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FRIDAY
OCTOBER 31, 1997
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Television There's so much Halloween TV this year, it's scary (10/31/97)
Mothers Who Think Lessons of the nanny murder trial By Dawn MacKeen
Working mothers and nannies alike are held to impossibly high standards, an expert says (10/31/97)
Mothers Who Think An unsavory stew by the Brothers Grimm By Camille Peri
Grimm's grimmest: Most hideous kids' stories ever (10/31/97)
Mothers Who Think My parents went
to Pagan New Year and all I got was this dumb negative energy stone By Courtney Weaver
Halloween spent with real witches is tamer than a visit to your local
haunted house (10/31/97)
Books By Ray Sawhill
"Blues Up and Down" and "The Murder of Jazz": Two new books about jazz: Piazza's collection of vibrant essays and Nisenson's protest about the declining state of the art. (10/31/97)
Sympathy for the novelist By Joe Fowst
I was haunted by Anne Rice (10/31/97)
Money Week A Salon special issue
Cents & sensibility By Gary Kamiya
A literary history of money (10/31/97)
Newsreal Are we all in the money ... By Lori Leibovich
... Or will the poor always be with us?
Who makes the most dough and why? (10/31/97)
Media Circus Publish and perish
By Morgan Cast
Overqualified and grotesquely underpaid, publishing industry serfs labor
for love -- or something other than money
(10/31/97)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Stop the Violins!: How an epidemic of classical music crossovers is destroying the culture of cool (10/31/97)
Letters Crying all the way to the bank (10/31/97)
Salon Recommends The best in books, music and movies (10/31/97)
Music By Mark Athitakis
"Contemplating the Engine Room" is, among other things, the story of what
Mike Watts discovered during his experiences with the Minutemen, the
band he started that helped define American independent rock in the 1980s (10/31/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Red Corner Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Richard Gere catnip to Chinese dames (10/31/97)
Happy Together Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Lovers bicker forever in flawed, morose film by "Chungking Express"
director (10/31/97)
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THURSDAY
OCTOBER 30, 1997
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Television "ER": Dr. Greene confronts his attacker (10/30/97)
Mothers Who Think Time for One Thing By Kate Moses
Mothers who read: A good book is hard to find (10/30/97)
Books By James Poniewozik
"The Art of the Comeback ": It came from the '80s! Donald Trump's latest book tells how he overcame an early-'90s financial slump to return to his former gold-plated glory (10/30/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling: St. Louis woos Ned Balter (10/30/97)
Letters U.S. journalists' plea to China's dictator (10/30/97)
Money Week A Salon special issue
Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Now that liberals and conservatives are both extinct, it's time to stuff and mount them properly (10/30/97)
Media Circus Workers of the Web, delight By Andrew Leonard
For "word people," the new media boom means a rare chance to make a
real buck (10/30/97)
Reality check By Scott Rosenberg
Digital-economy revolutionaries need to sober up (10/30/97)
Music By Heather Havrilesky
"Helium": Helium is a less kind, less gentle B-52s for the late '90s. What better
antidote for the bubble-gum-flavored sawdust that is the current
alternative grind? (10/30/97)
Newsreal "New and improved IRS: Fast, fair and fun!" By Tom McNichol
Putting the "service" back into the Internal Revenue Service (10/30/97)
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Wired's "stealth" investors: Wired's cover feature on CUC leaves out one important fact (10/30/97)
Reality check By Scott Rosenberg
Digital-economy revolutionaries need to sober up (10/30/97)
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WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 29, 1997
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Television Scientologists target
Fox over "Millennium" (10/29/97)
Books By Dan Cryer
"Memoirs of a Geisha": Set in pre-World War II Japan, this novel is as exotic as a moonscape and as old-shoe comfortable as "Pride and Prejudice" (10/29/97)
Money Week A Salon special issue
Crying all the way to the bank By Michelle Goldberg
