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Tuesday, November 30, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Porn for thought By Daniel Kraus 
 The 20th-anniversary edition of
"Caligula" may be digitally remastered and enhanced with Dolby stereo
sound, but its core is as raw as ever. (11/30/99)


Sharps & Flats  By Britt Robson 
Despite Axl Rose's screeches, the "End of Days"
soundtrack is only semi-apocalyptic. (11/30/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, November 30, 1999. (11/30/99)







Books:




Writer beware By Samantha Gillison
Publishing that first novel often brings more
terrors than thrills. (11/30/99)


"The Unburied" by Charles Palliser By Adam Kirsch 
Half Victorian mystery, half
contemporary psychological thriller, this is a tale of murders in several
centuries. (11/30/99)


Dear Mr. Blue: An affair to forget By Garrison
Keillor
An evening of drunken passion has
left me wondering if I'm still the good girl I thought I was. (11/30/99)


Books Log: At the Bad Sex Prize ceremony, London's literati get
loose By Matt Thorne
Even an appearance by Princess Diana's "love rat" and a vicious
routine about Auberon Waugh's sex life don't ruin the mood. (11/30/99)




Comics: 




Carol Lay
 The fight to the finish (11/30/99) 





Health & Body:




Urge: Black Roses By Virginia
Vitzthum
In a suburban Ramada Inn, 1,500 players
gathered to teach and discuss the sexual art of power and pain. (11/30/99)


Naked World: Are witches stealing Zimbabwe penises? By
Hank Hyena
Sorcerer's spells
and voodoo hexes are dismissed as hocus-pocus in much of the world, but in
Zimbabwe a witchdoctor's "juju" curse is considered a plausible danger. (11/30/99)





Letters:




Horowitz's "revisionist" understanding of race relations
Plus: The politics and art of Rage Against the Machine; telling AOL what to do with its spam-fest. (11/30/99)







Media:




The name game By Ruth Shalit 
Welcome to the vicious new world of corporate
name-creation, where $75,000 buys you a suffix and competing shops slur
each other over the competing virtues of Agilent and Avilant. (11/30/99)





Mothers Who Think:




Giving in to Ritalin By Karen Shoemaker Sweeney
I hate it, but my son needs it. (11/30/99)





News:




Everything you need to know about the WTO By
David Moberg
 While thousands of
protesters gather outside, there's plenty of disagreement inside, too. (11/30/99)


Bradley bores but scores in Boston By Michael
Joseph Gross
Beantown finally gets a visit
from a candidate who knows his foreign policy inside and out. (11/30/99)


If you can't beat 'em... By Joe Conason
Why the WTO should be embraced, not feared. (11/30/99)


The whole world is watching By L.A. Kauffman
Direct action comes to the WTO, and
members debate what the meaning of "non-violence" is. (11/30/99)






People:




Brilliant Careers: David Cronenberg By Steve
Burgess 
 For more than three decades,
his films have been taking you to the weirdest of worlds. Lucky for you,
you can always walk out -- unless you're too terrified to move. (11/30/99)


Nothing Personal: Love, Washington style By Amy Reiter  
D.C. insiders in love! Mush
and spin from the other Olson twins; Portman keeps her pants on; and
Michael Jackson won't stop till he gets enough ... babies. (11/30/99)





Technology:




A literary hacker By Rachel Chalmers 
John Lions wrote the first, and perhaps
only, literary criticism of Unix, sparking one of open source's first legal
battles. (11/30/99)


Toy story By Mark Gimein
Between "eToys" and "etoy" lies more than a letter's
difference. (11/30/99)





Travel:




Feasting on the island everyone loves to hate By Jamie James 
Don't criticize
Singapore until you've tried the kaya at the Chin Mee Chin. (11/30/99)















 
Monday, November 29, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




"The Rainmaker" By Steve Vineberg 
 Woody Harrelson brings his trademark touch of
self-parody to the Broadway stage. (11/29/99)


Sharps & Flats  By Seth Mnookin 
The first serious Grateful Dead
retrospective is riddled with confounding decisions, stupid mistakes and
beautiful music -- just like the band. (11/29/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Monday, November 29, 1999. (11/29/99)







Books:




Ivory Tower: Bathtub revolutionary By Tom Bradley
An American creative writing
teacher in China torches his students' work in the tub rather than hand it
over to "the leaders." Was it piety, or the fantasy of a heroic reception
back home? (11/29/99)


"Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen" by Larry McMurtry By Jonathan Miles 
The novelist's memoir is an elegy to vanishing breeds -- like novelists. (11/29/99)


Book Bag: One-handed reading By Susie Bright
Salon's resident sexpert picks five
books that taught her what "dirty" meant. (11/29/99)


Second coming By Jonathon Keats
With its hip new edition of the Good Book, Grove Press
aims to save the Bible from the fundamentalists. (11/29/99)




Comics: 




Tom Tomorrow
 The persistant annoyance of recurrent hangnails -- cured! (11/29/99) 





Health & Body:




Star sickness By Mark Ebner and Lisa Derrick
Celebrities speaking out about their
afflictions can raise awareness, and money. (11/29/99)


Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 39 By Tracy Quan
Saved
by the silence: A lesson in deception after a quickie threesome prepares me
for my probing boyfriend. (11/29/99)


Urge: Naked World By
Hank Hyena
Crippled masturbater sues and wins! When a Florida
phone-sex worker developed carpal tunnel syndrome in each of her busy
hands, she took the case to court. Now she gets her satisfaction from
workers' compensation checks. (11/29/99)





Letters:




In Texas, AIDS issues are about race, not sexuality
Plus: Remembering James Bond's glory days; why let a cheating husband off the hook?    (11/29/99)







Media:




Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus 
 (11/29/99)





Mothers Who Think:




Till death do us part By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Is it a promise of love or a
life sentence? Our readers weigh in with advice. (11/29/99)





News:




Republicans lost in space By David Horowitz
 Unless and until they learn to fight
like Democrats, the GOP will continue to lose on the issues to opponents
who are responsible for most of the mess to begin with. (11/29/99)


The vice president's stiff comedy By Daniel Kurtzman
 Al Gore's problem is not that he lacks a sense of humor -- he's just not showing it. (11/29/99)





People:




Elliott Erwitt By Joe Gioia 
 Observing art with an artful observer. (11/29/99)


Nothing Personal: My runny-nosed valentine By Amy Reiter   
Matt Damon to keep day
job; kids ask the darndest things of presidential candidates; and is that a
rock on Jennifer Aniston's finger, or is she just getting ready to punch
someone out? (11/29/99)





Technology:




View From the Top: The music man By Janelle Brown 
MTVi's Nicholas Butterworth
says he wants the audience to do the programming. (11/29/99)


Technology Log: Microsoft beseiged by civil suits By Janelle Brown
Will the five
class action suits -- and more undoubtedly to come -- cause the software
giant any pain? (11/29/99)





Travel:




Into the belly of the earth By Beth Kephart 
A cave in southwest France
illuminates some of life's deeper secrets. (11/29/99)












 
Wednesday, November 24, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




"Toy Story 2" By Janelle Brown 
 Buzz and Woody get warm and fuzzy in
Pixar's terrific sequel. (11/24/99)


"Tumbleweeds" By Stephanie Zacharek 
Mom just wants to have fun, daughter sulks. Haven't we
seen this movie before? (11/24/99)


"Ride With the Devil" By Andrew O'Hehir 
Ang Lee's dark and sober fable might be the
most interesting and least dogmatic view of the Civil War to wend its way
into the
multiplexes. (11/24/99)


"Flawless" By Charles Taylor 
"As Good as It Gets" goes downtown in a lame stab at
indie credibility from hack director Joel Schumacher. (11/24/99)


"End of Days" By Andrew O'Hehir 
Arnie's back, with a Jesus Christ pose. (11/24/99)


Entertainment Log: The meta quartet By Jay Jennings 
A sneak preview looks at four
new movies about movies. (11/24/99)


Sharps & Flats  By Alex Pappademas 
Fiona Apple transforms from a flinty "Shadowboxer"
to a raging bull. (11/24/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, November 24 - Sunday, November 25, 1999. (11/24/99)







Books:




"My Kitchen Wars" by Betty Fussell By Pete Wells
The cookbook author recounts
the battles that made up her marriage. (11/24/99)


An unnecessary crock By Judith Coburn
Michael Lind's "Vietnam: The Necessary War":
For some thinkers, that ol' international communist conspiracy will never
die. (11/24/99)


Ivory Tower: School Days By Sophia Dembling
Ancient history: I enrolled in college at
41. I did not wear Tommy Hillfiger. Things unraveled. (11/24/99)


Books Log: Susan Faludi coaches "Fight Club" author By Diana Abu-Jaber
As the two
compare notes, Chuck Pahlaniuk gets prepped for an appearance on
"Politically Incorrect." (11/24/99)




Comics: 




Keith Knight
 Beer, vomit -- and football! (11/24/99) 





Health & Body:




A tale of two marathons By Steven A. Shaw
The Fat Guy snacks his way
through the New York City Marathon. (11/24/99)


Urge: The randy bellboy By Susie Bright
A member of the night shift offers seduction
tips to the lonely traveler. (11/24/99)


Urge: Naked World By
Hank Hyena
The rise and fall of German horndogs: Stiff
Viagra-loving Germans are popping and dropping dead in Thai brothels. (11/24/99)





Letters:




Will staying unmarried save your relationship?
Plus: Camille Paglia sparks new "Sensation" debate; should technology change the way we have children?   (11/24/99)









Mothers Who Think:




Killing a lamb called Dinner By Kimberly French
I raised a lamb, I was
going to eat it, so I went to see exactly what happens in between. (11/24/99)


Lamb Stew with Garlic-Vinegar Sauce By Kimberly French
A succulent preparation for a
lamb of any name, including Dinner. (11/24/99)





News:




When victims become killers By Laura Rozen 
 Clinton urges Kosovars to forgo
revenge against Serbs. (11/24/99)


Desperately seeking a legacy By
Nina Donaghy
 Bill Clinton has little time left to
improve his standing in history. Could foreign affairs, especially a
negotiated peace in the Middle East, offer him a chance for salvation? (11/24/99)


How the Internet could save John McCain By Anthony York
 The man trailing Bush lays
out a subversive strategy for catching up. (11/24/99)


Is she or isn't she? By Sean Elder
 Hillary Clinton announces her run for the Senate
from New York. Or doesn't .. (11/24/99)


Gingrich vs. Gingrich By David Corn
 Why has the former speaker of the house chosen
to allow all his dirty linen to be brought out for all to see? (11/24/99)


Smog alert By Robert Bryce
 The Texas governor is trying to clear the air about his
environmental record -- trouble is, the state's alarming pollution levels
are getting in the way. (11/24/99)





People:




Brilliant Careers: Jim Clark By Larry Kanter 
 In Silicon Valley -- where newness
is next to godliness -- the smart money still bets on capitalism's most
successful conceptual artist. (11/24/99)


Diary of a Viagra fiend By Jayson Gallaway   
In which a randy, modern day Thomas De
Quincey confesses: "Hi Ho Silver! (11/24/99)


The evil two books and one video do By Cintra Wilson 
A visit to the dark side (and
back) courtesy of "The Blair Witch Project," Andy Kaufman and Lynda Barry. (11/24/99)


"Let the white guys sing!" By Tracy Santa
Doug Sahm played a cosmic and
unmistakeable Tex-Mex blues for more than 40 years. (11/24/99)


Nothing Personal: Turkeys making turkeys By Amy Reiter
Scraping
the bottom of the gratitude barrel? Here's a round-up that'll have you
thanking your lucky stars you're you. (11/24/99)





Technology:




The man who fell to mirth By Janelle Brown 
David Bowie makes light of Van
Gogh's ear, Ziggy's future and sowing "creative wild oats" in a chat about
Omikron. (11/24/99)


A soul-sucking parallel world By Janelle Brown
Will you free the residents of
Omikron's totalitarian regime or lose your self in the beauty of this
game's futuristic city? (11/24/99)


Technology Log: Cyberslacking epidemic By Mark Gimein
Are companies losing billions
of dollars to recreational surfing and e-mail chit-chats? (11/24/99)





Travel:




Thanksgiving: A personal history By Jennifer New 
From the mythic Midwest of my
childhood to the mesmerizing Chicago of later years, this holiday has
always evoked a place. (11/24/99)













 
Tuesday, November 23, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg 
 Lauryn Hill and Bob Marley,
together at last. But what's Aerosmith doing on this shameless collection
of posthumous duets? (11/23/99)


"Toy" story man By Michael Sragow 
Pixar whiz Joe Ranft explains the Buzz on "Toy Story
2" -- and gives voice to Wheezy the Penguin. (11/23/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, November 23, 1999. (11/23/99)







Books:




 Dear Mr. Blue: Healthy urges By Garrison Keillor
I don't want to have to beg my
boyfriend for sex, but I'm too young to give up on it. (11/23/99)


"The Devil's Cup" by Stewart Lee Allen and "Uncommon Grounds" by Mark
Pendergrast By Richard Reynolds
Two books about the history of coffee, already a subversive
beverage in the 16th century. (11/23/99)


The mediocrity that roared By Joan
Walsh
 Three books probe the mystery at the core
of the angry, ordinary guy who might just be our next president. (11/23/99)




Comics: 




Carol Lay
 Hell's kitchen (11/23/99) 





Health & Body:




Urge: Not this year, dear By Sandy Morris
I have very little interest in
sex -- and neither do millions of other Americans. So where are our support
groups? (11/23/99)


Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Look out, Wilt -- Alanis
Morissette and Dustin Hoffman say they bagged their share of fans. (11/23/99)





Letters:




Can oral sex save your marriage?
Plus: Plus: Dissecting coverage of EgyptAir crash; Chez Panisse founder is a fraud.  (11/23/99)







Media:




The Tabloids that ate their competition By Sean Elder 
The company that owns the
National Enquirer doesn't want the world. Just the Globe, the Sun and the
National Examiner. (11/23/99)





Mothers Who Think:




On being Ken By Tim Cornwell
I play him nice, but stupid. (11/23/99)





News:




Air war By Jake Tapper 
 The men who would be president launch their TV campaigns,
with -- surprise! -- lots of smiling kids in the background. (11/23/99)


Vuk Draskovic waits for his close-up By Laura Rozen 
 The Serbian opposition leader
explains how and why he'll topple Milosevic. (11/23/99)





People:




I, Anakin By Matthew Sullivan 
 George Lucas is seeking an "extremely intelligent"
19-year-old actor to play Anakin Skywalker in "Episode II." He need look no
further than here. (11/23/99)


Rupert Sheldrake By David Bowman  
The delightful crackpot: Put your paws together for
the master of morphic resonance. (11/23/99)


Nothing Personal: Howeird is that? By Amy Reiter 
Stern's lawyers get strict; Flynt
breaks ground ... in Ohio; and Drudge pulled by popularity poll? Fox lips
sealed. Plus: New Chris Farley Foundation to promote awareness of drug and
alcohol abuse ... much like old Chris Farley. (11/23/99)





Technology:




Swords, spells and Academy Awards? By Jamais Cascio 
Diablo II vies to be the
first role-playing game to be sanctified by Hollywood. (11/23/99)


Technology Log: I told you once ... By Christopher Sandlund
Hey Steve Case, why should I
have to tell you again? I don't want junk mail. (11/23/99)





Travel:




Fear and loathing in Latvia By Rolf Potts 
Between the fistfights and the
Finnish girls, it's hard to get any writing done. (11/23/99)













 
Monday, November 22, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Sharps & Flats By Gavin McNett 
 Why listening to Rage Against the
Machine is bad for lefty idealism. (11/22/99)


Breaking character By Claire Dederer 
With lead roles in three new films, Philip
Seymour Hoffman, one of the great character actors of the '90s, is about to
hit the big time. Are we sure we want him to? (11/22/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Monday, November 22, 1999. (11/22/99)







Books:




"Rich Media, Poor Democracy" by Robert McChesney By Dustin Beilke
A communications
authority eyeballs the current media merger mania and offers some hard and
fast suggestions for doing better. (11/22/99)


Ivory Tower: Is voter ignorance killing democracy? By Christopher Shea
Some political
scientists say it is; others maintain that a brain-dead populace does no
damage to our hallowed political system. (11/22/99)


Book Bag: Books to snack on By Michael Chabon
 The author of "Wonder Boys" selects a
literary menu for blocked writers. (11/22/99)




Comics: 




This Modern World
 Pardon our cynicism, Mr. President! (11/22/99) 





Health & Body:




Flu be gone! By Arthur
Allen
Two new anti-flu drugs just hit the market
and will be backed by millions in advertising. But do they work? (11/22/99)


Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 38 By Tracy Quan
Caught
between Milt's lips and a hard Matt: No one trusts me anymore, even the
people I'm not lying to. (11/22/99)


Urge: Naked World  By Hank Hyena
Embarrassed Italy boots 350 Nigerian prostitutes:
Are officials getting righteous, or just trying to save face for the
domestic red-light scene? (11/22/99)





Letters:




Is it time for a female vice president?
Plus: Get that spam out of my mailbox; "Millionaire" contestant gives Philbin the thumbs-up.  (11/22/99)









Mothers Who Think:




Cult of the cloth By Lisa
Moricoli Latham
I thought I could quit any time,
but the ladies of the Diapering Board had me in their thrall. (11/22/99)


To the diaperman, with love  By Carol Hall
Hamish was there for the thrills and the
spills, a devoted d-man until the end.  (11/22/99)





News:




Danny and Allison, part one By Jake Tapper 
 They're young, Jewish professionals
who routinely split their ticket. So far, they lean toward Rudy because
Hillary doesn't seem to have any principles. (11/22/99)


Throw away the key! By
David Horowitz 
 Jesse Jackson has betrayed the civil rights
movement by defending young thugs who need to be punished, not babied. (11/22/99)


Guarding their silence By Christian Parenti 
 Prisoners' rights advocates say a code of
silence among prison guards led to the acquittal of the officers charged
with arranging the rape of an inmate. (11/22/99)





People:




Nothing Personal: Sound bite for the apocalypse By Amy Reiter 
 "Read my gills":
Ex-prez part iguana? Jason Alexander goes on the Star Trek diet; Will Smith
gets jiggy for the White House. Plus: Hot fun -- down the water slide with
Dolly Parton! (11/22/99)


The bald facts By John F. Murphy  
An informal survey of toupees, transplants, weaves
and dye-jobs reveals that ten to twenty-two percent of United States
Senators are
engaged in a cover-up. (11/22/99)


What's luck got to do with it? By Jon B. Rhine 
Is good fortune happenstance or the
cosmos' great equalizer? Ask Nicholas Rescher. Better yet, ask Denise Rossi. (11/22/99)





Technology:




View From the Top: Tuned in to TV By Janelle Brown  
Wink CEO Maggie
Wilderotter is a confessed TVaholic. She's not interested in interactive TV
that pushes couch potatoes onto the Web. (11/22/99)


Trapped in a healthnet By Andrew Leonard
A domain name dispute rages between a big HMO
and a tiny nonprofit that links together Third World health-care providers. (11/22/99)





Travel:




Epiphany at Joshua Tree By Barbara Wilson 
A woman confronts her painful past on an
Outward Bound pilgrimage into the heart of fear. (11/22/99)












 
Weekend, November 20-21, 1999






Health & Body:




Urge: Ex change By Sarah Gold     
My ex-boyfriend called me with big news.
Seems he wasn't quite my ex-boyfriend anymore. (11/20/99)








News:




Maybe I should buy you a globe for Christmas By Robert Parry
 
George W. Bush's
father planned to hit then Gov. Bill Clinton with a series of one-line
"zingers" about his foreign policy ignorance in '92, but guess who's
laughing now. (11/20/99)


Bush channels Reagan on foreign policy  By Mark Dennis
 
With his first major speech, the GOP front-runner sought to put a string of gaffes behind him. (11/20/99)


"Drop the Chalupa, Al Gore!" By Anthony York

Republicans are plotting a strategy to
court the Latino vote. (11/20/99)
 




People:




Nose Job Hut By Harmon Leon  
Come on down to the Surgery Shack for a brand-new
face at used-car prices ... in easy monthly payments! (11/20/99) 


Nothing Personal Weekend: Eggs, legs and eating beauty By Amy Reiter  
Glamour
magazine's annual awards ceremony was an odd-couple omelet; Sharon Stone's
close shaves with dairy; Janeane cops feels; Christina Ricci's Love Hewitt
jones. Plus: Get your mouth off my dress! (11/20/99) 




Technology:




21st Challenge No. 28 Results: Forward, march! By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau 
Join the dance
of the eternally circulating e-mail. (11/20/99) 





Travel:




Epiphany at Joshua Tree  By Barbara Wilson  
A woman confronts her painful past on an
Outward Bound pilgrimage into the heart of fear. (11/20/99)












 
Friday, November 19, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




"The World Is Not Enough" By Charles Taylor 
 God save James Bond. (11/19/99)


"All About My Mother" By Stephanie
Zacharek 
Passionate and florid, Almodóvar's valentine
to motherhood breathes with vibrant, chaotic Barcelona life. (11/19/99)


"Sleepy Hollow"  By Stephanie Zacharek
This Ichabod is a tortured, if not terribly bright,
goth dreamboat. (11/19/99)


"Felicia's Journey" By Andrew O'Hehir 
Atom Egoyan's follow-up to "The Sweet Hereafter"
is a dank and claustrophobic thriller. (11/19/99)


