|
WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 26, 1997
|
Television "Ellen" shatters more taboos
(11/26/97)
Books Reviewed by Tim Duggan
"Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women": A biography of the legendary lothario, from a writer who argues that Casanova was -- among other things -- a proto-feminist (11/26/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
It's just my 19th unnervous breakup: Should I settle for Mr. OK before my love muscle wears out?
(11/26/97)
Media Circus Armchair pundits to Clinton: Bring us the head of Saddam
Hussein! By Eric Alterman
(11/26/97)
Salon's special Barbie supplement:
What's it all about, Barbie? By Joyce
Introducing Salon's special Barbie supplement (11/26/97)
Barbie banned In Vermont! By Sarah Strohmeyer
Princess of pink barred from kiddie parties by
parents who think green (11/26/97)
My Barbie, myself
Camille Paglia, Cintra Wilson and others recall intimate Barbie moments
(11/26/97)
The skinny on Barbie Compiled by Suzette Lalime and Lori Leibovich
Fun Facts about America's doll wonder! (11/26/97)
The littlest harlot By Tracy Quan
A working girl pays tribute to her role model
(11/26/97)
Newsreal All in la familia By Barbara Renoud-Gonzales
Drugs -- dealing, using, addiction -- are the dirty little secret of America's Latino families
(11/26/97)
Letters Quit blaming Israel for the sins of the Middle East (11/26/97)
Music By Jack Skelley
Simon & Garfunkel: Captured here, Simon & Garfunkel's tone -- perfectly pre-Nixon, pre-sexual
revolution, pre-cultural chaos -- crystallizes a more wistful Zeitgeist (11/26/97)
Music By Douglas Wolk
It's great to see a pop musician of Paul Simon's caliber reach for
something more -- and it's even better to see him sometimes grasp it, as he
often does with "The Capeman" (11/26/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's daily travel section:
Discovering Petra By Maxine Rose Schur
At dusk, after the tourists have left, Jordan's ancient ruin comes to splendid life (11/26/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Alien
Resurrection Reviewed by Laura Miller
Sigourney Weaver is in fine form in the latest in the "Alien" series of Freudian-toothed slimefests (11/26/97)
Welcome to Sarajevo Reviewed by Charles Taylor
A visceral, angry and riveting tale of reporters in a war zone. (11/26/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Keith Knight: Turkey jerky (11/26/97)
|
|
TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 25, 1997
|
Television Frasier falls for a butch lawyer
(11/25/97)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"Stars Screaming": From a noted screenwriter, a novel that captures '70s-era Hollywood in all its warped complexity and glamour (11/25/97)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Prozac is for wimps: Camille Paglia on Saddam Hussein, Prozac and the best and worst of the "Star Trek" spinoffs (11/25/97)
Letters Public radio producer fires back (11/25/97)
Mothers Who Think "Just because I'm HIV-positive, can't I bear children?" By Lori Leibovich
She was a former prostitute and drug addict. She was infected with the AIDS virus. But Patti Radigan felt that motherhood could be her salvation. And a pioneering San Francisco clinic agreed to help her (11/25/97)
Media Circus Going for Gold By Inda Schaenen
Women's sports magazines duel over a hot and growing target demographic
(11/25/97)
Newsreal Been there, Dunne that
By Karen Grigsby Bates
Dominick Dunne's O.J. book only tells half the story (11/25/97)
Music By Will Hermes
Enit Festival: Jane's Addiction, Goldie, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
(11/25/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Human perfection
(11/25/97)
Wanderlust Marooned in Colorado By Sara Baird
A type-A journalist is forced to unwind at an idyllic, isolated (accessible only by narrow-gauge railroad or helicopter) Colorado resort
(11/25/97)
|
|
MONDAY
NOVEMBER 24, 1997
|
Television Altman and "Doonesbury" creator plot Silicon Valley show (11/24/97)
The Church of Starbucks By Jennifer Reese
World domination isn't enough for coffee mogul Howard Schultz (11/24/97)
Mothers Who Think Reluctant Role Model
By Susan McCarthy
My classmates wanted to hear how easy it is to combine kids and graduate school (11/24/97)
Drama Queen God save the Queen
Drama Queen winner: No candy from the Brits (11/24/97)
Newsreal Once more to the death squads By Andrew Reding
Clinton's war on Colombian drugs underwrites death squads (11/24/97)
Media Circus The Washington Post in decline
By Harry Jaffe
Under its stiff new management team, the Washington Post loses its luster and many of its star reporters
(11/24/97)
Books Reviewed by Laura Miller
"The Wind-up Bird Chronicle": New Murakami novel: like Paul Auster with a heart
(11/24/97)
Letters Pit pull defenders chomp Anne Lamott (11/24/97)
Music By Michelle Goldberg
Forget the words -- get lost in DJ Krush's hypnotic groove
(11/24/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Road Warrior By Don George
