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TUESDAY
June 30, 1998
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Today in entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
"The Border": Jack Nicholson is at his best playing a burned-out border patrol
officer in a small Texas town (06/30/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
From Bogie to Tarantino: AFI's top crime flicks
(06/30/98)
21st Going once, going twice and growing like crazy By Janelle Brown
Everything under the sun is on sale in eBay's online auctions
(06/30/98)
Today in Books:
The artist of death By Gary Kamiya
Who was the man who perpetrated the greatest crime in human history? Ron Rosenbaum brilliantly explores the origins of Hitler's evil
(06/30/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Personals": Calm, self-aware and thoughtful personal essays from young writers,
many of whom were previously unpublished (06/30/98)
Lovers and
Writers By Garrison Keillor
Men from Philly are cheese steaks: Garrison Keillor answers your questions about writing and romance
(06/30/98)
Letters Camille Paglia, Trent Lott and the Bible (06/30/98)
Mothers Who Think
Hot Flash By Dawn MacKeen
Don't stand so close to me: The Supreme Court ruling to protect schools from liability in sexual harassment cases leaves students to protect themselves
(06/30/98)
Newsreal By Jonathan Broder
Former FBI chief says no to Starr: Former FBI chief William Webster declines to oversee a probe of key Whitewater witness David Hale.
(06/30/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The woman who couldn't laugh
(06/30/98)
Today in Wanderlust
Among the hooligans
By Ethan Zindler
World Cup scenes: Threat and theft among the hooligans in Lens, France
(06/30/98)
Among the Colombians
By Matthew Yeomans
A Welshman watches the Colombia-England World Cup match from a Colombian bar in New York
(06/30/98)
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MONDAY
JUNE 29, 1998
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Today in 21st:
Where's the rest of me? By Maia Szalavitz
The prospect of "full-body transplants" offers some weird new twists on the old mind-body problem
(06/29/98)
Showdown at the HTML corral By Greg Lindsay
The Cool Site in a Day contest between East and West Coasts has already become an anachronism
(06/29/98)
Today in Entertainment:
American squirm By Sarah Vowell
Fishers of men: Two off-beat TV talk shows reinvent the celebrity interview
(06/29/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
When Scully met Mulder: the "X-Files" pilot
(06/29/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Homosexuality and the civic responsibility of politicians: When Trent Lott called homosexuality sinful, he should have kept his mouth shut -- but those who claim homosexuality is a "lifestyle" are equally wrong
(06/29/98)
Mothers Who Think We've come a long way, baby By Peter Bebergal
My mother isn't the only one bound to her addiction -- smoking is what makes her truly my mother
(06/29/98)
Newsreal How the media convicted Hillary Clinton
By Mollie Dickenson
The media rushed to convict Hillary Clinton of crimes -- with no evidence
(06/29/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Richard Dooling
"A Beautiful Mind": A lucid, restrained bio of a Nobel Prize-winning mathematical
genius who succumbed to, then overcame, madness
(06/29/98)
Letters Drudge is my journalistic hero
(06/29/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Sick humor
(06/29/98)
Wanderlust
Irredeemably wealthy in Patagonia By Mark Schatzker
An unexpected idyll turns bittersweet in the wilds of Chile
(06/29/98)
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FRIDAY
June 26, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Out of Sight Reviewed by Charles Taylor
King of the thrill: George Clooney sizzles with sexy confidence in this gratifying crime thriller
(06/26/98)
Television Hanson, Ringo in concert; Sarah Michelle Gellar hosts "SNL"
(06/26/98)
Today in 21st:
The little operating system that could By Andrew Leonard
Microsoft, beware -- Linux fans are hell-bent on world domination (06/26/98)
User-friendly? By Andrew Leonard
Don't throw Windows away yet, a test of three approaches to installing Linux suggests
(06/26/98)
21st The 21st Challenge No. 10 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Upgraded proverbs for the digital age (06/26/98)
Books Reviewed by Elizabeth Judd
"My Heart Laid Bare": Set in upstate New York late in the 19th century, the author's new
novel combines breathless prose with a sturdy examination of social mores (06/26/98)
Letters Terry Gross' bedroom voice
(06/26/98)
Media Circus Confabulation crisis By Peter Carbonara
It's the battle of the Boston Blowhards as a scandal at the Globe raises questions about standards for columnists (06/26/98)
Mothers Who Think Dear bridal party
A bride from hell's orders on what to wear, how to act and what to think (06/26/98)
Money Swamped
By Todd Pitock
If everyone is working so hard, why are they always at lunch?
