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Hooker's Ball By Tracy Quan
A working girl falls for "The Life" (05/30/97)

Twin Town By Charles Taylor
"Twin Town" tries to be the Welsh "Trainspotting," and fails (05/30/97)

Brassed Off By Stephanie Zacharek
The heartwarming message of "Brassed Off" comes through a bit too loud and clear (05/30/97)

Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
New Foo Fighters: Dave Grohl looks grotty but drums like an angel (05/30/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section

The online lifeline By Andrew Leonard
Forget those tech-support phone numbers. Only the Net can answer the zillion questions and solve the endless problems generated by today's computer technology
Read me.Doc By Andrew Leonard
How to get started on the quest for technical support online
Cashing in By Andrew Leonard
CyberMedia sees a market in centralizing Net-based technical help
(05/29/97)

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
North Dakota: America's secret Sodom (05/29/97)

Cynicsaurus Rex By Charles Taylor
How Steven Spielberg betrayed his talent (05/28/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Follicle-phobic: Why men freak over women's body hair (05/28/97)

Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
1st Lt. Kelly Flinn: Sniveling weenie (05/27/97)

Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel section:

Mondo Weirdo By Don George
The strangest food in the world (05/24/97)

Praise the Titanic! By Douglas Cruickshank
Eighty-five years later, they're still going down with the ship (05/24/97)

Above the volcano By Robert Riddell
Climbing Mexico's newest landform offers unexpected lessons (05/24/97)
-Books on Mexico
-Getting there

Postmark: Oxford, England
Village people by Amanda Castleman
Ye Olde Englande still exists in all its imagined splendor -- that is, if you overlook the busted pipes and bigoted redneck neighbors (05/24/97)
-Getting there

Passages: "Into Thin Air" By Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer recounts his harrowing journey up Mount Everest, on the fatal expedition that claimed the lives of four of his teammates

The Surreal Gourmet Supermartini! (05/24/97)

Right On! By David Horowitz
Robin Hood lives, unfortunately (05/24/97)

The people's critic By Gary Kamiya
With his finely tuned bullshit meter and his dramatic flair, Robert Hughes has become America's best guide through the thickets of fine art (05/23/97)

The Salon Interview: Robert Hughes By Gary Kamiya
The self-described "print asshole" on his nervous breakdown, why the curator of the Whitney is a "twit" and why painting will never die (05/23/97)

Art history for smarties By Charles Taylor
Robert Hughes doesn't dumb it down in PBS's "American Visions" (05/23/97)

Spies in the house of love By Laura Miller
"Addicted to Love" tests how far Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan can get beyond cute (05/23/97)

Word's Worth Salon's new word game (05/23/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section

The paper chase By Scott Rosenberg
Why print magazines can't keep up with the Web
Why the Web needs a TV Guide: An editor talks back By Barry Golson
Magazines about the Web: How to tell them apart By Scott Rosenberg
A jaundiced guide to Web magazines
(05/22/97)

Word By Word By Anne Lamott
My onstage out-of-body experience (05/22/97)

The Salon Interview: Mary Karr By Dwight Garner
Mary Karr talks about the ongoing success of "The Liars' Club," the memoir backlash and settling scores (05/21/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Didja ever ...? Playing bedroom truth or dare (05/21/97)

Honey, I shrunk the family By Kate Moses
Are men to blame for the disappearance of home life?

Interview with Stephanie Coontz, author of "The Way We Never Were," by Lori Leibovich
Interview with Arlie Hochschild, author of "The Time Bind," by Kate Moses
(05/20/97)

Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel section:


If it's Tuesday, I must be tipsy By Jan Morris
Jan Morris drinks her way across Europe (05/20/97)

A place in the sun By Don George, Editor (05/20/97)

Postmark: Philadelphia By Mary Elizabeth Williams
City of Brotherly Weirdness: The Liberty Bell isn't the only thing cracked about this town (05/20/97)

Passages: "In Light of India" By Octavio Paz
Beholding Bombay (05/20/97)
- Books on India
- Getting there

Table Talk
Readers' Tips and Tales
New York stories (05/20/97)

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Public bestiality: your ticket to '90s success (05/20/97)

One tough mother By Joyce Millman
Five ways Roseanne kicked network TV's butt into the next century (05/19/97)

Swamp Fever By James Carville
High-priced elephant dung: The GOP's foreign money scandal (05/19/97)

X-Word By Merl Reagle
Double Double Meanings (05/19/97)