Yahoo's Jerry Yang shares travel secrets
(11/24/97)
Tip of the Week Win a trip to Korea
(11/24/97)
Informed Sources
First-class seat, second-class
service
(11/24/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(11/24/97)
|
|
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 21, 1997
|
Television Fergie feeds sharks; McCartney gets mystical (11/21/97)
Mothers Who Think Coyote Dreams By Cynthia Romanov
Peter Coyote rescued me from a miserable divorce (11/21/97)
Books Reviewed by Michelle Goldberg
"Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery." A meditation on America's changing attitudes toward the body, and on
the medical technology of its radical transformation (11/21/97)
Newsreal Lone gunmen By Jeff Stein
Forget Islamic Jihad, it's the lone wacko who's going to kill you (11/21/97)
Media Circus Star properties
By Catherine Seipp
Hollywoodland for sale: O.J. house on the market
(11/21/97)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Let Jesus be your sex therapist (11/21/97)
Letters The Nile massacre hurt Egypt the most (11/21/97)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (11/21/97)
Music By Stanley Booth
"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture" (11/21/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Clint's cement garden (11/21/97)
John Grisham's The Rainmaker Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Coppola hits predictable -- and surprising -- notes (11/21/97)
Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
A turkey chicken's Thanksgiving recipe (11/21/97)
|
|
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 20, 1997
|
Television Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper: Together again (11/20/97)
Mothers Who Think Word by Word By Anne Lamott
The main pleasure in owning a pit bull is in detonating a sense of fear in your neighbors (11/20/97)
Books Reviewed by Katherine Whittemore
"The Cobra Event": A made-for-Hollywood thriller, about terrorists and killer viruses, from the author of "The Hot Zone" (11/20/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Super Fun Pak Comix!(11/20/97)
Letters The court should nail Matt Drudge (11/20/97)
Media Circus Big bucks for old books By Dwight Garner
With this year's National Book Award, Charles Frazier wins -- and so do book collectors (11/20/97)
Music Reviewed by Gavin McNett
"Forever: The Judy Collins Anthology": Best of Judy Collins: You're not too cool for her
(11/20/97)
Newsreal "The cuts get deeper" By Andrew Leonard
Money was the main reason for the latest cutbacks at Wired, but politics also played a part, especially in the firing of a senior executive (11/20/97)
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section
Apache's free-software warriors By Andrew Leonard
Developers collaborate online -- and shake Microsoft and Netscape
(11/20/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's daily travel section:
Crossing Mongolia By Amanda Jones
Of gers and grit on the first recorded four-wheel expedition through the Gobi desert to Lake Hovsgol (11/20/97)
|
|
WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 19, 1997
|
Television Emma Thompson pokes fun at Hollywood closet on "Ellen"
(11/19/97)
The stories of a lifetime
The art of life By Jay Parini
Jay Parini on the best literary biographies
(11/19/97)
Salon book recommendations
The Salon list: Our favorite biographies of the year
(11/19/97)
Lives 'R' us By Joyce Millman
A&E's "Biography" is the People magazine of famous lives
(11/19/97)
Books Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Love in a Blue Time": Short stories, from the writer-director of "My Beautiful Laundrette," about misfits in London (11/19/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Back door man: Why Claudia's a back door girl
(11/19/97)
Media Circus Under the covers By James Poniewozik
Holiday food mags push turkey porn
(11/19/97)
Mothers Who Think Escape from parenting By Ariel Gore
New York City turns a responsible mama into a reckless adolescent (11/19/97)
Newsreal Shape of things to come By Jonathan Broder
How Clinton can stop Mideast bloodshed: Stand up to Israel
(11/19/97)
Letters Give me bugs, babes and blood! (11/19/97)
Music Reviewed by Paul Festa
"BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9": What Goths should be listening to (11/19/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's daily travel section:
Among the Gypsies of Spain By Curt Hopkins
Scenes from a passion-filled stay among the Gypsies of Granada (11/19/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Keith Knight: Sweeps week (11/19/97)
|
|
TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 18, 1997
|
Television"Frontline" on Diana and the press; "The Practice" -- TV's most
underappreciated drama
(11/18/97)
Books Reviewed by Cynthia Joyce
Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock": Term-paper journalism (11/18/97)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
