideonse
Vanity Fair reporter Maureen Orth blames gay society for the crimes of Andrew Cunanan. (04/09/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"The Sopranos" by Alan Warner: Six Catholic schoolgirls head off for the city in search of trouble and go back home looking for love. (04/09/99)

Comics:

Dark Hotel Who killed Hitler's niece?
(04/09/99)

Health & Body:

Living forever By Mary Roach
If we all live to be 150, where will we park? (04/09/99)

Letters:

Mailroom Dispatch By Rachel Elson
Furious over Kosovo(04/09/99)
Letters Isikoff fights back; talk therapy was a waste of my time.(04/09/99)

Media:

Alt Stop worrying about unsafe gay sex; all human issues, all the time; Atari worship By Jenn Shreve
An opinionated roundup of the most interesting stories in the alternative press. (04/09/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Tense relations By Fiona Morgan
Elizabeth Strout, author of "Amy and Isabelle," talks about teenage sexuality and the intense relationship between mothers and daughters.
(04/09/99)

Newsreal:

Prodigal son By Jake Tapper
How will George W. Bush -- and the GOP -- confront the whispers about his past? (04/09/99)
Backward, Christian soldiers By Harry Jaffe
The Christian right may be hurting at the top, but at the grass roots, it's still a force to be reckoned with. (04/09/99)

People:

Roy Black By David Bowman
Over burgers and eggs, Marv Albert's attorney discusses the nature of evil, 19th century literature and why it's useless to burn a shooting victim. (04/09/99)
Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
Donald "Trump Daddy" and the art of hip-hopping: Lenin's posthumous makeover; Dennis Hopper plays golf; Muhammad Ali's gift to Jesse Ventura. (04/09/99)

Technology:

Everyone's a DJ By Janelle Brown
Shoutcast and MP3 let a thousand Web radio stations bloom. There's only one problem: the law. (04/09/99)
21st Challenge No. 20 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Luddite testimonials (04/09/99)
Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 8: Psychrist, the semiotic demolition derby, and Deathmatch 3000 (04/09/99)

Travel:

Wanderlust Under the blanket By Carol Lloyd
In the shadow of de Sade's castle, two lovers enact a tortured summer reunion.
(04/09/99)

Thursday, April 8, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Rebirth of the cool By Philip Booth
With her dazzling new Miles Davis tribute album, singer Cassandra Wilson gives jazz a much-needed fix. (04/08/99)
Sharps and flatsReviews of music from Roy Clark, Owsley, Mogwai and more. (04/08/99)
Log By Jeff Stark
Mike Tyson wants a piece of your ear (04/08/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Will & Grace": Busted up by Molly Shannon? (04/08/99)

Books:

Story love By Jean Hanff Korelitz
I was a literary snob until I learned to stop pooh-poohing plot. (04/08/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Janice Harayda
"East of the Mountains" by David Guterson: The author of "Snow Falling on Cedars" confronts suicide. (04/05/99)
Log Washington Post book reporter defects By Craig Offman
David Streitfeld, who unveiled Joe Klein as the author of "Primary Colors," is ditching the book beat to cover technology. (04/08/99)

Comics:

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
From the void of space came Disgusto! (04/08/99)

Health & Body:

Tinseltown's diet dame By Sherise Dorf
A writer tries "taking it off" with Alicia Silverstone and Dennis Quaid. (04/08/99)
Log Herbal uprising By Chris Colin
This natural impotence product promises to put the roar back in your drawers.(04/08/99)

Letters:

Letters Too much fluff in "Nothing Personal"; does Little League care your kids?(04/08/99)

Media:

Coming soon to a cubicle near you! By James Poniewozik
Abcnews.com's "Newsmakers" campaign stakes a claim on the theater of the future -- the screen that's staring you in the face.
(04/08/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Just passing through By Sallie Tisdale
Divorce and work and age have taken a toll on the friendships in my life, and the children I used to watch grow are not children anymore.
(04/08/99)

Newsreal:

Divided we stand By J.J. Goldberg
American and Israeli Jews are split over the crisis in Kosovo. (04/08/99)
Hated in Macedonia By Laura Rozen
U.S. troops, like Kosovo refugees, know how it feels to be despised. (04/08/99)

People:

Rogues' Gallery Want crime with that? By Douglas Cruickshank
One gets a powerful hunger when covering the dark side. (04/08/99)
Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
Is Al Gore's Web site safe for the kiddies? Divorce gongs for Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman; exclusive photo rights for Posh Spice's wedding. (04/08/99)

Technology:

