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The player By Charles Taylor
His new musical version of "Love's Labour's Lost" is flawed, but Kenneth Branagh remains our greatest living interpreter of Shakespeare.

"Gone in 60 Seconds" By Charles Taylor
In the new Jerry Bruckheimer movie, see cars go fast and get banged up!

How to win at "Survivor" By Bill Wyman
The Darwinian undercurrents of "Survivor" are plain, but the real winner will be the castaway who understands the show's endgame.

Plus: Song for a "Survivor" By Virginia Vitzthum
An ode to BB Anderson, sung to the tune of "Candle in the Wind"

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Bon Jovi's hair-metal glory days on VH1's "Behind the Music"

When feminists were divas By Laura Miller
The figures who founded modern feminism were outrageous, outspoken and sometimes out of their minds -- but they were never boring.(06/09/00)

"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris By Greg Villepique
In another sidesplitting collection, the author writes about his foulmouthed brother, his hopeless French and his brief career as a speed-freak performance artist. (06/09/00)

Europe's monster plane By Mark Hunter
It's 40 feet shorter than a football field: Meet Airbus' huge new A3XX, which could change the future of aviation.

Microsoft Soundbite: The day after By Diane Seo
Befuddled by conflicting news, investors leave its stock treading water Thursday.

Heart of darkness By Arthur Allen
A team of Los Alamos researchers traces AIDS back to the 1930s, challenging a controversial theory that the epidemic was caused by a polio vaccination program in Africa.

Marriage material? By Catherine R. Miller
Hell, no! The love of my life has been declared one of People magazine's 100 most eligible bachelors -- after he dumped me.

The California chainsaw massacre By Mark Hertsgaard
Clear-cutting is tearing up forests in the nation's most environmentally aware state, and opponents blame the timber industry's ties to Gov. Gray Davis. (06/09/00)

Should gays serve in uniform? By Daryl Lindsey
A Salon panel debates the ban on gays and lesbians in the military. (06/09/00)

John Rocker, whipping boy By Allen Barra
He was torched for talking about New York the way baseball executives do. But he'd still be in the majors if he'd been getting people out. (06/09/00)

Return to Wonderland By Stephen Lemons
With his old pal Eddie Nash to be arraigned Monday in a 19-year-old murder case, the restless ghost of legendary porn star John Holmes once again stalks L.A. (06/09/00)

Education, homosexuality, the media and pop culture By Camille Paglia
Readers write about education and its disentegration; lesbians without personalities; Peter Pan syndrome among gay men; and simpering nymphets of the Flockhart-Paltrow school. (06/09/00)

Gray turns green -- with cash By Anthony York
Building more prisons, doling out pork and refusing to rethink the death penalty, California Gov. Gray Davis is confounding friends and enemies with his relentless pursuit of the middle. (06/09/00)

Dubya's atomic fib By Joshua Micah Marshall
Instead of stopping an arms race, George W. Bush's "Star Wars" plan could help fuel one. (06/09/00)

Trail Mix: Republicans torpedo McCain By Alicia Montgomery
Campaign finance reform meets friendly fire in Senate, while Gore's e-mail goes up in smoke. (06/09/00)

Three women By David Thomson
In "Croupier" the most seductive female character is the least perfect. (06/09/00)

31 Ejaculations: No. 7 By Eric Bogosian
All of a sudden this guy with long hair, long as a girl's, is walking toward me, and I knew what was going to happen. (06/09/00)

Its own worst enemy By Scott Rosenberg
The judge says you just can't trust Microsoft. It's the company's own fault. (06/09/00)

Will a Microsoft appeal go straight to the Supremes? By Damien Cave
Judge Jackson's attempt to expedite a final resolution to the antitrust trial could backfire. (06/09/00)

Misty and meat pies By Jamie Allen
Reflections on a girl I once knew -- and the most famous food in Natchitoches, La. (06/09/00)

Planet Daily: Wave rage By J.A. Getzlaff
Some Aussie surfers are attacking tourist "kooks" for stealing their breaks. (06/09/00)

Thursday June 8, 2000

Margaret Cho: All-American slut By Michael Sragow
The stand-up comedian's one-woman movie proves that Cho business is not all show business. (06/08/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, June 8, 2000 (06/08/00)

Sharps & Flats By David Hill
Steve Earle, once dubbed the "hillbilly Springsteen," learns that back roads "never carry you where you want 'em to." (06/08/00)

What is jazz? By Seth Mnookin
Sponsored by the Knitting Factory, Ornette Coleman, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Cecil Taylor and others look beyond bop. (06/08/00)

My mother and Jack Kerouac By Daniel Pinchbeck
Reading their love letters from before I was born is an eerie experience. (06/08/00)

"The Angel on the Roof" by Russell Banks By Jonathan Miles
In stories from nearly four decades, the writer demonstrates an astonishing range, a wonderful eye and a finely tuned talent for breaking hearts. (06/08/00)

Moore's the pity
What ever happened to Demi Moore?
By Gregg Kilday [06/08/00]

Microsoft shareholders unite!
The ruling did not spur a MSFT sell-off; rather diehard investors held firm that Gates & Co. will prevail.
By Diane Seo [06/08/00]

Tom the Dancing Bug
God-Man vs. the purse thief.
By By Ruben Bolling [06/08/00]

Journey to the center of my bottom By Howie Gordon
Having a camera shoved up my rectum was not the way I wanted to celebrate my 50th year.
(06/08/00)

"Betty Friedan a sexpot?" By Lee Quarnstrom
Carl Friedan abuses the Web in a ugly breach of divorce etiquette. (06/08/00)

Inside a lesbian "witch hunt" By Fiona Morgan
For too many women in the military, homophobia plus sexual harassment equals a reason to get out. (06/08/00)