I got some news: I'm getting married (11/18/97)
Letters Sound salvation: In defense of NPR and PBS (11/18/97)
Mothers Who Think Toying with us By Albert Mobilio
The gimme complex: What kids buy and why (11/18/97)
Media Circus Sex with the perfect stranger By James Surowiecki
A sex magazine for perfect strangers -- men and women
(11/18/97)
Newsreal Massacre in the desert
By Andrew Ross
Egyptian bloodbath: Behind the tourist massacre (11/18/97)
Music Reviewed by Michelle Goldberg
Siamese baby dolls: Lisa Loeb and Juliana Hatfield
(11/18/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Carol Lay: Party girl
(11/18/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Passages "Full Circle": In an excerpt from his book, Michael Palin describes his journeys through Cambodia
(11/18/97)
From Python to Pacific By Don George
Former Monty Python star Michael Palin discusses his new PBS series and book, "Full Circle"
(11/18/97)
|
|
MONDAY
NOVEMBER 17, 1997
|
Television Oliver Stone vs. Oliver North on Jeopardy! (11/17/97)
A splendid invention By Elizabeth McCracken
Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" finds
opportunities for heartbreak and love in the timeless changeability of human nature (11/17/97)
Right On! In defense of Matt Drudge ... By David Horowitz
Why press snobs won't help Matt Drudge (11/17/97)
Mothers Who Think Bringing up baby
By Charles Taylor
A film critic advises parents on how to introduce their kids to the movies (11/17/97)
Newsreal That's Ms. hippie chick to you By Susan Kuchinskas
For hippie chicks, the real revolution wasn't in the streets, but in the bedroom (11/17/97)
Media Circus Wow! It fits in a box!
By Daniel Radosh
Old media's dumb-as-a-post gushing over new media conceals a secret disdain
(11/17/97)
Books Reviewed by Stephen Prothero
"Some of the Dharma": Jack Kerouac's doomed spiritual quest
(11/17/97)
Letters Paglia's "churlish" attack on the Eappens (11/17/97)
Music By John Paczkowski
Ann Magnuson, live at the Great American Music hall, San Francisco
(11/17/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Road Warrior By Don George
Chris Gulker: Apple's strategic relations guru shares his business travel
tips and tales
(11/17/97)
Tip of the Week New Orleans tips from road warrior Janet Reitman
(11/17/97)
Informed Sources
Frequent-flier therapy: Are women second-class citizens in the first-class section?
(11/17/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow meets the flying head of Alexis de Tocqueville (11/17/97)
|
|
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 14, 1997
|
Television "The X-Files" flashes Mulder back to 1989 (11/14/97)
Mothers Who Think A thin line between mother and daughter By Jennifer Egan
A former anorexic ponders the family origins of eating disorders (11/14/97)
Books Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
"A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire" (11/14/97)
Newsreal How mad was Ted Kaczynski? By Ros Davidson
The unabomber was not like most other serial killers. But the
demons that drove him were every bit as lethal (11/14/97)
Media Circus Buy Buy Love
By David Futrelle
The Robb Report for the affluent lifestyle brings back the avarice,the ostentation,the sheer Donald-ness of the '80s
(11/14/97)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
The presidential suite: A suggested soundtrack for the George Bush Presidential Library (11/14/97)
Letters The dirty secret of affirmative action (11/14/97)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (11/14/97)
Music Reviewd by Douglas Wolk
Belle and Sebastian: "Lazy Line Painter Jane (EP)": Belle and Sebastian, a ramshackle, cute and only
occasionally fey folk-pop band from Scotland (11/14/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
The Man Who Knew Too Little Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Saved by Bill Murray's prickly charm (11/14/97)
One Night Stand Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Adultery and its long-term consequences (11/14/97)
The Wings of the Dove Reviewed by Laura Miller
A gorgeous tale of wicked people and sexual intrigue (11/14/97)
Mondo Weirdo
By Andrew Brown
A charming -- and cheap! -- French château (11/14/97)
Surreal Gourmet
By Bob Blumer
Dinner and a video with a tasty trout recipe (11/14/97)
|
|
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 13, 1997
|
Television Marcia "Melrose" Cross guests on "Seinfeld"; "ER" (11/13/97)
Mothers Who Think Spice of Life By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Talking to strangers: By protecting our children from the world, we sometimes also teach them to fear it (11/13/97)
Books Reviewed by Kate Moses
"The Devil's Chimney": A first novel, set largely in South Africa in the early part of the
century, about a woman crippled by loss, racism and cultural fear (11/13/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling (11/13/97)
Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Pay-per-apocalypse: Clip-on ties vs. giant bugs!