(06/26/98)
Today in Newsreal
Behind the rhetoric
By Jonathan Broder
Salon talks to former Ambassador James Lilley about the strategic issues that bind China and the United States (06/26/98)
The "pornographic" Chinese opera
By Loren Jenkins
In China, despite currents of change, the deep despotism of the centuries is never far below the calm surface waters (06/26/98)
Salon Recommends The best in books, music and film (06/26/98)
Today in Wanderlust:
Mondo Weirdo
Hooked on Thaipusam: An astonishing religious rite in Malaysia (06/26/98)
Going natural
Wanderlust asks: What's your favorite nude beach? (06/26/98)
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THURSDAY
June 25, 1998
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21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Court to Microsoft: "Integrated" means whatever you say it does (06/25/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Caroline Knapp
"Havana Dreams": A lovely political memoir that explores the realities of Cuban life
through the lives of three generations of women
Today in Entertainment:
Heroine chic By Lori Leibovich
Bonding with Ally Sheedy, goddess of the walking wounded (06/25/98)
Doctor Dolittle Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Animal crackers: Eddie Murphy has
some dumb fun with
the critters (06/25/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Anatomy of an art heist on ABC; Hartman's possible replacement
(06/25/98)
Media Circus Is Time brain-dead? By Janelle Brown
Ally McBeal and other "silliness" prompts the magazine to ask, "Is feminism dead?" But it's the question itself that's silly (06/25/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts
By Sallie Tisdale
Spoiled rotten: The demise of discipline: First of three parts. Stop worrying about bruising your children's precious egos and start worrying about turning them into big babies
(06/25/98)
Letters Praise for Salon editorial from fed-up Republicans
(06/25/98)
Newsreal A joke too bad to print?
By David Corn
How Sen. John McCain's tasteless two-liner about Chelsea Clinton and Janet Reno was censored out of the nation's leading newspapers
(06/25/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The education of Louis
(06/25/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Barry Lopez
Wide-eyed in Galápagos: Barry Lopez explores mind-stretching wonders and gut-wrenching terrors
(06/25/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 24, 1998
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21st Conspicuous consumption, high-tech style By Janelle Brown
Be the first on your block to dress your computer gadgets in gold, lizard skin and leather
(06/24/98)
Today in Books:
My syndrome, myself By Laura Miller
A recent crop of memoirs chronicles our obsession with
illness, from Tourette's syndrome to anorexia to obsessive-compulsive
disorder
(06/24/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Dante Ramos
"A New Kind of Party Animal": An anecdote-rich examination of the mismatch between the existing
political landscape and the aspirations of today's politically minded young
adults
(06/24/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new CDs by Billy Bragg and Wilco, Neil Finn, Spinanes, Ellis Marsalis, Robert Pollard and Genesis
(06/24/98)
The A-Team By Jonathan Curiel
A tour of Africa's biggest pop stars becomes the biggest musical bargain in America
(06/24/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Attack of the bad Fox TV movie: "Killer Ants!"
(06/24/98)
Unzipped What is the feel of one hand tapping? By Courtney Weaver
Once you master the mechanics of virtual sex, the emotional land mine remains
(06/24/98)
Mothers Who Think Mothers who think too much By Anne S. Lewis
Will breathing while pumping gas cause irreparable damage to your unborn child?
(06/24/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers
By James Poniewozik
Our tchotchkes, ourselves: Is the unexamined living room worth living in?
(06/24/98)
Newsreal A Yankee way of knowledge By Ian Shoales
Carlos Castaneda, whoever he was, is dead -- whatever that is (06/24/98)
Letters Kid-salary envy; L.A. Times book review; breastfeeding
(06/24/98)
Wanderlust
Postmark By Ethan Zindler
USA vs. Iran (vs. Iran): At this World Cup match, the action is in the stands (06/24/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Cigarette merchandise to die for
(06/24/98)
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TUESDAY
June 23, 1998
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Today in entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
L.A. transcendental: the dark side of Hollywood's New Age (06/23/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Tupac profiled on MTV's new biography show
(06/23/98)
21st New life for old games By Howard Wen
Video-game emulators intriguingly blur the lines between hardware and software, PCs and game machines. Do they also promote piracy?