Twilight of the goats By D. T. Max
They're old and in the way, but Mailer, Roth and Bellow won't leave the barnyard! (05/16/97)

"Night Falls on Manhattan" By Robin Dougherty
Despite a fresh star in Andy Garcia and some powerful moments, Sidney Lumet's latest police corruption drama walks the same old beat (05/16/97)

Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Southern culture on the skids: Oxford American's Southern music issue needs more grits, less gravy (05/16/97)

The Listress By Amy Wallace
Famous Last Words (05/16/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section

Can we talk By Tracy Quan
Personal encounters with talking bots
E-mail from the underground By Andrew Leonard
The system quashes
(05/15/97)

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
New media to old media: Whatever (05/15/97)

Below the belt By Laura Miller
Two new books explore the ambiguous terrain of sexual harassment (05/14/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
S&M invitation: Strangers in the night, exchanging lashes (05/14/97)

Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Anne Heche will ruin Ellen the way Yoko ruined John (05/13/97)

Wanderlust: Salon's weekly travel section

Philosophy au lait By David Downie
Philosophers' cafes are all the rage in Paris (05/13/97)
-Parisian philocafes schedule
-Books on Paris

What is it about Paris? By Don George
"There's something about Paris that makes people walk hand in hand and stop to kiss long and deep, and sigh, oblivious to all the people passing by." Wanderlust's editor reflects on his own Parisian love affair (05/13/97)

Anatomy of Restlessness By Bruce Chatwin
Gone to Timbuctoo: A brilliant travel writer's reflections on an almost mythic destination (05/13/97)
-Getting there

Lost in Los Feliz By Dawn MacKeen
What happens when your neighborhood becomes the trendiest place in town? (05/13/97)
-Books on Los Angeles

Table Talk Readers' Tips and Tales
Your favorite city in the whole wide world! (05/13/97)

Trash lit 101 By Dwight Garner
Drop those upturned noses! Every reader's diet should -- and usually does -- contain a leavening of bestsellers (05/12/97)

Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
Secrets of becoming a millionaire unveiled! Honestly! (05/12/97)

Excerpt By Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
"The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy" (05/12/97)
More bewilderment from Mr. Baldacci By Jon Carroll (05/12/97)

Right On! The Cochranization of American Politics By David Horowitz
Overwrought charges of law enforcement racism, now heard again in the Geronimo Pratt case, are harming black-white relations and perverting the justice system (05/12/97)

X-Word By Merl Reagle
Sorry, wrong letter (05/12/97)

The last show standing By Joyce Millman
"Homicide" saves the TV season (05/09/97)

The Fifth Element: By Scott Rosenberg
In the future, the Supreme Being is a supermodel, absolute evil is a big ball of molten lava -- and the fate of the universe hangs in the balance (05/09/97)

Children of the Revolution By Laura Miller
Revolutionary kitsch shares the screen with deep questions of identity (05/09/97)

Irma Vep By Stephanie Zacharek
Capturing the larcenous, heartbreaking allure of cinema itself (05/09/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section

Fellowship of the Net By Andrew Leonard
Gamers get team spirit
Small-town Net of dreams By Jon Healey
Lusk built it, but they didn't come
(05/08/97)

Word By Word By Anne Lamott
Pig Pen, a manicure, a man in need (05/08/97)

Look back in lust By Carol Lloyd
Two very different sexperts trace the legacy of the sexual revolution (05/07/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Tie me up, tie me down (05/07/97)

Wanderlust: Salon's weekly travel magazine


Riding high By Cintra Wilson
Cintra Wilson does the Kentucky Derby (05/06/97)

Come home with me By Don George
Bahamians go all out for tourism (05/06/97)

Passages: "My Night of Candomblé" By Christopher Hall
Bewitched in Brazil (05/06/97)
- Books on Brazil
- Getting there

Postmark: Moscow Every man a czar By Arline Klatte
In Moscow, even schmucks from Detroit can savor Cuban cigars and bed Slavic beauties (05/06/97)
- Getting there

Table Talk
Readers' Tips and Tales Supermarkets as microcosms of society
Do grocery stores reveal all there is to know about a culture? (05/06/97)

The fall of the house of Mobutu By Peter Rosenblum
They endured 31 years of a stupid, vicious dictatorship while cooking up the best music and tastiest caterpillars on the continent. Now, the people of Zaire are about to get their own names back (05/05/97)

