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Friday, December 31, 1999
Comics:
Special feature
Carol Lay on the next millennium. (12/31/99)
News:
The millennial struggle continues By Joe Conason
The forces of fundamentalism, having failed in their coup d'etat in Washington, are nonetheless still with us as we enter the new age. (12/31/99)
Technology:
Film me, deadly By Heather Mund
We test three new digital video cameras in an homage to film noir. (12/31/99)
Travel:
What are you doing New Year's Eve? By Don George
How Salon Travel's favorite writers plan to ring in the new year. (12/31/99)
Thursday, December 30, 1999
Best of Salon:
People's Choice
Part four: Camille on JFK Jr., Steve Jobs, cable modems vs. DSL, "Blair Witch" actors and books and Dr. Laura nudes -- your clicks made these articles hits. (12/30/99)
Editor's Pick
Part four: Woodstock riots, Times Square porn shops, Half Dome frights, sex talk online and off and Brazilian bikini wax! (12/30/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Another kid falls into the gorilla cage! (12/30/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Rolling baby killers By Damien Cave
Walkers cause more infant deaths and accidents than any other baby furniture. Now, thanks to the boom in e-commerce, they are readily available online. (12/30/99)
News:
The hidden culprits at Columbine By Jake Tapper
Two crazy boys pulled the triggers, but lax laws put the guns in their hands. (12/30/99)
Where silence is golden By David Weir
Every issue you can think of comes up in our nation's capital, except one: What's to become of the company store? (12/30/99)
Wednesday, December 29, 1999
Best of Salon:
People's Choice
Part three: Linux vs. Windows NT, "Blair Witch," Camille on the Oscars, "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Star Wars" vs. "Star Trek" -- your clicks made these articles hits. (12/29/99)
Editor's Pick
Part three: From chick flicks to lesbian books, Henry Louis Gates to Chris Rock to JFK Jr., we covered it all. (12/29/99)
Health:
Bottoms up By Steven A. Shaw
Raw eggs, Guinness and pastrami can help your hangover, but don't mix them. (12/29/99)
How to avoid a hangover By Robert Capps
Buy vodka you don't like so you won't drink as much. (12/29/99)
News:
Try him again By Debra Dickerson
Justice for the widow of a dead police officer, cut down in the prime of his life, will not be served by executing a framed man, even if he's guilty. (12/29/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Cheap Thrills! (12/29/99)
Tuesday, December 28, 1999
Best of Salon:
People's Choice
Part two: Strap-on epiphany, "Sleepy Hollow," how the Net wrecked San Francisco, "I want to play Anakin!" and a passel of Paglia. (12/28/99)
Editor's Pick
Part two: Was Lincoln gay? Is John McCain tough? "The Sopranos," Alanis, lip-balm mania and more! (12/28/99)
News:
A question for the millennium By David Horowitz
The principal lesson of the past century is that the free markets are good for humanity, whereas the socialist utopian vision creates nothing but
misery. But guess who hasn't learned this yet? (12/28/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Hugh Hefner By Chris Colin
The 20th century's indefatigable swinger is still doing what he does best: mixing martinis, cavorting with naked women, encouraging men to play indoors and reinventing himself. (12/28/99)
A conversation with Hugh Hefner By Chris Colin
"I never intended to be a revolutionary. My intention was to create a mainstream men's magazine that included sex in it. That turned out to be a very revolutionary idea." (12/28/99)
Portfolio: "The Century of Sex" By James R. Petersen and Hugh M. Hefner (editor)
Images from "Playboy's History of the Sexual Revolution, 1900-1999" (12/28/99)
Travel:
Catching lobsters online By Steven A. Shaw
With just a few clicks, you can bring the fresh bounty of New England into your kitchen. (12/28/99)
Monday, December 27, 1999
Best of Salon:
Letter from the editor
Salon keeps the holiday lights on! (12/27/99)
People's Choice
Smelly Macs, Linux revolutionaries, spankers, Web-cam -- your clicks made these articles hits. (12/27/99)
Editor's Pick
Gay animals, Steve Jobs, Kosovo, sex police, flight-attendant hell and more! (12/27/99)
Books:
Warped, battered and stained By Salon staff members
The cookbooks people actually use. (12/27/99)
Comics:
Tom Tomorrow By Tom Tomorrow
"So, Sparky, the end of the millennium is just moments away ..." (12/27/99)
Technology:
A Y2K FAQ By Scott Kirsner
Will my Furby be safe? And other frequently asked questions to end the millennium. (12/27/99)
Weekend, December 24-26, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" By Charles Taylor
Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow star in a lethally tasteful version of Patricia Highsmith's creepy thriller. (12/24/99)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
Wonder and weirdness in the "Being John Malkovich" soundtrack. (12/24/99)
Entertainment Log By Geoff Edgers
The grumpy rock critic: "No more Christmas box sets!" (12/24/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Christmas and New Year's Eve in front of the tube. (12/24/99)
Books:
If God is dead, prove it By Margaret Wertheim
Why science can't explain religion. (12/24/99)
Are you there, God? It's us, the Templeton Foundation By Lawrence Osborne
The Templeton Foundation invests millions so scientists might prove that faith works. But their answers aren't what Sir John Templeton wants to hear. (12/24/99)
"I May Not Get There With You" Reviewed by Dante Ramos
What would Martin Luther King Jr. think today? (12/24/99)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel
A message from the Management. (12/24/99)
Health & Body:
The Fat Guy By Steven A. Shaw
Don't feel guilty, pig out over the holidays. (12/24/99)
Naked World: Real live virgin births! By Hank Hyena
Letters:
Mahir -- just another celebrity victim? Plus: Quibbling with our film critics over the year's best; did Columbine school officials overreact? (12/24/99)
Mothers Who Think:
The Great First-Baby-of-the-Millennium Race By Leah Eskin
To win, you've got to squat over the international dateline. (12/24/99)
News:
Ray of hope By Charles Graeber
Two depressed New England villages battle to host the first American sunrise of the new millennium. (12/24/99)
The hall of shame By Julian Rubinstein
The worst of sports, 1999. (12/24/99)
People:
Storm of the century By Frank Houston
"Hurricane" Carter spent 10 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Twice. (12/24/99)
Nothing Personal By Amy Reiter
Name that celebrity body part! Our first Readers' Choice Awards. (12/24/99)
Technology:
Merry e-Christmas to all! By Joe Kelleher
A visit from St. Nick.com, with apologies to Clement Moore. (12/24/99)
Travel:
In bubbly is our beginnings By Burt Wolf
A short history of New Year's and its rites. (12/24/99)
Thursday, December 23, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the
crowd By Michael Sragow
Director Mike Leigh gives Gilbert and Sullivan the Dickens in
"Topsy-Turvy." (12/23/99)
"Any Given Sunday" By
Mary
Elizabeth Williams
Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz make all the right
moves, but Oliver Stone's playbook is running out of juice. (12/23/99)
Sharps & Flats By
Britt Robson
Sixteen Deluxe got 300 seconds on life's version of
"120 Minutes." So why are they still at it? (12/23/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, December 23, 1999 (12/23/99)
Books:
Science fiction: Tempting fate By Polly Shulman
Connie Willis' science fiction
tackles time travel and chaos theory with Wodehousian wit. (12/23/99)
Christie for Christmas By Jacqueline Carey
Desperate for more Agatha Christie? Now there
are two "new" mysteries by the late queen of clues. (12/23/99)
Books Log: Updike and Parini trade slaps on review pages By Craig Offman
Dueling men
of letters fail to reveal conflict of interest. (12/23/99)
Comics:
Ruben Bolling
Post-punchline funnies, and other Super-Fun-Pak Comix! (12/23/99)
Health & Body:
Kicking for breath By Frank Houston
I watched as my brother almost died
from asthma. (12/23/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 46 By Tracy Quan
Location, location, location: Allison entreats me to find my G-spot and
Jasmine discovers David's big secret. (12/23/99)
Urge: Naked World: Super-sized testicles no man could wish for By Hank Hyena
Jumbo
testicles are found in the tropics. (12/23/99)
Letters:
Is it time to kill off Santa?