Sharps & Flats   By Mac Montandon 
Nuzzle's plaintive rock comes on as unexpectedly soft
as a full-count change-up. (11/19/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Weekend, November 19-21, 1999. (11/19/99)







Books:




"Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask" by Jim Munroe By David Bowman
A weird
and wonderful first novel comes up with a couple of unlikely superheroes. (11/19/99)


Ivory Tower: Experimental lesson By David Alford
I've always tried to make my
teaching like an art, but as I've grown more successful, have I become a
hack? (11/19/99)


Creature of the night By Polly Shulman
If you like Harry Potter and love Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, then we've got a writer for you. (11/19/99)


Books Log: Gaffes, but no fireworks, at National Book Awards By Craig Offman
Unlike
1998, no egos run amok. (11/19/99)





Comics: 




Dark Hotel
 A message from the Management (11/19/99) 





Health & Body:




I was a human crash-test dummy By Mary Roach
For 15 years, a professor
gave his body for human impact-survival research -- and lived to tell the
tale. (11/19/99)


Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Three
recent unsuccessful attempts suggest a clothing-optional development in
self-destruction. (11/19/99)





Letters:




Readers debate: Is Oprah good for books?
Plus: Stop dissing "chick flicks"; why did A.M. Rosenthal save his scorn for black  hatemongers?  (11/19/99)







Media:




Alt: Attack of the holiday gift guides! By Jenn Shreve 
Annual shopping-spree
extravaganzas turn otherwise respectable journalists into shills for Santa
Mammon. (11/19/99)





Mothers Who Think:




If at first ... By Diana O'Hehir
A marriage dies and is, after 35
years, resurrected. (11/19/99)


Three strikes By Patt Blue
My parents tried and tried and tried, but neither
marriage, nor divorce could bring them together.  (11/19/99)





News:




Boris goes off By Laura Rozen 
 Yeltsin leaves European summit after Russian's
Chechnan bombing campaign comes under fire. (11/19/99)


Jasper's stand By Ashley Craddock 
 Shawn Berry was the hardest suspect to convict of the
dragging murder of James Byrd Jr. Did his role in the killing come second to
the town's need to clear its name? (11/19/99)


Why won't George W. Bush talk about AIDS? By Cliff Rothman  
 Texas gay groups say their
governor's "compassionate conservatism" doesn't include them. (11/19/99)


GOP governors gloat at ritzy resort By Anthony York  
 George W. is a no-show, but
rumors that he might drop by have attendees as excited as girls at a junior
high slumber party expecting a surprise visit from the boys. (11/19/99)


Rush to judgment? By Fiona Morgan 
 U.S., Egyptian officials try to stop the
finger-pointing about the Flight. (11/19/99)






People:




Hollyween meltdown By David Goodman 
 The party's costume-mandatory: John Cusack
comes as a werewolf, James Woods comes and leaves, Neve Campbell comes as
herself --
and no one gets it. (11/19/99)


Nothing Personal: Gown gobbling in Gotham By Amy Reiter  
Consuming fashion in the
Big Apple; Bezos luvs Bill; Paul Newman: Unhandsome me! Plus: Claudia
Schiffer's new bedmate! (11/19/99)


Mary Kay Bergman By Andy Dehnart  
The voice of Wendy Testaburger, Mayor McDaniels and
Ms. Crabtree dies at 38. (11/19/99)





Technology:




Technology Log: "Hot women and dry martinis" By Janelle Brown  
If we've come such a
long way, baby, then why are we still being treated to sites like
TheMan.com? (11/19/99)


Word gamers By Etelka Lehoczky
For some RPG players, virtual reality is all in
the mind. (11/19/99)





Travel:




Sexual charades in Seoul  By Richard Newman 
To save face, I had to pretend to rape
my Korean girlfriend, and she had to pretend to resist. (11/19/99)













 
Thursday, November 18, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Sharps & Flats By Patrick Giles
 In the mid-'80s, people with AIDS lived and died to Arvo Pärt's "Tabula Rasa." A new recording reprises music "like the motion of angels' wings." (11/18/99)


Johnny Deppth  By Michael Sragow  
 The soulful-eyed star tells why he played Ichabod
Crane as a "fragile young girl" in "Sleepy Hollow." (11/18/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Thursday, November 18, 1999. (11/18/99)







Books:




"Rembrandt's Eyes" by Simon Schama By Matthew DeBord
A new biography charts the
troubled painter's rivalry with the worldly, successful Peter Paul Rubens. (11/18/99)


Sympathy for the Devil By Donna Minkowitz
A writer explains why she reaches out to the
people she fears most. (11/18/99)


Books Log: Pummeled Vidal biographer licks his wounds By Craig Offman
The critics
were vicious -- and then there was Gore. (11/18/99)





Comics: 




Ruben Bolling
 Gore fires Australopithecine campaign consultant! (11/18/99) 





Health & Body:




'Roid rage By
Andrew Taber
Steroid abuse can cause everything from sexual
voracity to violence; some people take them only for cosmetic reasons. (11/18/99)


Urge: Nancy Chan By Tracy Quan
Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 37: Totems
and taboos: When the IRS strikes, my favorite john wants to kiss me and my
boyfriend refuses. (11/18/99)


Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Japanese want baby girls; Indians choose boys: As
parents coordinate their babies' sexes ahead of time, the male-female ratio
gets even more skewed. (11/18/99)





Letters:




Why isn't college opening Lillie Wade's mind?
Plus: Seeking the truth about Marilyn Monroe; Pat Buchanan's party switch is about winning, not principles.  (11/18/99)







Media:




Newsbabe Diane Sawyer gets the story By Karen Croft 
Diane Sawyer appears as
"newsbabe" in Microsoft video, then gets exclusive interview with Gates.
Coincidence? (11/18/99)





Mothers Who Think:




The case against matrimony By Larissa Phillips
"If marriage is risky,
doomed and expensive, well, why bother?" (11/18/99)


Gertrude and Alice By Amy Benfer
When Alice B. Toklas met Gertrude Stein, she
heard bells ring. They went on to have one of the happiest marriages of the
20th century.  (11/18/99)





News:




Tough-talkin' Pat plays Dixie By Suzi Parker 
 Reform Party hopeful Buchanan's mix
of barbs and bombast finds a ready audience down in Clinton country. (11/18/99)


Return of the stiff man By Alicia Montgomery 
 The vice president turns in an uninspired
performance in an electronic town hall meeting. (11/18/99)


In cold blood? By Ashley Craddock  
 The last trial in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr.
is delivered to the jury. (11/18/99)


Grisly precision By Phaedra Hise  
 Inside the strange world of the NTSB. (11/18/99)


The frenzy over a pilot's prayer By Fiona Morgan 
 Tensions between American and
Egyptian authorities escalate as EgyptAir crash investigators search for
clues and the media seek a culprit. (11/18/99)






People:




I sold commie posters to a future Supreme Court justice By Jock O'Connell 
 Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now. (11/18/99)


Nothing Personal: Buffalo 36-D By Amy Reiter  
Christina Ricci's Love Hewitt jones;
Streisand just says no to running; Monica Lewinsky's zipless clutch. Plus:
Auctioning child's baby clothes on Internet? Zero dollars. Drew Barrymore's
childhood? Priced. (11/18/99)





Technology:




Who controls free software? By
Andrew Leonard  
Does Red Hat's aquisition of
Cygnus give the company the final say on free software's future? (11/18/99)


Technology Log: Sunspots By Mark Gimein  
Excerpts from a diary of a networked
future. (11/18/99)





Travel:




Travel Advocate: Too good to be true  By Linda Burbank 
"That vacation club didn't
deliver what I thought I was getting!" (11/18/99)


Travel Advisor: Cook this  By Donald D. Groff 
Expert advice on cooking classes in
Europe, plus airline passenger rights and Irish B&B; planning. (11/18/99)


Stressed-out at 33,000 feet  By Mary Racana 
Can you be sure the pilot on the plane
you're boarding isn't depressed? Can the airlines be sure? (11/18/99)












 
Wednesday, November 17, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Moving pictures By Sarah Vowell 
 Why have there been more good
movies in the past eight weeks than in the past eight years? (11/17/99)


Sharps & Flats  By Michelle Goldberg  
 Forget the solipsistic neurotica of Fiona Apple, on
"To the Teeth" righteous babe Ani DiFranco feels the funk and represents
Buffalo,
N.Y. (11/17/99)


The last days of disco  By Charles Taylor
 Infused with romantic disappointment and
emotional resonance, Pet Shops Boys' "Nightlife" examines the expectation
and letdown at both ends of an evening out. (11/17/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, November 17, 1999. (11/17/99)







Books:




"Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials" by Wendy Kaminer By Andrew O'Hehir
American
boobs will believe practically anything. But is this news? (11/17/99)


Ivory Tower: On closer reading By Boris Kachka 
At the fifth annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, the old guard looks for the the Young Turks to take up their bookish battle cry. (11/17/99)


Poetry Nation? By Melanie
Rehak
Thousands of Americans sent poems to the Favorite Poem
Project -- but that doesn't necessarily mean poetry is thriving. (11/17/99)





Comics: 




Keith Knight
 In winter, a young man's thoughts turn to ... freezing! (11/17/99) 





Health & Body:




Brave new world or future shock? By Jon Bowen
Medical scientists
predict technologies such as animal-to-human organ transplants and toilets
that send info to your doctor. (11/17/99)


Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Satan makes me view Web porn: A year after
Internet porn surfing cost him his tax department job, David Stein fingers
the Prince of Darkness. (11/17/99)





Letters:




Will the free market reward art and education?
Plus: Gauging "the Philadelphia effect"; Americans are fat because we're lazy and eat bad food.  (11/17/99)







Media:




 Life's a scream By Susan Lehman  
Advertising legend Jay Chiat talks about his new
company, making ads work on the Web and the best commercials he's seen
lately. (11/17/99)


Media Log: "You are the snake!" By Sean Elder  
Hunter S. Thompson test drives a new
Porsche, returns it in one piece. (11/17/99)





Mothers Who Think:




No regrets By Anna Sorelli
I was an unashamed mistress. (11/17/99)


The other woman By Jonathon Keats
She is a narcissistic sex worker with no knowledge
of true love (11/17/99)





News:




Basketball diaries By Jake Tapper 
 Salon's Jake Tapper goes among the redwoods,
with camera in hand, at Bill Bradley's Madison Square Garden fund-raiser. (11/17/99)


Bill Bradley - Life Saver? By Jake Tapper 
 Ex-senator's new commercial claims that he
once saved a baby's life, but the truth is a little more complicated than
that. (11/17/99)


Dead senator running? By Jake Tapper  
 LBJ's son-in-law Chuck Robb once seemed to be
on the fast track to the White House, but these days, he's considered the
senator most likely to lose his job in 2000. (11/17/99)