Trust-fund babies of the world are uniting to share their secret pain (10/29/97)
Media Circus Gabillions and kazillions By Cynthia Joyce
The small screen equals big bucks for the writers and producers behind hit TV programs (10/27/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Gold-diggers have feelings, too -- mostly queasy ones (10/29/97)
Letters Your well-meaning writer may ruin a girl's life (10/29/97)
Mothers Who Think Spice of Life By Chitra Divakaruni
Protecting children with the death penalty (10/29/97)
Music By Joe Heim
"All for Nothing" highlights the waning years of The Replacements, one of
the most influential bands of the '80s (10/29/97)
Newsreal The real China threat By Mark Hertsgaard
The world's most populous country could single-handedly wreck the global environment (10/27/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight (10/29/97)
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TUESDAY
OCTOBER 28, 1997
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Television "Xena": Gabrielle impregnated by Dahak! (10/28/97)
Books By Dwight Garner
"The Party": Capital queen bee Sally Quinn settles scores in dishy memoir (10/28/97)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
In defense of Bill Gates and Martha Stewart (10/28/97)
Money Week A Salon special issue
Your money's no good here By Tim Cahill
Visiting a cashless culture provides new perspectives on our sense of money and self (10/28/97)
Fantasy isle By Stephen G. Bloom
You can vacation with Oprah, Demi and Arnold -- for a price (10/28/97)
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Champagne taste on a McDonald's budget (10/28/97)
Media Circus The scoop on newsroom salaries By Lori Leibovich
Newspaper people gripe vocally but keep their paychecks off the record (10/28/97)
Junk Mail By David Bodanis
Getting brochures for blue furniture? You must be sliding (10/28/97)
Newsreal Market panic: Will Hong Kong drag down the U.S.? By Jonathan Broder
As the stock market suffers its worst day since 1987's "Black Monday," all eyes turn to the East (10/28/97)
Music By Mark Athitakis
Lucinda Williams live at the Fillmore (10/28/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay (10/28/97)
Wanderlust Salon's weekly travel section
Your money's no good here By Tim Cahill
Visiting a cashless culture provides new perspectives on our sense of money and self (10/28/97)
Fantasy isle By Stephen G. Bloom
You can vacation with Oprah, Demi and Arnold -- for a price (10/28/97)
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Champagne taste on a McDonald's budget (10/28/97)
Mondo Weirdo More strange tales from around the world
Searching for roots at the bottom of the boot (10/28/97)
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MONDAY
OCTOBER 27, 1997
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Money Week A Salon special issue
Introducing Salon Money Week By Scott Rosenberg
Salon kicks off Salon Money Week, a special series of articles on our last great taboo (10/27/97)
Po's Tao of dough By Po Bronson
Are you what you make? (10/27/97)
My cash ain't nothing but trash By Cintra Wilson
The author's parents left her a legacy whose worth cannot be measured in vulgar coin: a terminally ludicrous relation to money (10/27/97)
Mothers Who Think Welfare Cinderella By Ariel Gore
How I went from rags to riches to reality in just one year (10/27/97)
Newsreal How you can negotiate a higher salary By Marty Nemko
Career consultant Marty Nemko offers strategies for wringing money out of a Scroogelike boss (10/27/97)
Media Circus Is Anna Wintour really worth a million bucks? By Deborah Mitchell
In the world of glossy New York magazines, the rich get richer and the poor get a dollar a word (10/27/97)
Television Trick or treat for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (10/27/97)
Books By Laura Miller
"The End of the Novel of Love": Why romance no longer drives great novels (10/27/97)
Letters I'd rather watch "Ally" than "Ellen" (10/27/97)
Music By Gavin McNett
Homage to Van Halen's musical genius (10/27/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow (10/27/97)
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FRIDAY
OCTOBER 24, 1997
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Television "Simpsons" do Halloween; Stones do MTV (10/24/97)
Mothers Who Think A Few Good Men By Dayna Macy
Tweezerman: He's a silent, four-inch beauty slave. A better man would be hard to find (10/24/97)
