Culture (page 3623)

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Are you depressed? Today is the day to find out

Blue Glow: Kevin Williamson's aptly named "Wasteland"; the boys of October

Technology Log: Talkin 'bout a revolution:

Travel Advisor: Get thee to a nunnery! Convent accommodations in Poland, and more

Donald D. Groff

Music: What the hell is a nipplegong? Ask Athens band Macha

Funke Sangodeyi

You look mahvelous! So why am I so bored?

Heather Havrilesky

The real "Fight Club": Boxing documentarians step into the ring with chick boxers and crackheads

Hello! I'm in pain! How long does a man have to wait before a doctor will see him?

Stephen G. Bloom

Walter Mosley's "Walkin' the Dog": Flirting with agitprop, delivering a shock

Books log for Thursday

Edmund Morris' "Dutch": A major bomb from start to finish

"The Limey": Steven Soderbergh's modernist art noir courts pretention without succumbing to it

Nancy Drew: Sleuthing a vanished American girlhood

G|nter Grass' Nobel Prize: How the genius of Danzig rebuilt German literature

Hale fellows well writ: The original Hardy Boys are back

San Francisco Giants radio play-by-play broadcaster Hank Greenwald enjoys one of his always present Dunhill cigars in the broadcast booth atop 3Com Park after announcing his retirement in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996, prior to the San Francisco Giants game against Philadelphia. Greenwald, who has worked 16 seasons for the Giants, will retire at the end of the season. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (AP)

Hank Greenwald: The best baseball announcer you won't hear on the air

Nancy Chan: Manhattan Call Girl, Episode 26: Covering for a friend

Technology log: Bernie Ebbers, a 19th century tech tycoon?

Sean Elder: Will Michael Kelly shake up the classy but quiet Atlantic?

Blue Glow: "Roswell": TV's sweetest girl-alien boy romance premieres

Plus: Pick a Hepburn, any Hepburn. Simon Doonan weighs in on our fabricated Hepburn controversy

Damion Matthews

The secret to life: A working wife

Music: The Fastbacks -- the peppy Seattle punk band that grunge forgot

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