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Salon Issue 13
April 29, 1996

NEWSREAL:

Friday May 3, 1996: Anger and ammo: Summer in the inner city. Freeze! Nashville PD Web site has you covered. Quote of the Day: Blood sport on the border
Thursday May 2, 1996: Gas price conspiracy: The movie. Bosnia massacres: What the U.S. knew. Quote of the Day: Singing ATMs
Wednesday May 1, 1996: Marriage is doomed. So why should gays get married? Moscow's May Day: Little to cheer about. Quote of the Day: Banning Babwa Wa-Wa
Tuesday April 30, 1996: Way behind in the "war" on meth. Boat people betrayed. Fair fighting in Liberia.
Monday April 29, 1996: Can killer kids be cured? Netscape takes on Ma Bell. American manhood is alive and wriggling.

MEDIA CIRCUS:

Friday May 3, 1996: Blurbmania: When good reviews happen to bad books
Thursday May 2, 1996: What do dudes really want? The Details "Sex Issue."
Wednesday May 1, 1996: The Nation's makeover: Old whine in a new bottle?
Tuesday April 30, 1996: Todd Gitlin: The press is missing the biggest race story.
Monday April 29, 1996: Gary Kamiya on "60 Minutes'" new commentary troika of Stanley Crouch, Molly Ivins and P.J. O'Rourke -- and Andy Rooney's less-than-effusive welcome.

SNEAK PEEKS:

Friday May 3, 1996: Al Sharpton's surprising autobiography
Thursday May 2, 1996: Heathens: A brisk, funny, no-holds-barred novel about race, religion and a somewhat harried elementary-school teacher.
Wednesday May 1, 1996: "The Third Lie," Agota Kristof's tangled family melodrama.
Tuesday April 30, 1996: Soul on ice: Motown man in a hip-hop world.
Monday April 29, 1996: The civil rights era's forgotten Jewish hero.

TABLE TALK: Should men and women just live apart?

READER POLL: Would you rather have Madonna or Courtney Love as your mother?

COLUMNS:

Word by Word By Anne Lamott
Further proof that the writing life is a mental affliction.

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
They were pulsing with female hormones. But The Squeezebox might not have been the best place to take their manhunt.

MODERN LIFE:

Poetry for the rest of us By Laura Miller
Meet nine poets who will get under your skin.

"A scruffy fighting place" By Richard Covington
Seamus Heaney on the art of poetry.

Hip to be hapless By Charles Taylor
David Schwimmer leads the new pack of hang-dog hunks.

Kinko's Hell By Carina Chocano
Abandon hope, all job seekers and freelancers who enter here.

TV:

The Johnson also rises By Joyce Millman
He's not just an actor, he's a way of life. Don Johnson is back, again, in "Nash Bridges."

MUSIC:

The sultans of swing By Michael Ross
A posse of young Turks is blowing new life into the jazz scene.

One day at a time By Stephanie Zacharek
Former Replacement Paul Westerberg is in recovery. And on his new CD he's not afraid to show it.

COMICS:

Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug



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