Are we bug-free yet? By Patricia Ensworth
Y2K software testers bite their nails, cross their fingers and watch the clock. (04/08/99)
Log Web celeb eyes city hall By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Mailing list pioneer toys with San Francisco mayoral race. (04/08/99)

Travel:

Travel Advisor Is Isla Mujeres safe? By Donald D. Groff
Our expert answers readers' questions about Mexico, artists' colonies, Belize and touring Java by train.
(04/08/99)

Wednesday, April 7, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

The psycho next door By Sarah Vowell
Gianni Versace's murderer: everyman, or marginalized monster? Two new Cunanan biographies battle it out. (04/07/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Jennifer Aniston on "South Park"; sexy ads and strangers with candy (04/07/99)

Books:

Camille on Campus Biased science By Camille Paglia
Biased science: There's less to MIT's report on sexism in the sciences than the media would have you know. (04/07/99)
Ivory Tower Labels of obscenity By Jon Bowen
University of Arizona considers forcing teachers to warn their students of controversial topics in class syllabuses. (04/07/99)
Ivory Tower Geography of feeling By Andreas Killen
Will new scientific discoveries about our emotional life make Freud's unconscious obsolete? (04/07/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Dan Cryer
"Signs and Wonders" by Melvin Jules Bukiet: An angry novelist quarrels with God (04/07/99)

Comics:

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Screw Martha Stewart: Some tips for the rest of us (04/07/99)

Health & Body:

The man in the blue coat By Steven Petrow
A testicular cancer survivor learns that hope is a gift and that fear is a frequent companion. (04/07/99)
Researchers find humor's "G-spot" By Dawn McKeen
(04/07/99)
Letters:
Letters Salon is buying Albanian propaganda; abuse of power is not S/M." (04/07/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Funk soul mother By Susan Straight
Once my ex-husband and I danced to the funk as if we had no choice. Now, in the kitchen on Saturday nights, I clean, listen, dance, remember.
(04/07/99)

Newsreal:

The trial that wasn't By Dave Cullen
A plea bargain averted a full courtroom showdown in the Matthew Shepard case, but feuding Christian right preachers and the stories of two grieving families made for gripping drama nonetheless. (04/07/99)
The bleak gets bleaker By David Rieff
The Kosovo crisis will almost certainly be succeeded by a crisis in Macedonia, in Montenegro, in Albania and, finally, in Serbia itself. (04/07/99)

People:

Kings of the world By Amy Reiter
"Titanic" James Cameron is no match for Spidey; Dylan and Simon plan rock-of-ages tour; Amazon CEO scores musical coup. (04/07/99)

Technology:

Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 7: Death by a thousand e-mails (04/07/99)
The ecology of computer viruses By Jamais Cascio
Who was vulnerable to Melissa? Only users and companies who'd standardized on a software "monoculture" -- like Microsoft's.
(04/07/99)

Travel:

Book Bag Planet's hidden passion By Don George
Guidebook pioneer publishes Eric Newby collection, prepares to launch three new series.
(04/07/99)

Tuesday, April 6, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

Guitar refugees By David Bowman
Television's re-issue of "The Blow Up" opens the book on "street rock" circa 1978. (04/06/99)
Eat the documentary By Steve Kandell
"Meeting People is Easy" flags the new wave in "rockumentaries" (04/06/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Fox's Tuesday cartoon-a-rama; new "NYPD Blue"(04/06/99)

Books:

Spikey's choice By Joe Conason
Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff's long-awaited book on the Clinton scandals, reveals how fine the line is that separates reporters from prosecutors -- and conspirators." (04/06/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Jonathan Lethem
"A Cursing Brain: The Histories of Tourette Syndrome" by Howard Kushner: This #$@*&ing book is boring: Turgid history of Tourette's Syndrome (04/05/99)
Log Capitol crackpots: Who gets zapped in Christopher Buckley's D.C. satire
(04/06/99)

Comics:

Story Minute By Carol Lay
The man who erased his life (04/06/99)

Health & Body:

Therapy is all talk By Joy Rothke
A new book argues that psychotherapy is better at recycling cultural myths than figuring out what's in your head. (04/06/99)

Letters:

Letters We love Gwyneth, we really love her; frat-house story shows homophobes were right (04/06/99)

Media:

Log The populist from another galaxy By James Poniewozik
Icon magazine introduces the most famous candidate no one's ever heard of.
(04/06/99)

Mothers Who Think:

It's time to bury the mom-working-hurts-kids myth once and for all By Shari Thurer
Another study has shown that having a working mom doesn't harm children. But, a psychotherapist argues, you don't need dubious social science to know that.
(04/06/99)

