Jenn Shreve

Blowing smoke

A large cigarette company is using a humorous 1-800 marketing message that speaks to us of love.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Oct 1, 1999 6:00 PM UTC
Life

Wine, it's the other red fluid

Wine X's attempts at hipsterism evoke the not so subtle smell of oak barrel-aged fish. Plus: Geeks, freaks, fashion weeks and conspiracy theorists.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Oct 1, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Advertising, Gaming, Wine

It might be news, but it's not a story

Plus: Bob Mould plays for Marlboro Miles; contrary to popular e-spam, Darren does not have liver disease.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Sep 24, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Republican Party, Rock and Roll

Tree girl has spawned!

Young, PR-savvy idealists defend forests, Republicanism and dog food. Plus: Graphic sex writing is soooo 1995; Leonard Nimoy speaks Yiddish?

Jenn Shreve Friday, Sep 3, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Rag vs. rag

Skeptic magazine should take a cue from its splashier, diametric opposite, Fate. Plus: Jerry Stahl on heroin -- again; yet another writer "discovers" eBay.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Aug 27, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Therapy is painless

From Freud to divorce court: A therapist to meet your every need. Plus: Dan Savage vs. the Republicans; Elvis' "black satin-like" pajamas on the auction block.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Aug 20, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Republican Party, Psychology

The shocking Frederica Sagor Maas

A 99-year-old former screenwriter remembers Joan Crawford as a gum-chewing tart and producer Irving Thalberg as a mama's boy.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Aug 13, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

The malling of America

Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Aug 13, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Consumerism

Nudity for all!

Too hot? Lose the swimsuit, say several venerable publications. Plus: Reform Party madness, TV racial quotas and a ridiculous theory on recent violence.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Aug 6, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

John Lopez, body piercer

He pierces everything from tongues to nipples to, well, everything, but it's most fun when it's done with meaning.

Jenn Shreve Monday, Aug 2, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

My lunch with Lewis Lapham

"President Clinton is a godsend because he's like a piqata. Every conceivable kind of story comes out of him."

Jenn Shreve Friday, Jul 30, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Hillary Rodham Clinton

Conspicuous consumption

Two scathing critiques of excessive consumerism. Plus: Need a headline? Try "Eyes Wide Shut"! It worked for Kubrick.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Jul 30, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Communism

The have-nots

Left-leaning journalists explore how the other side of prosperity lives. Plus: The "S" and "F" words, Rick Springfield and a tell-all psychic friend.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Jul 23, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Storm chaser

Tornado expert Howard Bluestein says that cows don't fly, but cars do.

Jenn Shreve Monday, Jul 19, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Mundane titillation

This week's stories prove that a good writer can make the most mundane subject riveting, while a hack can turn the sexiest topic into a colossal snooze.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Jul 16, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Top-heavy

Playboy's Miss August tips the scales of centerfold history.

Jenn Shreve Tuesday, Jul 13, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Flirting with success

Francesca Gentille holds forth on the fine art of making eye contact, mirroring, transmitting scent, heat and wavelength.

Jenn Shreve Monday, Jul 12, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Energy

America's most bitchin' broadcaster

At the start of this decade, Connie Chung was the hottest item on network news; then several public missteps caused her popularity to fall into the chill zone.

Jenn Shreve Saturday, Jul 10, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Newt Gingrich, NBC, ABC, CBS

Generation R.I.P.

The Village Voice pronounces Generation X as dead as Kurt Cobain and as irrelevant as a Cheesy Poof. Plus: Alternative health stories that don't suck.

Jenn Shreve Friday, Jul 9, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Healthcare Reform

Rocket man

Pyrotechnician Jeff Thomas tells of an all-green fireworks show, working past midnight on New Year's 1999 and his mortal enemy: Fog.

Jenn Shreve Saturday, Jul 3, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

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