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Matt Groening
Carina Chocano
"The Simpsons" has made him the ultimate industry insider, but it's the inane decisions and petty betrayals of clueless network executives that keep his trenchant satire fresh.
Gimme a V-I-C-T-I-M!
Jennifer Block
A new ad campaign against domestic violence uses a yearbook motif to put battered women in their place. First of two parts.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Christina Valhouli
The big guy is happiest when he's helping poor kids, saying weird things about race and saving America from single-parent hell.
Bang-bang girl
Janet Reitman
An ex-photojournalist who brags about screwing half the foreign press corps is no feminist hero -- she's just an opportunist.
Salon.com Radio launching soon!
Salon Staff
The weekly show is to be broadcast on more than 100 Public Radio International affiliate stations nationwide.
Has choice lost support?
Alicia Montgomery
Abortion rights groups say that the pro-life president is in the minority, but polls suggest that could be changing.
Tampa’s time
Jamie Allen
The former backwater town on Florida's West Coast has overcome public growing pains to host its third Super Bowl -- and the Summer Olympics could be next. How can this be?
A game called suicide
Amy Benfer
Teacher and author Jane Katch talks about the value -- and necessity -- of violent play.
“The whores are always smiling”
Carlos Amantea
The Geezer's scribblings are a mystery even to him, but eloquently blunt nicknames like Cross-eyes, Crooked Back and Gimpy need no explaining.
“Blood, breasts and beasts”
Andrew O'Hehir
Lloyd Kaufman's splatter movies cost less than Sandra Bullock's hair budget, but his real legacy is Troma -- still fighting "devil-worshiping international conglomerates" after 27 years.
“Before Night Falls”
Charles Taylor
Julian Schnabel's tale of a gay Cuban poet smolders with vivid sensuality. Plus: Johnny Depp in drag.
Down and out in Redmond
Scott Rosenberg
When Microsoft fell off the grid, its first reaction was to cover its butt.
We three kings
Michael Sragow
The great works of Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola and F.W. Murnau make today's movies look like bags of tricks or boxes of soap.
The well-dressed (and chatty) celebrity pudendum
Amy Reiter
Calista Flockhart, Brooke Shields and Claire Danes discuss vagina
fashion; Britney! You sing
with that mouth? Plus: Russell Crowe and Courtney Love did what?
The art of disappearing
Pegi Taylor
Folk artist Kenny Hill left a decade's work on the banks of a Louisiana bayou, then vanished.
The myth of monogamy
David Barash
According to studies of the animal world, most of us are naturally inclined to "cheat" or at least have more than one mate in a lifetime.
From the Internet springs life eternal
Lizard
Online dinosaurs never go extinct -- instead, they thrive, jostling with their descendants for our attention.
Jackson retreats
Anthony York
The Rev. Jesse Jackson announces he'll leave public life to "reconnect with my family" after a tabloid breaks news of his "love child." Conservatives sharpen their knives.
A poetry-free presidency
David Lehman
The lack of a poet at Bush's Inauguration is a bleak omen of his administration's attitude toward culture -- but then again, what poet would agree to appear?
A bland antidote for Bill ‘n’ Al fatigue: George W.
Camille Paglia
Clinton debased the presidency and Gore became a hysterical chameleon. A lazy Bush may be just the prescription America needs.
Anywhere but here syndrome
Nancy Spiller
How do you enjoy traveling when all your companions want to talk about Disneyland?
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