Trump takes Miami By John
Lanitgua  
 The billionaire panders to Reform Party and
loyalists and Cuban dissidents in his jog for the presidency. (11/17/99)


High-tech ambulance chasing? By Anthony York 
 Attorneys register EgyptAir domain
names, seeking to comfort families, not attract clients. (11/17/99)


Pilots ponder the mysteries of EgyptAir crash By Phaedra Hise 
 Those who fly planes
want to know why the autopilot was disconnected, the engines were shut down
and nobody contacted air-traffic controllers. (11/17/99)


Did relief pilot seize control from captain?  By Alicia Montgomery, Fiona Morgan and Daryl Lindsey 
 As Egyptians protest the move toward a criminal probe, reports emerge that a crew member said a prayer and dived the plane into the ocean. (11/17/99)





People:




He don't love you By Lance Gould  
 It's the talk of the T.O.W.N.! Tony Orlando
and Wayne Newton square off in the Show-Me (the money) State. (11/17/99)


Hillary, Naomi, Susan and Rush. Sheesh! By Camille Paglia   
Rodham Clinton requires
emergency intervention; Wolf's mind is amazingly slack; "Stiffed" is a
stiff. Meanwhile Limbaugh brings a genuine intellectual service to American
culture. (11/17/99)


Nothing Personal: Celibacy bites By Amy Reiter  
Janeane cops feels; Rodney's pop
heals; and at the Gary Coleman auction, collector plates a steal! (11/17/99)






Technology:




Playing God By
Kristi Coale  
Scary eugenics documents from the turn of the
century shine a disturbing light on ethical dilemmas raised by genetic
testing. (11/17/99)


Technology Log: MP3 crackdown By Janelle Brown  
As the recording industry "educates"
universities about digital music piracy, students feel the heat. (11/17/99)





Travel:




The loneliest man in China By Paolo Bacigalupi 
In a nondescript rural restaurant, an
expat is humbled by a local's worldly honesty. (11/17/99)












 
Tuesday, November 16, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Sharps & Flats By Philip Booth 
 Steeped in Crescent City musical
voodoo, Los Hombres Calientes reconfigure jazz in the city where it was
born. (11/16/99)


For the love of the game show  By Joyce Millman  
 ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
hits the jackpot; Fox's "Greed" is not good. (11/16/99)


Entertainment Log: "Antiques Road Show"  By Christina Nunez  
 Certain unpleasant incidents on the PBS series have been kept under wraps -- until now. (11/16/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, November 16, 1999. (11/16/99)







Books:




I wrote a novel in three days By Dave Fox
A guy, his best pal and a bottle of
tequila. It was a recipe for literary greatness. (11/16/99)


"Breakfast With Scot" by Michael Downing By Greg Bottoms 
In a smart, funny and
affecting novel, two gay men inherit an 11-year-old boy and blanch when he
turns out to be a budding queen. (11/16/99)


Dear Mr. Blue: A childless future? By Garrison Keillor
He has everything I want in a man
-- except for that vasectomy. (11/16/99)


Love in a cage By David Bowman
Irish novelist Ronan Bennett talks about his years in
a British prison and the difficulty of combining romance with politics. (11/16/99)


Books Log: Author gets too personal with Michiko Kakutani By Craig Offman
New York
Times book critic puts the kibosh on flirty classifieds. (11/16/99)





Comics: 




Story Minute
 His life was on the line (11/16/99) 





Health & Body:




Urge: Playing prostitute By Virginia
Vitzthum
DivorcŽe Pam takes the leap into
the life and learns that besting her johns is a hollow victory. (11/16/99)


Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Does Helena Bonham-Carter's fake orgasm rival Meg
Ryan's? When it comes to canned moans, audiences love variety. (11/16/99)





Letters:




Do Catholics deserve "Dogma"?
Plus: You can't define the Net by its ghettos; what did the Bible tell skinhead murderers? (11/16/99)







Media:




Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus  
Bob Marley, Marianne Faithful, Rupert Pupkin (11/16/99)





Mothers Who Think:




"Drop 'em, babe!" By Carol Ormandy
Simple advice for a simply perfect
marriage. (11/16/99)


A cooler head prevails By Fred Branfman
Psychologist Robert Firestone rejects the
quick fix for bad marriage. (11/16/99)





News:




Invasion of the body snatchers By Joe
Conason    
 When Pat Buchanan made his unholy
alliance with Lenora Fulani, it wasn't the "left" he embraced but a
strange, secretive group of disrupters known as the "Newmanites." (11/16/99)


Pilots ponder the mysteries of EgyptAir crash By Phaedra Hise   
 Those who fly planes
want to know why the autopilot was disconnected, the engines were shut down
and nobody contacted air-traffic controllers. (11/16/99)


Decoding EgyptAir By Fiona Morgan  
 A team of experts is analyzing the cockpit voice
recorder of Flight 990, but will investigators need more pieces of the
plane to determine what brought it down? (11/16/99)


Workers Vs. WTO By David Moberg 
 Will China's entry into the World Trade Organization
soften labor support for Al Gore's presidential bid? (11/16/99)





People:




Brilliant Careers: Alice Waters By Leslie Crawford  
 America's high priestess of chow
has shown a nation raised on meatloaf that fresh, nourishing food,
organically grown and simply prepared, ranks right up there next to
godliness. (11/16/99)


I wanted to be a millionaire By Steven Scott Smith   
In which our hero braves technical
difficulties, arctic temperatures and too many geography questions in his
quest for a fast fortune. (11/16/99)


Nothing Personal: Shave me By Amy Reiter  
Sharon Stone's close shaves with dairy;
Dubya gets 2-D for "King of the Hill;" Christina Ricci, not fat; and ...
Porn again? Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez bring the Mitchell brothers to
the screen in "Rated X." (11/16/99)






Technology:




How the Web was almost won By
Tim O'Reilly  
Just how close did we come to a
Web ruled by Microsoft? The "server wars" show a grim counterpart to the
browser wars. (11/16/99)


Technology Log: Who surfs to be a millionaire? By Andy Dehnart  
Talk about hefty user
acquisition costs. A CBS-backed portal site called iWon.com gives away
millions -- to differentiate itself. (11/16/99)





Travel:




Out of the Blue: Roaches, rats and other unticketed passengers By Elliott Neal Hester 
From cucarachas to dachshunds, flight attendants contend with a mind-boggling menagerie of stowaways. (11/16/99)












 
Monday, November 15, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




The extras By Robin Strober 
 The story of how one bad Hollywood
experience was just one too many. (11/15/99)


Sharps & Flats  By Lydia Vanderloo  
 The girlish and irresistible Kahimi Karie spins
delicious pop confections. (11/15/99)


Blue Glow  By Joyce Millman 
 Salon's TV picks for Monday, November 15, 1999. (11/15/99)







Books:




"Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad" by
David Haward Bain By Katharine Whittemore 
It's sprawling and overloaded with facts, but this
account of the building of the transcontinental railroad does justice to
one of the great American achievements. (11/15/99)


Ivory Tower: The secret life of war By Annie Murphy Paul 
A historian exposes the
unpredictably diverse feelings of ordinary soldiers, but fails to learn
from their words. (11/15/99)


Book Bag: Men at extremes By Mary Gaitskill
The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five
tales of guys at the end of their ropes. (11/15/99)





Comics: 




This Modern World
 At High School Inc., we can maximize your investment! (11/15/99) 





Health & Body:




Tell me where it hurts By Amy O'Connor
Is it ethical for a
doctor-turned-writer to use his patients for material? (11/15/99)


Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Eye-opening punishment: Voyeurs in Mexico,
Scotland and Japan have their wide eyes shut -- one forever. (11/15/99)





Letters:




As bad as Horowitz thinks the left is, the extreme right is worse!
Plus: Deciding who can say the N-word; is commerce saving Nepal or ruining it? (11/15/99)









Mothers Who Think:




Goin' to the chapel By Jennifer Foote Sweeney 
We take a week to prod and
dissect, blaspheme and praise the proud and slightly threadbare institution
of marriage. (11/15/99)


The wedding marches on A portfolio of images by photographer Michelle Frankfurter


That Was Then Don't try the sex cure.


This Is Now This can't be too hard.


First place He stopped sleeping with my best friend because she got too demanding. What does that say about me?


Second place A joke in Ireland sends this marriage straight to hell.


Third place Can your marriage survive when you can't stand the sight of his ever-widening butt laying on the couch?


Bleak house If you can heal this hellacious union, you deserve an honorary
degree in matrimony.





News:




The Blair House 10 By Sarah Wildman 
 There's no shortage of women qualified to be
the next vice president. (11/15/99)


Madison Square Bradley By Jake Tapper   
 Basketball Hall of Famers and former Knicks turn out in droves for the political fund-raiser of the year. (11/15/99)





People:




Merle Haggard By Elizabeth Bukowski  
 For 35 years the country music legend's been
kickin' ass and making God laugh -- he don't need no stinkin' sound check. (11/15/99)


Nothing Personal: Women of the year By Amy Reiter   
Talking on eggs: Liddy Dole and
Jewel? Katie Couric and Naomi Wolf? Glamour magazine's annual awards
ceremony was an odd couple omelet. (11/15/99)





Technology:




View From the Top: The accidental entertainer By
John Geirland  
Rob Burgess
wasn't chasing cartoons -- but with Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave
enabling a faux broadband experience, he's suddenly tight with Stan Lee. (11/15/99)


Technology Log: Why Microsoft really does suck By Andrew Leonard  
All the warm, fuzzy
feelings evoked by my gorgeous new laptop went up in smoke when I
discovered the evil that lurked inside. (11/15/99)





Travel:




Shopping for paradise By Carol Lloyd  
Imagine owning your own dollop of sand,
with palm trees and tropical blossoms, surrounded by aquamarine water. But
at what price? (11/15/99)












 
Weekend, November 13-14, 1999






Health & Body:




Urge: Party of three By Susie Bright     
I loved being shared by two men, but
unlike today's polyamorists, my guys couldn't swing it. (11/13/99)


Health Log: Letting docs decide By David McGuire       
UnitedHealth Group will give doctors
outright control over patient care, making the HMO attractive to the 8
million government employees now eligible for open enrollment. (11/13/99)





Media:




Don't cry for me, Gray Lady By Sean Elder     
After 55 years, Abe Rosenthal exits
the New York Times, unquietly. (11/13/99)






News:




Emergency in the cockpit By Fiona Morgan
 
Web goes wild for Egypt Air facts,
analysis, conspiracy theories. (11/13/99)


Killers' video released By Dave
Cullen

Mark Manes receives six years in prison for
buying one of the guns used in the Columbine High School massacre. (11/13/99)
 




People:




The evil that dogs doo By Steve Burgess  
The more dogs I meet, the more dogs I
hate. (11/13/99) 