The NRA's Blast Cafe By Arianna Huffington
Will the gun lobby's Times Square theme restaurant be a Planet Hollywood killer or a just a new franchise in bad taste? (06/08/00)

Camille Paglia: Elián, politics and the Roman Empire By Camille Paglia
Readers write about the González family's telenovela temperament; the cognitive dissonance of liberals; and Diocletian and that damned horse.
(06/08/00)

Nothing Personal: Whitney, phone home By Amy Reiter
Earth calling Houston -- time to come down; Courtney Love for president; Julia Roberts for hooker ... again. Plus: Eminem sings the lip-lock blues.
(06/08/00)

What's Al Gore thinking? By Jake Tapper
He oozes confidence even as his campaign flounders, but a high-level source says the veep is yelling and screaming behind the scenes. (06/08/00)

Politics and the gas pump By Ken Silverstein
A meaningless environmental provision leads to an ecological nightmare -- not to mention an extra charge when fueling up. (06/08/00)

Trail Mix: Dead heat in Clinton vs. Lazio By Alicia Montgomery
The little-known congressman pulls even with Hillary, and Gore goes for the granny vote. (06/08/00)

31 Ejaculations: No. 6 By Eric Bogosian
Coming is dying. Dogs come. Flies come. It is an end. Instead, let's stay here awhile. (06/08/00)

Naked World: Britain's knickers By Jack Boulware
A new show at London's Design Museum features underwear from sheepskin corsets to futuristic bras. (06/08/00)

Court to Microsoft: This is for real! By Andrew Leonard and Janelle Brown
Judge Jackson didn't just order Microsoft broken up -- he blasted the company for not taking his guilty verdict seriously. (06/08/00)

Are two Microsofts better than one? By Janelle Brown, Damien Cave and Katharine Mieszkowski
Microsoft's competitors argue that a breakup could get the bully off their backs (06/08/00)

Microsoft owes everything to Justice By Andrew Leonard
Would Bill Gates have come to power if the Justice Department's antitrust division hadn't attacked IBM? (06/08/00)

Microsoft shareholders unite By Diane Seo
The ruling fails to spur a sell-off of MSFT as diehard investors hold firm that Gates & Co. will prevail. (06/08/00)

Truffles and other sins By Ann Hodgman
Why must they be tubers? (06/08/00)

Travel Advisor: Little boat, big whale By Donald D. Groff
How to kayak with the biggest fish, hunker down on the California coast and make it up the Northeast corridor in one piece. (06/08/00)

Planet Daily: Kenyan schoolchildren take over town By J.A. Getzlaff
Outraged by a classmate's death, hundreds go on a "drunken rampage." (06/08/00)

Wednesday June 7, 2000

Invisible man By Eric Boehlert
Eminem may be the most violent, woman-hating, homophobic rapper ever. Why are critics giving him a pass? (06/07/00)

Michaelllllll Jorrrrrdan! By Sarah Vowell
Forget the NBA playoffs. At the IMAX movie "Michael Jordan to the Max," the greatest player who ever was lives again. (06/07/00)

Sharps & Flats By Keith Harris
Eminem's airtight masterpiece of rhyme invents invisible enemies. But would a serious rapper even bother dissing 'N Sync? (06/07/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Pineapple tart: Britney in Hawaii; "Sopranos" begins season rerun (06/07/00)

Future crock By John Leonard
Is the new economy eliminating private property, politics and civilization? (06/07/00)

"Deus lo volt! Chronicle of the Crusades" by Evan S. Connell By Marion Lignana Rosenberg
A masterly novelist re-creates the medieval campaigns in all their depravity, faith and gore. (06/07/00)

Burgers and bullets By Alec Appelbaum
Will the NRA's new Big Apple eatery ever make it off the ground? (06/07/00)

Intel, inside By Will Wade
The world's largest semiconductor company treats every outsider like a potential spy. (06/07/00)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
No hablo español. Damn. (06/07/00)

Swallowing ephedra By Shannon Brownlee
The wildly popular herbal diet aid can be dangerous for some people. But don't expect the FDA to crack down. (06/07/00)

Weighty matters By William Underhill
The British government plans to take on heroin chic in a Body Image Summit this month. (06/07/00)

The Supreme Court wimps out on grandparents rights By Damien Cave
The justices reveal themselves to be as knotted as a family in the throes of emotional strife. (06/07/00)

Image Conscious By Benjamin Hermann
It's a man's man's man's man's world. (06/07/00)

A heartbreaking decision By Dave Cullen
Gay officers must choose between personal happiness and the careers they've spent years building. Second of two parts. (06/07/00)

How the right smeared Clinton and Gore on China By Joe Conason
Racism helped the president's enemies link fundraising scandals to accusations of espionage, with almost no evidence. (06/07/00)

Camille Paglia: The gun letters
The Million Moms are "cowardettes who don't know the difference between a Glock and a glockenspiel." (06/07/00)

Nothing Personal: "Shaft," the shafter and the shaftee By Amy Reiter
Samuel L. Jackson: "Any questions?"; George Clooney nominated for best performance in a cat box. Plus: Was Eminem's bust just a rehearsal? (06/07/00)

Reform Party rumble By Anthony York
Amid defections and threats, the revolt against Pat Buchanan begins -- and threatens to destroy the house that Ross and The Body built. (06/07/00)

Politics and the gas pump By Ken Silverstein
How a meaningless environmental provision lead to an ecological nightmare -- not to mention an extra charge at the gas station (06/07/00)

Faking it By Jeffrey L. Seglin
Was it good for you? (06/07/00)

31 Ejaculations: Nos.5 By Eric Bogosian
"I don't know what you call what I am." (06/07/00)

Naked World: Ruining reps By J.A. Getzlaff
Israeli porn producers are hiring actors who look like Egyptian stars. (06/07/00)