Swamp Fever By James Carville
My crazy plan to reform campaign finance (05/05/97)

The Salon Interview: Fernanda Eberstadt By Cynthia Joyce
The author of "When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth" talks about offensiveness, the perils of success and the "false religion" of New York's contemporary art scene (05/05/97)

X-Word By Merl Reagle
Dribbial Pursuit 2 (05/05/97)

Gay in the USA By Johnny Ray Huston
Three new books reflect the mainstreaming of gay culture -- and demonstrate a willingness to confront some painful realities (05/02/97)

You only snore twice By Laura Miller
"Austin Powers:" Mike Myers' swingin' sendup of James Bond and groovy Carnaby Street lands with a thud, baby! (05/02/97)

Intimate battle By Charles Taylor
In "Hollow Reed," a bitter custody battle exposes the torn heart of a modern family (05/02/97)

Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
U2's Pop-Mart campaign: Greed disguised as ambition (05/02/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section

Office97 -- or Office 1984? By Andrew Leonard
Move into Microsoft's suite and Big Brother Paper Clip will be watching you
Tough room for the 'toons By Andrew Leonard
Despite the boos and catcalls, Microsoft keeps sending its animated little helpers out into the spotlight to perform their artificial-intelligence tricks
(05/01/97)

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Ridiculous catch phrases sweep the nation! (05/01/97)

Color me Tiger By Gary Kamiya
Tiger Woods' rejection of orthodox racial classifications points the way to a future where race will no longer define us (04/30/97)

Taste Salon's weekly food section

Dining in captivity By Douglas Cruickshank
Adventures in zoo cuisine
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Toasting "Ellen"
TasteTalk By Bob Blumer
Clever advice for first birthday parties
Cookbook Shelf
"The World in a Bowl of Tea" By Bettina Vitell, reviewed by Christine Muhlke
with recipe: Avocado and grapefruit with shiso
(04/30/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
The cute boy dilemma (04/30/97)

Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel magazine

Bad trips By Don George
The art of wanderlust has a certain Zen aspect (04/29/97)

Uzbek low tech By Doug Fine
If you're big on telephones and such, the nations of Central Asia aren't for you. But if you have an iron stomach, a steel will and a bottle of Cipro, you'll be rewarded with priceless spectacles of ancient history (04/29/97)

In praise of lipstick-red convertibles By Shirley Streshinsky
Cruising topless on Hawaii's Big Island
- Books on Hawaii
- Getting there (04/29/97)

Passages: "Questions of Heaven" By Gretel Ehrlich
An American Buddhist's climb up a sacred mountain in China (04/29/97)

First tango in Paris By Jenn Shreve
Marriage and a small-town home are left behind on a liberating trip to the city that's still haunted by Hemingway
- Books on Paris
- Getting there (04/29/97)

Table Talk
Readers' Tips and Tales (04/29/97)

Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Why I go for women with big beaks (04/29/97)

Untamed By Laura Miller
The cosmic, carnal world of Jeanette Winterson (04/28/97)

Right On! By David Horowitz
L.A: Race-baiting its way into riots again? (04/28/97)

X-Word By Merl Reagle
New Positions (04/28/97)

Weird morning in America By Scott McLemee
Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" travels back to pre-Revolutionary times to map the "cryptic & perilous" contours of a nation (04/25/97)

Movies:

Lava bomb By Gary Kamiya
"Volcano" brings strange weather to downtown Los Angeles and an all-too-familiar sensation to our critic's stomach
Airhead nation By Robin Dougherty
The fluff of "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" offers a rallying cry to underachievers everywhere
The truth about girls By Nell Bernstein
"All Over Me" offers a rare glimpse into the doubt and anguish of female adolescence (04/25/97)

Television:

Vanity, thy name is Stephen King By Robin Dougherty
The scaremeister's six-hour miniseries remake of "The Shining" is enough to give anybody cabin fever (04/25/97)

Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
The adorable anarchy of Atari Teenage Riot (04/25/97)

The Five-Minute Mystery By Margaret Lucke
For the Love of Venus (04/25/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section

Six clicks from death By Cynthia Joyce
Hazards of online self-diagnosis
Body bits By Scott Rosenberg
Digital anatomy's horror show (04/24/97)

Word by Word By Anne Lamott
The secret of life: Remain calm, share bananas (04/24/97)

