The Erin Brockovich of the bonobo By Deirdre Guthrie
Sex sells, says Dr. Susan Block, so why not use it to save an endangered species? (05/18/00)

The return of Miriam Makeba By Adele M. Stan
"Mama Africa" is back in the USA with a new CD, a summer tour and a lot to say. (05/15/00)

It's good to be the queen By Daniel Kraus
For the belles of North Carolina's Azalea Festival, there's nothing like learning to graciously accept appreciative gawking. (05/12/00)

Julie Strain: Ultravixen! By Stephen Lemons
At "6-foot-1 and worth the climb," the star of Playboy TV's "Sex Court" is Hollywood's queen of the B's. (05/11/00)

Petty striving By Sarah Wildman
It's not easy being a struggling artist when your dad toured with Bob Dylan. (05/10/00)

Backgammon bonanza By Jeremy Weintraub
In New York's gambling clubs, the five-day week is just another grind. (05/08/00)

Pony up for OTB By Steve Kurutz
Who needs horses when you've got a row of TVs in an airless storefront at the off-track betting parlor? (05/08/00)

My perversion By Carlos Amantea
The love that dare not cluck its name; a few words about dirty words in Mexico; and the prize that is Consuela. (05/06/00)

Department of hell on wheels By David Goodman
A DMV nightmare: The other, evil David Goodman was on the loose. (05/05/00)

Amy Sedaris digs wigs and baking By Rex Doane
The star of "Strangers With Candy" likes "small woodland creatures" and wants to play Angie Dickinson as "Police Woman." (05/05/00)

Dennis Cooper By Daniel Reitz
With his excoriating, hallucinatory, viciously funny vision, he's the most important transgressive literary artist since William S. Burroughs -- but even Burroughs didn't get death threats. (05/04/00)

The Whitney Houston rules By Carina Chocano
The hypocrisy of America's marijuana laws is highlighted by the glamorous singer's non-arrest after she's found with a half-ounce of pot in an airport. (05/03/00)

Mr. Misery, he's not By Jessica Hundley
Elliott Smith talks about sincerity, happiness and the pitfalls of trying to be a perpetual winner. (05/01/00)

A close encounter with Chris Carter By Russ Spencer
When the creator of "The X-Files" makes a rare public appearance, things begin to get weird. (04/28/00)

The art of crime By Stephen Lemons
Ex-con and man of letters Edward Bunker discusses his new memoir, "Education of a Felon," and life as an upstanding citizen. (04/24/00)

Living in shimmering disequilibrium By Fred Branfman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author calls for spiritualizing the environmental movement as Earth endures the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years. (04/22/00)

Swap meat By Carina Chocano
We're told to get married, have children and deny ourselves nothing in terms of sex -- and the conservative suburbanites of "The Lifestyle" have always played by the rules. (04/21/00)

Swap meat By Carina Chocano
We're told to get married, have children and deny ourselves nothing in terms of sex -- and the conservative suburbanites of "The Lifestyle" have always played by the rules. (04/21/00)

"I Was a Teenage Dominatrix" By Stephen Lemons
Ooooh! That's gotta hurt! Shawna Kenney cracks the whip and gets paid for the pain of writing a memoir. (04/20/00)

What does a woman want? Season tickets By Joan Walsh
The San Francisco Giants are ensconced in their new ballpark. Now if they could only throw off the hex and win a game there. (04/19/00)

The colorful dissenter of Benetton By Debra Ollivier
Oliviero Toscani of Colors and Talk magazines talks about media hypocrisy, corporate responsibility and why fashion makes us stupid. (04/17/00)

A visit from Ricky Martin and Selena By Carlos Amantea
Whoa! That's not you-know-who and you-know-who riding up the beach on a palomino, is it? (04/14/00)

VIP OD'd By David Goodman
When you're always blown away by the things that happen to you, you get so you start missing being blown away by the things that happen to you. (04/14/00)

Stalking Chunk By Norah Pierson
Long ago, a young girl watched "Goonies" and was smitten with one of the actors. Years later, she hunts him down and they end up ... (04/12/00)

James Nachtwey's "Inferno" By Douglas Cruickshank
Pictures from an exhibition -- in hell. (04/10/00)

The day Annie shot me By Brett Leveridge
When a first-time author has his portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz, it changes his life -- at least while she's clicking the shutter. (04/07/00)