(11/13/97)
Letters Readers respond angrily to Horowitz's bathhouse column (11/13/97)
Media Circus Doing the right-wing shuffle By Eric Alterman
Conservative journalists come and conservative journalists go, but one thing remains constant: Those free market-exalters just love to suck on the foundation money tit (11/13/97)
Music By Gina Arnold
Salt-N-Pepa is the more empowered, more thoughtful and ultimately higher artistic expression of the Spice Girls' poplike confectionary
(11/13/97)
Newsreal Paula Jones' sleaze finder By Jonathan Broder
Paula Jones' private dick probes for Clinton dirt (11/13/97)
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section
A giant sucking sound By Scott Rosenberg
The Suck stops here: Web brats belly-flop into print (11/13/97)
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
How AOL won a round of the quarterly-report numbers game(11/13/97)
Wanderlust Passages By Mark Talpin
Forbidden Russia: A traveler takes the road less traveled into Russia's newly opened territories (11/13/97)
|
|
WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 12, 1997
|
Television "3rd Rock"; "X-Files" rip-offs bite the dust
(11/12/97)
Books Reviewed by David Futrelle
"Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age: Salvos from the Baffler" (11/12/97)
Books Reviewed by Mark Hertsgaard
"Many Years From Now": The gospel according to Paul McCartney
(11/12/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Not too sleazy in the Big Easy
(11/12/97)
Media Circus By Lisa Jervis
Jane's affliction: Vaunted hip-chick mag just another fashion victim
(11/12/97)
Mothers Who Think
Drama Queen: Candidates try the bogus "wistful" ploy (11/12/97)
Newsreal Muddling through By Steve Michel
Steve Jobs' latest spin on the "new" Apple might keep the troops in line, but can the company ever really advance? (11/12/97)
Letters Apple's "Gandhi" ad creator fires back (11/12/97)
Music By Mark Athitakis
"The Pet Sounds Sessions": The reworked music of "Pet Sounds" is so wondrously varied, so thrilling,
so listenenable in and of itself that it's a Beach Boys fanatic's dream come true (11/12/97)
Wanderlust By Tony Wheeler
Lonely Planet founder: Why Aussies are traveling fools (11/12/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight (11/12/97)
|
|
TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 11, 1997
|
Television "Frasier" on location in Seattle; "NewsRadio" (11/11/97)
The Salon Interview Doris Lessing: A notorious life By Dwight Garner
The author talks about the illusions of communism, political correctness and why the sexual revolution backfired (11/11/97)
Books Reviewed by Rachel Pastan
Murder and myth in Florida: Peter Matthiessen's "Lost Man's River" (11/11/97)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
The nanny murder, "Boogie Nights" and feminist writing about men (11/11/97)
Letters From a young ex-molester: Life gets better (11/11/97)
Mothers Who Think Hot Flash By Lori Leibovich
In the end, justice was done: The ruling that freed Louise Woodward was a necessary "safety valve,"
says legal expert Wendy Kaminer (11/11/97)
Media Circus No soup for you! By Dwight Garner
The triumph of the Soup Nazi and a revised version of "The Joy of Cooking" have foodies asking: Is home cooking finished?
