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Salon Issue 23
Friday July 12, 1996

NEWSREAL:

Friday July 12, 1996: Why Bosnia's butchers stay free.
Thursday July 11, 1996: AIDS: Alone in the ruins. Daily quote: Sexy contraceptive
Wednesday July 10, 1996: Tackling America's gun control duplicity. Daily quotes: Bob Dole, Shakespeare.
Tuesday July 9, 1996: Clinton may shake up Mideast team. Powell retreats.
Monday July 8, 1996: Are the days of cheap Internet access over? Daily quotes: Crimes of deed and word..

MEDIA CIRCUS:

Friday July 12,1996:Ask not for whom the Web polls.
Thursday July 11,1996: Fight the power! How to turn off Happy Talk media.
Wednesday July 10,1996: Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly's blue-collar bullshit.
Tuesday July 9,1996: The reform movement that infuriates the pundits.
Monday July 8,1996: The Web's best photography site.

SNEAK PEEKS:

Friday July 12, 1996:
"Half a Life" -- Growing up bitchy.
Thursday July 11, 1996:
And not a drop to drink: a trek across the Sahara
Wednesday July 10, 1996:
Blood and horror in the Old West.
Tuesday July 9, 1996:
A sharp Irish eye on blighted lives.
Monday July 8, 1996:
Poet, Futurist, beauty: the first modern woman.

TABLE TALK:

Should we legalize marijuana?

Posts of the week.

SALON REGULARS:

Word by Word By Anne Lamott
Night Train to sobriety: reflections on ten years with no loopholes.

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Our columnist proposes her own version of the "sexiest man alive" contest -- scary-legit and street-credible cool.

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Andy has a $2000 misunderstanding with his one-night stand.

Verbivore By Richard Lederer
Our wordplay maven offers a bouquet of bilingual puns.

A Moveable Feast By Cynthia Durcanin
France's "chef of the century" reflects on culinary achievements and disasters as he prepares to hang up his toque.

BOOKS:

The Salon Interview: Richard Ford By Sophie Majeski
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Independence Day" and "The Sportswriter" talks about women and men, language, the South, and why he moves so often.

Lesbian Nation By Julie Felner
"The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America," an honest and hilarious new book by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt, makes sense of the many varieties of lesbianism.

MODERN LIFE:

O.J.: The Long Goodbye. By Joyce Millman
America's continuing fascination with O.J. Simpson reflects a primordial desire to see justice done -- even if Geraldo Rivera carries out the sentence.

MOVIES:

Apocalypse? Wow! By Scott Rosenberg
Big, dumb and loud, the blockbuster "Independence Day" turns the high drama of alien contact into an utterly conventional war movie.

MUSIC:

Long May He Run. By Mark Athitakis
In his new "Broken Arrow," Neil Young takes it easy (for him) -- but the album still has plenty of playfulness and drama.

Bustin' Through. By Zev Borow
De La Soul's new "Stakes Is High" returns to the high cross-over ground of the rap group's breakthrough first album, "Three Feet High and Rising."

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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