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“Girlfight”
Charles Taylor
Director Karyn Kusama gets the beauty of boxing, but why is her debut film so dreary?
“Mission to Mars”
Charles Taylor
How to make the Red Planet red? Use reflective copper sheeting. But that's only one of the secret wonders of Brian De Palma's maligned masterpiece.
Of greatness, glory and really intense wrestling moms
Gary Kamiya
While Marion Jones flies again, wrestlers practice their savage art and a Cuban with a gunslinger's heart wins a classic long jump competition.
Hard-to-swallow soup for a kid’s soul
Callie Milton
Should I tell my sons about the drugs, the drinking and the jail in Daytona?
“The Guns of Navarone”
Michael Sragow
On-the-set friction caused by a red undershirt? Competition between actors only enhanced this thrilling and cathartic adventure classic.
L.A. confidential
Jan Golab
A former LAPD detective says Chief Bernard Parks had evidence of the scandal a year before it was revealed, but kept it from the district attorney -- and the public.
“Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet” by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
Katharine Whittemore
The honorable psychic who silenced skeptics, predicted both world wars and cured illnesses barely made a dime off his bizarre talents.
Fighting to die
Dan Shapiro
I've read about therapists who brilliantly talk people out of killing themselves. But when a patient paged me to say goodbye, I was just scared and pissed off.
Fresh fruit
Lisa Zeidner
Though she didn't start the memoir craze, Mary Karr feeds the frenzy with "Cherry."
“Crime and Punishment in Suburbia”
Charles Taylor
Even dressed up in tabloid lighting and cut with jagged edits, this pulp nihilism never goes beyond daytime TV banality.
“Under Suspicion”
Andrew O'Hehir
The engrossing, gem-hard little popcorn-cruncher is as good as any well-executed cop show. And what's wrong with that?
How the New York Times helped railroad Wen Ho Lee
Eric Boehlert
Its reporters relied on slim evidence, quick conclusions and loyalty to sources with an ax to grind. Too bad the paper of record learned nothing from its role in Whitewater.
“When We Were Orphans” by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gavin McNett
In the new novel by the bestselling author of "Remains of the Day," an Englishman raised in Shanghai returns to find the dark truth about the deaths of his parents.
Van Morrison
Sean Elder
The Irish singer-songwriter has identified himself with poets from Blake to Yeats, and like those "poetic champions," he has searched for the right words, the right feeling, as if for the Holy Grail.
Links on the chain
Ira Robbins
Broadside published songs by writers who wanted to change the world -- including a young Bob Dylan. A five-CD set marches through the great folk mag's past.
Poison PCs
Jim Fisher
Lead, mercury, chromium -- that's what computers are made of. So why aren't electronics makers keeping them out of landfills?
Karenna takes the Gen X quiz
Jake Tapper
The vice presidential daughter and generational spokeswoman tests her knowledge of pop-culture trivia.
Mock the Pain therapy
Rob Brezsny
An exorcism during which you ululate, lurch, gnash, caterwaul, writhe and bellow: "'Stressed' is 'desserts' spelled backwards!"
The true voice of the Amazon returns!
Camille Paglia
Stand back as she holds forth on Bush's bumbling ineptitude, Gore's shameless demagoguery and other reasons she's voting for Nader. Plus: Major league media assholes, Anne Heche and more!
What to read: September fiction
Salon's critics
From a surreal, carnal coming-of-age set on Coney Island to a wicked, gossipy story of the literary life, our critics pick the best books.
When Big Brother knows you watch “Big Brother”
Damien Cave
TiVo helps you find and record TV shows it thinks you'll like, and shares your viewing habits with networks and advertisers.
Cruel summer for the 24-hour TV news execs
Eric Boehlert
With blown-out tires and wildfires passing as big stories, news-junkie networks are jonesing.
Passing fancy
Allen Barra
The Bill Walsh-inspired offensive revolution has had an unexpected drawback: Every NFL team looks the same now.
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