(06/23/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Laura Green
"Park City": Welcome to Ann Beattie territory, where betrayal, loss and
unsuccessful romantic negotiations are everywhere to be found (06/23/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
I'll take religion over gay culture (06/23/98)
Letters A Dubliner to trendy Joyce theorists: No I said no no no (06/23/98)
Mothers Who Think
Hotflash By Jenn Shreve
Ask Dr. Love : The controversial author of "The Breast Book" tackles another topic close to women's hearts: hormones
(06/23/98)
Newsreal Strip poker By Jonathan Broder
As the three-way game between Clinton, Starr and Lewinsky reaches its
final phase, who's holding the winning hand?
(06/23/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The woman who backed up her life
(06/23/98)
Wanderlust
Embraced in Spain
By Barry Yeoman
Traveling solo in Spain, the writer is befriended by a group of macho local males. Can he tell them he is gay and still keep their friendship?
(06/23/98)
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MONDAY
JUNE 22, 1998
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21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
All-in-one Web portals
are sparking a corporate mating frenzy. Are they really worth the billions? (06/22/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Confessions of a Box-Set Sucker By Eric Alterman
A music collector thanks Rhino for repackaging his awful adolescence
(06/22/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
New "Dr. Katz"; British 'toon "Bob & Margaret" bows on Comedy
Central
(06/22/98)
Left Hook Starr troopers By Joe Conanson
Steven Brill's story revealed what the public knows but the elite media refuse to admit: The national press has debased itself by rolling over for the independent counsel
(06/22/98)
Mothers Who Think Turning the tables on Terry Gross By Lori Leibovich
Salon gets personal with NPR's maestro of conversation
(06/22/98)
Newsreal Salon editorial
By David Talbot
There they go again -- the madmen in the Wall Street Journal attic launch another attack on Salon (06/19/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Scott McLemee
"Cocaine Nights": Set in a resort enclave along the Mediterranean coast, the
author's new novel is an exploration of psychic numbness and jaded tastes
(06/22/98)
Letters Maureen Dowd vs. Monica
(06/22/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
News and entertainment, working hand-in-hand for America!
(06/22/98)
Wanderlust
Ignorants abroad By Rolf Potts
Mistaking "breasts" for "prayers" -- and other adventures in language learning
(06/22/98)
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FRIDAY
June 19, 1998
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Salon Editorial There they go again: The madmen in the Wall Street Journal attic leap upon Salon (06/19/98)
Today in Entertainment:
The X-files Reviewed by Joyce Millman
"X"-Games: The movie fans have been waiting for is just a big tease
(06/19/98)
Mulan Reviewed by Jenn Shreve
Honor thy daughter: Disney's first truly heroic female protagonist battles Huns and
gender stereotypes with equal valor (06/19/98)
Television Ozzie & Harriet exposed; Rod Stewart in concert
(06/19/98)
21st The Freudian e-mail By Regina Lynn Preciado
What happens when you send a disparaging message to precisely the wrong person? (06/19/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Lily Burana
"The Itch": From the author of "Good Hair," a brisk, engaging look at the lives
of two urban, upwardly mobile black women (06/19/98)
Letters Breast feeding; Starr vs. Brill
(06/19/98)
Media Circus Hearsay rules By David Corn
Matt Drudge's no-standards journalism invades the networks
(06/19/98)
Mothers Who Think Don't complain. Don't explain. By Gina Hyams
The final days of a difficult father
(06/19/98)
Money Rich pickings, sour grapes
By Linda Tischler
A mother envies her daughter's lucrative entrance into the world of work
(06/19/98)
Newsreal Cap in hand
By Jonathan Broder
President Clinton goes to China, a country the U.S. needs more than ever (06/19/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Abstinence blues: Teen sex isn't always traumatic (06/19/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies and Web sites (06/19/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Andrew Bill
Blinded in the desert: Hospitality and hostility become blurred for a traveler stranded among Bedouins at the desolate tip of the Sinai
(06/19/98)
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THURSDAY
June 18, 1998
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Today in 21st
Are microchips too fast for mere mortals?
