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Hooker's Ball By Tracy Quan Twin Town By Charles Taylor Brassed Off By Stephanie Zacharek Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell 21st Salon's weekly digital culture section 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
Cynicsaurus Rex By Charles Taylor Unzipped By Courtney Weaver Ask Camille By Camille Paglia Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel section: Mondo Weirdo By Don George
Praise the Titanic! By Douglas Cruickshank
Above the volcano By Robert Riddell
Postmark: Oxford, England Passages: "Into Thin Air" By Jon Krakauer
The Surreal Gourmet Supermartini! (05/24/97) Right On! By David Horowitz The people's critic By Gary Kamiya
The Salon Interview: Robert Hughes By Gary Kamiya
Art history for smarties By Charles Taylor
Spies in the house of love By Laura Miller
Word's Worth Salon's new word game (05/23/97) 21st Salon's weekly digital culture section 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 The Salon Interview: Mary Karr By Dwight Garner Unzipped By Courtney Weaver Honey, I shrunk the family By Kate Moses 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
Passages: "In Light of India" By Octavio Paz
Table Talk
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson One tough mother By Joyce Millman Swamp Fever By James Carville X-Word By Merl Reagle Twilight of the goats By D. T. Max
"Night Falls on Manhattan" By Robin Dougherty
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
The Listress By Amy Wallace
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section Personal encounters with talking bots E-mail from the underground By Andrew Leonard The system quashes (05/15/97) Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Below the belt By Laura Miller
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Wanderlust: Salon's weekly travel section Philosophy au lait By David Downie
What is it about Paris? By Don George
Anatomy of Restlessness By Bruce Chatwin
Lost in Los Feliz By Dawn MacKeen
Table Talk Readers' Tips and Tales
Trash lit 101 By Dwight Garner
Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
Excerpt By Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
Right On! The Cochranization of American Politics By David Horowitz
X-Word By Merl Reagle
The last show standing By Joyce Millman
The Fifth Element: By Scott Rosenberg
Children of the Revolution By Laura Miller
Irma Vep By Stephanie Zacharek
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section 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 Look back in lust By Carol Lloyd
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
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
Passages: "My Night of Candomblé" By Christopher Hall
Postmark: Moscow Every man a czar By Arline Klatte
Table Talk
The fall of the house of Mobutu By Peter Rosenblum
Swamp Fever By James Carville
The Salon Interview: Fernanda Eberstadt By Cynthia Joyce
X-Word By Merl Reagle
Gay in the USA By Johnny Ray Huston
You only snore twice By Laura Miller
Intimate battle By Charles Taylor
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section 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 Color me Tiger By Gary Kamiya Taste Salon's weekly food section 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 Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel magazine Bad trips By Don George
Uzbek low tech
By Doug Fine
In praise of lipstick-red convertibles By Shirley Streshinsky
Passages:
"Questions of Heaven" By Gretel Ehrlich
First tango in Paris By Jenn Shreve
Table Talk
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia Untamed By Laura Miller Right On! By David Horowitz X-Word By Merl Reagle Weird morning in America By Scott McLemee
Movies: "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: 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 Five-Minute Mystery By Margaret Lucke
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section Hazards of online self-diagnosis Body bits By Scott Rosenberg Digital anatomy's horror show (04/24/97) Word by Word By Anne Lamott True stories: Quasi-accurate tales of postmodern life 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 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 Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel magazine Giving good gnocchi By Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Wide awake in Los Angeles By Don George
Meeting Moses on Mount Sinai By Deb Fellner
Postmark: Lamu By Don Meredith
Passages:
"The River at the Center of the World"
Table Talk: Readers' Tips and Tales (04/22/97)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
The Broken Dream By Josie Rawson
Swamp Fever By James Carville
Bloody Anniversary By Ros Davidson
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Death, where is thy sting? By Laura Miller
Getting medieval By Joyce Millman
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section 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 The Last Poet By Herbert Gold
Taste Salon's weekly food section 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 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
The Salon Interview: Robert Stone By Dwight Garner
Right on! By David Horowitz
Irish Ghost Stories By Andrew O'Hehir
Television: 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: 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: 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 Newsreal By Jeff Stein Headless nets trounced by topless tabs By Mark Schone Taste Salon's weekly food section 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 Wanderlust Salon's new weekly travel magazine 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
Didion as Diva By Bill Hayes
Camp Counselor By Paul Festa
Swamp Fever By James Carville
Payback By David Futrelle
Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
"Saint" By Charles Taylor
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section: 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 The Peter Pan express By Carol Lloyd Taste Salon's weekly food section: 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 Novelists 'R' Us By Laura Miller
Wanderlust Salon's new travel section Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
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