Party pooper By Jason Turbow  
Tom Winkler ditched his dream job on "The Simpsons" to
focus on feces full-time. (11/13/99) 


Nothing Personal Weekend: Hackman's prose, models pose, King of Pop
now King of Poe? By Amy Reiter 
Gene hacks out novel without a ghost; photos you don't
want to see of the organ you're sick of hearing about; Cindy, Rebecca and Daisy
on the trials and tribulations of being paid to stand. Plus: MichaelJackson
IS Poe! (11/13/99) 





Travel:




Shopping for paradise  By Carol Lloyd  
Imagine owning your own dollop of sand,
with palm trees and tropical blossoms, surrounded by aquamarine water. But
at what price? (11/13/99)


A sexy librarian named Natasha, and other surprises of the New
Russia  By Rolf Potts  
I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and
William S. Burroughs is a cult star. (11/13/99)













 
Friday, November 12, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




"Dogma" By Charles Taylor 
 Kevin Smith's comic book vision of church
doctrine is a celebratory leap of faith. (11/12/99)


Sharps & Flats  By Seth Mnookin  
 Luna's latest album got the band dumped by Elektra.
For once, a major label made the right call. (11/12/99)


"The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc" By Charles Taylor 
 For the flashy French
director Luc Besson, Joan of Arc's story is just another excuse to play
with a whole new set of toys. (11/12/99)


"Anywhere But Here" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
 Mom looks like a cheap hooker, anguished
daughter broods. Must be a chick flick. (11/12/99)



Blue Glow  By
Joyce Millman    
 Salon's TV picks for Weekend, November 12-14, 1999 (11/12/99)







Books:




"Nat King Cole" by Daniel Mark Epstein By Greg Villepique 
A top-notch biography
celebrates the jazz piano genius who gained his greatest fame as a pop
singer. (11/12/99)


Ivory Tower: Body Paranoia By David Alford 
Ghostly heart attacks, cancers and other
assorted ills have plagued me for the last 31 years. Could the cause be my
beloved job? (11/12/99)


Earth, moon and stars By Andrew Long
Three photography books focus on the amazing
spectacle of the planet we live on and the skies beyond. (11/12/99)


Silence the snobs! By Mary Elizabeth Williams
 They may look down their noses at Oprah, but what
have the literati done for books lately? (11/12/99)


Reaching to the converted  By Gavin McNett
 Oprah's Book Club introduces readers to
people they already know -- themselves. (11/12/99)


Books Log: Washington Post critic accuses widower of "geezer porn"  By Craig Offman
Tales of denture loss and defecation prove too much to bear. (11/12/99)





Comics: 




The Dark Hotel
 A message from the Management (11/12/99) 





Health & Body:




Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Plague of penis-slashing cuts across
planet: As the millennium approaches, male members are being abbrevieted
in record numbers. (11/12/99)


Hair today, hair tomorrow By Cary Tennis
I say, if your head looks bad, put
something on it. (11/12/99)


Health Log: No littering By Arthur
Allen
Fertility experts were urged Wednesday to
reduce the number of embryos implanted to avoid multiple births. (11/12/99)





Letters:




What's to become of Microsoft?
Plus: Putting McKinney's life in Judy Shepard's hands; who unearthed the L.A. Times controversy?  (11/12/99)







Media:




Alt: Gang land By Jenn
Shreve  
Can the same entertainment media that have
popularized gang culture be used to combat gang-related violence? Plus: Men
who collect penis bones; capital punishments throughout human history. (11/12/99)


Media Log: Who really broke the LA Times-Staples Center story? By Sean Elder  
In
this corner -- a scrappy alternative; in the other, a SoCal business
journal. (11/12/99)





Mothers Who Think:




Pokémon: The Movie By Lisa Moskowitz
The latest kid's movie is taken on
by the real critics -- five kids. (11/12/99)





News:




A confederacy of dunces By Ian
Williams 
 The GOP-led Congress has pushed the United
States to the brink of losing its vote in the United Nations. (11/12/99)


You've got ... a campaign disaster! By Alicia Montgomery   
 Steve Forbes sends an e-mail to
supporters saying they've "maxed out" on contributions. (11/12/99)


"These guys wanted to become cult heroes" By Dave Cullen 
 The Columbine killers left
videos for police to find after their rampage. (11/12/99)


The kingmaker speaks By Fred Branfman and David Weir 
 Pat Choate, the man behind the strategy to craft a left-right-center coalition with Pat Buchanan out front, reveals the plan to seize the White House next year. (11/12/99)






People:




Nick Tosches, the man in the leopard skin loafers By Rex Doane  
 The author of
"Dino," "Hellfire," and the forthcoming "The Devil and Sonny Liston," talks
about the Mysterious Pig Iron Man, Hollywood and snake wrangling in Florida. (11/12/99)


I want to be a millionaire! By Steven Scott Smith    
In which our hero aces the telephone
test, hears an actual voice recording of Regis, qualifies as a contestant
and prepares to make his fortune. (11/12/99)





Technology:




The smell of spam By Deborah Scoblionkov  
No one expected the Direct Marketing
Association to denounce commercial e-mail -- but, anti-spammers want to
know, must it stoop as low as "chickenboners"? (11/12/99)


Technology Log: When help in the shop is a flop By Janelle Brown  
Why don't e-commerce
sites offer real customer assistance, instead of clogging up bandwidth with
cartoon helpers? (11/12/99)





Travel:




Dancing under the mango trees By Joyce R. Lombardi  
My life in a Chadian village took
a roller-coaster turn when I became obsessed with the local bad boy. (11/12/99)


The great railway bizarre By Rolf Potts  
Taiga forests, First Class follies and a
Slavic Lolita in short-shorts enliven the train journey that has no end. (11/12/99)















 
Thursday, November 11, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Inside the Head of Charlie Kaufman By
Michael Sragow 
 The
screenwriter of that Malkovich movie talks about being and nothingness. (11/11/99)


"House on Haunted Hill"  By Sarah Beach  
 Where evil has a modem and looks like black
calamari. (11/11/99)


Sharps & Flats  By Carlene Bauer 
 Kathleen Hanna and Le Tigre say dance first and
theorize later. (11/11/99)


Blue Glow  By
Joyce Millman    
 Salon's TV picks for Thursday, November 11, 1999 (11/11/99)







Books:




"Galileo's Daughter" By Casey Greenfield 
The life of the heretical Italian scientist,
gleaned from the loving, protective letters of his illegitimate daughter. (11/11/99)


Buy low, sell high, sez Bard By Ron Rosenbaum 
In the latest cash-in-on-the-Bard book,
the tragic heroes of Shakespeare are just losers who failed at crisis
management. (11/11/99)


Books Log: Author pitches woo to NY Times critic Kakutani By Craig Offman 
His
character thinks Michiko is Finnish. (11/11/99)





Comics: 




Tom the Dancing Bug
 Doug -- an amorphous, cheerful, generic guy for president! (11/11/99) 





Health & Body:




Backwoods E.R. By Mike Perry
In these parts, you meet your neighbors
one crisis at a time. (11/11/99)


Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manahattan Call Girl: Episode 36 By Tracy Quan
The
pleasure principle: Why is it that my body comes with some men and not
others? (11/11/99)


Naked World: Malawi president condemns traditional sex rituals By Hank Hyena
As AIDS spreads across the country, infecting 14 percent of the population,
unsafe sex practices are being scrutinized. (11/11/99)


Health Log: Anti-smoking camp takes on ailing pharmacy giant By Jon B.
Rhine
California group pressures Rite Aid to stop selling cigarettes. (11/11/99)





Letters:




The "other woman" should dump that loser!
Plus: Brill's Content editor questions Salon angle; e-commerce today, gone tomorrow? (11/11/99)









Mothers Who Think:




Unarmed and under fire By Austin
Bunn
An oral history of women
Vietnam vets: "All we had was prayer. And I did a lot of that." (11/11/99)





News:




Bill Bradley: Al Gore's debate coach By Jake
Tapper 
 The vice president may call
his main opponent a "bad Democrat." But Bradley helped Gore prep for the
most celebrated debates of his career. (11/11/99)


Follow the soft money By Anthony York   
 A new ad featuring Hillary Rodham Clinton
marks the beginning of what will be a long season of soft-money spending. (11/11/99)


Gore's premature obituary By Eric Boehlert 
 The media hyped the vice president's dip
in the polls over the summer, but ignored his resurgence in the past month. (11/11/99)






People:




I'd rather eat tacos with Daniel Johnston than swordfish with Damien
Hirst By Cintra Wilson  
 Spiritual squalor at an opening of chunky shock-pop for the rich, and a performance of melting honesty and sweetness by the musical equivalent of
Joseph Cornell. (11/11/99)


A conversation with Holly Brubach By Janelle Brown    
"Fashion is in fact architecture's
feminine counterpart ... Buildings and clothes are the primary components
of our everday landscape." (11/11/99)


Nothing Personal: Blood on the dance floor? By Amy
Reiter   
Michael Jackson IS Poe;
MTV rocks vote, kids vote rock; and artist Mark Kostabi mortified over --
oops! -- premature communication. Plus: This is Newt on a budget. (11/11/99)





Technology:




You're a Loser.com By Janelle Brown  
Behind (and beneath) every Internet
gazillionaire is an army of downtrodden "NetSlaves." (11/11/99)


Technology Log: Pick a peck o' presidents By Jenn Shreve  
Not sure who to vote for?
Tell your views to a presidential polling site and it will pick out just
the right candidate. (11/11/99)





Travel:




Super eco By Donald D.
Groff  
Our travel expert gives advice on eco-touring in South
Florida, safety in Puerto Rico and tipping etiquette at B&Bs.; (11/11/99)


The Trans-Siberian Toilet War of 1999 By Rolf Potts  
Exiled from their
Trans-Siberian berth for a surmised breach of lavatory protocol, our
correspondent and his two companions lead a desperate, paranoid, all-out
car chase in an attempt to cut off the train at Ulan Ude. (11/11/99)













 
Wednesday, November 10, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Sharps & Flats By Geoff Edgers  
 Benny Goodman believed in great
jazz players, no matter their color. A live 1938 double CD captures one of
the ambassador's finest moments. (11/10/99)


Hlwd. freak  By Stephanie Zacharek  
 Beck's bad, but he's not evil. (11/10/99)


Killing "The Messenger"  By
Richard Covington  
 French director Luc Besson comes under fire
for selling out France's hallowed icon, Joan of Arc, to Hollywood. (11/10/99)


Entertainment Log: Actor's cut  By Charles
Taylor  
 Fifteen years ago, Goldie Hawn hacked
apart Jonathan Demme's "Swing Shift." She still won't 'fess up. (11/10/99)


Blue Glow  By
Joyce Millman    
 Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, November 10, 1999 (11/10/99)







Books:




"Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America" by Alison J.
Clarke By Jonathan Groner 
A smart, fun history considers the influence of those indispensable
containers on the culture of the nation. (11/10/99)