Plus: Defending Mogwai's music; tell Amy Reiter that conservatives never suffer guilt! (12/23/99)
Mothers Who Think:
I was a closet thumb sucker until I was 11 By Pamela Gordon
I want my
daughters to suck without fear. (12/23/99)
News:
Jerusalem braces for Christian pilgrims By Flore de Preneuf
Hordes of tourists are
coming to the holy city for millennial celebrations, but a clash between
Orthodox and secular Jews has created a ban on Christmas in the city's
kosher hotels. (12/23/99)
A new way to spend money By Anthony York
Political campaigns know who you are, where
you're registered to vote, what party you're affiliated with -- and which
Web sites you use. (12/23/99)
People:
Nothing Personal: Keith Richards: Like a thief in the night? By Amy Reiter
Evil
Glimmer Twin makes off with fan's guitar; health poll: better to resemble
Tina Turner than Calista Flockhart -- Doh! Plus: Joe Frazier's daughter to
Muhammad Ali's daughter: Boom! boom! Out go the lights. (12/23/99)
Appreciation: Desmond Llewelyn By Bruce Feirstein
"Yes, I know Q is beloved," Desmond
said. "But for God's sake, don't make him some kind of sentimental
grandfather -- that's what I am in real life." (12/23/99)
Technology:
Linux, wealth and the gift economy By Andrew Leonard
Dot-com mania has sent
shares in free-software companies soaring, so where's the Christmas cheer? (12/23/99)
Technology Log: Hotjobs hoax By Frank Houston
An Internet job listing lured about a
dozen people to interviews at a CBS studio. The only problem is ... no one
told CBS. (12/23/99)
Travel:
Travel Advisor: Last-minute New Year's tips By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert
reassures the Bali-bound Y2K-minded and offers Seattle celebration
suggestions. (12/23/99)
Wednesday, December 22, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Twenty ways the '90s changed television By Joyce Millman
From "Twin
Peaks" to "The X-Files" to "The Simpsons" (O.J. included), TV broke ground
and rules in the last decade of the century. (12/22/99)
"Man on the Moon" By
Stephanie Zacharek
Jim Carrey has the eyes down cold, but the rest of
the Andy Kaufman story melts after a series of smeared details. (12/22/99)
Sharps & Flats By
Britt Robson
Hip-hop producers Prince Paul and the Automator
recruit young multi-culti bohos for their Handsome Boy Modeling School. (12/22/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1999 (12/22/99)
Books:
Twilight of a feminist By David
Bowman
Susan Brownmiller talks about the golden
age of ideology and when it's OK for a woman to be a sex object. (12/22/99)
"When Bad Things Happen to Other People" by John Portmann By Mary Elizabeth Williams
A new look
at Schadenfreude forgives us that nasty vice, but doesn't let us have much
fun with it. (12/22/99)
Health & Body:
False memory syndrome By Kevin Giordano
As women bring lawsuits, therapists
are having to pay for their mistakes. (12/22/99)
Urge: Naked World: Exporting Indian beauty By Hank Hyena
Sexy subcontinentals are
grabbing Miss World and Miss Universe crowns. (12/22/99)
Letters:
How could your "music of 1999" list bypass Ricky Martin?
Plus: Children's lit needs the likes of David Mamet; is Croatia ready for a rebirth? (12/22/99)
Media:
Former Disney exec dodges a bullet By Sean Elder
The federal sex case against
Patrick Naughton falls apart as jury and old friends see something other
than a monster. (12/22/99)
Mothers Who Think:
A Jew for baby Jesus By Amy Silverman
I can't help having myself a
merry little Christmas. (12/22/99)
Mixing the holidays By Gentry Lane
A little cross-religious indulgence isn't going
to damn anyone to an eternity in hell. Is it? (12/22/99)
News:
Kosovo culture clash By Laura Rozen
War criminals in the former Yugoslavia are
getting a free ride from French and American peacekeepers. (12/22/99)
Sick of the health care debate? By Jake Tapper
Neither Bradley nor Gore is telling
the whole truth about what it will take to reform the system. (12/22/99)
People:
Nothing Personal: Wardrobe is hell By Amy Reiter
Quaid, Byrne chafe, bitch,
burn. Plus: Gwyneth Paltrow tired of blond Gwyneth Paltrow person. And, the
bribe please ... Coach kicks in with kickbacks for Stone. (12/22/99)
Let us praise our lamest men (and token woman) By
Carina Chocano and Jesusito Lavaquemada
Enough with the
overachievers. Who was the least influential person of the century? (12/22/99)
Technology:
Naked eye By Daniel Sieberg
A prudish hacker caught me surfing porn and turned
the image on my monitor, and my world, upside down. (12/22/99)
Travel:
'Tis the season to be pissed off By Elliott Neal Hester
Too many bags and too few bins
makes frequent flyers cry foul. (12/22/99)
Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats
A new box set of lesser-known
Django Reinhardt cuts illuminates another side of the hottest jazz
guitarist in the world. (12/21/99)
"Angela's Ashes" By Stephanie Zacharek
The epic, weighty adaptation remains faithful to
the letter, but what happened to Frank McCourt's poetry? (12/21/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, December 21, 1999. (12/21/99)
Books:
"Food: A Culinary History" edited by Jean-Louis Flanddrin and
Massimo Montanari By Gavin McNett
The Romans feasted more sensibly than you thought,
according to a highly readable, scholarly anthology. (12/21/99)
Dear Mr. Blue: It's too late, baby By Garrison Keillor
My husband finally quit drinking
so I wouldn't leave him, but now I can't imagine ever letting him touch me
again. (12/21/99)
Book Log: John Irving blasts Tom Wolfe, Wolfe blasts back By Craig Offman
Irving
says Wolfe can't write, Wolfe says Irving's all washed up. (12/21/99)
The love that dare not squeak its name By David Rakoff
Even as a child I suspected I
had something special in common with Stuart Little. (12/21/99)
Comics:
Carol Lay
Sometimes people get what they deserve! (12/21/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Late night at the Long Gun By Laura Cavender
Something let me watch
the Bangkok sex shows without losing my lunch. (12/21/99)
Urge: Naked World: United Kingdon of Nymphomania By Hank Hyena
Are the British
discovering they're not so abstemious after all? (12/21/99)
Media:
Out of Time By Sean Elder
The L.A. Times internal investigation is complete and
someone has to take the fall. (12/21/99)
Mothers Who Think:
A Christmas story starring Jane Russell By
Mickey Rathbun
Her time with
us was short, but we will never forget the comely tan-and-white terrier. (12/21/99)
News:
Black like who? By Debra Dickerson
Mumia Abu-Jamal may be a symbol of racism to the
celebrity set, but to most black people, he's just a scary character who
probably got what he deserved. (12/21/99)
A new era for Iraq? By Ian Williams
Saddam Hussein must decide whether to accept the
U.N.'s latest arms-inspection deal, which could end sanctions against his
country. (12/21/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Gary Larson By Susan McCarthy
He created a world entirely
populated by the lumpy, the big-nosed, the bespectacled, the bug-eyed and
the foofy-haired. Welcome to "The Far Side." (12/21/99)
Nothing Personal: Monkey business By Amy Reiter
Loose lips sell
tabloids! Lopez and Judd find out what happens when ex-husbands yack-back;
Alan Cummings puckers up and lets 'em flap; and Cindy Margolis, princess of
talk? (12/21/99)
Technology:
The real Y2K crash By
Mark Gimein
Why did stocks that skyrocketed on the
promise of "silver bullet" millennium bug solutions fall back to earth? (12/21/99)
Technology Log: Amazon to world By Scott Rosenberg
We control how many times you must
click! With a decision to patent the obvious, Amazon sparks the ire of a
free-software advocate -- and a boycott of its site. (12/21/99)
Travel:
It's a bird, it's a plane -- it's SkyMall! By Christine Kenneally
Where can you order an
indoor/outdoor miniature golf course for only $18,999.95? In the mother
ship of all catalogs. (12/21/99)
Monday, December 20, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats By Mac Montandon
The Violent Femmes could never get
laid, but a new live set remembers that the trio wrote definitive mash
songs. (12/20/99)
"Girl, Interrupted" By Stephanie Zacharek
Not even foxy sociopath Angelina Jolie can save
this nut house drama. (12/20/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, December 20, 1999. (12/20/99)
Books:
"My Garden (Book):" by Jamaica Kincaid By
Jaime Manrique
The chilly-hearted
writer's new collection pulses with a surprising tenderness and poetry. (12/20/99)
Book Bag: Lyrical By Janet Fitch
The author of "White Oleander" picks four novels
and one memoir that read like poetry. (12/20/99)
Tin ear By Peter D.
Kramer
Perhaps if Gail Sheehy listened better, she'd find that
Hillary doesn't suppress emotion -- she just doesn't get it. (12/20/99)
Comics:
Tom Tomorrow
This Modern World (12/20/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Lose your "bitch tits": Liposuction is
slurping excess breast tissue out of steroid-abusing men. (12/20/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 45 By Tracy Quan
Media
circus: After a tense moment in our underwear, Jasmine, Allison and I crowd
around for April's talk show debut. (12/20/99)
Ask Dr. Bob: Genetic predictions By Robert Burton, M.D.