Meet the $7.5 million URL By Stephen Gregory
It's got a recognizable name and some high-profile backers, but does Business.com have anything on Yahoo? (06/07/00)

From famine to feast By Burt Wolf
Virginia's capital is rich with America's history. (06/07/00)

Planet Daily: Black magic woman? By J.A. Getzlaff
A court sentences an United Arab Emirates woman to four months in jail for casting a spell. (06/07/00)

Tuesday June 6, 2000

What's up, Chuck? By Jaime Weinman Edry
The legacy of Chuck Jones, the most celebrated director in cartoon history, is as overinflated as an Acme balloon. (06/06/00)

Sharps & Flats By Michael Ullman
Saxophonist Joe Lovano delivers a loving tribute to 52nd Street, "the street that never slept." (06/06/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
World's best athletes get trophies and free booze at Monte Carlo's "Laureus Awards" (06/06/00)

Dear Mr. Blue: Keeping up appearances By Garrison Keillor
A boy I dated in high school confessed to me he's gay, and now he wants to say I'm his girlfriend for his parents' sake. Should I play along? (06/06/00)

"The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst" by David Nasaw By Michael Scott Moore
A mammoth new biography of the first media mogul, a power-hungry millionaire who horse-traded editorial policy and didn't care who knew. (06/06/00)

Not your father's Oldsmobile anymore By Diane Seo
GM, the world's largest automaker wants to make itself into a hip Web business. Can the rusting giant pull it off? (06/06/00)

Bull market for market bull By Steve Bodow
The villain in "M:i-2" demands a new popular-culture perquisite: Stock options. (06/06/00)

Story Minute By Carol Lay
No wonder her cat was so psycho. (06/06/00)

Smoke screen By Dan Zegart
Why did a Philip Morris scientist kill herself by drinking nicotine? (06/06/00)

Sour grapes, anyone? By Helen Cordes
Home schoolers -- big winners in national spelling and geography bees -- are criticized for "unfair advantages." (06/06/00)

The geography of sex By Stephen S. Hall
Sometimes it isn't girls against boys but imagination vs. memorization. (06/06/00)

The cost of the closet By Daryl Lindsey
A Salon special report examines the real-life impact of "don't ask, don't tell." (06/06/00)

The officers' club By Dave Cullen
The military allows closeted gays to serve, but the road to the top ranks is blocked with staggering sacrifice, loneliness and glass ceilings. (06/06/00)

How the right smeared Clinton and Gore on China By Joe Conason
Racism helped the president's enemies link fundraising scandals to accusations of espionage, with almost no evidence. (06/06/00)

Brilliant Careers: Maggie Smith By Steve Vineberg
One of today's most gifted and venerable actresses, she can turn the tiniest role into the most memorable corner of a movie. (06/06/00)

Nothing Personal: Britney says "No!" to indecent proposal By Amy Reiter
Millionaire horn-dog can't buy Spears' love; Lopez and Puffy: High-caliber couple. Plus: Sin�ad O' Connor hears celibacy calling. (06/06/00)

The millionaire you might like By Jake Tapper
The pundits seem to have it in for New Jersey candidate Jon Corzine. Maybe its because he doesn't need them. (06/06/00)

Linda Tripp addresses her people By Judith Greer
Speaking out for the first since the impeachment saga, Linda Tripp gets a hero's welcome at a Free Republic meeting of like minds. (06/06/00)

Trail Mix: Gore battles "slumlord" charge By Alicia Montgomery
The vice president invents a new use for the Internet and Bush gives Gore some friendly advice. (06/06/00)

Exposing sexual dysfunction By Mike Perry
In his new book on men's health, an endocrinologist encourages men to talk more about their penises and prostates. (06/06/00)

31 Ejaculations By Eric Bogosian
No. 4: "Her skin and her hair were like something you could eat." (06/06/00)

Naked World: Kiss and tell By Jack Boulware
A pillow-talking porn star is arrested in insider-trading scheme. (06/06/00)

Radio road kill By Damien Cave
Will Net car radios squash traditional broadcasters flat? (06/06/00)

Technology Log: Dot-com deathwatch By Janelle Brown
A new site rewards those who bet on the new economy's losers. (06/06/00)

Vagabonding: My Beirut hostage crisis By Rolf Potts
Taken under the wing of a Lebanese detergent tycoon, our correspondent learns that there's a fine line between hospitality and kidnapping. (06/06/00)

Planet Daily: Mugged by a serpent? By J.A. Getzlaff
Thieves in New Delhi, India, use snakes to hold up victims. (06/06/00)

Monday June 5, 2000

Finale answers By Joyce Millman
Surveying the season-ending episodes that made the grade (and the ones that flunked out). (06/05/00)

Sharps & Flats By Rachel Elson
Ace of Base's sugary pop should have come with an expiration date. A "Greatest Hits" set collects the moldy confections. (06/05/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
New Fox game show erases players' credit-card debt. (06/05/00)

"The Toughest Indian in the World" by Sherman Alexie By Katharine Whittemore
A new collection of tough, angry, dirty, funny, superbly accomplished stories by the Native American writer. (06/05/00)

"Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily" by Theresa Maggio By Maria Russo
A writer explores her obsession with an ancient Sicilian ritual steeped in the erotics of killing. (06/05/00)

$1 million sight unseen By Craig Offman
Steven Spielberg and Pocket Books pay big money for a manuscript they haven't read (06/05/00)

A CD pricing snafu By Eric Boehlert
Record execs are furious at the FTC for making them look like extortionists (06/05/00)

Tom Tomorrow By Tom Tomorrow
Helpful cable news show ratings boosters. (06/05/00)

Bedside terror By Jeff Drayer
Summertime means a flood of freshly minted med school graduates unleashed on unsuspecting patients (06/05/00)

