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DVDs are for losers
Bill Maher
Good movies are like good sex -- and resale-happy Hollywood has long since gone frigid.
Freddy, Jason, Megadeth and me
Tom Bissell
I'm a young, cultured New Yorker who reads Gaddis and Ishiguro. But I can't stand indie rock, I love speed metal and slasher movies, and I refuse to be ashamed anymore!
Lenny Bruce died for our sins
Gary Kamiya
Thanks to the martyred comedian, American culture is free to be a wild kingdom. But with his new anti-porn crusade, Attorney General Ashcroft wants to turn back the clock.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Uncle Walter talks about liberals, Chris Rock talks about being a dad, and Whitney Houston yells at the cops. Plus: MTV is missing a "virgin."
Top Dogg
Baz Dreisinger
Inside Snoop Dogg's growing empire, where
the hip-hop mogul enjoys his wine, women and
bong. But can he outrun his gangsta
past?
Arianna’s campaign diary
Arianna Huffington
I knew when I ran for governor my critics would throw mud at me, but I never expected to be called a bad mother. What year is this, anyway?
Letters
Salon Staff
God vs. Darwin: Readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's "A Textbook Case of Bad Science."
Male cheerleaders and chicken hawks
Joe Conason
While Republicans smear Democrats as unpatriotic, a look at the war record of many GOP leaders -- including President Bush -- shows a remarkable aversion to the front lines. Part 3 of "Big Lies."
“Diary”
Laura Miller
The wildly popular "Fight Club" novelist Chuck Palahniuk is back with more fodder for his army of disenfranchised Everymen, delivered with all the grace and poetry of a blunt object.
Return of rock’s Angry Old Man
Shannon Zimmerman
Neil Young knocks the mass media and consumer culture in his brilliant -- if sometimes incoherent -- new "musical novel."
A higher tax on all your houses
Robert Scheer
Property taxes in California are ridiculously low, but only Warren Buffett has the courage to admit it.
A textbook case of bad science
Katharine Mieszkowski
Defenders of evolutionary theory in Texas say creation scientists are getting sneakier -- and more successful -- in getting their views into public school educational materials.
Limousine liberals and corporate-jet conservatives
Joe Conason
George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter bash elitist lefties, but their faux populism masks a slavish devotion to the interests and indulgences of the wealthy. Part 2 of "Big Lies."
Blockbuster brains
Elizabeth Segal
As Hollywood scours film and TV history for that next "Charlie's Angels" or "S.W.A.T.," studios have begun to lavish attention on an underappreciated expert: The video-store clerk.
Online-love confusion
Cary Tennis
It was long-distance magic. But look! It's fading! And he won't say what happened!
One is (not) the loneliest number
Anneli Rufus
In an excerpt from "Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto," Anneli Rufus explains why it is indeed better to be far from the madding crowd.
Portrait of an Iraqi rebel
Ferry Biedermann
He is a handball player. He hated life under Saddam. But now, as a foot soldier in an enigmatic resistance movement, he wants the U.S. out of Iraq.
Vamps and villains
Charles Taylor
Pulp art does not reach the "nice" areas of our brain. It is spicy and violent and aims for the gut, the groin and our deepest fantasies.
Faking out Friendster
Katharine Mieszkowski
A booming online service for connecting people takes up arms against a sea of "fakesters" who'd rather role-play than network.
Arnold and the boys
Tina Brown
A strange new convergence: Terminator candidates in a "Queer Eye" culture.
One is the toniest number
Heather Havrilesky
New books by two women behind Carrie Bradshaw and her "Sex and the City" cohorts offer more tales of the upscale single girl in the big city. Have they captured an American archetype -- or created an annoying cartoon?
What do women want?
Jason Feifer
Most everything, according to a new study that shows women are more aroused by more forms of erotica than men.
A love song to bastard pop
Charles Taylor
In the bizarre and wonderful world of mash-ups, bootlegs and remixes, racial and musical boundaries disappear -- and the joy that's missing from so much of today's pop is back.
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