If you could know, would you want to? (12/20/99)
Letters:
New Leftists Art Goldberg and Stew Albert fire back at David Horowitz
Plus: Amen to Joyce Millman's "year in TV" round-up; is it little girls -- or their moms -- who buy pink toys? (12/20/99)
Media:
Just in time for the holidays By Sean Elder
Guilt: Want some Christmas cheer
with your magazines? Forget about it. (12/20/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Mom spam By
Phaedra Hise
The cyber-scourge of families everywhere. (12/20/99)
News:
The roots of a hostage crisis By Robert Bryce and Lisa Tozzi
The angry Cuban detainees in
Louisiana are just some of the illegal immigrants trapped in the INS's
permanent limbo.. (12/20/99)
She's leaving home By Joan Walsh
Hillary Clinton is finally striking out on her
own. But will she ever figure out who she really is? (12/20/99)
People:
A special hell called dating By Steve Burgess
What philanthropic urge did she
think was motivating my dinner invitations? Concern that anyone so dense is
surely unable to boil water and must be fed? (12/20/99)
Nothing Personal: Pants on fire By Amy Reiter
Lie detectors, all around! Plus: Tonya takes a another
swipe; Bunny brothel honors Andy Kaufman, and the Spice Girls ... waxy but
wickless. (12/20/99)
Technology:
Technology Log: Get granny shopping online! By Janelle Brown
Who really
benefits when an e-commerce site and an ISP team up to teach seniors how to
surf? (12/20/99)
View From the Top: Hold the phone By John Geirland
Robert Tercek and PacketVideo
think media covergence is headed for your cell phone. (12/20/99)
Weekend, December 18-19, 1999
Health & Body:
Urge: The year in sex By Virginia Vitzthum
Looking back over a year that
looked back over 50 years. (12/18/99)
News:
To the moon, Al By Jake Tapper
Al Gore and Bill Bradley square off in New Hampshire, with Ted Koppel cast in the role of marriage counselor. (12/18/99)
Adios to all that By Joe Conason
Old passions run high over the fate of a little
boy, but both Cubans and the exile community are ready to embrace a new
future -- together. (12/18/99)
Arianna Huffington is dead wrong By Ian Williams
In her unbelievable defense of the
Serbs, the syndicated columnist condones the massacre of innocent civilians
by the Serbs. (12/18/99)
People:
Bill Belew, the man who dressed The King By Mike
Thomas
The creator of the
glorious "Burning Flame of Love" and other sartorial extravaganzas recalls
what it was like to design costumes for the messiah of Memphis. (12/18/99)
Technology:
Slouching toward Y2K By Thomas Scoville
Will this be the year you get an office
that's not the server room or the year your boss decides to replace Linux
with NT? Our geek horoscopes prepare you for the future. (12/18/99)
Travel:
The empire winds down By Morris Dye
China's assumption of control over Macau
on Sunday writes the final verse in the epic of European colonization in
Asia. (12/18/99)
Friday, December 17, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"Three Kings," one "Witch" and a "Princess"
Salon Arts &
Entertainment's critics pick their favorite movies of 1999. (12/17/99)
"Magnolia" By Charles Taylor
Even with a stellar cast, director Paul
Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights" follow-up flounders without a punchline. (12/17/99)
"Stuart Little" By Stephanie Zacharek
The beloved book about a mouse with human parents
becomes a small wonder of a family movie. (12/17/99)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
On the "The New Latinaires 2," transnational artists
fusing Latin, house and electronic music suggest that the Ricky Martin
explosion was not a fluke. (12/17/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Friday, December 17, 1999. (12/17/99)
Books:
Art meets life meets art By Melanie Rehak
In his new collection, "Trappings,"
Richard Howard makes an old question shine again. (12/17/99)
Ivory Tower: Diary of a teacher's last year By
David Alford
Tenure made me soft.
Then an aikido master taught me his moves. (12/17/99)
Books Log: Novelist suffers for his art in strip joints By Craig Offman
Arousal
poses problems for IRS write-off. (12/17/99)
"Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" by Gregory Maguire By Rachel Elson
Cinderella is
a manipulative, self-pitying twit who loves to sweep ashes in this
retelling of the fairy tale. (12/17/99)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel
A Message From the Management (12/17/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Lara Croft producer arrested for
pedophilia: "Tomb Raider" executive is busted after seeking a 9-year-old
girl
for sex. (12/17/99)
The survivalist's guide to do-it-yourself medicine By Mary Roach
Come the
apocalypse, who will fill your prescriptions? (12/17/99)
Letters:
Would Jimmy Swaggart's God forbid sex?
Plus: Merger rumors behind hot VA Linux IPO; reducing Russia to vodka-swilling stereotype. (12/17/99)
Media:
Alt: All tech, all the time By Jenn Shreve
Going e-postal and other tales of the
technological revolution. Plus: Blood-spurting penises and mushrooming,
adventure sport for the elite? (12/17/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Foreskin and several years from now By Kim Lane
My husband has
dedicated himself to the proposition that he can form a more perfect penis. (12/17/99)
News:
Columbine High School shut down By Dave Cullen
In the wake of new Internet
threats and the release of the killers' videotapes, wary school officials
cancel the last two days of class. (12/17/99)
Bush and McCain go head-to-head By Anthony York
The GOP front-runner blasts his
rival's plan for campaign-finance reform. (12/17/99)
A GOP rebel in Dixie By Jake Tapper
Sen. John McCain now faces a must win in New
Hampshire. But if he hopes to topple George Bush, he'll have to win South
Carolina as well. (12/17/99)
People:
Hollywood Parasite By
David Goodman
Megamorphosis: I now know what it feels like
to be hated by every guy in a bar because the four hottest girls there are
dancing intently around you. And yet, I am not all that distracted. (12/17/99)
Nothing Personal: Rack of hams By Amy Reiter
Jann Wenner jams, Yoko Ono swings,
Kurt Loder smiles ... it must be office party season. Plus: Boy George
narrowly escapes death by disco ball! (12/17/99)
Technology:
Something for nothing? By Lydia Lee
On freebie sites you can't always get
what you want, but if you try real hard you just might get something free. (12/17/99)
Technology Log: I kissed him! By Janelle Brown
Janelle Brown meets Mahir: Across a
crowded room (filled to bursting with dot-commers and nude models), our
intrepid reporter spots the Turkish stud. (12/17/99)
Travel:
A thousand welcomes By Chrystyna K. Lucyk
He got me to sing -- pretty good for a
one-day marriage. (12/17/99)
Thursday, December 16, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats By Gary Kaufman
Two Buck Owens reissues imagine
Christmas as a mostly secular holiday. (12/16/99)
Entertainment Log: Prince for a day By Jon Caramanica
The Roots and friends party like
it's 1982. (12/16/99)
It's a boy's, boy's, boy's world (and a girl's) By Michael Sragow
"Liberty Heights"
stars Ben Foster and Rebekah Johnson talk about race relations and
"spilling seed" in Barry Levinson's latest look back at Baltimore. (12/16/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, December 16, 1999. (12/16/99)
Books:
"Sidewalk" by Mitchell Duneier By Andrew O'Hehir
An eloquent study of Greenwich
Village street vendors that's sure to become a contemporary classic of
urban sociology. (12/16/99)
Salon Book Awards By
Laura Miller and Craig Seligman
Ten titles that kept us up all night in 1999. (12/16/99)
Comics:
Ruben Bolling
Billy Dare in the bowels of Mordu's lair! (12/16/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Micropenis and a giant clitoris:
Hermaphrodites hiss, "Don't cut up our unique organs!" (12/16/99)
Geographic discrimination? By David Brauer
Supporters of a new lawsuit against the
federal government want to know why Minnesota seniors receive less money
for their health care. (12/16/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 44 By Tracy
Quan
The
other cheek: Matt grants me my bed rest; Allison waxes New Age. (12/16/99)
Letters:
Is Camille Paglia on target on WTO?
