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California’s unregulated fracking problem
Drilling has long gone unregulated in this earthquake-prone state. And now Gov. Brown may be trying to hush it up
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Serbian photographer Boogie discusses taking to New York's seedy streets and capturing the true lives of junkies and gangsters.
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"Evil Dead" star Bruce Campbell discusses Tom Cruise, idiot film executives, his hilarious debut novel -- and the joys of not being famous.
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Writing in the Margins
The new year in indie publishing: Howard Zinn gives us the answer to No Child Left Behind. Plus: Andy Singer's attitudinal comic brings back Camus and Sartre, and our author says goodbye to Will Eisner and Joe Strummer.
Monday, Jan 31, 2005 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
Writing in the Margins
Our author learns: Don't mess with Texas! Feel the Lone Star love, and grab this last-minute shopping list of the year's best comics and graphic novels for all the mods, rockers, punks and Texans on your list.
Thursday, Dec 23, 2004 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment McSweeney's, Texas, Books
If Betty and Veronica were Latina punk lesbians
Jaime Hernandez talks about his massive new comics collection "Locas," the 20-year odyssey of two L.A. rock 'n' roll chicks looking for love (and rockets).
Thursday, Dec 16, 2004 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment Author Interviews, Comic Books
Writing in the Margins
The latest indie-publishing news: Don DeLillo, imprisoned in Texas! Ben Watts' soopa-bad hip-hop photography, Laura Flanders on how Bush bamboozled women, and Ralph Nader just called to say he loves you.
Tuesday, Nov 30, 2004 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
“I don’t know that we really changed anything”
Charles Thompson, the legendary -- and legendarily cranky -- frontman of the Pixies, talks about their sold-out return, their future, and why music journalism is so incredibly lame.
Thursday, Oct 21, 2004 6:42 PM UTCEntertainment
“In the Shadow of No Towers” by Art Spiegelman
This dark, troubling and sometimes hilarious 9/11 comic, created in a jumpy city uneasily balanced between Bush and Osama, may be the finest and most personal work of art to emerge from the tragedy.
Friday, Sep 10, 2004 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Comic Books, 9/11, Books
Writing in the Margins
What's hot in indie publishing, from Greg Palast's anti-Dubya card deck to a coffee-table book of antiwar art and a photographic study of NYC's back-in-the-day graffiti writers. Plus: The '80s punk hero who's been forgotten but shouldn't be.
Wednesday, Aug 4, 2004 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
The man who invented the future
Alan Moore, who reinvented the comic book as the cutting-edge literary medium of our day, talks about beheading, the diabolical power of the media, the Bush dynasty and the fall of Tony Blair.
Thursday, Jul 22, 2004 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Author Interviews, Comic Books
Writing in the Margins
Our indie-publishing roundup: She's a neo-feminist icon, plus she shot Andy Warhol! The impenetrable French shrink who fuels today's film critics. Tony and Carmela as philosophers. Forgotten Bigfoot? He hasn't forgotten you!
Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
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Our monthly roundup of indie publishing: DC Comics terrifies with Lovecraft; Lethem and Denis Johnson do avant-cabaret; a harrowing tale of the 1997 Red River flood.
Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:11 PM UTCEntertainment Jonathan Lethem, Books
Eminem vs. Robert Frost
Is hip-hop saving poetry -- or trashing it? Beneath the feel-good rhetoric of "Def Poetry Jam" and the "spoken-word revolution" is a battle over the future of literature's oldest form.
Thursday, Mar 18, 2004 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment Poetry, Books
Writing in the Margins
Our new monthly roundup of indie publishing: Junko Mizuno's deranged manga, Disney's war against the underground, Flann O'Brien on life during wartime, lefty theorist Mike Davis' children's book (set in Greenland), and William Upski Wimsatt bombs the 2004 election.
Wednesday, Feb 11, 2004 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
The man who would be king
In an exclusive interview, Viggo Mortensen, who plays Aragorn in "The Lord of the Rings," talks about his photography, his indie publishing house, and why Bush will go down in history as the Sauron of American presidents.
Friday, Oct 24, 2003 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment J.R.R. Tolkien, Movies
The kids are alright
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Saturday, Oct 4, 2003 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Movies
Funkenstein’s monster
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic are a hugely groove-alicious influence on contemporary pop culture. But could anything like Clinton's grand artistic vision -- and inclusive politics -- thrive in today's shallow realm of bling?
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Pillaging the cartoon universe
Fred Flintstone as a mob boss! Yogi's pal BooBoo as a terrorist! Jonny Quest as the subject of a gay child-custody battle! All these outrages and more can be found on Cartoon Network's hilarious, hallucinatory "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law."
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