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The mash-up revolution
Roberta Cruger
Destiny's Child vs. Nirvana! Britney vs. Chic! The Ramones vs. ABBA! How pop's hottest DJs are creating those wild bootleg remixes -- and why they're so hard to find.
Crystal blue persuasion
Heather Havrilesky
This summer's crush of surfer stories -- on MTV, the WB and in the new "Step Into Liquid" -- have their dorky moments, but they evaporate when we watch someone ride a big blue wall of water.
“Le Divorce”
Charles Taylor
Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts star in another of Merchant-Ivory's mangled and dumbed down literary illustrations.
Sports stars, sex and stalkers
Dan McGraw
You are young, rich and chiseled, and life offers sexual opportunities that few can imagine. But increasingly, pro-spor insiders say, the risks are harrowing.
The war according to David Hackworth
Jonathan Franklin
The retired colonel calls Donald Rumsfeld an "asshole" whose bad planning mired U.S. troops in an ugly guerrilla conflict in Iraq. His sources? Defiant soldiers sending dispatches from the front.
The sexual bomb thrower
Charles Taylor
It's been called pornographic, adolescent, racist and xenophobic, but Michel Houllebecq's "Platform" is a brilliant study of the sexual condition of the Western world.
Strangers in paradise
Heather Havrilesky
At Fox's "Paradise Hotel," dimwitted booze hounds check in ... but they don't check out! And it might be the best reality show disaster on TV.
I am bear, hear me roar!
Andrew Sullivan
The feminized men of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and "Queer as Folk" do not represent the maturing gay male culture. The truth is much hairier
Confessions of a memoirist
Terry Greene Sterling
Acclaimed writer Vivian Gornick admits fudging the facts to a roomful of journalists. Did she exercise creative license -- or betray her readers?
“Hotel”
Andrew O'Hehir
Mike Figgis' star-packed project on the Hollywoodization of the world is either brilliant or a mess. Regardless, he's one of the signature filmmakers of our era.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on rabid young Republicans and the ongoing construction of a massive Israeli security wall.
X’ed out
Larry Smith
You're in a love puddle. You're smiling. You're high on Ecstasy. You touch your friend's hair. Wow. You can't stop touching it. Her hair is incredibly soft. You keep smiling. Now it's a few years later. You take E again. You grind your teeth, the hangover lasts a week. It's no fun. What happened?
The Fix
Salon Staff
Bush talks about sin, Baryshnikov to dance into "Sex and the City," and Ben and J.Lo will never work together again! Plus: JFK's boxers a hit in Ireland.
The ultimate mood kill
Salon Staff
As he made his way down to my belly, I felt
something strange on my left breast.
What’s wrong with American men and women?
Ann Marlowe
My skillful Turkish bed mate told me, in vivid detail.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Laura Miller's essay on Mormon crimes and to an interview with Ann Coulter.
The Liberia waiting game
Laura McClure
Can the Bush administration bring itself to commit U.S. troops in Africa on purely humanitarian grounds?
Ann Coulter, woman
David Bowman
The right's she-devil talks about why she loves the Grateful Dead, what Tolstoy and Dostoevsky taught her about life, and how she meets men.
Mob scene
Leigh Anderson
Hundreds of people are gathering at random Manhattan locations for 10 minutes and doing ... well, nothing. Is it performance art or just a bunch of hipsters with too much time on their hands?
Rebel from the yeshiva
Suzy Hansen
Director Eitan Gorlin on "The Holy Land," his controversial film about a rabbinical student running wild in Jerusalem, and why some Jews don't like its explosive portrait of late-'90s Israel.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Arnold wants to do Terminator 4, Sidney Blumenthal wants his own mag, and the U.S. wants to protect Elvis' recording studio. Plus: Design Martha's cell and win a prize!
“Charlie Wilson’s War”
Charles Taylor
In George Crile's thrilling tale of good intentions gone wrong, one boozing congressman convinces the U.S. to support the Afghan mujahedin -- many of whom 20 years later want to see us dead.
Barbie, Starbucks and freedom
Farhad Manjoo
Much of the "illegal art" in a major copyright-infringement exhibition is just plain silly. But the giant corporations that dominate our culture want to squash it anyway.
Rumsfeld’s personal spy ring
Eric Boehlert
The defense secretary couldn't count on the CIA or the State Department to provide a pretext for war in Iraq. So he created a new agency that would tell him what he wanted to hear.
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