Black and right By Ray Sawhill 
Thomas Sowell talks about the arrogance of liberal
elites and the loneliness of the black conservative.(11/10/99)


Ivory Tower: What did I say? By
Lillie Wade  
Nothing's quite as humiliating as having
a professor call you a Nazi for your views on interracial marriage. (11/10/99)





Comics: 




The K Chronicles
 Celebrity sports holiday recipes! (11/10/99) 





Health & Body:




I'm obese, you're obese By Steven A. Shaw 
The Fat Guy munches on doughnuts
while figuring out whether he is fat or obese. (11/10/99)


Naked World: Bra company sponsors "World's Biggest Breasts" contest By Hank Hyena 
Winning team
to receive funny looks, lifetime supply of custom-made bras. (11/10/99)





Letters:




Is it better to be food-obsessed than fat and happy?
Plus: Trolling for errors in "Dutch"; hip-hop merits not less scrutiny, but greater intellectual rigor (11/10/99)







Media:




Media Log: Naughty Naughton By Sean Elder   

How far one Disney Internet executive
was willing to go to connect with today's youth. (11/10/99)





Mothers Who Think:




DYR MOM: WY R YOU SO LAVEABL? By Gayle Brandeis
A nascent writer casts
spells. (11/10/99)





News:




Same package, different wrapper By Jake
Tapper 
 President Clinton takes his
standard political stump speech to a new medium -- the Internet. (11/10/99)


Commentary: Return of the ugly American By Bruce Shapiro   
 Clinton's choice of
Carol Moseley-Braun as ambassador to New Zealand elevates a hypocrite who
put her fiancé's financial gain ahead of concern for human-rights
violations. (11/10/99)


Choice or corruption? By Scarlet Pruitt 
 Mexico's PRI held its first-ever primary and --
Surprise! -- the insider candidate won. (11/10/99)






People:




Freudians prefer blonds By Damion Matthews  
 The sale of Marilyn Monroe's personal
belongings at Christie's last week generated $13.4 million. So why aren't
any of her loved ones among the beneficiaries? (11/10/99)


Nothing Personal: Model Behavior By Amy Reiter    
Cindy, Rebecca and Daisy on the
trials and tribulations of being paid to stand; Bill and Hill moving in
next door? There goes the fictional neighborhood; Venus on Mars: La Hurley
makes the red planet blush. Plus: Seinfeld, bride-poacher. (11/10/99)





Technology:




The consumer's always wrong By Mark Gimein  
Why else would visitors to
consumer rating sites like Deja.com rank Rolling Rock the second best beer
and Alan Keyes the top presidential candidate? (11/10/99)


Technology Log: "Fair use" vs. foul play By Mark Gimein 
 Newspapers win copyright
battle against FreeRepublic.com, but does ruling threaten their
investigative reporting? (11/10/99)





Travel:




Stranded in Siberia By Rolf Potts  
At an obscure border town, our correspondent
discovers the biggest obstacle in negotiating the next 4,000 miles: The
train has left without him. (11/10/99)


Weirdly wired world By Tony Wheeler  
Why is a Turkish village more connected than a
Japanese megalopolis? Lonely Planet's peripatetic founder celebrates and
laments the state of global communications. (11/10/99)













 
Tuesday, November 9, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Sacré bleu! By Stephanie Zacharek  
 Why are Catholics so set on dogging
"Dogma"? (11/09/99)


Sharps & Flats  By Christina
Nunez    
 Call it a comeback: The Artist employs Sheryl Crow,
Ani DiFranco, Chuck D. and others to get back into the groove. (11/09/99)


Blue Glow  By
Joyce Millman    
 Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, November 9, 1999 (11/09/99)







Books:




Does beauty really equal truth? By David Bowman 
Philosopher Elaine Scarry defends
beauty from p.c. critics and wins over one cynical writer. (11/09/99)


"Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism" by David Leeming By Jaime Manrique 
A biography
of the celebrity-loving man of letters -- friend of Auden and Isherwood,
surrogate son of Eliot and Woolf -- whose social calendar was one of his
finest works. (11/09/99)


 Dear Mr. Blue: Murder, she wrote By Garrison Keillor  
The victim in my wife's latest
mystery looks suspiciously like me -- a middle-aged man who left his wife
for a younger woman.  (11/09/99)


The Writer's Life By David Rackoff  
A titan of American letters reflects on his
timeless art and the sacrifices it exacts.  (11/09/99)


Books Log: Kennedy cousin confesses crush on murdered girl By Craig Offman  
Suspect's
lawyer denounces incriminating book proposal.  (11/09/99)






Comics: 




Carol Lay
 A grisly discovery (11/09/99) 





Health & Body:




Naked World: Anti-wankers want to ban book in
Virginia high schools By Hank Hyena 
Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War" talks about masturbation; one self-satisfied student wants it pulled. (11/09/99)


 Urge: Lame lesbians  By Jennifer Parello  
Nice crutches, baby! When it comes to lesbian
accessories, nothing scores like a broken leg. (11/09/99)





Letters:




Conason on Bradley
Tapper on Gore and Naomi Wolf; plus "Doonesbury" and those $&%#@ loud kids! (11/09/99)







Media:




President Clinton, "zappa male" By Sean Elder   

His guitar wants to kill your
mama! The prez reveals a rocking campaign strategy to get Al Gore elected. (11/09/99)





Mothers Who Think:




Grandma sees "Dogma" By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
A devout Catholic braves alleged
blasphemy, much profanity and partial nudity to see Kevin Smith's latest --
and gives it a thumbs up. (11/09/99)





News:




"I'm guilty of obeying the laws of the creator" By Gary
Delsohn and Sam Stanton 
 White supremacist
admits killing gay couple, but claims the Bible made him do it. (11/09/99)


Internet chat with the president By Anthony York   
 Clinton hosts the first-ever
presidential Webcast. (11/09/99)


Hot temper or just hot air? By Arianna Huffington 
 Who says John McCain does not have the
temperament to be president? (11/09/99)






People:




Brilliant Careers: Patti Smith By Greg Villepique  
  A punk icon in jeans and leather
jacket, she added ecstasy and spiritual exaltation to the poet-songwriter
equation. (11/09/99)


Nothing Personal: John Wayne Bobbitt By Amy Reiter    
From chopping block to auction
block: Photos you don't want to see of the organ you're sick of hearing
about; Mrs. Artist Formerly Known As reveals hubby's pet name; Gary Hart's
advice for Gore. Plus: Billy Campbell's sex scenes make his mom "a little
uncomfortable." (11/09/99)





Technology:




The Internet illusion By Thomas Scoville  
The Web pretends to broaden our
worldview, but really, says "The Control Revolution," we use it to
segregate ourselves. (11/09/99)


Honesty is the best policy By Kaitlin Quistgaard 
 RealNetworks is the latest company to
expose personal data, yet escape action by TRUSTe. Does the privacy
watchdog ever bite? (11/09/99)





Travel:




Horse races, open spaces and the fate of Genghis Khan's balls By Rolf Potts  
In
his first dispatch from an epic Beijing-St. Petersburg train trip, our
correspondent explores the mysteries of Mongolia. (11/09/99)












 
Monday, November 8, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Sharps & Flats By Patrick Giles   
 "La Bohème" again? With a revised text and a fine young cast -- yes. (11/08/99)


"American Movie"  By
Andrew O'Hehir    
 I'm a loser baby, so why don't you film me? (11/08/99)


Blue Glow  By
Joyce Millman    
 Salon's TV picks for Monday, Nov. 8, 1999 (11/08/99)







Books:




"The Tiny One" by Eliza Minot By Lindsay Amon 
An 8-year-old faces the death of
her mother. (11/08/99)


Book Bag: Who's screwing who By Fay Weldon 
The author of "The Lives and Loves of a
She-Devil" picks five great novels about exploitation. (11/08/99)


Ivory Tower: The N-word By Chris Colin  
Jefferson Community College teacher Ken
Hardy wanted to teach a class on taboo words. He said one and lost his job.  (11/08/99)






Comics: 




Tom Tomorrow
 And now, a few words from Rush Limbaugh's sponsors (11/08/99) 





Health & Body:




"The Red Devil" By Katherine Russell Rich 
A woman with cancer rediscovers her body
through a passionate love affair. (11/08/99)


Naked World: Gay refugees seek asylum in friendly South Africa  By Hank Hyena   
Once a place for hate, the new and improved nation now boasts one of the most accepting constitutions in the world. (11/08/99)


Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manahattan Call Girl: Episode 35  By Tracy Quan  
Big
issues: How do you have sex without even crying? (11/08/99)





Letters:




Luau wars
Wendy Shalit and the dearth of cool guys (11/08/99)









Mothers Who Think:




Grilling our young By
Jonathan Fox
The SAT test coaching industry
goes after kindergartners. Little blank slates mean great big bucks. (11/08/99)





News:




The thin black line By Ethan Wallison 
 Black liberal Democrats plan to rally behind
white centrist candidates to help bring the party back into the majority in
the House. (11/08/99)


Together at last By David Horowitz   
 Now that Buchanan is taking his followers over to the Reform Party, the extreme right and extreme left can finally be united in their isolationist vision of the world. (11/08/99)


The long shot By Susan Crabtree  
 Gary Bauer tells Salon why he is running for
president. (11/08/99)






People:




The Maharajah of poontang By David Segal   
  John Stagliano, the video mogul behind
"Buttman," is a dirty movie powerhouse, and either the scourge or savior of
an unabashedly sordid business. (11/08/99)


Nothing Personal: The prose of Hackman, the passion of Hillary By Amy Reiter    
Gene
hacks out novel without a ghost; Hotham Clinton? First Lady's old boyfriend
says she was a wild thing. Plus: Scary Spice scares the bejesus out of
reporters. (11/08/99)





Technology:




Technology Log: More Mahir mania By Janelle Brown   
The Net's favorite Turkish
accordian player says he just wants peace -- but parodies of his "I Kiss
You!!!!" site persist. (11/08/99)


View From the Top: GM's e-mobile magnate By Janelle Brown 
 Mark Hogan is in
the "Web on wheels" driver's seat, trying to hoping to put GM on a
collision course with Gen X. (11/08/99)










 
Weekend, November 6-7, 1999






Health & Body:




Urge: The Date Doctor is in! By
Denise Dowling      
A new romance service offers
professional daters who will chat, flirt and tear you apart for a fee. (11/06/99)


Health Log: Patients' Bill of Rights goes to committee By Dena Bunis 
The health-care reform legislation goes to a committee that Democrats (and some Republicans) say is unbalanced. (11/06/99)





Media:




Meltdown at the L.A. Times By Sean Elder     
Former publisher Otis Chandler chews
out the management team that broke down the wall between church and state. (11/06/99)






News:




The survivor By Laura Rozen
 
The reason nothing seems to work in getting rid of
Slobodan Miloevic is that the entire post-communist Serb system remains
geared toward authoritarian abuse. (11/06/99)


Bush gets an F in foreign affairs By David Corn 

George W. Bush can't identify the leaders
of Chechnya, Pakistan or India. Has he been taking lessons from Dan Quayle? (11/06/99)
 

Killer: Shepard didn't make advances By Dave Cullen 

A just-unsealed confession
demolishes the "gay panic" defense. Too bad the media wasn't around to hear
it. (11/06/99) 
 




People:




Rogues' Gallery: Steppin' in it. By Douglas Cruickshank  
Woof! Who breaks a Chihuahua on the
wheel? Wall Street Journal gets medieval. (11/06/99) 





Technology:




21st Challenge No. 28 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau  
Forward, march! Join the dance of the
eternally circulating e-mail. (11/06/99)


Is Linux the real remedy? By Andrew Leonard  
The open-source camp welcomes the findings
of fact. But some think that Linux doesn't need the courts to beat Redmond. (11/06/99)


"It reads like a novel" By Janelle Brown  
Judge Jackson's findings are music to
prosecutors' ears -- but Microsoft says it's guilty of nothing more than
embodying "the most basic American values." (11/06/99)


Do the paranoid survive? By Mark Gimein  
Judge Jackson's opus on the browser wars portrays a Microsoft terrified by middleware. (11/06/99)





Travel:




Sacrificing Nepal By Jeff Greenwald  
The extraordinarily scenic and untouristed
area of Mustang is about to have its figurative throat slit -- by a greedy
highway project. (11/06/99)












 
Friday, November 5, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




"The Insider" By
Andrew O'Hehir   
 An actionless thriller about a
solved mystery somehow emerges as one of the best films of the year. (11/05/99)


"The Bachelor"  By Mary Elizabeth Williams    
 Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger face off in a
tale that sets love against lucre. (11/05/99)


"Portraits Chinois"  By Charles Taylor    
 Helena Bonham Carter dazzles in the lilting French
relationship comedy "Portraits Chinois (Shadow Play)." (11/05/99)


"The Bone Collector" By Stephanie Zacharek
With a knick-knack, paddy-wack, Phillip Noyce
makes this "Bone" a dog. (11/05/99)


Not just blowing smoke By David Weir
"60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman reveals
the real story behind "The Insider." (11/05/99)


Sharps & Flats By Mac Montandon
Sporty Spice breaks out of the pack. Who knew Mel C
was an L.A. rocker at heart? (11/05/99)


Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, November 5-7, 1999. (11/05/99)






Books:




"Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee By
Andrew O'Hehir 
The winner of the 1999 Booker Prize is
a bleak tale of human and animal misery in post-apartheid South Africa. (11/05/99)


Ivory Tower: Beyond facts By
David Alford 
Can one teach spirituality in college? (11/05/99)


Late bloomers By Melanie
Rehak  
Two debuts by poets who are no longer girls prove the
value of knowing something about life before you write about it.  (11/05/99)


Books Log: Blair Witch psychic speaks, but mystery persists By Craig Offman  
Seance
in woods dismissed as "fiction."  (11/05/99)






Comics: 




Dark Hotel
 A message from the management (11/05/99) 





Health & Body:




The power of prunes By
Mary Roach 
Growers hope stronger bones and
moister meats can replace regularity as the fruit's marketing strategy. (11/05/99)


Naked World: "Priestess" Sinead O'Connor abandons neo-Catholic
celibacy  By Hank Hyena   
The singer is one of many recently to give up the giving up. Is
renounced celibacy spreading? (11/05/99)





Letters:




Do hetero killers benefit from double standard? 
Plus: The trouble with "Trek"; Huffington on Clinton (11/05/99)







Media:




"None of us are hip" By
Susan Lehman    

An interview with Allan Siegal, language
czar of the New York Times and editor of its new style and usage guide. (11/05/99)


Alt: Girls will be jocks By Jenn Shreve   

At last, coverage of women's sports that
even this non-spectator can appreciate. Plus: One writer's plaintive cry:
"Enough with the sex, dammit!" (11/05/99)




Mothers Who Think:




What is a Jewish lesbian punk folk singer to do? By Erin J.
Aubry
Neaten her crewcut, put on an apron and sell lots of Tupperware. (11/05/99)





News:




Warren Beatty spurns media suitors By Anthony York 
 The actor says a campaign in
2000 would be "nutty," but won't rule out a future run. (11/05/99)


Escape Hatch? By Jake Tapper   
 Could the Utah Senator's quixotic run for president
cost him his Senate seat? (11/05/99)


"It's happened again." By
Dan Savage  
 When gun control advocates use mass shootings
to push for a handgun ban, critics accuse them of exploiting tragedy. But
there's a difference between exploiting a tragedy and learning from it. (11/05/99)


Rudy loses big -- but does it matter? By
Andrea Bernstein  
 New Yorkers overwhelmingly
reject the charter reform their mayor sold as a referendum on his tenure,
and Hillary Clinton backers see as Round 1 in the New York Senate race. (11/05/99)


Power of the pen By Anthony York  
 San Franicsco Supervisor and write-in candidate Tom
Ammiano is set for a head-to-head showdown with San Francisco Mayor Willie
Brown. (11/05/99)


A dramatic moment of mercy By Dave Cullen  
 The Shepard family spares the life of
their son's killer. (11/05/99)





People:




A-list extravaganza! By David Goodman   
  A birthday bash with
George Lucas, Mike Myers, Trey Parker and Jewel. Plus: the Algonquin it
ain't ... Ron Japanese guest dine at Jerry's Famous. (11/05/99)


Nothing Personal: Meet the fundits By Amy Reiter    
At the Funniest Celebrity in
Washington contest, pundits and pols kick out the phat comedy jams ... um,
G. (11/05/99)





Technology:




Everyman's e-commerce By Thomas
Scoville    
Mom-and-pop Web sites are raking it in
-- and you can, too. So goes the wisdom of "StrikingItRich.com." (11/05/99)


Technology Log: Boo to Boo By Mark
Gimein 
 A much anticipated site devoted to
hipster fashion launches -- complete with some offputting boo-boos. (11/05/99)





Travel:




Fairy tale By
Gretchen Scherer  
He played the Irish prince, I played the fool. (11/05/99)












 
Thursday, November 4, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




Stayin' alive -- barely By Gavin McNett   
 Broadway reduces the
complex, ambivalent "Saturday Night Fever" movie to campy clothes and
blockbuster dance numbers. That's entertainment! (11/04/99)


All the corporations' men  By Michael Sragow    
 "The Insider" director Michael Mann talks
about corporate morality, muckraking and the drama of making real-life
decisions. (11/04/99)


Sharps & flats By Andy Battaglia
Forget Nirvana, unrepentant Foo
Fighter Dave Grohl settles down for mediocrity. (11/04/99)


Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, November 4, 1999. (11/04/99)






Books:




"The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest
Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age" by David Rains Wallace By Thomas Hackett 
The fury of two
paleontologists tells us much about the temper of the late-19th century.
Unfortunately, the book is a slog. (11/04/99)


The code ahead By Margaret Wertheim  
Simon Singh, author of "Fermat's Enigma" and "The
Code Book," talks about once and future cryptography. (11/04/99)


Books Log: "Outlaw" poets hog the mike By Maria Russo  
Even a maverick needs a
little attention.  (11/04/99)





Comics: 




Ruben Bolling
 George W.'s field of dreams  (11/04/99) 





Health & Body:




Death wish By David Bowman 
Are all people who kill themselves mentally
ill? (11/04/99)


Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl - Episode 34  By Tracy Quan   
Loose lips: Will Allison
give away the farm to the IRS? Should I tell all to my most valuable
client? (11/04/99)


Health Log: Survival of the traits  By Arthur Allen   
Mammals can pass along acquired
characteristics to their offspring, according to a new study. (11/04/99)


Naked World: Research claims erect gay penises are bigger By Hank Hyena
Uncovered
Kinsey Report data show homosexual members have hetero- ones by a head. (11/04/99)





Letters:




Hey, Cintra: Don't look for underground culture at a Details party.
Plus: Amazon.com vs. Amazon; don't obsess over tots' penis grabbing (11/04/99)









Mothers Who Think:




The other woman By Jane Underwood
I can't wish she were dead; she may
be dying (11/04/99)





News:




The Silicon Dominion skews right By Alicia Montgomery 
 Virginia's booming high-tech
industry helped the GOP wrest control of the state government away from the
Democrats for the first time in history. (11/04/99)


Philly's I.O.U. mayor By Howard Altman   
 With so many political favors to return after
his anemic victory in Philadelphia, will John F. Street turn City Hall into
a House of Cards? (11/04/99)


McKinney guilty in Shepard murder By Dave Cullen   
 But legal experts say the jury's
refusal to convict him on premeditation charges may save the 22-year-old
from the death penalty. (11/04/99)


Ammiano to face off with Brown By Anthony York  
 The San Francisco Mayor's race isn't
over yet -- and it isn't pretty, either. (11/04/99)





People:




The outsider By Caroline Sommers   
Mike Wallace could've been my mentor. Where did I
go wrong? (11/04/99)


Nothing Personal: Cow lubricant triggers e-mail stampede By Amy Reiter    
Howard
Stern offends the Brits; readers riot over bovine nipple grease; Judge Judy
went ballistic over toilet paper placement. Plus: Rupert Murdoch deems
topless tasteless. (11/04/99)





Technology:




The best of all possible worlds By Mark Gimein    
Dow at 36,000! No more
cancer! The new techno optimists gush about a picture-perfect future.
Should we believe them? (11/04/99)


Technology Log: I Kiss You!!!!! By Janelle Brown 
 A friendly Turkish accordion player
becomes the Net's latest collective craze. (11/04/99)





Travel:




Reservations, please By Donald D. Groff  
Our travel expert gives advice on touring
Arizona's Indian reservations, crossing the Rockies by train and poking
around Savannah and Charleston. (11/04/99)















 
Wednesday, November 3, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




NYTV blues By Sarah Vowell   
 Now that both Felicity and Jennifer
Love Hewitt live here, the streets of New York are no longer safe for
Scorsese fans. (11/03/99)


"Boy, you sing like your granddaddy" By David Bowman    
 Hank Williams III pays a debt
to Nashville -- and looks toward Texas for real country music. (11/03/99)


Sharps & flats By Andy Battaglia
Why the High Llamas are more than just another
workingman's Beach Boys. (11/03/99)


Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, November 3, 1999. (11/03/99)






Books:




Ivory Tower: Hip-hop hooray By Simon Rodberg   
Amid cell biologists and students of the
Hungarian novel, I presented my senior thesis on rap. (11/03/99)


