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WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 24, 1997
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Television Bing, Grinch and other Christmas chestnuts
(12/24/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
The year in television 1997 By Joyce Millman
Ellen comes out, Mike Tyson flips out, Fox bottoms out (12/24/97)
The year in film By Charles Taylor
There were a few shining glories in a lackluster year (12/24/97)
As Good as it Gets Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Jack Nicholson's grubby fairy tale (12/24/97)
Jackie Brown Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Tarantino's valentine to Pam Grier
(12/24/97)
The Sweet Hereafter Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
Mysterious beauty in the ultimate loss
(12/24/97)
21st No boom, no bust By Andrew Leonard and Scott Rosenberg
Salon 21st reviews the year in technology and the online world (12/24/97)
The year in Books:
The worst books of 1997 By Dwight Garner
Our critics pick the worst, and the most overrrated, titles of 1997 (12/24/97)
The year in books By Dwight Garner
Hands were wrung, insults were flung and the future of publishing
was fretted over in what turned out to be a grand year for books, after all (12/24/97)
Books Reviewed by David Futrelle
"For Shame": An inquiry into "the loss of common decency in American culture," from an author known for his critique of advertising (12/24/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
To tell or not to tell? That is the herpes question
(12/24/97)
Media Circus Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
We read 'em so you don't have to: Jon Carroll ponders the best way to read "Babyhood" by TV star Paul Reiser
(12/24/97)
Newsreal And the losers are ... By Andrew Ross
Salon's First Annual Scumbag Awards
(12/24/97)
Letters Mothers can't do anything right (12/24/97)
Music High notes By Cynthia Joyce
Salon contributors answer the question: What was your most significant musical moment of 1997? (12/24/97)
Wanderlust Wires and buyers and scares -- oh my! By Don George
Don George has some questions about the year in travel
(12/24/97)
Comics:
Story Minute By Carol Lay
(12/24/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
(12/24/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(12/24/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
(12/24/97)
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TUESDAY
DECEMBER 23, 1997
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Television "Ren & Stimpy" creator accuses "South Park" of theft
(12/23/97)
21st The Web's year of living slowly By Andrew Leonard
Has the Net revolution begun to lag? (12/23/97)
Books Reviewed by Ray Sawhill
"Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values, and the Meaning of Life ": An economist and Slate contributor on economic fair play and the lessons he has learned from his young daughter (12/23/97)
Letters "Baffler" ballyhoo! The '60s lauded and excoriated
(12/23/97)
Today in Mothers who Think:
The Abandoned Newborn By Sharon Olds
(12/23/97)
The mother of all years By the editors of Mothers Who Think
A mom's almanac of the sad, silly, serious and sublime stories
that made news in '97
(12/23/97)
Family myths, family realities By Stephanie Coontz
A string of lurid cases this year drew attention away from the real challenges that confront American families
(12/23/97)
Media Circus Merry fiction to all! By Laura Miller
The New Yorker's new fiction issue is a like a Christmas stocking full of good, familiar candy
(12/23/97)
Newsreal The Pied Piper of the Clinton conspiracists By Gene Lyons
Mad-dog Englishman chomps Clinton in despicable new book (12/23/97)
Music Reviewed by Cynthia Joyce
"Good Will Hunting" soundtrack showcases Elliot Smith's big talent (12/23/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
(12/23/97)
Wanderlust Christmas in Syria By Louis CasaBianca
The tale of an unexpected gift
(12/23/97)
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MONDAY
DECEMBER 22, 1997
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Television "Biography": Jimmy Stewart's wonderful life
(12/22/97)
21st By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
21st Challenge : Spell-check adds of the rich and famous
PLUS Results of Challenge No. 1 (12/22/97)
Were the '60s a fraud? By Gary Kamiya
Rebellion is good business, sneer the Baffler's angry young men (12/22/97)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
I'll be home for sushi
By Debra Ollivier
Buried under heavy Christmas tradition in France, an expatriate longs for the ersatz holiday spirit of her Los Angeles childhood
(12/22/97)
Drama Queen Winners
Share your Xmas horror stories and win a prize!