By Scott Rosenberg
Moore's Law means our processors get faster every year -- but no law can find uses for all that computing power (06/18/98)
Canned obsolescence
By Aaron Weiss
We only think old computers are useless -- that's what the industry wants us to think (06/18/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Alissa Lara
"Summer Sisters": The author's third adult novel is lovably crass, and about about
two best friends who meet each summer on Martha's Vineyard
Today in Entertainment:
I Went Down Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Friendship rings: From beneath overcast Irish skies, a surprisingly upbeat buddy/gangster movie emerges (06/18/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Deep Space Nine" season finale; "Avengers" redux
(06/18/98)
Media Circus By Dwight Garner
L.A.'s battle of the books: Is the Los Angeles Times Book Review the second coming of the New York Review -- or an elitist section that doesn't serve its readers? (06/18/98)
Mothers Who Think Don't call me Mom
By Susan McCarthy
Why I'm Susan to my kids
(06/18/98)
Letters Seven readers grade Horowitz: 1 B, 1 C, 3 Ds, 2 Fs
(06/18/98)
Newsreal Monica vs. Maureen
By Carol Lloyd
While the New York Times columnist denounces Lewinsky's willingness to expose her lips and legs, her own newspaper takes cheaper shots at the First Intern's private parts
(06/18/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The education of Louis
(06/18/98)
Wanderlust Postmark: The Cup runneth over By Ethan Zindler
At the World Cup, Scottish fans bare their behinds and French fans bare their prejudices
(06/18/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 17, 1998
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Batteries included By Janelle Brown
Is the electric car a high-tech toy -- or the savior of the planet?
(06/17/98)
Today in Books:
Rethinking Jonestown By Scott McLemee
A new academic movement argues that cults fulfill needs not met by our soulless consumer society
(06/17/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"After the Fall": A deeply narcissistic memoir, from the former "Three's Company"
star and ThighMaster queen, about her struggle with low
self-esteem
(06/17/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new CDs from Brian Wilson, Grant Lee Buffalo, Rod Stewart, John Fogerty and more
(06/17/98)
Big trouble in Little Tibet By Gavin McNett
Lightning strikes fans, but the bands play on
(06/17/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
New looks at Alexander Calder, Russian art
(06/17/98)
Unzipped Lustlorn By Courtney Weaver
When a woman claims her heart is broken, maybe it's her libido speaking
(06/17/98)
Mr. Blue By Garrison Keillor
Can you fall in love with someone because of his writing?
(06/16/98)
Mothers Who Think Are we there yet? By Ann Hood
What had I left in the Florida of my childhood vacations that I
wanted my children to find?
(06/17/98)
Newsreal Gloves come off in Starr-Brill slugfest By Jonathan Broder
War of words escalates as Independent Counsel fires off 19-page letter and brill shoots back (06/17/98)
Letters "The Truman Show," "Buffy," nerd definitions
(06/17/98)
Wanderlust
A different kind of resort in Sri Lanka
A reader discovers that an off-the-beaten-track resort in Sri Lanka offers a little less than it promises
(06/17/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Two things Europeans do better than Americans
(06/17/98)
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TUESDAY
June 16, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
The lost art of celebrity journalism By Charles Taylor
Kenneth Tynan was the last great master of intelligent celebrity journalism
(06/16/98)
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
Women on the verge: In a burst of fresh air for French film, "Mina Tannenbaum" is a movie about the messy,
painful side of female friendships (06/16/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
MTV's "Real World" invades Seattle; the 100 greatest
films ever
(06/16/98)
Today in 21st:
Ulysses in Net-town By Karlin Lillington
On Bloomsday, a portrait of James Joyce as a young Web-head
(06/16/98)
Bilge from Bill G. By Janelle Brown
"The Secret Diary of Bill Gates" recycles yesterday's Web humor
(06/16/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Edward Neuert
"I'll Be Watching You": From John "The Teflon Don" Gotti's daughter, a potboiler about a
thriller writer and a misunderstood mob boss (06/16/98)
Letters In defense of India's bomb; Charlton Heston a legend in his own mind (06/16/98)
Media Circus Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
Hamburger Hades : Robin Cook's "Toxin" is a tale told by a hack, full of E. Coli, signifying that the beef industry is the tool of Satan. Yum!
(06/16/98)
Mothers Who Think
Hot Flash: Nursing death By Dawn MacKeen
Can breast-feeding be deadly?