The detachable phallus By Laurie Essig
There is a cure for sexism in academe. All you need are a sock and passing knowledge of French gender theory. (06/05/00)

Need a great place to raise a kid? By Emily Bazelon
Try Yale Law School: You'll find flexible hours, sympathetic professors, a baby room and more! (06/05/00)

Hating Whitey By Earl Ofari Hutchison
David Horowitz is dead wrong. It's time for the United States to pay up for slavery. (06/05/00)

Milosevic's fizzling opposition By Laura Rozen
Even a year after the NATO bombing of Belgrade, there's still no one around to take down the Yugoslav leader. (06/05/00)

Censorama! A gambling resort for persecuted writers By Cintra Wilson
Move over Siegfried & Roy, here comes Salman Rushdie. Now more than ever, Las Vegas is for smart people too. (06/05/00)

Sharon Stone fashion flashin' By Amy Reiter
Report her to PETA! Star says yes to butts, no to beavers; Moby: "Knob Touch" story got out of hand; Jimmy Smits cast in next "Star Wars"? (06/05/00)

But does he wear boxers or briefs? By Anthony York
George W. Bush takes a page from President Clinton and woos the youth vote, at Al Gore's expense. (06/05/00)

Ralph "The Body" Nader? By Andy Sullivan
Jesse Ventura's ad man talks about how he would sell his next prospective client -- the Green Party presidential candidate. (06/05/00)

Trail Mix: Does Gore blame Canada? By Alicia Montgomery
Moviemaking in Maple Leaf land prompts a Commerce probe, and Bush goads Gore on Eli�n. Also: Golden boy Lazio goes negative in New York, but the first lady keeps serving up the soft stuff. (06/05/00)

31 Ejaculations: Nos. 1-3 By Eric Bogosian
Three snapshots of sexual encounters. (06/05/00)

Naked World: Putin's puppet prostitutes By J.A. Getzlaff
Russia's president wants to censor TV show portraying him as a playboy. (06/05/00)

View From the Top: Dot-com servitude By Damien Cave
"Will work for options" was the motto that built the new economy, but mylackey.com's Brian McGarvey takes it to new extremes. Housecleaning anyone? (06/05/00)

Technology Log: Help! I've been "bag-vertised." By Katharine Mieszkowski
Just when you thought there was nowhere else dot-com advertising could go ... (06/05/00)

Yo! I ride through the valley in the shadow of death By David Darlington
A quartet of intrepid mountain bikers tackles the far, unfriendly reaches of Death Valley National Park -- and learns some lessons about life. (06/05/00)

Planet Daily: Mugged by a serpent? By J.A. Getzlaff
Thieves in New Delhi, India, use snakes to hold up victims. (06/05/00)

Friday June 2, 2000

"Big Momma's House" By Andrew O'Hehir
Martin Lawrence, no Eddie Murphy, takes a reheated cross-dressing shtick and turns it into something to elate your inner fourth-grader. (06/02/00)

"Better Living Through Circuitry" By Jeff Stark
In this floor-level view of the rave scene, director Jon Reiss keeps it pumping, humming, buzzing and spinning. (06/02/00)

They've booted Mrs. Howell! By Joyce Millman
The debut episode of "Survivor" sees the castaways turning on the aged first -- and beats "Millionaire" in the ratings. (06/02/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
"Sex and the City" vs. "Quest for the Giant Squid" (06/02/00)

Billy and the bullies By Dennis Loy Johnson
Did the New York Times, Random House and "America's most popular poet" gang up to smear a small poetry publisher? (06/02/00)

"Stork Club" by Ralph Blumenthal By George Rafael
A history of the club where Jack and Jackie and Joltin' Joe and Marilyn and Grace and Rainier and J. Edgar all rubbed shoulders. (06/02/00)

The toons that won't be "King"
Behind Disney's market-saturating quest for the next "Lion King"
By Gregg Kilday [06/02/00]

They trade horses, don't they?
A lawsuit to block the Hearst Corp.'s takeover of the San Francisco Chronicle exposed a world of political treachery that reached from City Hall to the U.S. Justice Department.
By Joan Walsh [06/02/00]

Tom the Dancing Bug
The Knight Shadow
By Ruben Bolling [06/02/00]

One Hundred Demons
Tales of things that never happened told by people we've never met.
By Lynda Barry [06/02/00]

I am somebody! By Christopher Shea
Do blacks really need to work on their self-esteem? An African-American psychologist says no. (06/02/00)

One Hundred Demons By Lynda Barry
Tales of things that never happened told by people we've never met. (06/02/00)

Post-impeachment blues
Beneath the radar, the legal dramas inspired by the president's troubles continue to play out -- and Clinton has himself partly to blame.
By Bruce Shapiro [06/02/00]

Elián's closing chapter?
A legal expert says the Cuban boy's legal saga is slowly winding down.
By Daryl Lindsey [06/02/00]

With this ring, Shaq emerges
Compared to other players, rather than to his own supposed potential, he's one of the best ever. When he wins a championship this month, fans will take notice.
By Allen Barra [06/02/00]

Jeff Buckley: A cult in the making? By Steve Kurutz
He was an ethereal, darkly handsome singer-songwriter who died young. And that's how legends begin. (06/02/00)

Hollywood Parasite: Pam Gravy's dancing panda By David Goodman
Real, screw-with-your-head magic in Vegas, and Trey Parker is Neil Diamond. (06/02/00)

Nothing Personal: Moby Dong? By Amy Reiter
Everybody's a winner: "Knob Touch" party game has nothin' to do with doors; You gotta serve somebody, says Mr. Janet Jackson. Plus: Is nothing sacred? Here come the Reagan love letters. (06/02/00)