Plus: Could a mother love her child and still kill him? (12/16/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Die Santa! Die! By Elizabeth
Bobrick
As I see it, lying about Santa is like
covering for a friend who's having an affair with a jerk. (12/16/99)
O Tin-nenbaum By Gayle Brandeis
We welded our holiday totem; maybe next year we'll get
it chromed. (12/16/99)
News:
Will multinationals gobble up Ben and Jerry's? By Kenneth
Rapoza
A protest movement
ignites to make sure Cherry Garcia is never owned by Nestle. (12/16/99)
As long as he doesn't sound gay By Paul Festa
The mayoral candidate who
articulated a growing angst in San Francisco may have been hurt at the
polls because he said it with a lisp. (12/16/99)
Midnight rendezvous By Joshua Micah Marshall
Did attorneys for Kenneth Starr and Linda Tripp
arrange a secret tape exchange to leak information to Newsweek? (12/16/99)
People:
Mistress Patricia Payne, dominatrix By David
Bowman
"My husband was standing
there holding a riding crop. 'When did we get a horse?' he asked." (12/16/99)
Nothing Personal: William F. Buckley: Retiring line By Amy Reiter
After 33 years
of throwing punches, William F. Buckley Jr. hangs it up. (12/16/99)
Technology:
Legends in their own minds By Thomas Scoville
Two new books try to lionize
warrior-entrepreneurs battling in Microsoft's shadow, but leave us
wondering where high tech's heroes are. (12/16/99)
Technology Log: Panhandling made perfect By Janelle Brown
an a Web site teach street
people how to improve their money-making skills? (12/16/99)
Travel:
Travel Advisor: Papers please By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert dispels a Mexico
passport myth, facilitates some Tasmanian devilry and prepares the Idaho
non-skier. (12/16/99)
Wednesday, December 15, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats By Carlene Bauer
Mogwai's migrainous wankery has
absolutely no potential for popular appeal. (12/15/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, December 15, 1999. (12/15/99)
Books:
"Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal" by
Richard Wightman Fox By Stephen Prothero
A beautifully written book about a sensational
19th-century sex scandal unravels stories wrapped in stories about what
really
happened. (12/15/99)
Comics:
Keith Knight
On the 9 Days of X-mas My House Cat Gave to Me (12/15/99)
Health & Body:
Health Log: Bill Gates pledges nearly $4 billion for
third-world medicines By Arthur Allen
Vaccines are a lot like software: They require a big
investment up front, but after that, they're cheap to make. (12/15/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Acidic Cambodian sex scandal: A karaoke star was
burned when a jealous politician's wife had her splashed with battery acid. (12/15/99)
Orphans of managed care By Arthur Allen
Sickle cell patients are in the middle of a
health dilemma. (12/15/99)
Letters:
Andrew Sullivan defends his politics
Plus: You don't have a right to privacy on your boss's time; did HIV+ mom make
the right choice? (12/15/99)
Mothers Who Think:
A swine in Harvard Yard By Alexandra Jacobs
David Mamet's children's book
puts Ivy League angst in the heads of babes. (12/15/99)
News:
Murder in Colombia By Ana Arana
American Indians seek to avenge the murder of
one of their leaders by Colombian leftist rebels. (12/15/99)
The bloody truth about Kosovo By
Arianna Huffington
o amount of whitewashing can cover up
the mess the Clinton administration has on its hands in Yugoslavia. (12/15/99)
People:
Have yourself a merry Jimmy Buffettmas By Gentry Lane
Pour yourself a drink and
forget the presents. December 25 offers plenty of other reasons to
celebrate. (12/15/99)
Technology:
Microsoft, Mahir and money, money, money By Janelle Brown, Mark
Gimein, Andrew Leonard and Kaitlin Quistgaard
A software
superpower is declared a monopoly, free software rakes in billions and
money makes the world go round: the year in tech. (12/15/99)
Travel:
Pilgrim's passion By Pico Iyer
A peripatetic seeker reflects on the quest at
the heart of the pilgrimage. (12/15/99)
Tuesday, December 14, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Sound off
Salon's Arts & Entertainment critics pick their favorite
records and musical moments of 1999. (12/14/99)
Entertainment Log: When gold diggers attack! By Emily Sendler
Who
doesn't want to marry a millionaire? (12/14/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, December 14, 1999. (12/14/99)
Books:
"My Century" by Günter Grass By Michael Scott Moore
In a new novel, the cantankerous 1999
Nobel laureate takes on his times, year by year. (12/14/99)
Presents of mind By Maria Russo and
Stephanie Zacharek
A selection of books sure to charm, delight and
inform even the most particular readers on your list. (12/14/99)
Dear Mr. Blue: How much is too much? By Garrison Keillor
I can't focus on my schoolwork
unless I have sex three or four times a day. Does this make me an addict? (12/14/99)
Comics:
Carol Lay
I gotta get some peace and quiet! (12/14/99)
Health & Body:
Health Log: Surgeon general pushes mental health
treatment By Dena Bunis
Shame and the lack of insurance keep many from getting the help
they need. (12/14/99)
Health Log: Bill Gates and Nelson Mandela love fest By Arthur Allen
Nelson Mandela met
Bill Gates last week to thank him for funding vaccine research and
distribution to Third World countries. (12/14/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Kill the yeast beast! Yogurt-soaked tampons,
carnivorous tree bark and boiled panties all crush vaginal thrush. (12/14/99)
Urge: Descending into the dungeon By Virginia
Vitzthum
At the Black Rose, leather-clad
sadomasochists walk the tightrope between pleasure and pain. (12/14/99)
Letters:
Is Jim Carrey really the best comic since Chaplin?
Plus: It's urban playgrounds that produce NBA stars; does Indian school yield high-tech geniuses or drones? (12/14/99)
Media:
Mickey's surprise By Sean Elder
An alternative juror gives his impression of
the case of a Disney exec charged with crossing state lines to have sex
with a minor. (12/14/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Jack and Baby Vicky sittin' in a tree By Virginia Gilbert
A gender-bending love story about a boy and his toy. (12/14/99)
News:
Croatia after Tudjman By Laura Rozen
The death of the Croatian leader marks the
end of an era in the Balkans and leaves the future of the country, and the
region,
uncertain. (12/14/99)
Take-home test By David Corn
Gov. Bush says he has been reading a biography of
former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Here's a reading comprehension exam
for the
GOP front-runner.(12/14/99)
Goodbye cruel world By Dave Cullen
Video footage made by Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold leaves unanswered questions about whether their parents could have
stopped the massacre at Columbine. (12/14/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: Nick Nolte By Steve Vineberg
An actor of extraordinary range
and physical presence, he shines in roles where the tough-guy hero is
strung up by the depth of his own feelings. (12/14/99)
Nothing Personal: Starstock raving mad By Amy Reiter
President Oprah? Godfather
Trump? Noah Wylie will see you now? Starstock.com survey sez ... fans are
nuts. Plus: Antonio, my Banderas! Who was that unmasked man at the Maxim
party? (12/14/99)
Technology:
MP3: Here, there, everywhere By Janelle Brown
The latest digital music
players let you play MP3s on your home stereo, in your car or on the run --
but are they any good? (12/14/99)
Travel:
Road roulette By Rolf
Potts
Demoralized by goals and guidebooks, our
correspondent tackles Lithuania and Poland on a thumb and a prayer. (12/14/99)
Monday, December 13, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
TV 1999 By Joyce Millman
From "The Sopranos" to "Greed," a look back at the highs and lows of the year in television. (12/13/99)
Sharps & Flats By Jonathan Lee
Free of lyrical limitations, San Francisco's Tarentel channel the meditative power of music into audio cinema. (12/13/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, December 13, 1999. (12/13/99)
Books:
"The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction" by Linda Gordon By Debra Dickerson
A historian unearths a bizarre-but-true story of New York nuns, Irish Catholic orphans,
their Mexican-American would-be parents and a white Protestant lynch mob. (12/13/99)
Ivory Tower: Pimping a Ph.D. By Michael Erard
A new graduate program turns Chaucer scholars into money-grubbing entrepreneurs. (12/13/99)
Comics:
Tom Tomorrow
This modern world (12/13/99)
Health & Body:
God, glass, LSD By Greg Bottoms
After dropping six hits of acid, my brother had his first psychotic episode. (12/13/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 43 By Tracy Quan
Out of order: It's hard talking to a wire-wearing snitch, especially when my crotch
is on fire. (12/13/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Sexy Y2K lingerie, lubes and vibrators: Shameless millennium marketing spills
over into the love department. (12/13/99)
Letters:
Keep the morning-after pill away from our daughters!