(06/16/98)
Newsreal Fallout from Content bombshell By Jonathan Broder
Judge summons Starr to her chambers after Content magazine bombshell
(06/16/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
"The Opinionator"
(06/16/98)
Wanderlust
Spiritual discomfort
By Anne Cushman
A yoga student discovers a real sadhu -- and spends the night in his cave in northern India
(06/16/98)
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MONDAY
JUNE 15, 1998
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21st Geek central By Andrew Leonard
At a site called Slashdot, "news for nerds" draws a passionate crowd (06/15/98)
Today in Entertainment:
American squirm By Sarah Vowell
Uneasy rider: The hardest thing to believe about Truman is not that he's a media baby, but that he's an American who has never once left home
(06/15/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Hyping the "X-Files" flick with Duchovny, Anderson and Sting
(06/15/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Fight the power! A conservative talk radio host takes on the leftists controlling American academia
(06/15/98)
Mothers Who Think Ballad of a bohemian childhood By Maccabee Montandon
Other kids ate Fritos while I munched macrobiotic chips
(06/15/98)
Newsreal Noble words, empty deeds
By Lonny Shavelson
The war on drugs will fail so long as the victims don't get help (06/15/98)
Today in Books:
Beach reading 1998 By Salon's editors and critics
Salon picks the best books to hang out in a hammock with (06/15/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Katharine Whittemore
"A Pirate Looks at Fifty": Tales of salt, sand, sea and sky, from a beach-obsessed pop
singer who can actually write
(06/15/98)
Letters Charlton Heston and the NRA; Salonistas are "godless children of liberals"
(06/15/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
This orgy of flag-burning will not stand!
(06/15/98)
Wanderlust
Adventures of my youth By Louise Rafkin
Can midlife travelers recapture the carefree wanderings of old?
(06/15/98)
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FRIDAY
June 12, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Mr. Jealousy Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Jealousy becomes him: Noah Baumbach's new urban comedy smartly satirizes self-involvement -- without being too self-involved (06/12/98)
Television Phil Hartman tribute on "SNL"; World Cup runneth over
(06/12/98)
Today in 21st:
21st
Challenge No. 10 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Digital-age proverbs (06/12/98)
Money for nothing By Scott Rosenberg
"Burn Rate" captivatingly portrays a Net industry built on a con game -- but its author is playing, too (06/12/98)
Self-combustion By Alexander Cohen
A veteran of the Internet's
"gold rush" years takes a hard look at "Burn Rate" (06/12/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Ray Sawhill
"In Praise of Commercial Culture": An incisive and well-argued look at how art and commerce need one
another, from a young economics professor at George Mason University (06/12/98)
Letters Paglia's Gwyneth-krieg; What's so great about "The Truman Show"?
(06/12/98)
Today in Media:
Content's star shortage By Harry Jaffe
Media watchdog Steve Brill tried -- and failed -- to get big-name media talent on his masthead
(06/12/98)
Source for Kathleen Willey story sues Newsweek's Michael Isikoff By Joe Conason
Julie Steele claims reporter violated explicit agreement that their conversations were off the record
(06/12/98)
Mothers Who Think Time for One Thing By Joan Walsh
Wax on: From happy trails to landing strips, a bikini-waxer muses on the fine line between pleasure and pain
(06/12/98)
Money Get them while they're young
By Kevin Kelleher
Money managers are targeting children as the next growth market
(06/12/98)
Newsreal Powerless in Kosovo
By Loren Jenkins
Despite Western saber-rattling, the prognosis for Kosovo is grim (06/12/98)
Salon Recommends Salon recommends the best in books, music, movies, Web sites and TV (06/12/98)
Wanderlust Suddenly last summer By Hal LaCroix
Babes, buzzwords and biz-bonding at the Nantucket Film Fest
(06/12/98)
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THURSDAY
June 11, 1998
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Today in 21st
Millennium bugging out
By Janelle Brown
Year 2000 survivalists, fearing digitally induced chaos, head for the hills (06/11/98)
Site of a thousand dances
By Janelle Brown
At CDuctive, dance-music fans get to assemble their favorite tracks off wax (06/11/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Gary Krist
"The Undiscovered Country": A probing novel about an American couple who, in order to save their marriage, decide to move to Papua New Guinea
Today in Entertainment:
Six Days, Seven Nights Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Great escapes: As cheap and predictable as a discount package tour, "Six Days, Seven Nights" is still a terrific getaway (06/11/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
What do your favorite Entertainment Weekly
writers look like?