(11/11/97)
Newsreal Clinton, Saddam and the hot zone
By Jonathan Broder
Is Iraq hiding deadly stashes of Ebola and smallpox? (11/11/97)
Music By Natasha Stovall
G-Love returns to the original spirit of jamming with his soulful new "Yeah, It's That Easy"
(11/11/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay (11/11/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Road Warrior By Don George
Globe-trotting designer Roger Black shares his business travel tips and tales
(11/11/97)
Tip of the Week Asian etiquette
(11/11/97)
Informed Sources
Poland: Inside advice
(11/11/97)
|
|
MONDAY
NOVEMBER 10, 1997
|
Television Sandra Bernhard on "Ally"; Shatner reprises "Twilight Zone" role (11/10/97)
Dick the Greek By Christopher Hitchens
New book: Nixon was even worse than we thought (11/10/97)
Mothers Who Think Hot Flash By Dawn MacKeen
Killer Casanovas: "Thousands" of AIDS predators, says expert (11/10/97)
Newsreal It's class, stupid! By Richard Rodriguez
With affirmative action being rolled up, it's time we start recognizing the real dividing line in American society (11/10/97)
Media Circus Pox populi By James Ledbetter
As long as presidents appoint its rulers, public broadcasting will
remain a hopeless mess (11/10/97)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Plays Well with Others": The best fairies die in Allen Gurganus' "Plays Well With Others"
(11/10/97)
Letters Apple's Gandhi ad, pro and con (11/10/97)
Music Reviewed by Douglas McLennan
Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: At last, here's a performer who
understands music of our time from his heart rather than his head (11/10/97)
Wanderlust Doom river By Jeffrey Tayler
Machete-wielding cannibals mar my Congo vacation (11/10/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow (11/10/97)
|
|
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 7, 1997
|
Television "20/20": Marv Albert checks into image rehab (11/07/97)
Mothers Who Think Bringing up bébé By Debra Ollivier
Sure, I get to live in Paris, but try pushing a stroller over grapefruit-sized cobblestones (11/07/97)
Books Reviewed by Patric Kuh
A new biography shows how culinary legend Julia Child was able to take the airs out of French food before America was able to (11/07/97)
Newsreal Chickens have rights too! By David Wallis
Pro-fowl protesters: Chickens united will never be mesquited! (11/07/97)
Media Circus Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Standing room only in the mad-at-me section: Why is everyone I've betrayed in print so mad at me?
(11/07/97)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Why Johnny (and Janie) can't get it on (11/07/97)
Letters The nanny murder: Parents share the blame (11/07/97)
Music Reviewed by Douglas Wolk
"Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg": Ugliest sex symbol ever (11/07/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Mad City Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
In Costa-Gavras' movie, the ratings-crazed news media has no integrity (11/07/97)
Starship Troopers Reviewed by Scott Rosenberg
Bug zappers! Frat-boy fascists battle space vermin (11/07/97)
Bean Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Rowan Atkinson's hilariously selfish little man (11/07/97)
Eve's Bayou Reviewed by Cynthia Joyce
Magical tale of a family coming apart in '60s Louisiana (11/07/97)
|
|
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 6, 1997
|
Television Fox schlock: "Cheating Death"; PBS's "Mystery" (11/06/97)
Mothers Who Think Word By Word By Anne Lamott
Jesus and the lemon: God and I kick the car dealer's butt (11/06/97)
Books Reviewed by Laura Green
"Close to the bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage and Desire": A collection of autobiographical essays, bound together by the chasm between our desire for unconditional love and the unlikelihood of finding it (11/06/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling (11/06/97)
Letters Who needs dads? Kids do! (11/06/97)
Media Circus An apple for my teacher By Rebecca Ransom
All I really need to know I learned in high school from Robert Fulghum (11/06/97)
Music By Joyce Millman
Talk-show rock: Letterman and Conan CDs duel (11/06/97)
Newsreal Ended, not mended By Jonathan Broder
Civil Rights pick Bill Lann Lee is toast (11/06/97)
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Don't be shocked when you can't reach your online broker (11/06/97)
Reality check By Laura Miller
Riven rapt: How Myst and its new sequel won our hearts and minds (11/06/97)
|
|
WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 5, 1997
|
Television "Star Trek: Voyager"; Al Franken on "Politically Incorrect"