(12/22/97)
Newsreal Death to Bambi! By Harry Jaffe
How to solve the deer population crisis: Shoot or spay
(12/22/97)
Media Circus Totally naked book wrestling
By David Futrelle
Pregnant lesbian strippers and unrepentant impotent bigamists debate the classics on Jerry Springer's Book Club!
(12/22/97)
Books Reviewed by William Georgiades
"Truman Capote ": An oral memoir of the flamboyant writer, whose social life often seemed more compelling than his literary output
(12/22/97)
Letters "Titanic" fans collide with critic (12/22/97)
Music Reviewed by Natasha Stovall
"Jackie Brown" Original Soundtrack: Another hot mix tape from Tarantino
(12/22/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Passages
"Enchanted Liguri": Mondo pesto, Liguria's green cuisine (12/22/97)
Trenette or Trofie al pesto
A recipe for Ligurian pesto and fresh pasta (12/22/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(12/22/97)
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FRIDAY
DECEMBER 19, 1997
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Television Tour the White House with Hillary Clinton
Plus: R.I.P. Chris Farley (12/19/97)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Microsoft to world: Remove our browser and your system will crash. (12/19/97)
All hail the bitch goddess! By Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia pays homage to the queen of camp, Jacqueline Susann, whose 1966 blockbuster novel, "Valley of the Dolls," has just been re-released (12/19/97)
Mothers Who Think Catholic school bad girl By Joan Walsh
Why was I the only one at my grammar school reunion who didn't remember me as a bully? (12/19/97)
Books Reviewed by David Futrelle
"Thrift Score": A pleasingly off-kilter guide to shopping in thrift stories, from the editor of a zine of the same name (12/19/97)
Newsreal Holy alliance! By Todd Pitock
Does Pat Robertson support Labor Unions? (12/19/97)
Media Circus The Freudian flack
By Catherine Seipp
Eccentric superpublicist Michael Levine's media dinners are the hottest ticket in town
(12/19/97)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
You're not crazy, it's just Christmas (12/19/97)
Letters Fiona Apple's beauty doesn't make her "patriarchy's" handmaiden (12/19/97)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (12/19/97)
Music Fruitcake music By Mark Athitakis
With Christmas albums by everyone from Ru Paul to Jane Siberry, there's a "Silent Night" to fit every musical taste (12/19/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Tomorrow Never Dies Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Stale Bonding: 007 has lost his verve (12/19/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's daily travel section:
Mondo Weirdo
By Julia Barton
Banqueting in Britain: On a work-exchange stay in Oxford (12/19/97)
Surreal Gourmet
By Bob Blumer
Hanukkah soup: Chicken soup with matzo balls for the soul
(12/19/97)
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THURSDAY
DECEMBER 18, 1997
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Television "Seinfeld": Why Kramer was out of work for 12 years
(12/18/97)
Mothers Who Think Word by word By Anne Lamott
Traveling mercies: When everything in your life goes wrong at once, something big and lovely is about to get born (12/18/97)
Books Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Pilgrims": Short stories from a well-known nonfiction writer, mostly about women in the land of (very macho) men (12/18/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
(12/18/97)
Letters The lesbian sperm donor is a weenie
Plus: Another Sprewell volley (12/18/97)
Media Circus Not just for wonks anymore By Jonathan Broder
New owner David Bradley has lured journalistic stars into his National Journal (12/18/97)
Music Reviewed by Brett Campbell
"11,000 Virgins": Medieval music for modern ears (12/18/97)
Newsreal The fame economy By Jonathan Broder
What's good for Michael Jordan is good for America
(12/18/97)
21st Silicon Valley's power cults By Scott Rosenberg
New books look
inside Intel, Oracle and Apple (12/18/97)
Wanderlust By Don George
"Won Ton Lust": The best twice-cooked pork in China
(12/18/97)
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WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 17, 1997
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Television "Law & Order": Deadly marital dispute over female circumcision
(12/17/97)
Entertainment Glub glub glub By Stephanie Zacharek
James Cameron's titanic new disaster movie deserves a watery grave
(12/17/97)
21st The empire clicks back By Andrew Leonard