Separated at birth?
For a mainstream Republican, Rick Lazio's politics are awfully similar to those of "left-wing" Hillary Clinton.
By Jesse Drucker [06/02/00]

Lie of the Week
Can you be a "Coal Miner's Daughter" if your daddy owned the mine?
By Joshua Micah Marshall [06/02/00]

Turn-on: Nasty Michelle By David Thomson
You've got to worry when the sexiest thing in theaters this week is a preview for a movie coming in July. (06/02/00)

Naked World: Banana goes to the big house By Jack Boulware
Politician sentenced in Zimbabwe sodomy case. (06/02/00)

Learning to love your geek
"The Geek Handbook" is a handy how-to manual for keeping him or her in good running order.
By Janelle Brown [06/02/00]

Technology Log: Lay off the layoff stories
The dot-com business press is going ga-ga over dot-com layoffs. Enough, already.
By Andrew Leonard [06/02/00]

Wanderlust: Nights of the iguana By Amelia Hansen
Sometimes it's better not to try to turn lust into love (06/02/00)

Planet Daily: Vatican makes French school remove condom machine J.A. Getzlaff
Officials claim a dispenser "legitimized behavior which was not acceptable." (06/02/00)

Thursday June 1, 2000

Michael Sragow
How "Chinatown" screenwriter Robert Towne hooked up with Tom Cruise and John Woo to script "M:i-2." (06/01/00)

Sharps & Flats By Lisa Gidley
Veruca Salt frontwoman Louise Post learns that breaking up is hard to do; the knife in the back, however, is easy. (06/01/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, June 1, 2000 (06/01/00)

The real Sylvia Plath, Part 2 By Kate Moses
Her newly published, unexpurgated journals support a little-known theory that PMS drove her to suicide. (06/01/00)

"Becoming Madame Mao" by Anchee Min By Gary Krist
A novel with a larger-than-life subject: The ruthless political climber who wreaked vengeance on every enemy who'd ever snubbed her. (06/01/00)

Hot Water: Starbucks sues a citizen By Paul Brandus
How a San Francisco cartoonist ticked off the Seattle giant. (06/01/00)

"Pass the virtual champagne, please" By Heidi Kriz
Goodbye, chips and dip: The book party comes to cyberspace. (06/01/00)

Gene therapy R.I.P.? By Tabitha M. Powledge
When the country's biggest gene therapy institute was ordered to stop testing on humans last week, the action marked the end of an era fraught with dubious claims to success and a mess of unreported adverse effects. (06/01/00)

Saucy soccer moms By Matthew DeBord
Forget supermodels, it is She of the coveted vote that I most desire. (06/01/00)

The guilty pleasures of Seattle By David Shields
Even facing a Microsoft breakup, the city is prospering like never before. So why do these people feel so guilty? (06/01/00)

Out of her tree By Stephen Lemons
Julia Butterfly Hill sat in a giant redwood for two years, then kicked the big boys' butts. Now her book's a bestseller and she's talking about a movie deal. (06/01/00)

Nothing Personal: Silverstone spills all By Amy Reiter
Alicia on proper pooping, mother's milk and things of that ilk; Did Prince William nick the bubbly? Plus: Quentin Tarantino's seedy love! (06/01/00)

For Bush, fund-raiser is a gamble By Jake Tapper
Despite his "strong anti-gambling record," he prepares for a major gift from serious high-rollers -- and criticism from the party's right wing. (06/01/00)

Campaign jobs: adults only By Anthony York
Dianne Feinstein's independent-minded opponent finally gets serious -- and his youthful staff gets some serious additions. (06/01/00)

Proust's dearest pleasures By Rick Whitaker
The best of a slew of recent biographies points to the author's conscious self-closeting. (06/01/00)

Naked World: Racehorse gets a perma-stiffy By Jack Boulware
Champion suffers from penile paralysis. (06/01/00)

Undo me! By Simson Garfinkel
Why can't operating system designers build a better "undo" feature? (06/01/00)

Town & Country goes dot-com slumming By Janelle Brown
A high society bible devotes its entire June issue to dot-com mogul mania (06/01/00)

Travel Advisor: Digging for dinosaurs By Donald D. Groff
Our expert offers tips on family-oriented dino sites, historic Route 66 and Welsh bardic tourneys. (06/01/00)

Planet Daily: Welcome to Cowshit Lane By J.A. Getzlaff
English villagers love their street's name, and they're going to keep it after all. (06/01/00)

Wednesday May 31, 2000

The boob tube By Sharon Goldman Edry
MTV used to show music videos: Now it offers kids an almost constant stream of torrid teens, hot sex and whipped-cream bikinis. (05/31/00)

Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
Devo cracked a thousand whips at art-world pretense. In the end, the one-note joke leveled the world's greatest dance music for nerds. (05/31/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
"Survivor": Where's the Professor when you need him? Kevin Smith's cartoon "Clerks" (05/31/00)

Mr. Blue: One is the loneliest number By Garrison Keillor
My husband locks himself in the spare room and masturbates five or six times a day to videotapes and sex magazines. (05/31/00)

"The Happy Bottom Riding Club" by Lauren Kessler By Patricia Kean
A juicy, smart biography of heiress Pancho Barnes, who wanted only one thing: More. (05/31/00)

Stupid death tricks By Jeff Stark
How a Web performance artist created a fake chain of theme-park cemeteries and embarrassed 39 newspapers, 19 radio stations, six TV stations, 10 magazines and 20 Web sites. (05/31/00)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Live nude band night at the Fillmore (05/31/00)

Kids as guinea pigs By Dawn MacKeen
The death of a 9-month-old boy rekindles an agonizing debate: Should powerful drugs be tested on children? (05/31/00)

Prada family values By Amy Benfer
Harper's Bazaar shows us moms in transparent blouses and teen daughters in Limp Bizkit videos. (05/31/00)

