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Tripping on iboga
Daniel Pinchbeck
In Gabon, a disenchanted journalist embarks on a hallucinogenic tribal rite.
Did the Internet really ruin San Francisco?
Salon Staff
When a Salon article suggested that the dot-commers had killed everything wacky and wonderful about San Francisco, our mailbox was flooded with reader replies. The debate continues here.
Babble on
Janelle Brown
English is the mother tongue of most of the Web -- but not necessarily of the people who surf it.
Garry Trudeau
David Rubien
The most powerful voice for truth and justice in American journalism is the junkyard dog of editorial cartooning -- and the creator of "Doonesbury."
Funny pages
Calvin Trillin
The deadline poet and author of "The Tummy Trilogy" picks five books that made him laugh.
The luau wars
Robert Ito
Dartmouth Greeks tried to improve their reputation with a non-offensive Hawaiian luau. The leis never even made it off the rack.
For every target, a bomber
Douglas McGray
Billions of dollars are being devoted to preparing for a possible terrorist attack on the United States, but no one can say when or if such an attack will occur.
Sharps & Flats
Joe Gross
From Kiss to loungecore, Kenneth Anger to blaxploitation, Unrest anticipated '90s hipster fads way back ... in 1988.
The Dial Debuts Online Audio Entertainment Service and Exclusive Relationships with Leading Internet Sites
Salon Staff
Women.com, Salon.com, The Sporting News, Homestead.com, AreaGuide.net and OneNet Communications Are Among First Sites to 'do theDial'
Pilgrim of the dead
Summer McStravick
To get a real dose of the meaning behind Halloween, visit the bone chapels of Europe.
Artist's little helper
Susan Emerling
Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
I'm the enemy!
Carol Lloyd
At a meeting of San Franciscans trying to stop gentrification, I realize that I'm the Internet yuppie scum that's ruining my neighborhood!
Bye-bye beatnik
Jenn Shreve
Two unusual takes on Jack Kerouac's death and legacy. Plus: Viagra raves, zines that shouldn't exist and real-life Halloween scares.
“Surreal Lives” by Ruth Brandon
Lawrence Osborne
A deliciously gossipy group biography of the surrealists.
Sharps & Flats
Seth Mnookin
Arto Lindsay graduated from horrible noise to gently beautiful music. It only took 20 years.
Bring me the fat head of Elton John
Cintra Wilson
Young men once fretted over sculpting the future, not whether they were going to get a sweaty power-handshake. What happened?
How the Internet ruined San Francisco
Paulina Borsook
The dot-com invasion -- call them twerps with 'tude -- is destroying everything that made San Francisco weird and wonderful.
Cartoon for coders
Janelle Brown
"User Friendly" taps the open-source movement's collective funny bone.
21st Challenge No. 27 Results
Charlie Varon, Jim Rosenau
Yachoo, Yaltavista and other "re-branded" sites.
Letter from Ladakh
Steve Van Beek
The rugged inhabitants of this starkly beautiful, isolated land are now preparing for the latest invader: Winter.
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