Alt: All tech, all the time
Going e-postal and other tales of the technological revolution. Plus: Blood-spurting penises and mushrooming, adventure sport for the elite?
(12/17/99)

Unto us, a poster child is born
They are the heroes and victims upon which we affix life's tragic lessons and drill them into your head. Plus: Is James Ellroy snubbing L.A.?
(12/10/99)

The unbearable lightness of Schwarzenegger
Film critics struggle to review "The End of Days" and still retain their indie cred. Plus: The AIDS crisis in Africa and one writer's desperate attempt to get a job at Maxim.
(12/06/99)

Attack of the holiday gift guides!
Annual shopping-spree extravaganzas turn otherwise respectable journalists into shills for Santa Mammon.
(11/19/99)

Gang land
Can the same entertainment media that have popularized gang culture be used to combat gang-related violence? Plus: Men who collect penis bones; capital punishments throughout human history.
(11/12/99)

Girls will be jocks
At last, coverage of women's sports that even this non-spectator can appreciate. Plus: One writer's plaintive cry: "Enough with the sex, dammit!"
(11/05/99)

Bye-bye beatnik
Two unusual takes on Jack Kerouac's death and legacy. Plus: Viagra raves, zines that shouldn't exist and real-life Halloween scares.
(10/29/99)

Election coverage, gonzo-style
Alternative Vote 2000 brings the counterculture to election coverage. Plus: High Times turns 25; what happens if Amazon tanks?
(10/22/99)

Rogue advertisers
Who's to blame for trashy mags? Intestinal fatigue? Speak and others grapple with their demons. Plus: Embalming alternatives and Ikea obsession.
(10/15/99)

Burn, sacred cow, burn!
Lefty weeklies turn on their idols. Plus: Ben is Dead dies, the 17th Annual Testicle Festival and the boy who said yes -- and lived.
(10/08/99)

Wine, it's the other red fluid
Wine X's attempts at hipsterism evoke the not so subtle smell of oak barrel-aged fish. PLUS: Geeks, freaks, fashion weeks and conspiracy theorists.
(10/01/99)

It might be news, but it's not a story
Plus: Bob Mould plays for Marlboro Miles; contrary to popular e-spam, Darren does not have liver disease.
(09/24/99)

Tree girl has spawned!
Young, PR-savvy idealists defend forests, Republicanism and dog food. Plus: Graphic sex writing is soooo 1995; Leonard Nimoy speaks Yiddish? (09/03/99)

Rag vs. rag
Skeptic magazine should take a cue from its splashier, diametric opposite, Fate. Plus: Jerry Stahl on heroin -- again; yet another writer "discovers" eBay.
(08/27/99)

Therapy is painless
From Freud to divorce court: A therapist to meet your every need. Plus: Dan Savage vs. the Republicans; Elvis' "black satin-like" pajamas on the auction block.
(08/20/99)

The malling of America
Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces.
(08/13/99)

Nudity for all!
Too hot? Lose the swimsuit, say several venerable publications. Plus: Reform Party madness, TV racial quotas and a ridiculous theory on recent violence.
(08/06/99)

Conspicuous consumption
Two scathing critiques of excessive consumerism. Plus: Need a headline? Try "Eyes Wide Shut"! It worked for Kubrick.
(07/30/99)

The have nots
Left-leaning journalists explore how the other side lives. Plus: The "S" and "F" words, Rick Springfield and a tell-all psychic friend.
(07/23/99)

Mundane titillation
This week's stories prove that a good writer can make the most mundane subject riveting, while a hack can turn the sexiest topic into a colossal snooze.
(07/16/99)

Generation R.I.P.
The Village Voice pronounces Generation X as dead as Kurt Cobain, as irrelevant as a Cheesy Poof. Plus: Alternative health stories that don't suck.
(07/09/99)

Alternative juju
Unconventional remedies are ripe for journalistic inquiry, but are weeklies up to the job? Plus: The secrets of mosquitoes, Osama bin Laden's hiding place and Internet IPOs revealed!
(07/02/99)

Whither fair lesbians?
Gay Pride marches on, leaving its lesbian sisters to cough up the dust. Plus: The Boston Phoenix reports on Starbucks' latest conquest and why pheromone perfumes only make you stink.
(06/25/99)

I know what girls want
Four feminist zines give their anti-Cosmo versions of the modern woman. Plus: The Stranger celebrates the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Willamette Week makes one writer cry on her keyboard.
(06/18/99)

Jar Jar mania must die!
The Village Voice takes Jar Jar theorizing too far; a quasi-national alternative glossy editor's cri de coeur; new theories on love and marriage.
(06/11/99)

Advertising stole my humanity!
Capitalism is out of control with sexist ad execs, mix tapes by irrelevant hippies and the inevitable, horrible cloning of "The Bridget Jones Diary."
(06/04/99)

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even teens on the WB do it ...
Sex ed takes a beating in Minneapolis; Slovenia hires a PR firm; black Sam Spades take the whodunit stage.
(05/28/99)

Ma Bell's ill communication
The Dallas Observer exposes telecommunications madness; rumors of carcinogenic tampons may be greatly exaggerated.
(05/21/99)

Pundits in the limelight
Political consultants make for better copy than the candidates; one writer's Brontė-inspired hell; enough with the "enough with the Star Wars stories"!
(05/14/99)

Millennial-time religion
The L.A. Weekly gets spiritual; poo falls from the sky in Salt Lake City.
(05/07/99)

Decorating for Communists!
The Seattle Weekly combines politics and home and garden advice; Baltimore reporters explore the origins of movie trailers.
(04/30/99)

Teenage wasteland
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)

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

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

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