(06/11/98)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
Crimes of the heart: We are all criminals
(06/11/98)
Letters American Spectator's troubles; teenage self-mutilation
(06/11/98)
Newsreal Prophet of the plague
By Terry Diggs
Charlton Heston's dark view of his fellow humans makes him a perfect president of the NRA
(06/11/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Nerrex Corp. joins nuclear club!
(06/11/98)
Wanderlust Letter from Jakarta: After the sky falls By Jeff Pulice
When expats flee, foreign guys become very attractive -- and other bits of wisdom
(06/11/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 10, 1998
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21st The software that refused to die By Greg Lindsay
When the owner of mTropolis gave it the ax, users raised money to take the code into their own hands (06/10/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Philip Nobile
"Drug Crazy": An engrossing, fast-moving polemic about everything that's wrong with America's current drug policies
(06/10/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
Reviews of new music by Dwight Yoakum, the Smashing Pumpkins,
Tuatara, Nicholas Payton and the Jesus and Mary Chain
(06/10/98)
Back in the U.S.S.R. By Julia Barton
After a brush with American fame, perestroika poster boy Boris Grebenshikov has returned to his Russian roots
(06/10/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Gay "Swan Lake" on PBS; singing docs on "Chicago Hope"
(06/10/98)
Unzipped Our buddies, ourselves By Courtney Weaver
After STDs, crash-and-burn romance and too many lonely nights, some women are turning to buddy sex to satisfy their carnal needs
(06/10/98)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queen Contestants
Bad mamas: You think your mother is nuts. This month's Drama Queen candidates share tales of evil moms who snoop, seduce and even induce eating disorders!
(06/10/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers
By James Poniewozik
The op-ed-ization of Jim Carrey's new flick turns its anti-TV take into a rerun
(06/10/98)
Newsreal Does the CIA stereotype Jews as security risks? By Jeff Stein
An agency lawyer denied clearance to work at the White House sues -- and charges that the CIA is purging Jews (06/10/98)
Letters Susie Bright on Kip Kinkel; Microsoft shoddiness; Alterman on Jewishness
(06/10/98)
Wanderlust
Are we the world?
By Andrew O'Hehir
Despite our uneasy place on Planet Soccer, the United States will be one of 32 nations vying for glory as the globe's most passionately watched sporting event begins
(06/10/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Toilet training
(06/10/98)
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TUESDAY
June 9, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
Kitsch is bustin' out all over with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (06/09/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Frontline" does Whitewater; Women's Film Fest
(06/09/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
First Microsoft, now Intel? Similarities between the two antitrust battles are all on the surface
(06/09/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"The Queen of Whale Cay": A slim biography of a true eccentric -- a cross-dressing lesbian who
was a WWI ambulance driver and the world's fastest speedboat racer (06/09/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Paltry Paltrow, insulted India and go-go gays
(06/09/98)
Letters Are men better writers than women? (06/09/98)
Media Circus Rolling Stone gathers no Marx By David Weir
Over the past three decades, the legendary magazine, like the counterculture it once led, has moved from politics to popdom
(06/09/98)
Mothers Who Think
How to ruin your kid's summer vacation By Kate Moses
Instead of schlepping your kid off to camp, let them do nothing
(06/09/98)
Newsreal A Clinton critic's tax-exempt lifestyle By Jonathan Broder and Joe Conason
As head of the American Spectator's nonprofit foundation, conservative editor R. Emmett Tyrrell enjoys some unusual perks
(06/09/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Crate Expectations
(06/09/98)
Wanderlust
The Internet comes to the Outback
By Simon Winchester
A 7-year-old boy's life changes forever
(06/09/98)
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MONDAY
JUNE 8, 1998
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21st Quake-r state By
Andrew Leonard
When online gamers rallied to defend a female player from harassment, they learned there's more to life than pixel gore (06/08/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Buffy By Joyce Millman
Love bites: Buffy learns about life
(06/08/98)
Television By Joyce
Millman
Debuts: Spielberg's sci-fi series, Magic Johnson's talk show
(06/08/98)
Media Circus Making Magic By Frank Sanello
Magic Johnson is beating AIDS -- now he wants to beat Leno and Letterman (06/08/98)
Mothers Who Think Someone to watch over me
By Janis Cooke Newman
Sentenced to a lifetime of summer school? Babyhood in a Russian orphanage
(06/08/98)
Newsreal Misfire
By Jonathan Broder and Joe Conanson
How the American Spectator's attempt to destroy Clinton blew up in its own face (06/08/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Megan Harlan
"Final Vinyl Days": Short stories about men and women, many of them set on the cusp of
the CD revolution, from a talented Southern writer
(06/08/98)
Letters Password spamming:
How big a problem is it?