Plus: Buffy" fans strike back; McCain is the perfect "anti-Clinton." (12/13/99)
Media:
Media man By Susan Lehman
With his new Web venture, magazine veteran Kurt Andersen promises a must-go news and information site that's as witty as the Wall Street Journal. (12/13/99)
Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
(12/13/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Singing the Pink Blues By Margot Mifflin
Why do makers of toys and computer games still practice segregation? (12/13/99)
Poo rules! By Brennan Conaway
For some seemingly inexplicable reason, No. 2 is No. 1 with Japanese kids. (12/13/99)
News:
Who killed Betty Van Patter? By David Horowitz
A letter from an old friend stirs up passions from one of the most disturbing, yet little-known, crimes of the New Left era. It happened exactly 25 years ago. (12/13/99)
A quiz that matters By Douglas McGray
Foreign policy experts come up with the real
questions George W. Bush should answer. (12/13/99)
Clueless in Seattle By Arianna Huffington
The real legacy of the WTO protests is a
rising tide of populism -- try telling that to politicians swapping
platitudes on global trade. (12/13/99)
The geek shall inherit the Earth By
Jake Tapper
Steve Forbes's New Hampshire poll
numbers slowly rise even though the media has largely ignored him.
(12/13/99)
People:
Y2K: The Vatican fix By Eugene Finerman
An open letter to the Holy See offers a simple, levelheaded solution for saving civilization from collapse. (12/13/99)
Technology:
Diamonds are a lech's best friend By Janelle Brown
Jewelry.com yanks one sexy ad after a group of angry fathers protests -- but its
"toned down" replacement is pretty saucy. (12/13/99)
View From the Top: High-speed Net access that's out of this world By Mark Compton
John Koehler retired from a career at Hughes Electronics and the CIA to build fast Net connections on satellites already in orbit. (12/13/99)
Weekend, December 11-12, 1999
Health & Body:
Urge: The spirit and the flesh By Daren Fonda
Out of her storefront
church, ordained minister Kellie Everts mixes religion and hardcore fetish
videos. (12/11/99)
News:
Clueless in Seattle By Arianna Huffington
The real legacy of the WTO protests is a
rising tide of populism -- try telling that to politicians swapping
platitudes on global trade. (12/11/99)
The geek shall inherit the Earth By
Jake Tapper
Steve Forbes's New Hampshire poll
numbers slowly rise even though the media has largely ignored him. (12/11/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Weekend: Y2Uchoose: Vote on the Readers' Choice
Awards By Amy Reiter
Ally Sheedy spills; is Jim Carrey possessed by Andy
Kaufman? Britain's kittens purr and hiss: Rupert on royal dysfunction,
Kate on connubial bliss. Plus: Celebrity most likely to name body
parts? To mistreat the help? Announcing the Nothing Personal Readers'
Choice Awards! (12/11/99)
Technology:
21st Challenge No. 29: The perfect e-gift By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
What should you order online for
Bill Clinton or Bill Gates, George W. Bush or Jesse Ventura? (12/11/99)
Technology Log: Dissecting the VA Linux IPO By Mark Gimein
Its stock soared
698 percent on opening day -- but does that mean investors really believe
it's got a gilded future? (12/11/99)
Travel:
The day I became a Muslim By Zachary
Karabell
At an Indian mosque on a blazing
summer afternoon, a moment that I had only dreamed of came true. (12/11/99)
Friday, December 10, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"The Green Mile" By Andrew O'Hehir
Tom Hanks and a sparkling cast squeeze Stephen King's story for surprisingly effective Hollywood melodrama. (12/10/99)
"Cradle Will Rock" By Charles Taylor
Tim Robbins makes politics for art's sake. (12/10/99)
"I'm an optimist" By Jeff Stark
Tim Roth talks about the plague of incest, the nature of nightmares and directing his first movie, "The War Zone." (12/10/99)
Sharps & Flats By Michelle Goldberg
On his debut solo album, A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip shores up his street cred. (12/10/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, December 10-12, 1999. (12/10/99)
Books:
Bedside salivating By Ann Hodgman
Some cookbooks make such great reading (and such lousy guides to fixing dinner) that you never need to take them into the kitchen.(12/10/99)
Ivory Tower: Play "Misty" for me By David Alford
When a student turned her affections on me, I learned the values of professional boundaries. (12/10/99)
"Swaggart" by Ann Rowe Seaman By Virginia Vitzthum
A thorough biography of the disgraced televangelist drops a bombshell about his Louisiana childhood. (12/10/99)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel
A Message From the Management (12/10/99)
Health & Body:
Beyond step and spinning By Christina Valhouli
There are as many ethnic-style workouts as ethnic restaurants in New York. (12/10/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
"Dry sex" worsens AIDS numbers in Southern Africa: Subsaharans' disdain for vaginal wetness accelerates plague. (12/10/99)
Letters:
Barely Legal makes an end-run around kiddie porn laws
Plus: The real winner in free-PC movement is Apple; let Cuban boy go home! (12/10/99)
Media:
Alt: Unto us, a poster child is born By Jenn Shreve
They are the heroes and
victims upon which we affix life's tragic lessons and drill them into your
head. Plus: Is James Ellroy snubbing L.A.? (12/10/99)
Mothers Who Think:
He ain't heavy By Lisa Zeidner
He's my dry cleaner's cousin's son (12/10/99)
News:
How victors split their spoils By Suzi Parker
Trent Lott was all set to funnel yet another military project to his home state of Mississippi until Arkansas Sen. Tim Hutchinson took him on. (12/10/99)
McCain vs. New York By Andrea Bernstein
The GOP presidential candidate says he'll sue if the state's byzantine laws keep him off the ballot. (12/10/99)
What the National Guard is doing for New Year's Eve By Sam Stanton and Gary Delsohn
If the world doesn't end at the turn of the millennium, the FBI warns that militia groups and religious nuts might try to help it along. (12/10/99)
Who were those masked anarchists in Seattle? By
L.A. Kauffman
The media has blown the
story, but there's a growing fringe of activists who believe property
destruction isn't "violent," and are bent on convincing the rest of us. (12/10/99)
People:
Love in the time of spam By Harmon Leon
For just $2.99 a minute you too can learn how to score with bad
party girls from the privacy of your own home! (12/10/99)
Technology:
Dear Diary By Todd Levin
Andrew Smales' astonishing Diaryland site provides the format. You supply the
secrets. (12/10/99)
Technology Log: Condomania enjoys online growth spurt By Damien Cave
It started the safe-sex decade by opening the first condom shop -- now 70 percent of its business is online and the company is thinking dot-com. (12/10/99)
Travel:
Red light, green light By Tony Tedeschi
A horn-dog in Costa Rica wrestles with the temptations of the flesh. (12/10/99)
Thursday, December 9, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
TV party tonight By Jeff Stark
Commercials feature the best music on television,
but that didn't get in the way of more soundtracks from "Friends," "Buffy,"
"Ally," "The Simpsons" and more. (12/09/99)
Beautiful dreamer By Michael Sragow
"End of the Affair" director Neil Jordan talks
about sex, Catholicism and why "God is the greatest imaginary being of all
time." (12/09/99)
Sharps & Flats By Patrick Giles
"Earbox" collects the intricate
grace and visionary minimalism of John Adams. (12/09/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, December 9, 1999. (12/09/99)
Books:
"20th-Century Dreams" by Nik Cohn and Guy Peellaert By Charles Taylor
The writer
and the artist's new bout of cultural nausea is like a tabloid that might
be sold at the Whitney Museum. (12/09/99)
Road scholar By Jonny
Miles
William Least Heat-Moon talks about travelling the
nation's waterways and the nonfiction writer's debt to the truth. (12/09/99)
Comics:
Ruben Bolling
The men's magazine for men like Bob! (12/09/99)
Health & Body:
Sights for sore eyes By David Bowman
Henry Grunwald has gone blind, but
is seeing more clearly than ever. (12/09/99)
Health Log: Blue gene By Jon Bowen
An IBM supercomputer will try to solve one of
science's most perplexing mysteries -- protein folding. (12/09/99)
Health Log: Secretin may not be effective against childhood autism By Arthur Allen
Drug found no better than a placebo in several studies. (12/09/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 42 By Tracy Quan
Occupational hazard: Hot wax and bad news don't mix. (12/09/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Chinese wife enslavers executed: Six merchants were executed last
week for selling poor women to northern Chinese farmers. (12/09/99)
Letters:
Will MP3.com make you a rock star?