Homework chain saw massacre By Maura Kelly
Sometimes an English essay can be a threat to do bodily harm. (05/31/00)

The curriculum crusades By James Traub
Progressive teaching practices don't work as well as a traditional focus on basic skills and a rigorous curriculum. So why do we still use them? (05/31/00)

Can you spell failure? By Myla Goldberg
The Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee seen on ESPN offers its vast audience exactly what it's hungry for: Loser TV. (05/31/00)

Nothing Personal: Who tattled on Tommy Lee? By Amy Reiter
Mr. Pamela back in stir; the comedy stylings of Bob Dole? Eddie Van Halen scores an ounce of prevention; Jodie Foster: No. 2 on the way? Plus: Clinton caught cheating! (05/31/00)

The battle is joined By Jesse Drucker
Rick Lazio is formally christened as the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate. (05/31/00)

Emergency sex By Jeff Drayer
A young doctor explains the natural, easy connection between sex and healthcare. (05/31/00)

Naked World: Octogenarian stripper wows Midwest By Jack Boulware
Disco Ernie has been dancing for money for 24 years. (05/31/00)

The MP3 of movies? By Damien Cave
A new video compression technology promises to make online film swapping as easy as pie, but Hollywood's got nothing to worry about yet. (05/31/00)

Log: Burning Man culture clash By Katharine Mieszkowski
Is the National Geographic Society trying to wipe out an already-extinct tribe of revelers? (05/31/00)

Donated statues and prayerful pretzels By Burt Wolf
Munich's got the best of Germany -- open plazas, a commitment to art and food so fatty you'll never want to leave (05/31/00)

Planet Daily: Sexual harassment in the skies By J A. Getzlaff
Frustrated passenger groped flight attendants (05/31/00)

Tuesday May 30, 2000

Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
Eminem, Don Henley, Dusty Springfield and the Sex Pistols. (05/30/00)

Sharps & Flats: No more pain, no more broken hearts By
Andy Partridge and XTC are the men who murdered love. (05/30/00)

Demon wraith By Charles Taylor
On "The Practice," Helen Gamble's desire for vengeance--a passion that happens to be pervasive in our culture -- is eating her alive. (05/30/00)

The real Sylvia Plath By Kate Moses
Her newly published, unexpurgated journals reveal the poet's true demons -- and support a little-known theory about what drove her to suicide. (05/30/00)

"Enola Gay" By Mark Levine
A forceful book of poems about our barely disguised appetite for destruction. (05/30/00)

The urge to merge By Steven Bodow
Summer's here and the time is right for merging on the Street. A look at who's seeking matrimonial and monetary bliss this wedding season. (05/30/00)

The death of music retail as we know it? By Eric Boehlert
Confronted by an apocalyptic mix of blank CDs and Napster, the record shop faces extinction -- in 12 months. (05/30/00)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Season finale! Gushy sentiment, plus a cliffhanger! (05/29/00)

"Half Empty, Half Full" By Annie M. Paul
While optimism may seem a sunny subject, full of hearts and flowers, it's a weapon in Susan Vaughan's hands. (05/30/00)

My first art By Carol Weis
Three decades later, an old lover returned to remind me that I could still whip up a mean cr�me anglaise. (05/30/00)

Recipe: Summer pudding By Carol Weis
Filled with fresh summer berries and a flavor to confound the most sophisticated palate. (05/30/00)

The Charter school challenge By Larry Platt
Notes from two pioneering California charter schools -- one a success story, the other a failure. (05/30/00)

The latest civil rights disaster By David Horowitz
Ten reasons why reparations for slavery is a bad idea for black people -- and racist too. (05/30/00)

Brilliant Careers: Charles Barkley By Larry Platt
The most fascinating sports figure since Ali, he gave rise to a generation of hip-hop athletes. (05/30/00)

Nothing Prsonal: Matthew Perry holds on to his organ! By Amy Reiter
The "Friends" star loves his liver, plans to keep livin' with it; Amy Brenneman: "Lesbianism's chic"; Puff Daddy sheds a law suit; Beastie Boys try one on. (05/30/00)

Unfavorite son By Jake Tapper
Winning his home state of Tennessee is a big goal -- and surprising challenge -- for Al Gore. (05/30/00)

Going down By Virginia Vitzthum
Surprise! Women like receiving oral sex (almost) as much as men do. (05/30/00)

Naked world: Viagra rave By jack Boulware
Impotence drug popular with Canadian club crowd. (05/30/00)

Who's afraid of a bear market?
Almost everyone, but don't expect a crash to scare off day traders. In fact, it might turn you into one. (05/30/00)

View From the Top: Napster at law By Damien Cave
Attorney-turned-interim CEO Hank Barry promises to make money, not war, for the beleaguered music-swapping service. (05/30/00)

Out of the Blue: Just another flight to Cali By Elliot Hester
Mini-dramas unfold on a Colombian odyssey. First of two parts. (05/30/00)

Planet Daily: Sumo wrestler flashes Japan on TV By J.A. Getzlaff
The giant star loses his loincloth and his match, too. (05/30/00)

Friday, May 26, 2000

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-29, 2000 (05/26/00)

"Shanghai Noon" By Stephanie Zacharek
Jackie Chan's latest teams him up in 1880s America with Owen Wilson -- and gives a giddy glimpse of what he'll be doing after he gets too old to do his death-defying stunts. (05/26/00)

"8 1/2 Women" By Andrew O'Hehir
Peter Greenaway's masterful meditation on grief, sexual indulgence and power might just be his masterpiece.(05/26/00)

"Experience: A Memoir" by Martin Amis By Andrew Roe
The renowned novelist opens up on the subject of his famously vile father, Sir Kingsley, and the $30,000 fortune he spent repairing his own famously vile teeth. (05/26/00)