(06/08/98)
This Modern World By Tom
Tomorrow
Guns and Kip Kinkel (06/08/98)
Wanderlust
Mondo Weirdo: Slow boat to Thailand
Temptations and tribulations on the Mekong River (06/08/98)
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FRIDAY
June 5, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
The Truman Show Reviewed by Charles Taylor
The boy in the celluloid bubble: Jim Carrey breaks out of the comedy routine in "The Truman Show" (06/05/98)
Big Foot: An interview with Terry Gilliam By David Wallis
The "Fear and Loathing" director stomps on Hollywood and American literalism
(06/05/98)
Television Sex on two coasts: "More Tales of the City," "Sex and the City"
(06/05/98)
21st
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
The FTC urges new protection for personal information online. Can the Web industry do what's right? (06/05/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by D.T. Max
"The Knife Thrower": Steven Millhauser's amazing worlds (06/05/98)
Letters Gay controversy at San Leandro High
(06/05/98)
Media Circus Arianna upstaged by "Baywatch" babe -- Maher flaunts his "daughter" By Carol Lloyd
Arianna Huffington's L.A. book party featured Hollywood schlock, political hobnobbing and celebrity humiliation. And that was before the "Baywatch" babe appeared
(06/05/98)
Mothers Who Think Living under the knife By Fiona Morgan
Steven Levenkron's book "Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation" casts an eye on the emotional pains behind a dark adolescent practice
(06/05/98)
Money The Reluctant Capitalist
By Heather Chaplin
Mad about Steve Madden: Wall Street loves this low-end shoemaker -- and so do fashion-conscious young
women
(06/05/98)
Newsreal The sad death of a soccer maverick
By Tamsin Todd
The tortured life of Britain's first openly gay soccer star ends in tragedy (06/05/98)
Sexpert Opinion Springfield's native son By Susie Bright
Springfield's son: Tragedy's roots in small town repression (06/05/98)
Salon Recommends Salon's critics pick the best in books, music and movies (06/05/98)
Today in Wanderlust
Cathay sells Hong Kong -- and beyond! By Don George
Round-trip fares from West Coast start at $500, $100 more to Bangkok and Bali (06/05/98)
Ramadan By Mona Simpson
In Egypt to search for her father's past, a woman first finds a young lover on a journey from Cairo to Alexandria (06/05/98)
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THURSDAY
June 4, 1998
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21st
Instant histories of the browser wars By Scott Rosenberg
How can the full tale of Microsoft vs. Netscape be told while the story is still unfolding? (06/04/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Carl Swanson
"Philistines at the Hedgerow": A social history of the Hamptons, the summer playground for Manhattan's cultural elite, from a writer with an eye for telling gossip (06/04/98)
Today in Entertainment:
A Perfect Murder Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Dressed to kill: Gwyneth Paltrow's haute couture can't
save "A Perfect Murder" from dying a slow death (06/04/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Samuel L. Jackson hosts MTV's Movie Awards
(06/04/98)
Mothers Who Think Wild Thing By Polly Shulman
A kinder, gentler cowboy:
A new coming-of-age western shows that a man can do what a man's gotta do and still be a vegetarian
(06/04/98)
Letters Robert Kennedy fallout; is "Bulworth" Marxist?
(06/04/98)
Newsreal Viagra for all hands!
By Peter Scheer
A class-action suit demands that insurers pay for Viagra for all claimants who say they're impotent. But what if they're just looking for kicks?
(06/04/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Ruben Bolling: Super Fun-Pak Comix
(06/04/98)
Wanderlust Losing their shirts By Tanya Shaffer
Seeing a fetish priest requires unbuttoned giving in Ghana (06/04/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 3, 1998
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21st Password spamming By Andrew Leonard
When Web companies make
deals, sometimes it's not cash that changes hands (06/03/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Jonathan Lethem
"Gary Cooper: An American Hero": Crisply written and persuasively researched, this biography strives mightily to get under Gary Cooper's façade
(06/03/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps and Flats
New CDs from Tricky, Natalie Merchant, Fugazi and the
"Godzilla" soundtrack
(06/03/98)
Middle-age riot By Mark Athitakis
Punk veterans Shellac and Sonic Youth play art-rock for art's sake
(06/03/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Larry Sanders" finale rerun: Guest Duchovny lets Larry see his
X-Files
(06/03/98)
Unzipped Women who snoop too much By Courtney Weaver
The worst thing about searching for a lover's secrets is that you just might be successful
(06/03/98)
Mothers Who Think African awakening By Vivienne Walt
Senegal turns against the tyranny of female mutilation
(06/03/98)
Media Circus Are men better writers than women?