Plus: If pilots can boost safety, your doctor ought to be able to; looking for literature's "real men." (12/09/99)
Media:
New kids in the balcony By Sean
Elder
A veteran and a novice are the new movie critics at the New York Times. (12/09/99)
Mothers Who Think:
She loves me, she loves me not By Susan
Caba
In an exhaustive --
and exhausting -- book on motherhood, anthropologist Sara Blaffer Hrdy
breaks some big news: There is no such thing as maternal instinct. (12/09/99)
News:
Al Gore takes on challenger online By Jake Tapper
The vice president takes his aggressive
attacks on Bill Bradley into cyberspace. (12/09/99)
The seeds of Seattle By Bruce Shapiro
As anti-globalization foes ask themselves
"where do we go from here?" Seattle enters the lexicon of civl
disobedience. (12/09/99)
Lost in New Jersey By Victorino Matus
Garden State Republicans are in disarray
following Gov. Christie Todd Whitman's decision three months ago to abandon
the race for an open Senate seat. (12/09/99)
People:
Great NFL orgies and the comely gaze of dead Beatles By Cintra Wilson
In praise
of the football movie masterpiece, "North Dallas Forty" (so honest it's
almost French!), and looking at Liverpool's shiny animals in the days
before they were demigods. (12/09/99)
You've got tree By Douglas Cruickshank
A young woman who's been sitting in a tree for
two years is offering
billionaire Charles Hurwitz the opportunity of a lifetime. Will he have the
wisdom to accept it? (12/09/99)
Nothing Personal: Y2Wrap it up! By Amy Reiter
Celebrity most likely to name body
parts? To mistreat the help? To lead a secret double life? Scan that pack
of pesky publicity seekers and hand out the honors! (12/09/99)
Technology:
Dot-com dogs By Mark Gimein
With Net-stock fever showing no signs of
cooling, mediocre IPOs are growing as plentiful as fleas on a stray hound. (12/09/99)
Technology Log: Click on charity By Janelle
Brown
Toys for Tots calls the Net a
godsend for nonprofits accustomed to expensive direct-mail fund-raising. (12/09/99)
Travel:
Scholar ship By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert digs up information on cheap
flights for students, plus international phone cards and livening up that
Florida-New York drive. (12/09/99)
Wednesday, December 8, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
The fearless celebrity shooters By Stephanie Zacharek
he VH1/Vogue
Fashion Awards brought out the best in celebrities -- and the worst in the
photographers who hounded them. (12/08/99)
Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
A double live set remembers when Guns N' Roses played
with the thunder of the gods. (12/08/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, December 8, 1999. (12/08/99)
Books:
Fortune's Rocks" by Anita Shreve By Sarah Harrison Smith
It takes place in the late 19th
century, but the sexy feminism in this novel is very late 20th century. (12/08/99)
"The Trouble With Normal" by Michael Warner By Peter
Kurth
A sex activist defends
the right of gay men -- and everybody else -- to screw around. (12/08/99)
Ivory Tower: Memories of an Aggie Bonfire boy By Dave Morris
Texas A&M's annual
ritual, which killed 12 this year, is not just a football rally. It's a
homoerotic rite of passage. (12/08/99)
Books Log: Indie bestseller list looks a lot like the Times' By Craig Offman
There's
no escaping "Tuesdays with Morrie." (12/08/99)
Comics:
Keith Knight
Four kids, two dogs, one crazy mom and one patient dad! (12/08/99)
Health & Body:
Word doctor By Rafael Campo, M.D.
A Harvard professor believes poetry can
soothe and even heal his patients. (12/08/99)
Health Log: Medical mistakes are killing us By Dena Bunis
Health plans covering
federal workers will be first to improve quality of care. (12/08/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Adultery, cruel
perversion and hardcore pornography blamed for filthy rich divorce (12/08/99)
Letters:
Are cutting-edge schizophrenia treatments just old news?
Plus: News flash -- online pornographers are "shady" characters; misguided fighters in the Battle of Seattle. (12/08/99)
Media:
Tabloid nation By Sean
Elder
The man who produced "Hard Copy" and "A Current
Affair" remembers the gory, Golden Age of trash TV. (12/08/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Sophie's choice By Alyson Mead
A Canadian court will decide whether
Sophie Brassard must give her children a drug cocktail or lose them to a
foster home. (12/08/99)
News:
The congressman from Columbine By Jake Tapper
For Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo,
reelection seemed inevitable -- until tragedy struck Littleton. (12/08/99)
London fog By Elkan Allan
How Tony Blair, loony leftists and a sex scandal around a
charismatic author turned the London mayor's race into a political party
nightmare. (12/08/99)
Day of the Jackal By Bill
Donahue
A teenage punk who lives on the streets of Los
Angeles tried to make his mark during the WTO protests in Seattle (12/08/99)
People:
How the Demos lost the White House in Seattle By Camille Paglia
The WTO battles blew
the election for Gore; McCain needs more than bad luck to qualify for the
presidency; Hillary's one of the most destructive personalities in American
politics; and why Madonna talks like the Queen Mother. (12/08/99)
Nothing Personal: Merry olde millennium By Amy Reiter
Britain's kittens purr
and hiss: Rupert on royal disfunction, Kate on connubial bliss. And now for
something just like everything else ... John Cleese develops a sitcom. (12/08/99)
Technology:
Big Brother is reading your e-mail By Maura Kelly
Personal computers were
supposed to liberate the workplace. So why do so many companies use them to
spy on workers? (12/08/99)
Technology Log: Viva Net glam! By Janelle
Brown
Even drag queens are getting rich off dot-com mania,
as RuPaul becomes the latest Internet celebrity spokesperson. (12/08/99)
Travel:
Making bombs in Zanzibar By
Frank Bures
An enigmatic encounter with a would-be
African terrorist leaves an expatriate wondering about truth and faith. (12/08/99)
Tuesday, December 7, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats By Michelle
Goldberg
For some reason, the Underworld let
remixers with a lot less talent rework the U.K. outfit's songs. (12/07/99)
The Jim Carrey Show By Andrew O'Hehir
Can the spirit of Andy Kaufman give Carrey the
courage to chart his own course? (12/07/99)
Entertainment Log: Sweet "Emotion" By Charles Taylor
Martina McBride owns country's
most genuine voice. (12/07/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, December 7, 1999. (12/07/99)
Books:
"You Are Worthless" and "The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury"
by Scott Dikkers By Emily Gordon
The editor of the Onion unleashes two collections of
anti-humor laced with cyanide. (12/07/99)
Blackballed By Sallie Tisdale
A white sports fan wrestles with basketball's racial taboos. (12/07/99)
Books Log: Rwanda tale nabs British award for best first book By Matt Thorne
The
Guardian newspaper picks Philip Gourevitch's front-line account of the
African genocide. (12/07/99)
Dear Mr. Blue: Hurt and confused By Garrison Keillor
After 20 years of marriage, my
husband told me he's bisexual. (12/07/99)
Comics:
Carol Lay
Death wishes sometimes come true! (12/07/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Tell all By Carol Lloyd
Sex columnist Courtney Weaver talks about
her new book, spilling the beans and the life of a reformed sexpert. (12/07/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Thai cock-cutting catastrophe: Dozens of Bangkok
penises are annually "fed to the ducks" by vengeful wives. (12/07/99)
Letters:
Why send a prude to cover a bondage party?
Plus: Mom should worry more about kid's health than Ritalin's stigma; what the heck's an "Agilent," anyway? (12/07/99)
Mothers Who Think:
The fainter By Aaron Shure
I tried acupuncture, strumming my veins
and "Shocking Brain Surgery." But nothing could prepare me for witnessing
my son's birth. (12/07/99)
Hand holding for moms By David Brauer
One father's ode to his doula -- the woman who
remembered everything he forgot in Lamaze class. (12/07/99)
News:
Alan Keyes called me a racist By Jake Tapper
The GOP presidential candidate can
cry "racism" all he wants, but it's his own paranoid egoism that threatens
his campaign. (12/07/99)
A peace that's about to explode By Laura Rozen
As more than 10,000 NATO troops
prepare to leave Bosnia, the Clinton administration is simply hoping
stability will last until election day. (12/07/99)
Exporting Latino politics By Gregory Rodriguez
Bush's symbolic gestures to the Texas
Latino community have gone a long way. But will the approach work in states
likes California? (12/07/99)
People:
Brilliant Careers: David Hare By Susan Emerling
By transforming the collision of
people and ideas into provocative stories, Britain's hottest dramatist has
reinvigorated the theater with plays that are not only compelling and
enigmatic, but successful at the box office. (12/07/99)
Nothing Personal: Does Carrey need to exorcise? By Amy Reiter
Is Jim possessed by
Andy? Can a direct hit by a T-shirt cause $25,000 in damage? Is Hollywood
evil? Will the Lady P end lines to the loo? Get all the answers here! Plus:
Finally, you can buy a piece of Gilligan's Island! (12/07/99)
Technology:
I e-shopped till I dropped By Morgan Sande
Playing Santa's little helper, I
surfed for a digital camera -- and longed for an elf to take a load off my
aching eyes. (12/07/99)
Travel:
Coping with the EgyptAir mystery By Elliott Neal Hester
When you work at 30,000 feet,
you don't want to doubt the pilot. (12/07/99)
Monday, December 6, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Breaking up is hard to do By Joyce Millman
"Buffy" hits a creative
funk, but its spinoff "Angel" is in the groove. (12/06/99)
Sharps & Flats By Amanda Nowinski
DJ Spooky remixes the remix. (12/06/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, December 6, 1999. (12/06/99)
Books:
Book Bag: Black comedy By Claire Messud
The author of "The Last Life" picks five
favorite books to make you laugh and cringe. (12/06/99)
"Eve: A Biography" by Pamela Norris By Maria Russo
As this remarkable survey
demonstrates, for centuries the original hussy has given men a great excuse
for controlling women. (12/06/99)
Webmaster Borges By Douglas Wolk
The greatest influence on the Argentine writer was
a phenomenon invented after his death. (12/06/99)
Ivory Tower: Technical Sutra By Alexander Salkever
That Silicon Valley is awash in Indian
technical geniuses surprises no one who knows where they went to college. (12/06/99)
Comics:
This Modern World
The WTO plays "Who Wants to Be a Billionaire!" (12/06/99)
Health & Body:
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Full-frontal Aussie soccer babes: A recent
fund-raising endeavor has the Canberra-based women's team posing sans
uniforms for a controversial calendar. (12/06/99)
Dr. Bob: Who will go nuts? By Robert Burton, M.D.