Books By Edward Neuert
"A Calendar of Wisdom": A book of daily affirmations, from Leo Tolstoy, featuring snippets from Shakespeare, Lao Tsu, Ruskin, the Talmud, the Dhammapada, Socrates, Jefferson and others (10/24/97)
In the "Pink" By Cynthia Joyce
Director Gus Van Sant leaves the film dimension to explore the possibilities of writing and his own grief over the death of River Phoenix (10/24/97)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
"Boogie Nights" bummer: How the movie got the porn business all wrong (10/24/97)
The Salon Interview David Mamet By Richard Covington
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright trashes the Internet, denounces "Schindler's List" and praises summer movies as the reappearance of ancient mystery cults (10/24/97)
Letters TV pundit Laura Ingraham is no bimbo (10/24/97)
Media Circus Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Kick me -- I'm a freelancer: But first, please do fill me in on all your wonderful story ideas (10/24/97)
Music By Linda Laban
"Gorgeous George's" success afforded Scottish crooner Edwyn Collins a foot
in the door, but "I'm Not Following You" will prove whether he's truly a
major player or just one in a long line of cult artists (10/24/97)
Newsreal Turning up the heat on global warming By Fred Branfman
The scientist who got Clinton's -- and the world's -- attention on the greenhouse effect (10/24/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
A Life Less Ordinary Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
A girl, a guy and a gun make for a passionate, gloriously American movie love story (10/24/97)
Gattaca Reviewed by Scott Rosenberg
A genetically engineered future makes for a chilly, neurotic night at the movies (10/24/97)
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THURSDAY
OCTOBER 23, 1997
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Television Online adultery on CBS; upcoming "X-Files" (10/23/97)
Mothers Who Think Word By Word By Anne Lamott
A bad thing happened at the beach (10/23/97)
Books By Lisa Michaels
"New York Mosaic": When cocktails and romance reigned (10/23/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling (10/23/97)
Letters Horowitz's low blows; "Service" author: I'm not yuppie scum (10/23/97)
Media Circus It's Giuliani's Times! By Jackie Stevens
The New York Times' mayoral coverage is colored by a double standard (10/23/97)
Music By Mark Athitakis
"Everclear": Post-punkers trash California (10/23/97)
Newsreal "Netscape is toast" By Jonathan Broder
While Washington takes sides in the browser war, prosecutors at the state level are looking beyond, planning further challenges to Microsoft on new ground (10/23/97)
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Microsoft to feds: Hands off my operating system! (10/23/97)
Will the Net spawn intelligent life? By Andrew Leonard
George Dyson's "Darwin Among the Machines" traces a strange new scenario for artificial intelligence -- one in which the Internet gets smarter as people get dumber (10/23/97)
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WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 22, 1997
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Television ABC's "Into Thin Air"; Disney's "Oliver Twist" (10/22/97)
Books By Mark Athitakis
"The New Men": Inside the Vatican's elite school for priests (10/22/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Was it fake for you too? The subject of phony male orgasms rears its ugly head (10/22/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight (10/22/97)
Mothers Who Think Bad girl By Nell Bernstein
A teenager struggles to stay human in the clutches of a system that despises her (10/22/97)
Letters Are girls books too girly? (10/22/97)
Media Circus The grapes of tourism By Jenn Shreve
As a high-tech new Steinbeck museum is constructed in Salinas, Calif., the author -- who loathed his hometown -- is probably spinning in his grave (10/22/97)
Music By Paul Festa
"Joan of Arc Mass/Symphony No. 1": B-side Brahms (10/22/97)
Newsreal The stuff of champions By Ellen Umansky
A Beverly Hills auction of Muhammad Ali memorabilia -- without the champ's presence or consent -- is a heady mix of glitz, boredom and overspending (10/22/97)
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TUESDAY
OCTOBER 21, 1997
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Television Tim Curry sitcom; Johnny Rotten sued on "Judge Judy" (10/21/97)