True stories: Quasi-accurate tales of postmodern life

Christians from hell By Carol Lloyd
Hard drugs, deafening rap, domestic violence and maybe a spot of homicide -- welcome to the First Church of Christ, Gangsta
Trailer trash By Hank Hyena
Coveting my neighbor's wife (04/23/97)

Taste Salon's weekly food section

The Burnt-out Cook By Patric Kuh
Kosher Nostra
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Drunken shrimp creole
TasteTalk By Patric Kuh
First, learn by watching
Cookbook Shelf
"Intercourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook" By Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge, with photographs by Ben Fink, reviewed by Jonathan Hayes
with recipe: Pine Nut Pie
(04/23/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Story of O: Women have more fun (04/23/97)

Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel magazine

Giving good gnocchi By Linda Watanabe McFerrin
A five-course seduction at the Bai Barbacani restaurant in Venice
- Books on Venice
- Getting there (04/22/97)

Wide awake in Los Angeles By Don George
When you find yourself hanging over your Hollywood hotel balcony in your pajamas at 3 a.m., trying to prevent a phantasmagorical little man with a hammer from pounding a hole in your head, you may want to consider the minibar (04/22/97)

Meeting Moses on Mount Sinai By Deb Fellner
Unexpected illuminations come on a mountainous midnight walk
- Getting there (04/22/97)

Postmark: Lamu By Don Meredith
God's wake-up call in Kenya (04/22/97)

Passages: "The River at the Center of the World"
By Simon Winchester (04/22/97)

Table Talk: Readers' Tips and Tales (04/22/97)

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
N.Y. performers' credo: Look at my deformed penis! (04/22/97)

The Broken Dream By Josie Rawson
After Michael Dorris' suicide, dark questions cloud the reputation of a literary saint (04/21/97)

Swamp Fever By James Carville
Race swapping: How churches should combat bigotry (04/21/97)

Bloody Anniversary By Ros Davidson
How April 19 has become the most feared day in America (04/18/97)

Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Why the French love our crime (04/18/97)

Death, where is thy sting? By Laura Miller
"Kissed" finds beauty in the mind of a necrophile (04/18/97)

Getting medieval By Joyce Millman
A&E's lusty "Ivanhoe" takes us back to days of old when knights were bold (04/18/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section

This Nerd for Hire By Andrew Leonard
A "pro-labor" court decision puts the cherished freedom of Silicon Valley's freelance workers under fire (04/17/97)
Plus: Going Mobile -- Economist AnnaLee Saxenian says that Silicon Valley workers' preference for job-hopping is a key to the region's success (04/17/97)

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Monumental stupidity: Which bozo will be our next "national treasure"? (04/17/97)

The Last Poet By Herbert Gold
Remembering Allen Ginsberg (04/16/97)
Plus: Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Taste Salon's weekly food section

Comfort Food By Allison Adato
Solace at seder
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Vegetable stir-fry
TasteTalk By The Surreal Gourmet
The great Elvis debate, lobster orgies and mystery fish
Cookbook Shelf
Molly O'Neill's "The Pleasure of Your Company: How to Give a Dinner Party Without Losing Your Mind"
reviewed by Jonathan Hayes
with recipe: Wild Mushroom Timbales with Bacon and Arugula
(04/16/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
A girlfriend's kind offer: Go get laid (04/16/97)

Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel magazine


My Favorite Flick By Don George, Editor
"The Passenger," the greatest travel film ever, captures travel's wild heart (04/15/97)
Family vacation from hell By Cynthia Gorney
Las Vegas promises "New Family Attractions" -- but they're no match for the world's Oldest Obsessions (04/15/97)
- Books on Las Vegas
- Getting there
Postmark: Bangkok By Steve Van Beek
Jammin' Thai-style: The car that ate Bangkok and other traffic tales (04/15/97)
Passages: "Under the Tuscan Sun"
By Frances Mayes (04/15/97)
- Books on Tuscany
- Getting there
Table Talk
Readers' Tips and Tales (04/15/97)

Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
What's wrong with man-boy love? (04/15/97)

The Salon Interview: Robert Stone By Dwight Garner
The apostle of the strung-out (04/14/97)

Right on! By David Horowitz
How gay politics is killing gays (04/14/97)

Irish Ghost Stories By Andrew O'Hehir
Scholar and poet Seamus Deane tackles James Joyce on home turf in his haunting, autobiographical first novel, "Reading in the Dark" (04/11/97)
Plus: Seamus Deane, author of "Reading in the Dark," talks about his transformation from star of academia to star of literature at the age of 57 (04/11/97)