Predicting mental illness is usually no
better than gambling, but we keep trying. (12/06/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 41 By Tracy Quan
I fought the law:
First Randy's tender touch, then the lawyer's lawyerly one: Things are
getting complicated. (12/06/99)
Letters:
Does Christianity need a hipster bible?
Plus: Irrational fretting over cyberslacking; WTO articles discuss everything but trade itself. (12/06/99)
Media:
Tales from the crypt By Sean
Elder
L.A. Times editors knew about the Staples
deal; N.Y. Times vs. Brill's redux; AP's slomo on Korea massacre. (12/06/99)
Alt: The unbearable lightness of Schwarzenegger By Jenn Shreve
Film critics
struggle to review "The End of Days" and still retain their indie cred.
Plus: The AIDS crisis in Africa and one writer's desperate attempt to get a
job at Maxim. (12/06/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Let them eat pills By Debra
S. Ollivier
The French will distribute morning
mfter pills in schools, much to parents' and the Pope's chagrin. (12/06/99)
News:
It takes one to know one By David Horowitz
The irony behind liberal Jacob Weisberg's
smear of conservative scholars who have documented Communist spying in the
U.S. is that he is using the tactics he wrongly charges them with --
"neo-McCarthyism." (12/06/99)
What made peace possible in Ireland? By
Margaret Spillane and Bruce Shapiro
A vision of prosperity and
inclusion, for North and South, moved both sides beyond violence. (12/06/99)
Crash course in ethics By
Michael Alvear
How accurate are airline crash investigations
if the people conducting them have a financial stake in their outcome? (12/06/99)
People:
It's all right! By Eugene Finerman
The game show for everyone, where no contestant
is ever wrong! (12/06/99)
Nothing Personal: Call me undependable By Amy Reiter
Accident-prone: Ally Sheedy
and Jason Priestley spill. Plus: He may be slick and oily, but Jesse was no
SEAL. And: Gwynnie sings! (12/06/99)
¡DMViva! By Jayson Gallaway
All I ever needed to know about the system, I learned in
Spanish-language traffic school. (12/06/99)
Technology:
Gentlemen, start your joysticks By Ian Christe
An X-rated tour through the
early days of porn video games. (12/06/99)
View From the Top: Prime time online By Susan Kuchinskas
Jim Moloshok just launched the
multimillion-dollar Entertaindom portal. Can he create the successor to network TV? (12/06/99)
Technology Log: Y2Kiss By Janelle Brown
Romance novelists attempt to cash in on
millennial computer chaos. (12/06/99)
Weekend, December 04-05, 1999
Health & Body:
Health Log: Sight for Stevie Wonder? By Jon Bowen
The singer is
interested in an experimental form of eye surgery (12/04/99)
Urge: Thank heaven for little girls By Stephen Lemons
Underage-looking aspiring
starlets are lining up for the chance to make $2,000 a day in the flourishing imitation child-porn industry. (12/04/99)
News:
Sustainable agriculture or Shakespeare? By Nina
Shapiro
While protesters voice their resistance to globalization in the streets of Seattle, a reporter
wonders if they really have the people's best interests at heart. (12/04/99)
Jews for a day By Jake Tapper
All six GOP presidential hopefuls schlep their
pandering points to the Republican Jewish Coalition's candidates forum. (12/04/99)
Hillary's spokeswoman calls it quits By Joan Walsh
Marsha Berry leaves the first lady's office in the latest sign Hilary is becoming a full-time Senate
candidate. (12/04/99)
People:
Nothing Personal Weekend: Love in the time of phlegm and potties
that bite By Amy Reiter
Matt Damon keeps day job; D.C. insiders in love; when you get
caught between the toilet seat and New York City, you sue; Demi balks, Posh pouts,
Arnold throws a hissy fit. Plus: The stupid games people play at Ted
Kennedy's parties. (12/04/99)
Ali of Mali: Guitar king of the Sahara By Damien Cave
He reigns over the Timbuktu
Social Club, but his distinctive, bluesy sound is reaching all around the world. (12/04/99)
Travel:
The agony and the ecotourism By Katherine Ellison
Two progressive resorts in Chile
exemplify the baby-boomer shift from bare-bones backpacking to pampered adventure. (12/04/99)
Friday, December 3, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"The End of the Affair" By Michael Sragow
Julianne Moore triumphs in
Neil Jordan's latest crying game. (12/03/99)
"Sweet and Lowdown" By Stephanie Zacharek
Rising star Samantha Morton shines in this
charming, finely crafted film from Woody Allen. (12/03/99)
"Holy Smoke" By Mary
Elizabeth Williams
Kate Winslet smolders, but the rest of the cast
evaporates in Jane Campion's tale of sex and spirituality. (12/03/99)
Sharps & Flats By Seth Mnookin
On "Goodbye 20th Century," Sonic Youth refuse to draw
a line between pretension and fun. (12/03/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Friday, December 3, 1999. (12/03/99)
Books:
"How Good Is David Mamet, Anyway?" by John Heilpern By Andrew O'Hehir
A passionate
critic tosses a few firebombs at the New York theater. (12/03/99)
Ivory Tower: Diary of a Teacher's Last Year By David Alford
Sexual pedagogy: All the
rules in the world against romancing students can't explain away the elusive emotions of this vocational hazard. (12/03/99)
Ripped from the headlines By Jacqueline Carey
New mysteries are lifting their plots out
of the newspapers. And that's not a bad thing. (12/03/99)
Comics:
The Dark Hotel
A Message From the Management (12/03/99)
Health & Body:
Unhappy meal By Mary Roach
How to eat yourself to death. (12/03/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Clitoral creams and sex cues: NexMed contributes
to female orgasm with topical cream; humming helps, too.. (12/03/99)
Letters:
Say what? Horowitz thinks Republicans are too NICE?!
