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Keeping up appearances
Garrison Keillor
A boy I dated in high school confessed to me he's gay, and now he wants to say I'm his girlfriend for his parents' sake. Should I play along?
What’s up, Chuck?
Jaime Weinman
The legacy of Chuck Jones, the most celebrated director in cartoon history, is as overinflated as an Acme balloon.
Bull market for market bull
Steve Bodow
The villain in "M:i-2" demands a new popular-culture perquisite: Stock options.
Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t fall in love
Dave Cullen
A rare peek inside the lives of gay military officers reveals staggering sacrifice, loneliness and glass ceilings.
Sharps & Flats
Rachel Elson
Ace of Base's sugary pop should have come with an expiration date. A "Greatest Hits" set collects the moldy confections.
Dot-com servitude
Damien Cave
"Will work for options" was the motto that built the new economy, but mylackey.com's Brian McGarvey takes it to new extremes. Housecleaning anyone?
Yo! I ride through the valley in the shadow of death
David Darlington
A quartet of intrepid mountain bikers tackles the far, unfriendly reaches of
Death Valley National Park -- and learns some lessons about life.
They trade horses, don’t they?
Joan Walsh
A lawsuit to block the Hearst Corp.'s takeover of the San Francisco Chronicle exposes a world of political treachery that reached from City Hall to the U.S. Justice Department.
Learning to love your geek
Janelle Brown
"The Geek Handbook" is a handy how-to manual for keeping him or her in good running order.
“Better Living Through Circuitry”
Jeff Stark
In this floor-level view of the rave scene, director Jon Reiss keeps it pumping, humming, buzzing and spinning.
I am somebody!
Christopher Shea
Do blacks really need to work on their self-esteem? An African-American psychologist says no.
Risky business
Michael Sragow
How "Chinatown" screenwriter Robert Towne hooked up with Tom Cruise and John Woo to script "M:I-2."
Saucy soccer moms
Matthew DeBord
Forget supermodels, it is She of the coveted vote whom I most desire.
Burning Man culture clash
Katharine Mieszkowski
Is the National Geographic Society trying to wipe out an already-extinct tribe of revelers?
Stupid death tricks
Jeff Stark
How a Web performance artist created a fake chain of theme-park cemeteries and embarrassed 39 newspapers, 19 radio stations, six TV stations, 10 magazines and 20 Web sites.
Sharps & Flats
Seth Mnookin
Devo cracked a thousand whips at art-world pretense. In the end, the one-note joke leveled the world's greatest dance music for nerds.
Emergency sex
Jeff Drayer
A young doctor explains the natural, easy connection between sex and healthcare.
Better off deaf?
Letters to the Editor
"I was stunned when the deaf culture ostracized me for not being deaf enough."
The charter school challenge
Jonathan Schorr
Notes from two pioneering California charter schools -- one a success story, the other a failure.
Charles Barkley
Larry Platt
The most fascinating sports figure since Muhammad Ali, he gave rise to a generation of hip-hop athletes.
The urge to merge
Steve Bodow
Summer?s here and the time is right for merging on the Street. A look at who?s seeking matrimonial and monetary bliss this wedding season.
Demon wraith
Charles Taylor
On "The Practice," Helen Gamble's desire for vengeance -- a passion that happens to be pervasive in our culture -- is eating her alive.
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