Television:

Dead Air By Joyce Millman
ABC tries to enliven its Saturday lineup with Keystone Koroners and the life story of a gun. (04/11/97)
"Rebecca" without the ghosts By Joyce Millman
Alfred Hitchcock's classic film captured the psychosexual hysteria of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic novel. By contrast, the pallid new Masterpiece Theatre version has been through way too much therapy (04/11/97)

Movies:

"Grosse Pointe Blank" By Stephanie Zacharek
John Cusack gets to the heart of his murderous character, but "Grosse Pointe Blank" is too busy trying to be sunny to take advantage (04/11/97)
"Chasing Amy" By Charles Taylor
Love's unpredictable puzzles bedevil the characters in Kevin Smith's profane, sweet-tempered "Chasing Amy" (04/11/97)

R.I.P. Laura Nyro By Sean Elder (04/11/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section:

Data Deluge By Scott Rosenberg
Guides to the info-glut
The brain strikes back By Andrew Leonard
Human beings are still the most intelligent agents around
(04/10/97)

Word by word By Anne Lamott
The secret of my body (04/10/97)

Newsreal By Jeff Stein
Feds' lyin' lie detector tests (04/10/97)

Headless nets trounced by topless tabs By Mark Schone
As network news magazines get cheesier, TV tabloids are gaining new respectability (04/09/97)

Taste Salon's weekly food section

The Burnt-out Cook By Patric Kuh
Turning the tables: Why food critics love to be mean
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
The classic martini
Cookbook shelf By Sam Sifton
"Last Dinner on the Titanic" by Rick Archbold & Dana McCauley
Taste Talk By Patric Kuh
Glazed and confused about vinaigrette (04/09/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Should you go to bed with a man who can't kiss? (04/09/97)

Wanderlust Salon's new weekly travel magazine

My Private Wanderlust By Donald W. George
Wanderlust's editor describes the history and heart of his personal wanderlust (04/08/97)
Ibiza: A Navel Voyage By Karl Taro Greenfeld
"If there was ever a place where a man may be tempted to bite an unknown woman's navel, that place is Ibiza in August" (04/08/97)
Mallemaroking runs amok By Simon Winchester
The alarming spread of the raucous rite called mallemaroking (04/08/97)
Passages: "Waltz at the End of Earth" By Paula McDonald
Excerpted from the new book "Travelers' Tales: Food" (04/08/97)
Postmark: New York By Dwight Garner
The agony, and the ecstasy, of New York's subway system (04/08/97)

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Ike Turner e-mailed me -- and he's pissed! (04/08/97)

Didion as Diva By Bill Hayes
Why gays love Joan Didion (04/07/97)

Camp Counselor By Paul Festa
How Wayne Koestenbaum's "Jackie O" completed my quest for opera queendom (04/07/97)

Swamp Fever By James Carville
The flood that drove Old Dixie down (04/07/97)

Payback By David Futrelle
The poisonous art of revenge (04/04/97)

Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
My trust has been violated (04/04/97)

"Saint" By Charles Taylor
Val Kilmer's brooding, guilt-ridden Simon Templar in "The Saint" is enough to make you long for the cheesy playboy of the original (04/04/97)

Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
I was cut in half by a voice (04/04/97)

21st Salon's weekly digital culture section:

The vomit theory of art By Mark Schapiro
Peter Gabriel's unconventional muse
This note's for you By Scott Rosenberg
"Eve" joins other roll-your-own-tunes software
(04/03/97)

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Fantasyland: If you lived here, you'd be somewhere else now (04/03/97)

The Peter Pan express By Carol Lloyd
Inside the model train universe, where boyhood never runs off the tracks (04/02/97)

Taste Salon's weekly food section:

The Pope of Pazool By Douglas Cruickshank
Cooking was the last best high for one hard-living compañero
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Glazed Italian chicken -- pronto
Cookbook Shelf By Christine Muhlke
"Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies" by Martha Barnette
Taste Talk By Bob Blumer
Nasty waiters, fabu chefs, road-trip nibbles and stingy dinner guests (04/02/97)

Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Heaven's Gate leader and Jesus: What's the difference? (04/02/97)

Novelists 'R' Us By Laura Miller
Are writing schools ruining American literature? (04/01/97)

Wanderlust Salon's new travel section

Extreme traveler Tim Cahill talks Dumbo dung (04/01/97)

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
What women won't talk about (04/01/97)


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