Books By Charles Taylor
"Jackie Robinson": A serious, competent -- but ultimately numbing -- biography of the man who broke baseball's color line (10/21/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay (10/21/97)
The role model syndrome By Jake Lamar
Two new memoirs by talented black women show how hard it is to reconcile good writing and racial politics (10/21/97)
Mothers Who Think Wild things By Joyce Millman
Confessions of a reluctant rah-rah mom (10/21/97)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queen for a day
The winner came. She puked. She conquered (10/21/97)
Letters Don't ground our astronauts (10/21/97)
Media Circus How to succeed in media by being a clueless right-wing babe in a leopardskin miniskirt By Eric Alterman
So what if she can't think straight? Conservative pin-up Laura Ingraham gives good sound bite (10/21/97)
Music By Gavin McNett
"Divine Comedy": Non-retro romantic pop (10/21/97)
Newsreal Behind the balaclavas By Drew Lindsay
In war, the IRA are quite ordinary killers. Do they have what it takes to make the peace? (10/21/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's weekly travel section
Women's dilemma By Dawn MacKeen
Is solo travel worth the risk? (10/21/97)
Florence By Jan Morris
The most civilized city of all time (10/21/97)
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Bucco time: A feast for that extra hour (10/21/97)
Mondo Weirdo
A piercing Hindu fest (10/21/97)
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MONDAY
OCTOBER 20, 1997
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Television Jane Russell on "Biography"; "Brooklyn South" (10/20/97)
Books By Michelle Goldberg
"The Body Project": Why are girls obsessed with their bodies? (10/20/97)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Spies like us: It's time for New Leftists to come out of the closet and admit that they worked for America's enemies (10/20/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow: Don't question authority! (10/20/97)
Ally McBeal By Joyce Millman
Woman of the '90s or retro airhead? (10/20/97)
Mothers Who Think An unfinished life By Lori Leibovich
Artwork that reveals a young man's confusion about a world both brutal and beautiful (10/20/97)
Letters Readers pile on "What to Expect When You're Expecting" (10/20/97)
Media Circus Under the covers By James Poniewozik
Life looks back, the New Yorker looks ahead and New Woman looks at Jimmy Smits' ass (10/20/97)
Music By Gina Arnold
"Death to the Pixies": Pixies Greatest Hits -- not one bad song (10/20/97)
Newsreal How does Commissioner George Will sound? By Drew Lindsay
The Greek-spouting conservative elitist could be just what the beer-and-bratwurst crowd is waiting for (10/20/97)
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FRIDAY
OCTOBER 17, 1997
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Television Big changes on new "Homicide" (10/15/97)
Books By Rob Spillman
"Parting from Phantoms": Ex-East German writer trashes the West (10/15/97)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Playing the "Air Guitar": Dave Hickey's essays on art and democracy hit a major chord (10/17/97)
Mothers Who Think For girls only By Laura Green
Home perms, prom dates and the boy who didn't call (10/17/97)
Mothers Who Think Teenage breast management By Joan Jacobs Brumberg
An excerpt from "The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls" (10/17/97)
Letters Don't like the service? Make your own damn sandwich! (10/17/97)
Media Circus Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Goodbye, SC3: The departure of wishy-washy editor Shelby Coffey III completes a top-down housecleaning at the Los Angeles Times (10/17/97)
Music By Michelle Goldberg
"The End of Violence": U2, Sinead, Waits on Wenders' soundtrack (10/17/97)
Newsreal Free the Boulder Two! By Mark Hunter
Why John and Patsy Ramsey are getting a bum rap (10/17/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
The Ice Storm Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Terrific performances warm up Ang Lee's frosty examination of 1970s America (10/17/97)
Playing God Reviewed by Robin Dougherty
This numbed-out movie prompts some hard questions about David Duchovny's acting career (10/17/97)
Devil's Advocate Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Lawyers and moviegoers alike go to hell in this convoluted film (10/17/97)