Newsreal:

The wobblers By Joe Conason
Led by George "Wobbly" Bush, most Republicans look silly pretending to be anti-war activists.
"Better to be killed by the Serbs" By Barbara Demick
NATO had spy photos of miles of refugees fleeing Kosovo a week ago. Why weren't we prepared for the disaster at the border?
Another Oakland surprise By Anthony York
Audie Bock beats state Democratic machine to become the first Green member of the California Legislature. (04/06/99)

People:

The great Pretender By Joyce Millman
A walking contradiction of tough talk and tender gestures, Chrissie Hynde inspired a generation of female rockers and fans.(04/06/99)
Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
Ed Koch calls Rudy "nasty," Di's star dims, Costner flops on field. (04/06/99)
Obit: Early Wynn
The Hall of Fame pitcher won 300 games in his career, which included five 20-win seasons. (04/06/99)

Technology:

Netscape to community: You're evicted By Janelle Brown
As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn. (04/06/99)
Log Forest Service tries to duck spam (04/06/99)

Travel:

Vagabonding The Scrooge from Planet Lonely By Rolf Potts
In the first installment of "Vagabonding," our correspondent pays through the nose for his penny-pinching ways.
(04/06/99)

Monday, April 5, 1999

Arts & Entertainment:

"Dreamlife of Angels"State of grace By Charles Taylor
The lovely French film "Dreamlife of Angels" manages to warm hearts without numbing minds. (04/05/99)
Middle-aged wasteland By Joyce Millman
A 46-year-old loser goes back to high school in Amy Sedaris' Comedy Central series "Strangers with Candy" (04/05/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"The Century": How the King and Rev. King changed race and culture in America (04/05/99)

Books:

Short list By Mary Gaitskill
The author of "Bad Behavior" picks
her five favorite short stories. (04/05/99)
Log Nazi or hero By Craig Offman
The debate over the real-life "English Patient." rages on. (04/05/99)
Reviews Reviewed by Maggie Jones
"Woman: An Intimate Geography" by Natalie Angier: A N.Y. Times writer uses biology as a feminist weapon (04/05/99)

Comics:

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
New, improved "logic" behind our brilliant Kosovo strategy! (04/05/99)

Health & Body:

Sex police By Sally Lehrman
The biology of sex is being hotly debated, as parents, doctors and researchers re-evaluate what it means to be male and female. (04/05/99)
Code Blue By Cliff Figallo
High in the mountains of Guatemala, a brief procedure turns to gory excavation. (04/05/99)
Log By Jon Bowen
Batter up! (04/05/99)

Letters:

Letter from the Editor Welcome to the new Salon (04/05/99)
Letters Why we should debunk the Kosovo myth; a cheapened April fool; defending the diva (04/05/99)

Media:

Fallen Arches By James Poniewozik
Reports that American cultural imperialism has enforced a Pax McDonald''''s turn out to be greatly exaggerated.
(04/05/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Big dreams for "Little Women" By Bobbie Ann Mason
Louisa May Alcott closed a gap for me when I was a bookless country girl; now I find myself trying to close a gap for her.
(04/05/99)

Newsreal:

Broken contract By Jake Tapper
Republicans find populism is easier when you don't have any power. (04/05/99)
Bloody blundering: Clinton's cluelessness is selling out Kosovo By Christopher Hitchens
If administration leaders really expected NATO airstrikes to accelerate the carnage in Kosovo, they should be indicted for war crimes. (04/05/99)
Heart of Blondness By Richard Rodriguez
Today's heart of darkness lies at the far end of the Danube. And the savages have blue eyes and blond hair. (04/05/99)
The cruelty is unimaginable By Laura Rozen
Macedonia cracks down on Kosovar refugees to force other nations to pitch in. (04/05/99)

People:

Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
Taking stock of Bill Gates' kindness; running a-fowl with Fabio; Farrakhan Death Watch called off.

