Damien Cave

King baby

Walter Yetnikoff talks about running CBS Records in the '70s, Michael Jackson's strange habits -- and Janet Jackson's breasts.

Damien Cave Thursday, Apr 1, 2004 8:18 PM UTC
Entertainment

Wish upon a star

Bush-bashers are hoping that entertainment celebrities will turn out crucial first-time voters. But the audiences aren't sold.

Damien Cave Friday, Dec 5, 2003 10:28 PM UTC
Entertainment

Cuba confidential

Ann Louise Bardach talks about the fading of Fidel, the end of the embargo, and the drive for democracy -- and why exile leaders aren't happy about any of it.

Damien Cave Tuesday, Jan 28, 2003 7:02 PM UTC
Entertainment Author Interviews, Cuba, Books

Reel world domination

If young film buffs choose Tarantino over Antonioni, are they culturally illiterate? Some of their elders, self-appointed guardians of the cinematic canon, think so.

Damien Cave Thursday, Oct 31, 2002 2:12 PM UTC
Life Education

Dying for God

The author of "The Martyrs of Columbine" on the strange and sometimes violent collision of religion and politics.

Damien Cave Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002 7:11 PM UTC
Life

MOSEX opens doors — earth doesn’t move

Overserious, rushed and muddled, the Museum of Sex comes across like an awkward adolescent on a first date.

Damien Cave Friday, Oct 11, 2002 7:19 PM UTC
Life Sex, Love and Sex

Wall Street’s worst nightmare

Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good?

Damien Cave Thursday, Oct 10, 2002 7:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Stock Market

Panic in the sheets

Abstinence crusaders are exploiting fears of a mysterious virus to scare teens away from having sex.

Damien Cave Tuesday, Oct 8, 2002 7:32 PM UTC
Life

“The Money Shot” by Laura Grindstaff

The producers of daytime TV talk shows must woo wife beaters, drug addicts and other scum as guests. Their reward? Being treated like bottom-feeding slime by a public that laps it up.

Damien Cave Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002 10:44 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

Forbidden thoughts about 9/11

From gloating about getting off work to enjoying the "country road" ambience of lower Manhattan to hating on-the-make firemen: A spectrum of improper responses to the terror attacks.

Damien Cave Saturday, Sep 7, 2002 7:24 PM UTC
Life

Imaginary infants as beacons of hope

Once again, Americans have conjured a baby boom out of a national tragedy. What better way to create a happy ending?

Damien Cave Tuesday, Sep 3, 2002 7:08 PM UTC
Life

File sharing: Guilty as charged?

New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates.

Damien Cave Friday, Aug 23, 2002 7:23 PM UTC
Entertainment Intellectual Property

The conspiracy theory that wouldn’t die

Did a shadowy group of American diplomats threaten the Taliban last year, provoking the 9/11 attack? Many on the left think so. Now the diplomats tell their side of the story.

Damien Cave Friday, Aug 16, 2002 1:38 AM UTC
News Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden

“Barbed Wire: A Political History” by Olivier Razac

Here's how a simple twist of spiked metal ravaged the American West, crucified a generation of young men and terrorized millions of Europeans.

Damien Cave Tuesday, Aug 6, 2002 3:26 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

Air Jordans

What changed leisure footwear forever and created the wonderful, hideous behemoth of contemporary consumer culture? It's gotta be da shoes.

Damien Cave Monday, Aug 5, 2002 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Basketball, Fashion

Grime pays

Bush's cuts to the Superfund reward corporate polluters for stonewalling and leave neighbors of toxic sites frustrated and desperate.

Damien Cave Monday, Jul 29, 2002 7:12 PM UTC
Life

The new gilded age and its discontents

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy.

Damien Cave Wednesday, Jul 3, 2002 7:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Enron, Globalization

It’s time for ICANN to go

John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken.

Damien Cave Tuesday, Jul 2, 2002 7:30 PM UTC
Entertainment

A long, slow revolution

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on school vouchers, one expert says dramatic change could be decades away.

Damien Cave Saturday, Jun 29, 2002 11:56 PM UTC
News Education, Religion

Foxes guarding the chicken coop

President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place.

Damien Cave Wednesday, Jun 26, 2002 7:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Enron

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