Boogie Nights Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Paul Thomas Anderson's audacious, comic film finds a loopy extended family in the adult movie business of the 1970s (10/17/97)
Stranger in a strange land By Jennie Yabroff
Ang Lee, director of "The Ice Storm," on American innocence, bad fathers and the perilous task of bringing the 1970s to the screen. (10/17/97)
Getting to "yes" By Cynthia Joyce
Director Mark Waters talks about making "The House of Yes" -- a different kind of JFK film (10/17/97)
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THURSDAY
OCTOBER 16, 1997
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Television 13-hour "Lost in Space Marathon" (10/16/97)
Books By Michael Boxall
"Gods of Death": Are snuff films real? Report on the ultimate obscenity (10/16/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling (10/16/97)
Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
The good patient: Gum surgery turned me into a "nice" person (10/16/97)
Mothers Who Think Spice of Life By Chitra Divakaruni
What is the price of freedom for child laborers if a ban on the goods they produce leaves them worse off than they were before? (10/16/97)
Letters Pagan to Mary Gaitskill: You're wrong about Christianity (10/16/97)
Media Circus Peccadilloes of the rich and infamous By Dick Lochte
Remembering Harold Robbins, the king of softcore (10/16/97)
Music By John Milward
"El Corazón": A clean & sober Steve Earle in one of this year's best CDs (10/16/97)
Newsreal Armchair Warriors for Zion? By Jonathan Broder
While U.S. policy makers try to save the Middle East peace, other Americans are using tax-deductible dollars to drive a coach and horses through it (10/16/97)
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section
Sliced off by the cutting edge By Ellen Ullman
Second of two excerpts from Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine" (10/16/97)
Let's get this straight By Scott Rosenberg
Branding for dummies -- technology advertising struggles to buff corporate images (10/16/97)
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WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 15, 1997
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Television "Boogie Nights" on the boob tube (10/15/97)
Books By Rob Spillman
"Bleeding London": Sex, violence and class revenge (10/15/97)
From fisting to Flaubert By Daniel Reitz
Edmund White talks about the mad, bad glory days of gay life in New York City (10/15/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight (10/15/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
All night long: The allure of younger men (10/15/97)
Service Tension By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Cretinous clerks, -- woolly-headed waiters, angst-ridden attendants -- you just can't get good help these days (10/15/97)
The customer is always wrong By Tricia Romano
For eight hours a day I deal with indecisive yuppies, brain-dead bozos and order-giving assholes, for chump change. And you want me to smile? (10/15/97)
Mothers Who Think Of lye soap and frilly pink dresses By Sharon and Manny Skolnick
Even among Indians, an Apache girl is treated like a savage (10/15/97)
Letters High on Brad Pitt (10/15/97)
Media Circus Is Kevin Spacey gay? Who cares? Esquire readers! By James Surowiecki
The men's mag's nudge-nudge piece drags the actor in and out of the closet like a vacuum cleaner (10/15/97)
Music By Michael Ullman
Joe Henderson's swinging "Porgy & Bess" (10/15/97)
Newsreal The next Vietnam War? By Thi Lam
The country's peasants are staging violent protests and threatening the communist leaders' regime (10/15/97)
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TUESDAY
OCTOBER 14, 1997
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Television Stones on MTV; Julia Child bio (10/14/97)
Books By Rachel Pastan
"The Subtle Knife": Best fantasy writer since Tolkien (10/14/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay (10/14/97)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Men and their discontents (10/14/97)
Mothers Who Think Time for one thing By Joan Walsh
A positive side effect: Facing the disease that killed my mother (10/14/97)
Letters Labor's UPS win will be its downfall (10/14/97)
Media Circus Che and Diana: The shocking untold story By Arthur Allen
In a book proposal for his autobiography, Cuba's maximum leader Fidel Castro outs his brother, calls Robert Kennedy a "complete fool" and compares Che Guevara to Princess Diana (10/14/97)
