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Writing in the Margins
Scott Thill
Our author learns: Don't mess with Texas! Feel the Lone Star love, and grab this last-minute shopping list of the year's best comics and graphic novels for all the mods, rockers, punks and Texans on your list.
If Betty and Veronica were Latina punk lesbians
Scott Thill
Jaime Hernandez talks about his massive new comics collection "Locas," the 20-year odyssey of two L.A. rock 'n' roll chicks looking for love (and rockets).
“Wolf! Wolf!”
Salon Staff
Our readers are not suckered in by the empty cries of the big bad Bush-Cheney wolf TV ad -- and so write their own smart, savvy and much better scripts.
“The Distance Between Us”
Masha Hamilton
Caddie has covered the Middle East for years -- but this trip into the Lebanese desert with a driver who never speaks is starting to feel ominous.
Daring to hope
Ed Guiton
Christopher Reeve was an inspiration to many as he confronted his own paralysis and advanced the cause of stem cell research.
Liza’s horrible so-called life
Cintra Wilson
Mean boys. Badass girls. Your worst first-day-of-high-school nightmare, to the millionth power ... and in Marin County, Calif.
Real simple
Thomas Geoghegan
To win the election and, once in power, to create new jobs, Democrats need a big plan everyone can understand: Have the government pay the first $1,000 in healthcare costs for every man, woman and child.
Now and Zen
Patrick Smith
On the 20th anniversary of its release, Husker Du's landmark album "Zen Arcade" proves there was way more to '80s music than kitsch, camp and bad haircuts.
“Spider-Man 2”
Charles Taylor
Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst are back, but this sorta square Spidey movie doesn't swing.
Blahbusters
Charles Taylor
Don't buy the frantic pleadings of the Hollywood media machine -- summer blockbusters have become a colossal bore.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Kim Cattrall demands more than HBO will give to make "Sex and the City" movie, Snoop Dogg to get divorced, and Missy Elliott cancels Jakarta show amid terrorist threats.
Writing in the Margins
Scott Thill
Our monthly roundup of indie publishing: DC Comics terrifies with Lovecraft; Lethem and Denis Johnson do avant-cabaret; a harrowing tale of the 1997 Red River flood.
“Kill Bill, Vol. 2”
Charles Taylor
Tarantino's talent can be dizzying, and Uma Thurman and David Carradine have great chemistry. But all it adds up to is that Q.T. seems to revere every movie he's ever seen.
Man of inaction
Cary Tennis
We want to be together but he's balking at getting married, even though it would allow me to get a green card and a job in my profession.
“Secret Things”
Charles Taylor
Nudity, lesbian love scenes, threesomes, incest and orgies, sure -- but the most shocking thing about this French film is that it dares to address the fate of the soul.
The Fix
Karen Croft
Jacko's lawyer has been on the case for months, Monica can't get a date and what do ZZ Top and George Harrison have in common? Plus: Are Stephen King and Shakespeare mutually exclusive?
The dreamer of Brooklyn
Peter Kurth
Jonathan Lethem's astonishing "The Fortress of Solitude" places him in the first rank of American novelists.
The mash-up revolution
Roberta Cruger
Destiny's Child vs. Nirvana! Britney vs. Chic! The Ramones vs. ABBA! How pop's hottest DJs are creating those wild bootleg remixes -- and why they're so hard to find.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Arnold wants to do Terminator 4, Sidney Blumenthal wants his own mag, and the U.S. wants to protect Elvis' recording studio. Plus: Design Martha's cell and win a prize!
“The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Charles Taylor
Despite Sean Connery and some impressive 19th century gloom, this big-screen translation of Alan Moore's culty comic-book series falls to earth with an incoherent splat.
Men in tights (and why we love them)
Charles Taylor
Since the days of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn, swashbuckling heroes have brought much-needed joie de vivre to a cynical Hollywood. Can "Pirates of the Caribbean" revive that glorious tradition?
Letters
Salon Staff
NPR listeners defend "The Hulk" -- and themselves -- in response to Charles Taylor's review.
Pillaging the cartoon universe
Scott Thill
Fred Flintstone as a mob boss! Yogi's pal BooBoo as a terrorist! Jonny Quest as the subject of a gay child-custody battle! All these outrages and more can be found on Cartoon Network's hilarious, hallucinatory "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law."
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