Microsoft's new game, "Age of Empires," lets you run your
own civilization (12/17/97)
Books Reviewed by David Bowman
"Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles" One journalist's account of the vibrant UFO-centric culture in Nevada, where many true believers insist aliens have landed (12/17/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Oh come all ye faithful
(12/17/97)
Media Circus By James Poniewozik
Under the Covers: Manna from Condé Nast: Editors serve religious pap at holiday time
(12/17/97)
Mothers Who Think No McNukes! By Ros Davidson
Irradiating America's meat to make it safe is like destroying the village in order to save it, says an activist
(12/17/97)
Newsreal The lion in winter By Vivienne Walt
With Nelson Mandela set to pass from the scene, South Africa faces a brighter, if less exciting, future
(12/17/97)
Letters More Sprewell flak: Readers choke Kamiya and Horowitz
(12/17/97)
Music Reviewed by Joshua Klein
Ivy's sophisticated and pleasant new album of hazy pop songs flows
with impeccable taste and songcraft, picking up where the band's somewhat
drab debut, "Realistic," left off (12/17/97)
Wanderlust Pop goes the cathedral By Laura Miller
Cathedrals & pagodas: Pop-up architecture book for grownups (12/17/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
(12/17/97)
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TUESDAY
DECEMBER 16, 1997
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Television "NYPD Blue": Sipowicz tries to rescue girl from lowlifes
(12/16/97)
21st Upgraded memories By Jack Mingo
Inside UC-Berkeley's treasure-trove of historical photos (12/16/97)
The Salon Interview By Laura Miller
Haruki Murakami on the darkness of the subconscious, the Aum cult subway gas attack and being an individualist in Japan (12/16/97)
Books Reviewed by Rachel Pastan
"A Certain Justice: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery": In her wry new mystery, James introduces us to a lawyer who has "four weeks, four hours, and fifty minutes left of life" (12/16/97)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Let it breed? Life, that ruthless old jester, gives me a jab in the womb
(12/16/97)
Letters Michael Chabon on interactive novels Plus: Sprewell fracas
(12/16/97)
Mothers Who Think Time for One Thing By Kate Moses
Getting sick: My body keeps talking me down from the narrow ledge of my holiday expectations
(12/16/97)
Media Circus Genteel readers of the world, dig deep By Albert Mobilio
The Levenger catalog rolls out the full-grain La Paz leather pencil cases for bookworms with a taste for the finer things
(12/16/97)
Newsreal Judgment day for Terry Nichols By Ros Davidson
Timothy McVeigh's alleged co-conspirator will likely be found guilty, but has a decent chance of escaping the death penalty (12/16/97)
Music Reviewed by Natasha Stovall
Fiona live: Woman-child wails onstage in S.F. (12/16/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
(12/16/97)
Wanderlust The Yukon Quest By Laura Johnston
Mush! Racing 1,000 miles by dog sled
(12/16/97)
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MONDAY
DECEMBER 15, 1997
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Television Ted Danson and Kirstie Alley rekindle the flame (12/15/97)
21st Survival of the chicest By Thomas Lewis
A review of Steven Pinker's "How the Mind
Works" (12/15/97)
Right On! Choke your coach, become a cause By David Horowitz
But the Latrell Sprewell affair could also be the final, losing hand in the race card game
(12/15/97)
Mothers Who Think
By Hank Hyena
It takes four: The adventures of a married sperm donor, his wife and two prospective lesbian mothers
(12/15/97)
Newsreal The white negro By Joan Walsh
Why Jerry Brown is Oakland's black candidate
(12/15/97)
Media Circus Smoke gets in your eyes
By Janelle Brown
Care for a little nicotine with your content? R.J. Reynolds makes a weird alliance with the hip new Sweater magazine
(12/15/97)
Books Reviewed by Laura Green
"The Footnote: A Curious History": An inquiry in the intellectual history of footnotes, from an academic who traces their development from the 16th through 19th centuries
(12/15/97)
Letters More road rage about sports utility vehicles (12/15/97)
Music Reviewed by Gina Arnold
Australia's You Am I: Too good for the U.S. (12/15/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Road Warrior By Don George
Expat's guide: Cost-cutting and culture-exploring in Tokyo
(12/15/97)
Tip of the Week An expert's tips on dealing with jet lag
(12/15/97)
Informed Sources
How do you deal with lost luggage? And what items are absolutely essential to pack?