Newsreal Spaced out By David Beers
Houston, we have a problem separating NASA reality from science fiction. It's time to grow up and ground the astronauts (10/14/97)
Music By Dawn Eden
Almost heaven: John Denver fan comes out of closet (10/14/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's weekly travel section
This place has legs By Catherine Seipp
In search of the perfect Hollywood hangout (10/14/97)
Mentally undressing
autos in L.A. By D. J. Waldie
Reflections on the odd relationship between walkers and drivers in L.A. (10/14/97)
Museum of unnatural history By John McMurtrie
Myth and reality commingle at Culver City's Museum of Jurassic Technology (10/14/97)
The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer
Weiner take all! (10/14/97)
Mondo Weirdo More strange tales from around the world
The meanest rat in Malaysia (10/14/97)
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MONDAY
OCTOBER 13, 1997
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Television Stephen Hawking, Vincent Price, Jane Austen (10/13/97)
Books By Laura Green
"The Last Time I Wore a Dress": Thrown into the loony bin for being a tomboy (10/13/97)
Why did they ever ban a book this bad? By Garrison Keillor
A review of the "scandalous" "Sister Carrie" in the ongoing Salon Classics Book Group (10/13/97)
Satan goes to Harvard By Mary Gaitskill
Is "evil" the best explanation for Sinedu Tadesse's savage murder of her college roommate? (10/13/97)
Mothers Who Think Expecting the worst By Jennifer Reese
The pregnancy guide from hell (10/13/97)
Letters Bibi's blunder sours Canada on Israel (10/13/97)
Media Circus Sy-fi? By Eric Alterman
Official Washington chortles over legendary reporter Seymour Hersh's troubles with Camelot. But Hersh may have the last laugh (10/13/97)
Music By Dawn Eden
"Living it all wrong": Lee Feldman's sincere neurosis (10/13/97)
Newsreal Man-child in an unpromised land By Lyn Duff
As part of its war on drugs and youth crime, the U.S. is deporting young American residents to "homelands" they have never seen (10/13/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow (10/13/97)
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FRIDAY
OCTOBER 10, 1997
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Television Gene Roddenberry's final trek (10/10/97)
Books By David Bowman
"Stone Cowboy": The author finds coke and god in Bolivia (10/10/97)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
From generation excess to generation sexless: What really goes on in today's college dorms (10/10/97)
Mothers Who Think Vote for the Drama Queen candidates
Never in the course of domestic conflict have so many thrown up so much in so few words (10/10/97)
Letters Stop giving away the end of movies! (10/10/97)
Media Circus Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Humble pie -- hold the anchovies: Alec Mapa went from broadway glory to slinging pepperoni -- and back (10/10/97)
Music By Charles Taylor
Grant McLennan: Romantic rock sans gush (10/10/97)
Newsreal Dragonslayer By Jonathan Broder
St. Ralph sallies forth, sword in hand, to battle the great monster from the Pacific Northwest (10/10/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly entertainment section
Gang related Brother from beyond the grave By Natasha Stovall
How much did Hollywood lose with the death of Tupac Shakur? (10/10/97)
Seven years in Tibet Dharma bum By Dwight Garner
Brad Pitt follows the E-Z path to enlightenment in the earnest but sentimental "Seven Years in Tibet" (10/10/97)
Washington Square "Washington" monument By Laura Miller
Agnieszka Holland's admirably faithful version of Henry James' movie puts the novel under glass (10/10/97)
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THURSDAY
OCTOBER 9, 1997
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Television "Seinfeld's" Elaine has problem with Jewish men (10/09/97)
Books By Charles Taylor
"My Brother, A Memoir": Jamaica Kincaid savages her mother -- again (10/09/97)
Mothers Who Think Word by Word By Anne Lamott
Rehearsing my own last day on earth (10/09/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling (10/09/97)
Letters Ian Fleming -- master of the shopping & screwing genre (10/09/97)
Media Circus Brokaw shucks By Michelle Goldberg
The preternaturally cheerful NBC anchor smiles and jives his way through a feel-good session at Berkeley (10/09/97)
Music By Michelle Goldberg