(11/05/97)
Books Reviewed by Phil Leggiere
"Drawing Life": Part survival memoir and part cantankerous rant, this book tells how its author survived an attack by the Unabomber (11/05/97)
The man who took sex out of the closet By Scott McLemee
"Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life": Alfred Kinsey outed America's sexual secrets -- while keeping a few of his own
(11/05/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
So big: Certain public conversations can cause even normally unflappable people to gag
(11/05/97)
Media Circus Vice grip By James Poniewozik
Shiny, ad-stuffed smoking and gambling rags exhort their readers to follow the Seven Deadly Sins path to fulfillment (11/05/97)
Mothers Who Think My other mother By Sandi Kahn Shelton
If I call my stepmother Mom, maybe we can erase the past and pretend my father married the right woman in the first place (11/05/97)
Newsreal Britons, heal thyselves By Karlin Lillington
Before taking a swipe at America's legal system, you might want to take
a closer look at your own (11/05/97)
Letters Arafat, Castro are not "villains" (11/05/97)
Music By Sean Elder
It's comforting to know that rock 'n' roll's elder statesmen can
still crank out rock riffs and boozy ballads in their sleep (11/05/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight (11/05/97)
|
|
TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 4, 1997
|
Television Ken Burns' "Lewis and Clark"; Xena's dark past (11/04/97)
Books Reviewed by Scott Rosenberg
"RELEASE 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age": An influential technology industry insider delivers common sense on how the digital revolution will change our work, social and political lives (11/04/97)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Dripping Fawcett: After her hideous soft-core debut, it's clear that Farrah Fawcett needs to take some lessons from Mr. Cheese, Burt Reynolds, in the art of American Redemption (11/04/97)
Letters Sarah Vowell's chickenshit nihilism (11/04/97)
Mothers Who Think I lost it at the arcade By Joyce Maynard
Breakdown at Q-Zar: Boys zap her with laser guns; Mom's life flashes before her eyes (11/04/97)
Media Circus Gandhi was no pitchman By Bill McKibben
Apple clicked on the wrong icon for its "Think Different" ad campaign.(11/04/97)
Newsreal Broken politics By Jack Skelley
A progressive takes on failed policies and a "riot ideology" that have devastated big cities (11/04/97)
Music By Mark Athitakis
Scruffy punkers Green Day are just going through the motions on "Nimrod" (11/04/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay (11/04/97)
Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel section
Esther Dyson, road warrior By Don George
The Net's most frequent flyer shares her travel secrets
(11/04/97)
Eating around in Boston
By Larry Smith
The way to the heart of the Hub is through its stomach
(11/04/97)
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Don't let El Niño come between you and a good meal
(11/04/97)
Mondo Weirdo More strange tales from around the world
Old McDonald had a farm -- in Ecuador
(11/04/97)
|
|
MONDAY
NOVEMBER 3, 1997
|
Reckless genius By Galway Kinnell
A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet pays tribute to the belle of Amherst (11/03/97)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Gay men, thinking they are safer thanks to the arrival of anti-AIDS drug cocktails, are returning to anonymous, promiscuous sex, cheered on by academics who would rather die than be "normal" (11/03/97)
Mothers Who Think Who needs dad? By Susie Bright
The vicious smear campaign against single mothers targets the young and the impoverished. But the typical unmarried mom is an overachieving middle-class white chick -- like me (11/03/97)
Newsreal Bad company By Todd Pitock
Why does the world's most revered statesman hang out with loathsome tyrants? (11/03/97)
Media Circus Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Whipping boy to the stars: Celebrity biographer Frank Sanello suffers the wrath of Sharon Stone, Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and -- worst of all -- their lawyers (11/03/97)
Television Marv Albert on "Letterman"; Sean Penn on "Ellen" (11/03/97)
Books By Michele Goldberg
"Speaking Truth to Power": A fascinating, if occasionally dry and wonkish, memoir by the woman made famous during the Clarence Thomas hearings (11/03/97)
Letters Serfs up in the book biz (11/03/97)
Music By Andrew Hultkrans
Apples in Stereo channel Beatles & Beach Boys with "Tone Soul Evolution" (11/03/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow (11/03/97)
|