(12/15/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(12/15/97)
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FRIDAY
DECEMBER 12, 1997
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Television "X-Files": Scully learns more about her daughter (12/12/97)
21st License to code By Greg Lindsay
Universities experiment with ways to cash in on software research (12/12/97)
21st By Scott Rosenberg
21st briefing: Feds 1, Microsoft 0 -- but
the game's only started (12/12/97)
Mothers Who Think Wild Things By Polly Shulman
Toy stories: Toys make natural heroes for children in literature as well as in life (12/12/97)
Books Reviewed by Jonathon Keats
"I may be some Time: Ice and the English Imagination": An exploration of the British obsession with polar expeditions, as viewed through "Jane Eyre," Coleridge, Edmund Burke and others (12/12/97)
Newsreal Still in the balance By Mark Hertsgaard
Global warming pact may save Al Gore, but what about the rest of us?
(12/12/97)
Media Circus Author-free writing
By Benjamin Marcus
Interactive nitwits replace authors in new collaborative writing ventures
(12/12/97)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Survey says ... Give the people what they want (12/12/97)
Letters Matt Drudge: Salon just doesn't get it (12/12/97)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (12/12/97)
Music Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
Flaming Lips: Weird-kid rock that makes the Unabomber seem normal
(12/12/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Amistad Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Sinking ship: Steven Spielberg weighs down "Amistad" with too much reverent history (12/12/97)
Scream 2 Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Scream lover: Sequels suck, but not this one (12/12/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's daily travel section:
Mondo Weirdo
By Pete Hausler
An unforgettable encounter with a Turkish shop owner and book lover (12/12/97)
Surreal Gourmet
By Bob Blumer
Seasons eatings: Two delicious appetizers for your holiday bash
(12/12/97)
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THURSDAY
DECEMBER 11, 1997
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Television Seinfeld thinks his girlfriend is underclothed (12/11/97)
Entertainment Binge and larf By Joyce Millman
The skeletons in "Veronica's Closet" (12/11/97)
Mothers Who Think Spice of Life By Chitra B. Divakaruni
Not an easy love: Some of the moments of motherhood are best appreciated later, after your blood pressure returns to normal (12/11/97)
Books Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"The Rendezvous": From the daughter of French philosopher Bernard Levy, a novel about a young woman who waits all day in a cafe for her mother to show up (12/11/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The cow gas crisis (12/11/97)
Letters Sports utility vehicle owner sideswipes critics (12/11/97)
Media Circus Run for cover! By David Handleman
Vanity Fair to Interview: My cover girl is even less well known than yours (12/11/97)
Music Reviewed by Gary Kaufman
"The X Anthology": The story of L.A.'s best punk band
(12/11/97)
Newsreal The graveyards of hope By Jonathan Broder
Inside Congo's killing fields
(12/11/97)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Drudge falls for Yahoo hackers' nonsense (12/11/97)
Wanderlust By Don George
"Fifty Years of Europe": France, England and Germany past and present (12/11/97)
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WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 10, 1997
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Television Discovery Channel raises the Titanic
(12/10/97)
21st The girl-game jinx By Elizabeth Weil
Can selling computer games to girls be reduced to a science?(12/10/97)
Books Reviewed by Ben Marcus
"The Voice Imitator": One hundred and four very short stories from a talented Austrian writer who studies the uglier, and more bitter, sides of life (12/10/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Why does a woman's pillow talk switch from sultry to saccharine as soon as she moves in?