"Chris Knox": New Zealand's weird pop superstar (10/09/97)
Newsreal The racial promise By Andres Tapia and Rodolpho Carrasco
Promise Keepers could heal the racial split within the evangelical church (10/09/97)
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section
Disappearing into the code By Ellen Ullman
First of two excerpts from Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine" (10/09/97)
Elegance and Entropy By Scott Rosenberg
Ellen Ullman talks with Scott Rosenberg about what makes programmers tick (10/09/97)
Let's get this straight By Scott Rosenberg
WorldCom buys up the Internet (10/09/97)
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WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 8, 1997
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Television Will Duchovny leave "The X-Files"? (10/08/97)
Books By Charles Taylor
"As though I had wings": Dead soul -- Chet Baker's lost memoir (10/08/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Marie's breakup gets REALLY ugly (10/08/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight (10/08/97)
Winning and Losing By Andre Dubus
On the gifts that time cannot take away (10/08/97)
Letters "Gift of Fear's" Gavin de Becker fires back (10/08/97)
Media Circus Have a coke and a simile By J.B. Miller
Product placement comes to the novel (10/08/97)
Mothers Who Think Paper-clothed strangers By Jennifer New
Holding a stranger's hand during an abortion is an unforgettable experience (10/08/97)
Music By Michelle Goldberg
"Portishead": A Gothic meltdown (10/08/97)
Newsreal Shooting yourself in the foot By David Corn
Breaking the law for a good cause can have awful consequences, as "progressive" Teamsters and liberal activists are about to find out (10/08/97)
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TUESDAY
OCTOBER 7, 1997
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Television Back to ESPN, Keith!
Olbermann bombs (10/07/97)
Books By Dwight Garner
"Toward the end of time" by John Updike: Updike's raunchy sci-fi novel (10/07/97)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Wuthering bites: Knowing too much about love lets the air out of the romantic balloon (10/07/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay (10/07/97)
Letters Oliver Stone is a
genius, stupid (10/07/97)
Media Circus Get your bodice-ripping hands off my genre! By Tracy Jones
There hasn't been a heaving bosom in a decent romance novel for years -- but there has been plenty of guilt-free, female-friendly sex. Maybe that's why men keep bashing romances (10/07/97)
Mothers Who Think Mom's a head-banger By Sara Baird
But her daughter just keeps on truckin' (10/07/97)
Music By John Milward
"Live from Uncle Sam's backyard": Paul Geremia: Finger-picking good (10/07/97)
Newsreal Bibi the bungler By Jonathan Broder
The botched Mossad attempt to assassinate a Hamas leader is one of the biggest pratfalls in Israel's history (10/07/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's weekly travel section
How Zurich invented the modern world By Carlos Fuentes
The distinguished Mexican novelist reflects on Thomas Mann, Zurich and the imagination of Europe (10/07/97)
A week in Bosnia By Debbie Devoe
War lessons and legacies (10/07/97)
Mondo Weirdo
Drunk on Thai moonshine (10/07/97)
Table Talk
The life of the expat: Discuss with other travelers the benefits and costs of living overseas (10/07/97)
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MONDAY
OCTOBER 6, 1997
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Television Murphy Brown's pathetic breast cancer ploy (10/06/97)
Books By Ben Marcus
Evil virtuoso Mark Leyner sears pop culture (10/06/97)
Right On! By David Horowitz
Until the right gets a heart, the American people will keep putting Democrats in the White House (10/06/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow (10/06/97)
The Salon Interview Caleb Carr By Dwight Garner
The author discusses serial killers, murderous moms and growing up terrorized by the Beats (10/06/97)
Letters "St. Diana" -- avalanche of idiocy (10/06/97)
Media Circus Follow that jock! By James Surowiecki
GQ made hay on Dan Marino and Andre Agassi. Now, men's-mags rivals Details and Esquire are hoping that beefed-up sports coverage will put them in the end zone (10/06/97)
Mothers Who Think Keepers of the Patriarchy By Arthur Allen
"We couldn't dominate women if we wanted to" (10/06/97)
Music by Alex Abramovich
