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The battle over Web radio continues
Salon Staff
Who benefits from the new rules? Point-counterpoint between the Recording Industry Association of America and an Internet radio pioneer.
Where are the Mahirs of yesteryear?
Scott Rosenberg
The Web thrill is gone, according to the New York Times, thanks to a critical shortage of flashes in the pan.
“Death to Smoochy”
Stephanie Zacharek
How does a freewheeling Robin Williams, plus Edward Norton in a purple rhino suit, equal a morbidly lame comedy?
Backstabbers
Laura Miller
In "Woman's Inhumanity to Woman," pioneering feminist Phyllis Chesler dares to talk about the ways women -- including famous feminists -- stab each other in the back.
“Panic Room”
Charles Taylor
Dour director David Fincher's showy thriller wants to sell pulp as dark, edgy drama -- too bad he misses the dramatic meat.
Amid chaos, an olive branch
Paul Wachter
The Arab summit meeting in Beirut opens in disarray, as Palestinians pull out and key American allies snub the event -- but the Saudi peace plan offers a ray of hope.
Why do women wed?
Ann Marlowe
A new book argues that women put much more work into marriage than men do, and asks why they bother.
Between religion and morality
Robert Scheer
The preaching of pompous czars of virtue on the right doesn't hold up in the face of hypocrisy.
The gay purge
Cheryl L. Reed
By scapegoating homosexual priests, the Catholic Church seeks to avoid a tougher look at its secret history of abuse.
“Can Asians think?”
Suzy Hansen
Singapore's ambassador to the U.N. talks about his controversial new book and the gulf between Western and Eastern minds.
Real Life Rock Top 10
Greil Marcus
You can go home again
Charles Taylor
Twenty years after its first release, "E.T." remains the most wondrous of all Hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of Steven Spielberg's misunderstood career.
Losing the HP Way
Jeff Goodell
Carly Fiorina may have triumphed over Walter Hewlett, but the effort to save her company's share price came at a cost: Silicon Valley's soul.
The man from Neen
John Glassie
Miltos Manetas, who sent 23 invisible U-Haul trucks to the Whitney Biennial, explains the "art" movement that's out to change the way we perceive technology, intellectual property and moving vans.
Of hatred and innocence
Uju Asika
Filmmakers B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro discuss their Oscar-nominated "Promises," a wrenching and intimate portrait of the children of Jerusalem.
Is the WWF on the ropes?
Eric Boehlert
Sunday's Wrestlemania broadcast, with its much hyped match between Hulk Hogan and the Rock, might not have been enough to save Vince McMahon's crumbling empire.
“Jesus Christ Superstar”
Julene Snyder
Andrew Lloyd Webber's much-mocked rock opera is actually a classic work of '70s spiritual exploration -- and besides, Our Lord is hot.
Ticky-tacky houses from “The Painter of Light™”
Janelle Brown
Hiddenbrooke, a development "inspired" by Thomas Kinkade, ain't exactly ye olde quainte village it bills itself.
Hot salsa Tetris
Katharine Mieszkowski
Video-game music remixers turn bleeps and bloops into everything from Swedish death metal to hillbilly pickin'.
Confessions of a former celibate
Eugene Kennedy
A former priest, now married, thinks celibacy should no longer be an absolute condition for the priesthood.
Way back when
Charles Taylor
A book of starlet glam shots raises questions like: Was it bad choices or bad luck that kept Sharon Stone from ruling Hollywood after "Basic Instinct"?
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