Television: Photo finish By Eric Bohlert
Read 'em and sweep: ABC and NBC tie for the May TV ratings sweeps, but both sides claim victory. (05/26/00)

Movies: The long hot summer By Gregg Kilday
Hollywood raises the curtain on its annual money-spinning event, but this year's model looks awfully thin. (05/26/00)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(05/26/00)

Story Minute By Carol Lay
(05/26/00)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
(05/26/00)

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
(05/26/00)

Should shrinks probe the violent fantasies of patients? By Dawn MacKeen
They often don't. And that failure can be tragic. (05/26/00)

Money talks By Catherine Davis
In wealthy school districts, it drowns out the sound of the teachers. (05/26/00)

The war over vouchers By Stephen Talbot
As home to the largest school voucher program in the nation, Cleveland is ground zero in the battle. (05/26/00)

Why is this man smirking? By Joe Conason
Bush's plan to privatize Social Security sounds too good to be true -- and that's the problem. (05/26/00)

Vouchers and the GOP By Stanley Crouch
The Republicans' quick fix for education reform doesn't compute. Here's why. (05/26/00)

If you have a fit, you musn't hit By Amy Reiter
Report: Enraged girlfriend put the whomp on O.J. The real reason for Grant and Hurley's split. Plus: President Clinton on the, ahem, bigness of "Baywatch." (05/26/00)

The other Ondaatje By Nick Ryan
Given his dramatic exploits, the brother of the man who wrote "The English Patient" and "Anil's Ghost" could have walked right out of a novel. (05/26/00)

Why should we trust this man? By Dante Chinni
Frank Luntz is king of the pollster pundits, but don't ask him where his numbers come from. (05/26/00)

Hurt me By Karen Croft
A chat with Laura Reese, author of the sexual thriller "Panic Snap." (05/26/00)

The first encounter By Laura Reese
Chapter 6 from "Panic Snap" by Laura Reese. (05/26/00)

Nicaraguan melodrama By Jack Boulware
Congressman attempts suicide, humiliated by charges of bigamy. (05/26/00)

Would you be wooed by Boo? By Janelle Brown
The designers who built Europe's flashiest e-commerce flop put themselves up for hire. (05/26/00)

If code is free, why not me? By Laura Reese
Chapter 6 from "Panic Snap" by Laura Reese. (05/26/00)

Into the jaws of destiny By Bill Belleville
Whatever you think a shark is, you're wrong until you look it in the eye. (05/26/00)

Chickens attack toddlers in California By J.A. Getzlaff
Henpecked by angry citizens, the Sonoma City Council calls foul on free-roaming birds. (05/26/00)

Thursday, May 25, 2000

What's the "Frequency," Gregory? By Michael Sragow
Veteran "Hill Street Blues" and "NYPD Blue" director Gregory Hoblit scores the spring's sleeper hit with "Frequency." (05/26/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, May 25, 2000 (05/26/00)

"Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry" by T.M. Luhrmann By Laura Miller
A subtle study of the conflict between talk-oriented and drug-oriented psychotherapy -- and a frightening demonstration of how medical budget cutters are betraying the mentally ill and putting the rest of us at risk. (05/26/00)

Crazy like a fox By Sean Elder
Fox news is out to save its ailing Web site by borrowing -- literally and politically -- from its resurgent news channel. Even if it means rewriting a few stories. (05/26/00)

Seven days in May: Britney Spears does it again! By Eric Boehlert
The bubbly teen phenom storms the charts with a massive No. 1 album, but will nasty rapper Eminem cut her down to size? The record industry scores a record-setting week. (05/26/00)

Who will care for the crazy? By J.B. Orenstein
She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones. First of two parts. (05/26/00)

O no! By Lisa Moricoli Latham
Oprah produces a deeply flawed magazine for the deeply flawed. (05/26/00)

Guilty pleasures from China By Alexandra Starr
Get ready for all the cute $4.99 T-shirts you can stuff into a shopping bag. Just remember: Someone will pay the price. (05/26/00)

Early Christmas for Beijing By Bruce Shapiro
The House of Representatives approves permanent trading status for China, but the move is mostly a symbolic gesture. (05/26/00)

Nothing Personal: Like a stalker By Amy Reiter
Madonna's stalker didn't mean any harm; he just wanted to be near her. Plus: Posh's plans to pop 'em out. (05/26/00)

Trail Mix: Tripp's off the hook By Alicia Montgomery
Bush hits rewind on conservative speech as Gore -- in his glam new makeup --guns for Heston and loses labor. (05/26/00)

World's first elephant midwife? By Jack Boulware
Vet's job is to encourage births among captive elephants. (05/26/00)

Does Microsoft need a makeover? By Salon Technology staff report
As Judge Jackson ponders a three-way breakup, experts offer the company some PR advice. (05/26/00)

Flying behemoth By Chris Colin
United Airlines, the world's largest carrier, announced plans to acquire US Airways. If the deal takes off, will competition nose dive? (05/26/00)

Wednesday, May 24, 2000

The fall TV menu By Joyce Millman
You want a side of Regis with that? (05/24/00)

"M:i-2" By Charles Taylor
Director John Woo's pyrotechnics and the spark between Tom Cruise and Thandie Newton can't redeem a strangely impersonal actioner. (05/24/00)

You have your mother's temper By Garrison Keillor
I hated my mother for not controlling her rages, and now I find myself turning into her. (05/24/00)

"Plowing the Dark" by Richard Powers By Pam Rosenthal
A riveting novel conjures up the bygone days of virtual reality and the promise of the unreal world that might have been. (05/24/00)

Peons rejoice! By Craig Offman
The book business gives its infamously low-paid assistants a raise. (05/24/00)