Spicy Firebites, with a jumbo movie deal on the side By Daniel Kraus
Rob McKittrick was a waiter at T.G.I. Friday's. Then he sold his screenplay. Now he has a six-figure bank account, a classic car and a house in the Hollywood hills. (04/06/00)

Why Bob Knight should bag it By Eric Boehlert
Indiana University's basketball coach is an angry, vulgar, violent creep, but that's not the reason he should resign. (04/03/00)

If you fold it, they will come By Steve Burgess
Minor league baseball is bittersweet. The players are praying for a ticket out, and it's even worse when the team is looking to move, too. (04/03/00)

The fools' guide to history By Eugene Finerman
In commemoration of April Fools' Eve, we celebrate the Seven Blunderers of the World. (03/31/00)

About a writer By Steffan Chirazi
Nick Hornby talks about soccer, writing and a highly faithful adaptation of "High Fidelity." (03/31/00)

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. (03/29/00)

Grand delusion By Cary Tennis
And the prize for lamest bunch of partying twits in tuxes goes to ... (03/27/00)

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. (03/27/00)

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. (03/27/00)

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. (03/25/00)

Where you find it By Russ Spencer
In a culture of detritus, "American Beauty" screenwriter Alan Ball discovers heartbreaking beauty in garbage. (03/25/00)

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 .. (03/25/00)

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 ... (03/24/00)

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? (03/23/00)

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. (03/23/00)

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. (03/22/00)

No gays or abortions allowed in my papers! By Stephen Lemons
Right-wing Catholic David Weyrich prints all the news that fits his agenda. (03/21/00)

Dirty Gerald By Daniel Kraus
The sheriff of Davidson County, N.C., is a big-screen lawman for a TV nation. (03/20/00)

Victoria's penitentiary By Linda Robertson
Lingerie or weapon? Off with the underwire bra if you want to go behind bars. (03/20/00)

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. (03/17/00)

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. (03/17/00)

Venus envy By Jami Attenberg
As my perfect breasts begin to lose their bounce, I find myself taking young Hollywood perkiness personally. (03/16/00)

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. (03/15/00)

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. (03/15/00)

"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. (03/14/00)

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. (03/13/00)

"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! (03/13/00)

Jawboning with Snakeburger By Bryan Mealer
A conversation with the man the rattlesnakes love to sink their teeth into. (03/11/00)

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. (03/10/00)

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. (03/09/00)

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. (03/08/00)

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. (03/08/00)

Lassie, get lost By David Goodman
When relationships go to the dogs, they go to the dogs. (03/03/00)

My generation sucks! By Jim Rasenberger
Help! I'm suffering from genvy: The acute envy of one generation for another. (03/01/00)

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. (03/01/00)

"Main Event" By Stephen Lemons
A retrospective of Howard Bingham's photography recalls the Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle." (02/28/00)

Oh, make me over By Steve Burgess
As a complete fashion dunce, I was dependent on the kindness of sisters. Until my bosses took charge. (02/24/00)

Pick me! I'm a real multimillionaire! By Carina Chocano
A "shocked and outraged" Trey Parker speaks out on Fox's fumble. (02/24/00)

Alpha male epsilon By Andy Dehnart
Although an exact definition remains elusive, most people know a frat boy when they see one. And suddenly, they're seen everywhere. (02/23/00)

Liberté, Egalité, 36C By Debra Ollivier
Why was a pneumatic Victoria's Secret model chosen as the embodiment of the French Republic? (02/19/00)

A bod for sin By Jennifer Kornreich
Jacqueline Tellalian has spent her life in a wheelchair. And she still doesn't understand why men see it as a mechanical monster that threatens their manliness. (02/19/00)

The right stuff for the Red Planet By William Speed Weed
At 35, Dava Newman's an MIT engineer with a lab that would put James Bond's "Q" to shame and a passion for sending people to Mars. (02/16/00)

Say uncle By Stephen Lemons
The man who claimed to be Steven Spielberg's nephew had other fond wishes -- to be a transvestite porn star was one of them. (02/16/00)

Who wants to marry a multimillionaire? By Carina Chocano
A whole buncha losers, that's who. Married's just another word for nothing left to lose. (02/16/00)