Legendary "Anthology of American Folk Music" (10/06/97)
Newsreal A smack of Weimar By A. Clay Thompson
In the streets of Germany, Europe's young new brownshirts are beating, murdering and setting fires. Their opponents are becoming equally violent (10/06/97)
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FRIDAY
OCTOBER 3, 1997
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Television "Vertigo" documentary; baseball playoffs (10/03/97)
Books by Mark Athitakis
97-lb. confessions of a bodybuilder (10/03/97)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Like a Warholian "Beavis and Butt-head,"
VH-1's tame "Pop-Up Video" turns
crappy videos into a carping fest (10/03/97)
Letters Recycling is just yuppie guilt relief (10/03/97)
Media Circus Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
"Variety" is not the spice of life: Film industry's star reporter quits, fed up with trade rag's sleazy ethics (10/03/97)
Mothers Who Think Mental Hell By Lori Leibovich
How the American health-care system killed a 13-year-old girl (10/03/97)
Music Singing the body eclectic
A Salon critics' guide to world music (10/03/97)
Newsreal By David Cassel
After AOL shut down a Web site devoted to the musings of serial killers, free speech advocates helped to rebuild the site and get it back up on the Web (10/03/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
A regular girl By Andrew O'Hehir
Janeane Garofalo talks about dating, dog people and how she reclaimed her virginity (10/03/97)
U-Turn By Michelle Goldberg
Oliver Stone takes a vacation from his usual political passions -- in an Arizona town full of depraved inbreds (10/03/97)
The Locusts By Andrew O'Hehir
A movie plagued with incest, madness, suicide and thunderstorms. Enjoy! (10/03/97)
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THURSDAY
OCTOBER 2, 1997
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Television "Star Trek," "Mystery" debut; "Seinfeld" (10/02/97)
Books Darcy Steinke's sexually sadistic "Jesus Saves" (10/02/97)
Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Just the FAQs, ma'am: It's question time! Send for the sen-sen! (10/02/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling (10/02/97)
Letters David Horowitz is a white supremacist (10/02/97)
Media Circus With "education" like this, who needs infomercials? by Alyssa Katz
Thanks to the new FCC guidelines mandating more educational TV, kids have learned essential facts -- like the NBA is really cool and always to watch for spies when leaving the house (10/02/97)
Mothers Who Think Spice of Life By Chitra Divakaruni
No one can judge a battered woman until staring into her eyes -- and her heart (10/02/97)
Music Otherworldly beauty from Björk (10/02/97)
Newsreal Wishful thinking By Jonathan Broder
It's time to stop blaming the West for not doing more to stop the Holocaust, says a Jewish historian (10/02/97)
21st Salon's weekly digital culture section
Clicking for Godot By Scott Rosenberg
In the world of interactive art, everyone's waiting for the next Shakespeare -- or at least hoping that computers can deliver a good time (10/02/97)
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Will the real Moore's Law please stand up? (10/02/97)
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WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 1, 1997
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Television Keith Olbermann and Bryant Gumbel return (10/01/97)
Books By Dwight Garner
Paul Auster's infuriatingly smug memoir (10/01/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Girlie-men are driving America's women crazy (10/01/97)
The K Chronicles by Keith Knight (10/01/97)
Letters Hey, Paglia: Lay off Camilla Parker-Bowles! (10/01/97)
Media Circus Sex and the single credit card By Chris Haines
With the reissuing of "Valley of the Dolls," the great unsung genre of the late 20th century -- the Shopping and Fucking Novel -- finally gets some respect (10/01/97)
Mothers Who Think School is out By Denis Johnson
Why I teach my kids at home (10/01/97)
Music By Dawn Eden
Lounge-a-palooza: Rockers warble Tiki tunes (10/01/97)
Newsreal Dusty's way By Joan Walsh
The San Francisco Giants' skipper has led his team to victory -- and proved that multiculturalism doesn't have to be a drag on merit and spunk (10/01/97)
Table Talk Joyce Carol Oates talks with readers about "Jane Eyre" (10/01/97)
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