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The true adventures of a space buccaneer
Frank Houston
"I think space will happen," Jim Benson says. "People will move off the planet." And when they do, he wants a piece of the action.
Stan Lee
Frank Houston
The father of Spider-Man and the Silver Surfer invented the modern
superhero, revived a dying industry and created a mythology.
Cat Stevens
Amy Reiter
By the early '70s he was rich, famous, filling stadiums and partying like the pop star he'd become. But before the decade was over he walked away from it all.
God is dead. So is art … Show us your tits!
Cintra Wilson
Museums are supposed to be the last outposts of cultural experience, inspiring us to be less idiotic. Instead, they're sucking down to our lowest impulses.
Fred Rogers
Joyce Millman
For three decades, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" has been an oasis of peace and calm, familiarity and safety in a kid-unfriendly world.
The Barbecue Jesus and other epiphanies
Rolf Potts
Wandering off the Vietnamese budget travel trail in search of authenticity, our correspondent finds that authenticity isn't all it's cracked up to be.
My five minutes with Bill Gates
Gary Rivlin
After a three-month campaign to get a word with the world's richest man, a writer gets all he had hoped for.
Alternative juju
Jenn Shreve
Unconventional remedies are ripe for journalistic inquiry, but are weeklies up to the job? Plus: The secrets of mosquitoes, Osama bin Laden's hiding place and Internet IPOs revealed!
Attack of the devil dolls
Richard Goldstein
What do Austin Powers, Tarzan, Jar Jar and Tinky Winky have in common? They scare a nation that's already panicked about kids' sexuality.
For love or money?
Garrison Keillor
I have sleepless nights wondering how my poor musician boyfriend can provide me with a summer house on the shore filled with big books. Am I confused?
Whither fair lesbians?
Jenn Shreve
Gay Pride marches on, leaving its lesbian sisters to cough up the dust. Plus: The Boston Phoenix reports on Starbucks' latest conquest and why pheromone perfumes only make you stink.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
"Star Trek" is no more utopia than "Star Wars"; Cintra should try looking in the wrong places.
What's wrong (and right) with “The Phantom Menace”
David Brin
A science-fiction author scours the new "Star Wars" film for signs of intelligent life.
In defense of boxing
Steve Burgess
Oscar de la Hoya, the charismatic welterweight, offers a glimmer
of hope to the sport's apologetic fans.
Is this as good as it gets?
Stephanie Zacharek
Ever since "Sleepless in Seattle," so-called chick movies have been in slow decline.
I was a Jar Jar jackass
Steve Wilson
How a "Star Wars" fan took aim at a despised Gungan and discovered the power of grass-roots Net campaigning.
“Something's bound to go wrong”
Nicki Blake
A boy who played games with the police and the justice system couldn't outrun the cost of defiance.
The great American garage sale
James Poniewozik
Thanks to Ebay, "Antiques Roadshow" and their ilk, cleaning out the attic
is now a national sport.
Up Cambodia without a phrasebook
Rolf Potts
On the pleasures and paranoia of being a mostly clueless white guy in the company of Third World hosts.
$20 million tears
Etelka Lehoczky
Forget about the doe eyes and the megawatt smile -- Julia Roberts' real knack is for suffering. And that, in Hollywood, is priceless.
“Notting Hill”
Stephanie Zacharek
Julia Roberts plays a superstar; Hugh Grant plays a kicked puppy. Our critic plays dead.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
"Star Wars" wives strike back; don't say we call Kosovo a "good war."
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