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“24 Hour Party People”
Jeff Stark
This dizzying saga of the '80s Manchester music scene is garish, reckless, endlessly self-indulgent and totally untrustworthy. What a blast!
The motherrunner, the “Why me?” gang and another alarming study
Salon Staff
Readers respond to articles about a mother who's an ultrarunner, why nobody gets a free pass, and research about children of working moms.
Vin Diesel is hot
Janelle Brown
I know lusting after this big ugly hunk of a man is ridiculous -- but it's not just physical. Really.
Summer kidnapping panic
Michelle Goldberg
President Bush compares it to terrorism. But the number of children abducted by strangers is down, not up. So why is the media scaring the wits out of parents?
“Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams”
Stephanie Zacharek
Cooler gadgets! Mini-mutants! A mad scientist on a mysterious island! Robert Rodriguez follows up his 2001 smash with another comic fantasy that'll please adults as much as kids.
Among the believers
King Kaufman
When the NFL's Ultimate Fans get
together in Canton, Ohio, they paint the town red -- and then they start on their bodies.
The White House’s credibility problem
Arianna Huffington
His company evaded taxes while feeding at the federal trough and doing business with the axis of evil -- no wonder Dick Cheney is still in hiding.
Air Jordans
Damien Cave
What changed leisure footwear forever and created the wonderful, hideous behemoth of contemporary consumer culture? It's gotta be da shoes.
Wall Street echoes
Arianna Huffington
Just as our culture at large has celebrated shallowness, so too did the
corporate culture.
Paul Gauguin’s erotic life
David Bowman
He was cruel to his wife, drove van Gogh mad and delighted in impregnating women. The author of a Gauguin biography talks about why she loves his art anyway.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Can it really get too hot to fly? And what was it like to be in the air on Sept. 11?
Ham and cheese
Salon Staff
Readers respond to a politico-cultural critique of Subway's sandwich ad and to an essay about metrosexual posing.
Dykes on bikes with mikes
Amy Benfer
Lynn Breedlove takes us to her manic world of speed freaks, strippers and queer-core punk rock.
Bootleg culture
Pete Rojas
Powerful computers and easy-to-use editing software are challenging our conceptions of authorship and creativity. As usual, the entertainment industry doesn't like this one bit.
The case for Raymond Chandler
Allen Barra
The creator of Philip Marlowe has been called an imitator and a hack, but he deserves his lonely, disillusioned corner in the American literary canon.
The ghost of Bruce Springsteen
Joey Sweeney
My parents got divorced. I was high on mushrooms. My country was attacked. Bruce was there.
What makes Supergran run?
Sean Callahan, Steve Boman
Churchgoing grandmother Kathy Jager was shattering track records -- until she was barred because her hormone replacement drugs contained steroids.
But enough about you
Nell Casey
From Britney Spears to Angelina Jolie to robber CEOs, narcissists are selfish and maddening -- and yet we just can't get enough of them.
Fundamentally unsound
Michelle Goldberg
Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff.
The James Bond title sequences
Charles Taylor
Maurice Binder's gorgeous, abstract, erotic openings to the classic 007 films captured the '60s pop revolution in its purest form.
Forty years after Port Huron
David Horowitz
Tom Hayden and Dick Flacks are still sugarcoating the totalitarian ideas that made the New Left just like the Old Left -- a dreary political dead end.
“Austin Powers in Goldmember”
Charles Taylor
It's a mess, and a ridiculous golden shower of toilet humor. But Mike Myers' superspy spoof still provides the summer's purest movie delight.
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