Gavin McNett

“Food: A Culinary History” edited by Jean-Louis Flanddrin and Massimo Montanari

The Romans feasted more sensibly than you thought, according to a highly readable, scholarly anthology.

Gavin McNett Tuesday, Dec 21, 1999 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

Sharps & Flats

Why listening to Rage Against the Machine is bad for lefty idealism.

Gavin McNett Monday, Nov 22, 1999 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

Reaching to the converted

Oprah's Book Club introduces readers to people they already know -- themselves.

Gavin McNett Friday, Nov 12, 1999 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Oprah Winfrey

Stayin' alive — barely

Broadway reduces the complex, ambivalent "Saturday Night Fever" movie to campy clothes and blockbuster dance numbers.

Gavin McNett Thursday, Nov 4, 1999 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Sharps & flats

After hemorrhaging mystique for a decade, David Bowie finally releases a record that's better than its gimmicks.

Gavin McNett Friday, Oct 15, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

The genius of Danzig

G|nter Grass' Nobel Prize honors the stalwart leftist who rebuilt the German novel on the literary ruins of the Third Reich.

Gavin McNett Thursday, Oct 7, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

“Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977″

Do we need another history of rock? If it's this good, yes.

Gavin McNett Thursday, Aug 26, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

My “Outlander” thing

How a brainy guy like me wound up reading historical romance novels.

Gavin McNett Thursday, Aug 12, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Historical Fiction, Books

The last of the Lilith Fairs

Plenty of Chrissie, Sheryl, Sarah and Sandra -- but nary a female drummer.

Gavin McNett Wednesday, Aug 11, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

The 90 best reasons to read Spin

The music magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s" list posits a canon of vanguardist populism.

Gavin McNett Thursday, Aug 5, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Is the Internet the new heaven?

"The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" examines the spiritual realm of non-physical space -- and finds that Giotto painted VR frescoes.

Gavin McNett Thursday, Jul 15, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Business, Books

Punk rock dies (again)

The Epicenter Zone was the kind of vital, snotty teen collective that every city needs. Our writer eulogizes the shuttered San Francisco record store.

Gavin McNett Thursday, Jul 1, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment San Francisco

The free market or your soul

Two conservative pundits play a game of moral Twister trying to reconcile consumerism and traditional values.

Gavin McNett Tuesday, Jun 29, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment U.S. Economy, Consumerism

Headbanger's ball

Hell hath no house band like Slayer; Ozzy has no mojo.

Gavin McNett Tuesday, Jun 15, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment New Jersey, Music

Imperial Teen

Gavin McNett Tuesday, Mar 16, 1999 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music, New Orleans

It's heeeeeeeeere

Gavin McNett reviews Rhino's latest compilation, 'The Postpunk Chronicles'

Gavin McNett Wednesday, Feb 3, 1999 12:40 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

Sharps & Flats: Pearl Jam

Gavin McNett Wednesday, Dec 2, 1998 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

Big trouble in Little Tibet

Gavin McNett reports from the third annual Tibetan Freedom Concert

Gavin McNett Wednesday, Jun 17, 1998 12:51 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

The Connells

Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine.

Gavin McNett Wednesday, May 27, 1998 7:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

April 3, 1998: the day punk died

Tim Yohannon 1946-1998

Gavin McNett Friday, Apr 17, 1998 4:07 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

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