Technology:

Vernor Vinge, online prophet By Andrew Leonard
The author whose science fiction classics predicted the Internet finds that reality is hard to keep up with. (04/05/99)
Log "Simply Palm" ad parody shows some skin (04/05/99)

Travel:

Travel Ten days in the Sahara By Derek Peck
A two-man trek through the desert teaches a traveler about seeing, silence and self.
(04/05/99)

Friday, April 2, 1999

21st:

Move over, Dr. Kevorkian By Mike Britten
The Growth House Web site points the way to a "Good Death." (04/02/99)
21st Log
Foolishness overwhelms the Net (04/02/99)

Books:

Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Andrew Roe
"A Prayer for the Dying" By Stewart O'Nan: A novel of Gothic horror, about an epidemic in a 19th-century American town called Friendship, poses unsettling questions of faith (04/02/99)

Columnists:

Sexpert Opinion Ain't that a shame? By Susie Bright
Schoolroom dilemma: How does a 9-year-old explain that her mommy is a sex writer? (04/02/99)

Comics:

Dark Hotel Nazi coke orgy in Munich; Nora breaks the case (04/02/99)

Entertainment:

Glorious Gwyneth By David Rakoff
She's the backlash queen at the moment, but she should be judged on her talent -- and that's formidable (04/02/99)
Paltry Paltrow By Michelle Goldberg
Life is like high school: If you're blonde, skinny, rich and well-connected, it doesn't matter whether you're any good -- you win (04/02/99)
"The Matrix" Short attention spawn By Andrew O'Hehir
With its myriad action movie references, "The Matrix" is a masterful sci-fi stew (04/02/99)
"Cookie's Fortune" Easter eggs and bourbon By Charles Taylor
Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune" is Southern Gothic lite -- with a bite (04/02/99)
"The Out-of-Towners" Everybody hates a tourist By Stephanie Zacharek
Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin battle the declawed pussycat that is New York in the unfunny remake of "The Out-of-Towners" (04/02/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Ned Flanders' worst nightmare: The Simpsons' Bible stories (04/02/99)

Ivory Tower:

Ivory Tower So you want an MFA? By Sarah Gold
MFA in kvetching: the truth about writing programs (04/02/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Mothers Who Think This month's Drama Queen candidates: diets of doom
Cabbage, pills and fried meat -- vote for the most unsavory tale of weight loss (04/02/99)

Newsreal:

Shades of Srebrenica By Laura Rozen
Refugees tell of Serbian soldiers commandeering relief vehicles, echoing the Bosnian slaughter (04/02/99)
From Baghdad to Belgrade By Jeff Stein
When it comes to war, the Clinton administration is the gang that couldn't think straight (04/02/99)
Covering Kosovo like Monica By Jake Tapper
Can the White House wage war when every private Oval Office strategy battle gets leaked to the media? (04/02/99)
Captives face trial Clinton rails at Milosevic after Serbs parade battered American POWs in televised prelude to Friday trial (04/02/99)

Wanderlust:

Wanderlust The roasting of the lambs By David Downie
In a city like Rome, renowned for its gastronomical pleasures, Eastertide induces a sort of collective ecstasy of good eating (04/02/99)

Thursday, April 1, 1999

21st:

Silicon Follies By Thomas Scoville
Chapter 6: Large Number 11 at the Tung Kee Noodle House (04/01/99)
Money talks -- open source walks a Salon Staff Report
Plans for new LinuxSoft venture map new business model for "free" software (04/01/99)

Books:

Review By Liesl Schillinger
"Our Dumb Century: 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source" By Scott Dikkers and the Staff of the Onion: The editors of the Onion present 100 years of turpitude (04/01/99)

Comics:

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
"NASCAR" is a cover for an intellectual cabal! (04/01/99)

Entertainment:

One shrew thing By Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Bard gets the 20th century teen-flick treatment (04/01/99)

Media:

Media Circus What the world needs now: A feminist bikini By Susan Lehman
Ms. magazine lightens up; Maxim plays the bloke card; Salman's vision thing (04/01/99)

Mothers Who Think:

Mothers Who Think Breaking the surface By Anne Lamott
I think you should get to have your true authentic healed whole self and buns of steel, but redemption just doesn't work that way (04/01/99)

Newsreal:

Arm the KLA? By Laura Rozen
A growing chorus begins to ask whether it's time to arm Kosovar rebels (04/01/99)
Limp Willy? By Frank Smyth
Clinton's critics blast Kosovo "genocide," but disagree about deploying ground troops (04/01/99)
"Pec is burning! Where are the ground troops?" By David Brauchli
An AP photographer who fled Yugoslavia at the 11th hour reports on the horror in Kosovo (04/01/99)
Humanitarian enclave? By Daryl Lindsey
Experts debate NATO's options for protecting Kosovar Albanians without a massive commitment of ground troops (04/01/99)

Urge:

Urge From ballet to B&D and S/M? By Tara Zahra
Evan Zimroth's elegiac memoir raises disturbing questions about girlhood femininity and brutal domination (04/01/99)

Wanderlust:

Hungarian rhapsody By Julie Jindal
An encounter with an intimidating waiter is transformed by an epicurean feast (04/01/99)

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