Sound and fury By Arthur Allen
Thousands of deaf kids can hear, and speak, thanks to a stunningly effective ear implant. So why is the deaf community in an uproar? (05/24/00)

Road sows By Beth Gallagher
Why do women drive SUVs? Could it be that they believe that size matters -- in the driveway? (05/24/00)

El Pescador fights back By Daryl Lindsey
Fisherman Donato Dalrymple sues Janet Reno for violating his right to privacy. (05/24/00)

The charter school magnate By Eve Pell
With his controversial privately run schools, entrepreneur David Brennan pushes Ohio into the center of the school-choice debate. (05/24/00)

Blame it on Gisele By Amy O'Connor
A Brazilian runway Amazon turns New York into São Paolo's sister city. (05/24/00)

Mommy Smearest By Amy Reiter
It's spillsville for Jaid Barrymore, splitsville for Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley and the slammer for Bobby Brown. (05/24/00)

Calendar
Salon.com's guide to upcoming political events (05/24/00)

Houses of the holy By Jake Tapper
George W. Bush offers an olive branch to Jewish voters while trying to set a different tone from his father's squabbles with pro-Israel lobbying groups. (05/24/00)

Trail Mix: Did Bush go AWOL on Guard? By Alicia Montgomery
Rick Lazio's running start leaves Hillary Clinton at a loss for a target and voters cautiously optimistic. (05/24/00)

The masculine mystique By Anna Holmes
A new book takes a look at what makes a man sexy and stylish, but its theories about masculinity are less compelling than its photos of men in many guises. (05/24/00)

Self-defense for prostitutes By Jack Boulware
CARE urges Bangladeshi hookers to take up karate. (05/24/00)

Macho boys and entrepreneurial gurus By Katharine Mieszkowski
They swear. They hunt. They make millions. The "eBoys" of Benchmark Capital and "Confessions of a Venture Capitalist" show us the ropes of Sand Hill Road. (05/24/00)

Intrigue under the big screen By Rolf Potts
At a 1-dinar cinema in Amman, Jordan, the real story has little to do with the movie itself. (05/24/00)

London's "Millennium Wheel" bungles Wordsworth By J.A. Getzlaff
The poet's sonnet makes no sense and no one notices. (05/24/00)

Monday, May 22, and Tuesday, May 23, 2000

Oops, she's doing it again! By Strawberry Saroyan
She's a Mouseketeer trafficking kiddie porn, a school-girl queen selling sex in a leathery cat suit. Does Britney Spears have any idea what she's doing? (05/22/00)

The incredible shrinking Mulder By Joyce Millman
He's bored with "X-Files" and, frankly, so are we. (05/22/00)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
"Ally McBeal": The Musical; "Raymond," "'70s Show" season finales (05/22/00)

Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
Phish could be a great pop band -- if all those damn trustafarians ot out of the way. (05/22/00)

Gritty city By Nelson George
The author of "One Woman Short" and "Hip Hop America" picks five great urban books. (05/22/00)

"Chang and Eng" by Darin Strauss By Jonathan Miles
A daring first novel probes the psychological -- and sexual -- lives of the celebrated Siamese twins. (05/22/00)

Salon recommends
What we're reading, what we're liking (05/22/00)

New in paperback
Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Nathan Englander, Janet Fitch, Neal Stephenson and more (05/22/00)

Pay no more By Steve Bodow
Wall Street may have snubbed the $12.5 billion marriage between Lycos and Terra Networks, but the deal could lead to free Web and phone service. (05/22/00)

Raging youths tune in to aging soaps By Lydia Lee
Can Hottie and Trouble pull in the ratings for daytime TV? (05/22/00)

Holy & Moly! Swedish fashion takes Manhattan By Heather Alexis Chaplin
Can H&M, the comically low-priced Stockholm retailer, conquer America and sink its teeth into the Gap's once-invincible ankles? (05/22/00)

Into the closet By Barry Yeoman
Can therapy make gay people straight? (05/22/00)

Letters:

Flesh and blood and DNA By Arthur Allen
(05/22/00)

Chain gang By Julia Gracen
(05/22/00)

Real simple editor quits By Julia Gracen
(05/22/00)

Prozac indignation By Craig Offman
(05/22/00)

Making martyrs of our kids By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
It's absurd to say parents who choose private school shouldn't participate in the public debate over education. (05/22/00)

Can these schools be saved? By Joan Walsh
Salon's week-long look at the state of America's public schools (05/22/00)

Public schools, private choices By Louis Freedberg
Al Gore could have sent his son to Wilson High, a public school, but chose nearby Sidwell Friends, which is private. Here's a look at both. (05/22/00)

Shear madness By Susan Emerling
The writer and star of "Dirty Blonde" talks about channeling Mae West and the uses of celebrity worship. (05/22/00)

Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
G.W. has his finger on the pulse! So a question about "Sex and the City" didn't refer to real, live urban nooky? At least he's heard of the Afghan supergroup Taliban! (05/22/00)

Rudy bows out By Jesse Drucker
The mayor of New York brings a premature end to the most anticipated Senate battle of the year. (05/22/00)

Lie of the Week By Joshua Micah Marshall
Bush on Gore on Social Security: The candidate offers an embarrasing gaffe and a mischievous deception. (05/22/00)

Tragic surgery in Singapore By Jack Boulware
Botched surgery leads to small testicles and big breasts. (05/22/00)

"The History of Fellatio" By Annie Auguste
A new book chronicles fellatio, from ancient Egypt to Monica Lewinsky (05/22/00)

Geek Astrology: Randomized thoughts By Thomas Scoville
Hey Gemini, it's time to stop making sense and let chaos reign. (05/22/00)

Camera on a chip By Mark Compton
Photobit CEO Sabrina Kemeny's tiny image sensors will bring us "Get Smart"-style watches and cellphones that take snapshots. (05/22/00)