Mutts: Praising the purity of the impure By Jean Hanff Korelitz
The true champions are nowhere to be found at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. (02/14/00)

Mr. and Mrs. Perfect Couple By Denise Dowling
Wanted: A down-to-earth twosome who will promote the values of marriage and aren't afraid of a little friendly competition. (02/14/00)

Da $126 million kid By Joe Gioia
What does it take to become the young darling of the NBA? Arms and legs that go on for days and standards that are very, very high. (02/12/00)

Snubdance: The musical By David Goodman
The story is just like any other, except it's very cold. And people eat each other. (02/11/00)

Hardly workin' By Steve Kurutz
Nothing says unemployable like being unemployed in a boom economy. (02/10/00)

The 7 vices of highly creative people By D.A. Blyler
If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it. (02/09/00)

Striptease U. By Russ Spencer
A new school turns wannabe strippers into dancers with roadies, fog machines and diversified portfolios. (02/07/00)

King of pain By Stephen Lemons
Clive Barker talks about the connection between pleasure and pain, and why everyone is a "book of blood." (02/04/00)

Show me your indies By Daniel Kraus
Think it's hard getting into Sundance? Try getting into Lapdance. A report from the Indiewood trenches. (02/03/00)

Primary duds By Mr. Blackwell
Mr. Blackwell selects the best- and worst-dressed presidential candidates. (02/01/00)

A conversation with Errol Morris By Rex Doane
Eating a reality sandwich at the Carnegie Deli with a connoisseur of the ironic, the naive and the appalling. (01/29/00)

Hollywood Parasite: Price of fame By David Goodman
Puffy was there, and the Goo Goo Dolls, and I almost ran over Kurt Loder. But everyone was working. So, all of a sudden, we missed the lame party with the imported transvestites. (01/28/00)

Driving Miss Crazy By Lance Gould
In a recent episode of "Jane Fonda's Life," a chauffeur introduced her to a new fella: God. (01/27/00)

Jesus Christ vs. Ted Turner By Lance Gould
Are their uncanny similarities mere coincidence? You be the judge. (01/27/00)

Will success spoil Janeane Garofalo? By Andy Dehnart
After a decade of playing second fiddle, Little Miss Sidekick finally gets lucky. Will we still respect her in the morning? (01/26/00)

Trump revelation: "I'm a big a**hole" By Merle Kessler
"I'm a big a**hole": The announcement comes as no surprise to longtime supporters. (01/24/00)

Nom de fume By John Angus Pavlus
Imagine you're in hell and your name is Angus. But that's redundant. (01/22/00)

It's not easy being a Dick By Richard Louis Bruno
Life's hard, but one name makes it harder. (01/22/00)

Will Uncle Junior sing? By Michael Sragow
Actor Dominic Chianese of "The Sopranos" talks about the hit show, James Gandolfini, Francis Coppola, Al Pacino and Gilbert & Sullivan. (01/21/00)

Torture by dating By Jennifer Li Shotz
When it came to romance, I'd always broken "The Rules" -- then "The Rules" nearly broke me. (01/19/00)

Hollywood Parasite: Hard ten By David Goodman
It's not my defiance of the odds that's got everyone going, it's what these winnings are going to do for our night at the strip clubs. (01/14/00)

Can gays and lesbians go to heaven? By Greg Bottoms
According to one evangelist, when the Rapture comes, some people are going to have hell to pay.
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A Blackwellian nightmare By Martha Barnette
On the 40th anniversary of the worst-dressed list, a writer recalls the acerbic designer -- and a beauty magazine assignment that went terribly wrong. (01/11/00)

Descent of the divas By Damien Cave
Gay men once worshipped some of the most over-the-top female entertainers, but the deification of the flamboyant, the bitchy and the damaged has become an anachronism. (01/10/00)

Babatunde Olatunji: Delivering the cure By Mike Thomas
A strange stranger in a strange land, decades ago Baba introduced millions to the medicine of drumming. Now 72, he's still got the beat. (01/08/00)

A conversation with Elie Wiesel By Jill Priluck
The author of "And the Sea is Never Full" discusses his work, the Middle East, Rwanda and his friend, Primo Levi. (01/05/00)

We're with stupid By Carina Chocano
What could be worse than a humiliating death? Try getting famous for it. (01/03/00)

They coulda been a contender
Because they can't all be winners ... (01/03/00)

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