By Laura Miller
A Harper's essay takes up the touchy question of whether size in literature matters (06/03/98)
Newsreal Starr's investigation to be investigated By Murray Waas
Former Justice Department watchdog Michael J. Shaheen will probe alleged payments to key Whitewater witness David Hale (06/03/98)
Letters '60s vet: Why Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing" inspires boredom
(06/03/98)
Wanderlust
Postmark
By Kathleen Cromwell
Disco bouzouki takes Athens by storm: For a crash course in Greek cultural history, go to the city's new nightlife hot
spot, Gazi
(06/03/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Starbucks über alles
(06/03/98)
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TUESDAY
June 2, 1998
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Today in Entertainment:
Home Movies By Charles Taylor
Rock 'n' roll heaven: Walter Hill's trashy extravaganza "Streets of
Fire" packs a bittersweet, youthful wallop (06/02/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
Must-see reruns of "NYPD Blue," "Buffy"
(06/02/98)
Today in 21st:
Password spamming By Andrew Leonard
When Web companies make deals, sometimes more than cash changes hands (06/02/98)
Growing up in gameland By Moira Muldoon
At E3, the game industry's mecca, babes no longer prowl the aisles -- they just beckon from the booths (06/02/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
"Meditations from a Movable Chair": A memoir about the author's life after a crippling accident, with
asides on such topics as God, love, art, writing, fatherhood and manhood (06/02/98)
Lovers and
Writers By Garrison Keillor
Should writers breed with other writers?
(06/02/98)
Letters Bowman bashed; pro and con on Jack and Jill clubs (06/02/98)
Mothers Who Think
Class warfare By Ira Eisenberg
How a California high school became a battleground in the struggle
over what America's students should be taught about homosexuality
(06/02/98)
Newsreal The prince who came down from his tower By John Leonard
John Leonard on Bobby Kennedy, the last American politician worth caring about
(06/02/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The mystery warehouse
(06/02/98)
Wanderlust
A day in the life of a longhouse
By Maxine Rose Schur
Drinking and dancing with the headhunters of Borneo forges some unexpected connections
(06/02/98)
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MONDAY
JUNE 1, 1998
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21st Bill's don By Karlin Lillington
Roger Needham, the
boss of Microsoft's hoopla-laden U.K. research lab, talks about the Redmond-Cambridge connection (06/01/98)
Today in Entertainment:
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Where it's Art: Beck puts his collages onto canvas alongside those of his late grandfather, Fluxus artist Al Hansen
(06/01/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Brady Bunch Marathon"; Goldthwait returns in "Bobcat's Big Ass Show"
(06/01/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Bul[****]: Warren Beatty, rich Hollywood liberal, attempts to shove a tattered Marxism down poor suckers' throats
(06/01/98)
Media Circus Why do Jewish cartoonists get away with it? By Eric Alterman
When Woody Allen exposes his neuroses, he's a self-hating Jew. When Art Spiegelman does it, he's a genius (06/01/98)
Mothers Who Think The showdown at San Leandro High By Ira Eisenberg
A battle between parents and gay-rights advocates may be a preview of the country's next great culture war
(06/01/98)
Newsreal Commentary
By Jonathan Broder
Stumbling toward the brink: Clinton's disintegrating foreign policy should be of much more concern to the White House --
and the country -- than Kenneth Starr's latest chess moves (06/01/98)
Sneaks Reviewed by Katharine Whittemore
"Be Sweet": A shaggy memoir, from the Southern humorist, about the various women in his life -- and the origins of his comic bent
(06/01/98)
Letters Don't worry, moms, I was a girly-boy too
(06/01/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Health insurance for dummies
(06/01/98)
Wanderlust
Mondo Weirdo
Island oddities: Readers relate their strange tales of Caribbean airlines and mistaken identities in Koh Samui (06/01/98)
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