Get Uncle Sam off my back! and other misguided impulses By Gary Kamiya  
American
government-bashers like to wrap themselves in a Constitutional flag. But
Garry Wills argues that the Founders wanted a strong government, not a weak
one. (11/03/99)


Books Log: Editor behind "Fortunate Son" is still sitting pretty By Craig Offman  
Who
is Thomas Dunne and why is he still at St. Martin's?  (11/03/99)


Books Log: Echoes in "Dutch" of a 1994 short story By Laura Miller  
The narrator and
his son, it turns out, aren't the only facts that Edmund Morris faked. (11/03/99)


"The Season" by Ronald Kessler By Peter Kurth   
An exposé by an author who spends
his time playing lapdog to the rich promises juicy tidbits and delivers
kibble. (11/03/99)





Comics: 




Keith Knight
 Perverse reverse psychology  (11/03/99) 





Health & Body:




Faith healing By Jon Bowen          
Can prayer do anything more than make you feel better? (11/03/99)


Health Log: Nursing a problem By Dena Bunis   
Will the recruitment of health-care
workers from overseas ease the shortages at U.S. hospitals? (11/03/99)


Naked World: Forrest Gump is a tantric sex stud? By Hank Hyena
Tom Hanks and Sting
vouch for the joys of continuous full-body lovemaking. (11/03/99)





Letters:




Must Camille turn her blade on her own community? 
Plus: Fighting the "Babywise" bible; was Pope Pius XII a Nazi pawn? (11/03/99)









Mothers Who Think:




Unpleasantly plump By Anneli Rufus      
American kids are too fat and
their parents are too wimpy. No one wants heavy kids to feel a burden, but
is pudgy healthy? (11/03/99)





News:




Jury deliberates in Shepard trial By Dave Cullen 
 Matthew Shepard trial: Gay Panic
Lite defense goes to the jury. (11/03/99)


You call this a free election? By Christopher Hitchens   
 The 2000 presidential race is already
bought and paid for. But an international monitoring force could push for
real change in America's political contest. (11/03/99)


How San Francisco ruined itself By Bill Wyman   
 This city sucked before the Internet
was invented. (11/03/99)





People:




Captured and hypnotized by aliens! By Joel Achenbach    
You've got your Pleiadians,
your reptilians, dolphinoids, serpent people, the Starseeds and a bunch
coming back in silicon bodies. And every darn one has a different agenda. (11/03/99)


Nothing Personal: Oops-O: Farrakhan's calypso days come back to
haunt. By Amy Reiter    
Plus: Lewinsky, art lover; Regis gets aggro; and Hasselhoff,
Hasselhoff, let down your trunks ... Knight Rider leaves Baywatch in the
dust. (11/03/99)


Appreciation: A tough guy called Sweetness By Dan Brekke
 NFL running back Walter
Payton's body failed him, but his heart was never busted. (11/03/99)


People Log: I gave at the virtual office By Jon B. Rhine
 With his Hunger Site, John
Breen may have created one of the year's hottest Internet start-ups. But
he's not in it for the money -- he wants food. (11/03/99)







Technology:




Getting smart, the stupid Web way By Rose Martelli    
AltaVista's new marketing
campaign says smart is the new sexy. So why is the search engine coming off
so dumb? (11/03/99)


Technology Log: Hail your e-mail By Mark Gimein 

 Will the Yahoo taxis, with their free Net access,
become the vehicles of the future? (11/03/99)





Travel:




Tripping on iboga By Daniel Pinchbeck   
In Gabon, a disenchanted journalist embarks on
a hallucinogenic tribal rite. (11/03/99)













 
Tuesday, November 2, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




"American Movie"-maker By Martin Knelman    
 Chris Smith wins the
indie-film lottery with his documentary about another struggling
independent filmmaker. (11/02/99)


The horror of indie filmmaking By Dakota Smith   
 Scary movie director and "American Movie" star Mark Borchardt talks about living the examined life. (11/02/99)


"Legend of 1900" By Jeff Stark   
 Giuseppe Tornatore's treacly tale of a ship-bound
piano virtuoso drowns under its own forced weight. (11/02/99)


Sharps & flats By Jason Ferguson
One-man band Bob Log III makes the Jon Spencer Blues
Explosion look like blues night at the local jazz club. (11/02/99)


Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, November 2, 1999. (11/02/99)






Books:




Dear Mr. Blue: Rarin' to go By Garrison Keillor   
Even after I lost 79 pounds, my husband isn't interested in sex. What if someone else makes a pass at me? (11/02/99)


"Thumbsucker" by Walter Kirn By Adam Goodheart 
A sworn enemy of novelistic pain relief takes a jittery poke at American kitsch and credulousness. (11/02/99)


Lady killer By Judson Grant  
True-crime writers plumb the mystery of the murderous
philanderer Thomas Capano. (11/02/99)


Books Log: D.C. thriller goes above the Beltway, finds success By Craig Offman  
First-time novelist David Corn proves you don't need a pepperpot to make a
potboiler. (11/02/99)





Comics: 




Story Minute
 The ultimate makeover  (11/02/99) 





Health & Body:




Urge: She shtups to conquer By Virginia Vitzthum          
After a divorce, she was
ready to make her living doing something fun. But getting into the business
wasn't as easy as she thought. (11/02/99)


Health Log: Hospital chic By Dawn MacKeen   
Ricky Martin, Cindy Crawford and Kelsey
Grammer help doctors cure their fashion woes. (11/02/99)


Naked World: Seventeen brothels of Asian "sex slaves" exposed
in Atlanta. By Hank Hyena
 Is sexual slavery a barbaric old world myth or a common
contemporary crime? (11/02/99)





Letters:




Did the Internet really ruin San Francisco?
Readers flood our mailbox to let us know (11/02/99)


If Pete Rose won't fess up, he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame
Plus: Why we're chicken-pox party parents (11/02/99)






Media:




The terrorism that dare not speak its name By Sean Elder    

Another jetliner goes down off New York. This time, the cable news networks didn't jump to
conclusions. Much. (11/02/99)





Mothers Who Think:




Meet the Screamers By Jennifer Moses      
My kids are so loud they go to group speech therapy. (11/02/99)





News:




The faker By Joe Conason 
 What has presidential candidate Bill Bradley ever done to
deserve the support of liberals? (11/02/99)





People:




Brilliant Careers: Garry Trudeau By 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." (11/02/99)


Nothing Personal: Hip, hip and away I go! There's no need to fear, Al
is here! When the going gets tough, the Gores get literal. By Amy Reiter     
Plus: Out of the
ring into the ring? More on the great WWF migration. And, Scully and Mulder
smooch. (11/02/99)





Technology:




Is the Net in your locker room? By Maura Kelly    
Privacy abuses abound on the
Net -- but so far, the government doesn't appear to care. (11/02/99)


Technology Log: Babble on By Janelle Brown 

 English is the mother tongue of most of the Web -- but not necessarily of the people who surf it. (11/02/99)




Travel:




The agony of the long-distance commuter By Elliott Neal Hester    
For some flight
attendants, three airports and 2,500 miles isn't a major trip -- it's a
normal journey to work. (11/02/99)












 
Monday, November 1, 1999





Arts & Entertainment:




... but I play one on TV By Joyce Millman    
 President Martin Sheen takes the Oval Office on "The West Wing"; Dr. Alan Alda operates again on "ER." (11/01/99)


Sharps & flats By Joe Gross
From Kiss to loungecore, Kenneth Anger to blaxploitation, Unrest anticipated '90s hipster fads way back ... in 1988. (11/01/99)


Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, November 1, 1999. (11/01/99)






Books:




Ivory Tower: The luau wars By Robert Ito   
Dartmouth Greeks tried to improve their reputation with a non-offensive Hawaiian luau. The leis never even made it off the rack. (11/01/99)


Book Bag: Funny pages By Calvin Trillin  
The deadline poet and author of "The Tummy Trilogy" picks five books that made him laugh. (11/01/99)


"Silent Stars" by Jeanine Basinger By Steve Vineberg   
A massive tome on the silent era's greatest performers fails to come up with much that's fresh. (11/01/99)





Comics: 




Tom Tomorrow
 The people cry out for one-stop financial shopping!  (11/01/99) 





Health & Body:




Ask Dr. Bob: Docs who lie and the patients who thank them By Robert Burton, M.D.          
A new survey suggests many physicians will fib to get around HMO restrictions. (11/01/99)


Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl Episode 33 By Tracy Quan   
Colliding worlds: Matt is my intimate but knows nothing about me while Eileen the acquaintance knows everything. (11/01/99)


Naked World: Former sex slaves sue Japanese government By Hank Hyena
Angry old ladies are stepping forward to testify about the horrors of their years as Japanese "comfort women." (11/01/99)





Letters:




Why did Spike Gillespie marry that alcoholic, abusive Republican?
Plus: Michael Lewis' bogus attack on J-schools; art should be about seeing, not theorizing (11/01/99)







Media:




Chinese take-out By Sean Elder    

Accusing the New York Times of a hit piece, Brill's Content does one of its own. (11/01/99)


Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus    

 (11/01/99)





Mothers Who Think:




My grandparents were pioneers in the battle for visitation rights By Damien Cave      
To me, they were dependable, a security blanket I would never lose. (11/01/99)





News:




Quiet bombshell in Matthew Shepard trial By Dave Cullen 
 Judge Barton Voigt throws out the gay panic defense, gutting the case for a manslaughter conviction in place of murder.
 (11/01/99)


I am woman, hear me Gore By Jake Tapper 
 Is feminist author and Gore 2000 advisor Naomi Wolf earth-toning the vice president or just destroying his credibility?
 (11/01/99)



An alpha dog in tights? By Eric F. Lipton 
 Healthy candy and Al Gore dressed up as Underdog scared guests at the vice president's Halloween bash.
 (11/01/99)


The truth about Texas school reform By Joan Walsh 
 Has George W. Bush made his state's education system a model for the nation?
 (11/01/99)


For every target, a bomber By 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.
 (11/01/99)






People:




The dearth of cool By Frank Houston    
Are white hipsters an endangered species? Is sellout just another word for nothing left to lose? (11/01/99)


Warm for Wendy By Dov J. Levine     
More beautiful in person than on TV, Wendy Shalit is nonetheless just a modest woman -- with much to be modest about. (11/01/99)


Nothing Personal: Munster movies By Amy Reiter
 Widow's peaked: Eddie and Grandpa are baaack ... their careers, not so much. Posh Spice on how to get famous in 30 days or your money back; and Anna Nicole Smith's late, great, reprobate husband. (11/01/99)





Technology:




View From the Top: The spam-master By Andrew Leonard     
Sunil Paul, CEO of Brightmail, explains what it takes to be a two-time winner in the Internet economy. (11/01/99)


Technology Log: Think translucent By Janelle Brown

 Does Steve Jobs know what he has unleashed? Suddenly, see-through plastic is the rage. (11/01/99)




































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