Plus: Grateful Dead producer defends cut-and-paste editing; marriage-savers are wrong about monogamy. (12/03/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Trapped and torn By Lisa Guide
Locked in by a chain of protesters,
I wanted to kick myself. My kids were at home and I was about to be pummeled for all the wrong reasons. (12/03/99)
Wild in the streets By Annie Culver
What better place to find a hottie than at a
riot conveniently taking place in my neighborhood? (12/03/99)
News:
The three horsemen of globalization By Monte
Paulsen
Critics fear increased cooperation between the World Trade Organization, World Bank and
International Monetary Fund will spawn an 800-pound gorilla. (12/03/99)
The great straddler By Todd
Gitlin
Free trader Clinton veers left in Seattle. But will his act be enough to keep Al Gore's Democratic party intact? (12/03/99)
People:
Appreciation: Quentin Crisp By
Jody Rosen
Leaving behind a handful of charmingly written books and a treasure trove of bons mots, the dignified
gentleman iconoclast assures himself a fittingly singular immortality. (12/03/99)
'Tis one reason to be jolly By David Goodman
The strippers who came in from the cold:
A heartwarming tale of Christmas. (12/03/99)
Nothing Personal: Insidery on the inside By Amy Reiter
The stupid party games
people play ... in D.C. Plus: Jared Harris on getting dogs stoned -- "It was a gift to the animal." And: Miss America trades her tiara for hot
pastrami on rye. (12/03/99)
Technology:
See spot run By Scott Rosenberg
Internet firms throwing big money at TV ad
campaigns are making an elementary goof. (12/03/99)
Technology Log: The free PC is dead! By Mark Gimein
Long live the free PC! By
driving the price of low-end computers to near zero, the free-PC movement is driving itself to near extinction. (12/03/99)
Travel:
The genie of desire By Tanya Shaffer
When I finally kissed a man in Africa, he
ran away. (12/03/99)
Apocalypse now By Jim Molnar
For a longtime resident, Seattle's last few tumultuous days seem to have come straight from the Book of Revelation. (12/03/99)
Thursday, December 2, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats By Andy Battaglia
Semiotics and narcotics guide
filmmaker Harmony Korine's debut record. (12/02/99)
Dead again By Greil Marcus
Here are 10 reasons why "Dead Man" is the best movie of
the end of the 20th century. (12/02/99)
The adaptation racket By Michael Sragow
"Mansfield Park" trashes Jane Austen's novel,
but Von Stroheim's "Greed" masterfully uncovers creatures of the id. (12/02/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, December 2, 1999. (12/02/99)
Books:
"The Walking Tour" by Kathryn Davis By Virginia Heffernan
The pastoral collides with
cyberspace in a pulse-quickening novel that's totally confusing, but worth the trip. (12/02/99)
A good man is hard to write By
Jonathan Miles
Hemingway tough or Fitzgerald sensitive?
Today's novelists scramble for a masculinity that doesn't seem fake. (12/02/99)
Books Log: Palm Beach exposŽ sells out, enrages socialites By Craig Offman
While
locals fume, stores can't keep it in stock. (12/02/99)
Comics:
Tom the Dancing Bug
God-Man meets Blasphemy-Boy. Result: Hype! (12/02/99)
Health & Body:
The culture of secrecy By Dr.
Jeff Drayer
Docs make mistakes, but proposed regulations to make them talk about it won't change that scary fact. (12/02/99)
Health Log: Who's watching the docs? By James B. Stewart
The code of silence in hospitals
allows deadly mistakes to happen, but some simple reforms could help. (12/02/99)
Urge: Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: Episode 40 By Tracy Quan
Betrayal, his and hers: How can I think about my lies when Matt's are
taking up all the space? (12/02/99)
Urge: Naked World By Hank Hyena
Kiwis elect world's first transsexual legislator:
Having gotten over "the gender thing," New Zealand teaches a lesson on tolerance and maturity. (12/02/99)
Letters:
Older student proves you're never too old to be a wannabe!
Plus: Lynda Barry doesn't need Cintra's sympathy; vegetarians squawk at Thanksgiving dinner tale. (12/02/99)
Media:
Tina fires back By Susan Lehman
The most controversial editor in the history of
American magazines slams her critics, defends her business acumen and says Talk will probably be her last magazine. (12/02/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Adrift in America By Michael Shapiro
Elian Gonzalez isn't an anti-Castro
poster child; he's a child who needs his father's love. (12/02/99)
News:
McCain's world order By Jake Tapper
The iconoclastic presidential candidate
offers a five-point foreign policy plan and picks up a surprising endorsement. (12/02/99)
If he can make it here ... By Andrea Bernstein
Arizona Sen. John McCain's toughest
opponent in the New York primary is not George W. Bush, but the state's Byzantine process for qualifying for the ballot (12/02/99)
Senator from the fourth estate By Anthony York
Adored by the national media,
criticized at home, John McCain has turned his reputation for candor into political capital. (12/02/99)
A no-win situation By L.A. Kauffman
Non-violent protesters get hit from both sides at
the WTO conference in Seattle. (12/02/99)
Caught in the crossfire By Zach Works
I was minding my own business, when the
Seattle cops gassed me. (12/02/99)
What's really at stake in Seattle By Alicia Montgomery, Daryl Lindsey and Fiona Morgan
Economists speak out on the issues behind the World Trade Organization summit and the street protests. (12/02/99)
People:
Geoffrey Marcy, master of the universe By William
Speed Weed
With the existence of six new planets announced just this week, the California astronomer is racking
up "extrasolar" discoveries like Mark McGwire racks up homers. (12/02/99)
Nothing Personal: Fine celebrity whines By Amy Reiter
Demi balks, Posh pouts,
Arnold throws a hissy fit ... because celebrity is everyone having to say they're sorry. (12/02/99)
Technology:
Singing the MP3 blues By Emily Vander Veer
Indie musicians find online music
distributors every bit as greedy as the recording industry they aim to replace. (12/02/99)
Technology Log: Celebs flock to Apple's digital hype fest By Janelle Brown
Douglas
Adams, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Donald Glaser visit Cupertino to make digital movies. (12/02/99)
Travel:
Well trained By Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert offers advice on training through
some European hotspots, plus information on cruising Alaska and Germany's Passion Play 2000. (12/02/99)
Wednesday, December 1, 1999
Arts & Entertainment:
"I'm a pure insider" By Sarah Vowell
"It Hurts" author Matthew Collings on the
uselessness of secular critics, Warhol's sincere cynicism and how one avoids annoying artspeak. (12/01/99)
Sharps & Flats By Geoff Edgers
To deny Celine Dion is to deny the
culture that made her a star. (12/01/99)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, December 1, 1999. (12/01/99)
Books:
"In Nevada" by David Thomson, "24/7" by Andrés Martinez and
"Double Down" by Frederick and Steven Barthelme By Jeff Stark
The harsh beauty of Nevada, the glitzy pleasures of Vegas and the thrill ride of gambling. (12/01/99)
Games people play By Jim Hanas
"Double Down" authors Frederick and Steven
Barthelme talk about family, gambling and their run-in with the legal system. (12/01/99)
Ivory Tower: Painting insanity black By Annie Murphy Paul
Why are there more black
schizophrenics? (12/01/99)
Comics:
The K Chronicles
A connoisseur's tour of fine Boston dining (12/01/99)
Health & Body:
The outer limits of schizophrenia treatment By Dawn MacKeen
Researchers are treating teenagers for
schizophrenia before they are diagnosed. Some bioethicists think that's insane. (12/01/99)
Naked World: Elton John makes the Cub Scouts strip By
Hank Hyena
Scout leaders balk at what they call a pedophilia-inspired Albert Hall show. (12/01/9
Letters:
Are American voters ignorant -- or just apathetic?
Plus: Shuttling blame for declining sex drive; polluting Bob Marley's legacy. (12/01/99)
Media:
The new kid at the New Republic By Sean Elder
Peter Beinart, the latest editor
at the political weekly, isn't nervous. Much. (12/01/99)
Mothers Who Think:
Taking a chance on love By Jane Smith
Suddenly, we would be allowed
to adopt a baby -- if we could accept the very real possibility that, one day, he would be mentally ill. (12/01/99)
News:
Bare breasts, green condoms and rubber bullets By David Moberg
The WTO has united
labor and the radical, counter-cultural left in a way the anti-war movement never could. (12/01/99)
How to kill HMO reform By David
McGuire
The lawyers who brought down Big Tobacco have
now set their sights on HMOs, but what's wrong with this picture? (12/01/99)
WTO protestors go to the Web By Fiona
Morgan
Guerrilla journalists and Webcams bring you all the tear-gassed excitement of Seattle's street protests. (12/01/99)
People:
Bernie Brillstein: Alive and dishing By Jon B.
Rhine
A key figure in the careers of John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Lorne Michaels talks about being a Jew in
Nashville, the girl who got away and bad-mouthing Michael Ovitz. (12/01/99)
What dreams may bomb By Matt Himes
For years, Richard Simmons has made people earn
their dreams the hard way. Now he can't give them away. (12/01/99)
Nothing Personal: When toilet seats attack By Amy Reiter
When you get caught
between the seat and New York City, you know it's painful, so you sue.
Plus: All aboard Affleck! (12/01/99)
Technology:
Sex sells, doesn't it? By Mark Gimein
Tales of financial chaos at the heart
of an online porn empire. (12/01/99)
Technology Log: Holiday gift mania By Janelle Brown
Tis the season for journalists to
be flooded with gifts from start-ups eager for attention. (12/01/99)
Travel:
"Would God forgive Lenin?" By Jeffrey Tayler
In a lonely tower above the mean
streets of Krasnoyarsk, a wanderer encounters the fervent heart of Russia's
abiding faith. (12/01/99)
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