(12/10/97)
Media Circus Gangsta athletes, anxious whites By Gary Kamiya
The Latrell Sprewell case may signal the collapse of America's last
racial utopia -- sports
(12/10/97)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queen candidates
Pubic hair, rats and hot grease
(12/10/97)
Newsreal We are not ready By Jeff Stein
"The Cobra" eventuality: Is New York ready for bio-terrorism?
(12/10/97)
Letters Idiotic anti-gay prissiness (12/10/97)
Music Reviewed by David Pulizzi
It must be a pleasure for the Rolling Stones to sit back on the tour jet
with "Paint It, Blue" on the headphones, listening in wonder as their old
heroes chase their coattails for a change (12/10/97)
Wanderlust Learning to love the abyss By Maria Dolan
Snowboarding is a lot like life -- full of scary slopes, big spills and tiny triumphs (12/10/97)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
(12/10/97)
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TUESDAY
DECEMBER 9, 1997
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Television Special 90-minute "NYPD Blue"
(12/09/97)
Smothered fire By Jane Hamilton
Louisa May Alcott's smothered fire (12/09/97)
21st E.D., phone home! By Scott Rosenberg
Esther Dyson talks about Microsoft, the Net,
Russia and more (12/09/97)
Books Reviewed by David Bowman
"Legends of the American Desert": A big, sprawling look at the culture and history of the American Southwest, from a writer who's nothing if not ambitious (12/09/97)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia explores the etiquette of wearing short black dresses in the office (12/09/97)
Letters A multicultural defense of Iran's fatwa
(12/09/97)
Mothers Who Think Porno for rugrats? By Dawn MacKeen
Should you kiddie proof your computer?
(12/09/97)
Media Circus Confessions of an undercover drink fink By Michelle Goldberg
The squishy derrière of advertising has plunked itself down on a barstool near you
(12/09/97)
Newsreal Bring back J. Edgar Hoover By Jonathan Broder
As far as the Clinton administration is concerned, anyone would be
better than Louis Freeh, even a "cross-dresser in pumps" (12/09/97)
Music Reviewed by Gavin McNett
Tricky manages to bring out qualities of depth and reverie in singer Gavin
Rossdale's voice on this collection of Bush remixes (12/09/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The man who hated art
(12/09/97)
Wanderlust "How do you celebrate Christmas?" By Joshua Cohen
A Jew in China: The travails of life in a land where Westerner equals Christian
(12/09/97)
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MONDAY
DECEMBER 8, 1997
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Television Inside a pharaoh's tomb; new "Buffy" (12/08/97)
21st Books Technocracy in America By Andrew Leonard
A review of "Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century" by G. Pascal Zachary (12/08/97)
The Salon Interview
Mark Leyner Untethered ego By Laura Miller
Mark Leyner talks about how humor
is underrated, how no one believes
in fiction and how he (and an ape)
are the real authors of "Infinite Jest"
(12/08/97)
Allan Gurganus When boys were boys By Dwight Garner
Allan Gurganus
tells all about his
relationship with
John Cheever, learning
to write on an aircraft
carrier, Whitman's
heroism and the
redemptive power
of laughter
(12/08/97)
This land is our land By Christopher Hitchens
Report from Ulster: IRA hardliners face tough choices
(12/08/97)
Mothers Who Think Outing your mom
By Kate Moses
The recent spate of mad mother memoirs
(12/08/97)
Newsreal The bully on the block By Ros Davidson
Sports utility vehicles: Rommel pushes deeper into America
(12/08/97)
Media Circus Cindy Sherman
By Glen Helfand
From dream girl to nightmare alley
(12/08/97)
Books Reviewed by David L. Ulin
"The Tribes of Palos Verdes": A tough-minded first novel, narrated by a misfit high school girl who finds solace in surfing the Southern California coast
(12/08/97)
Letters "The Library of the Future": Pro and con (12/08/97)
Music Reviewed by John Milward
Focusing on songs of spirituality and romance, "Higher Ground" aims to be
Barbra Streisand's most personal album yet (12/08/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Road Warrior By Don George
Are airlines delivering sexist service in first class?
(12/08/97)
Tip of the Week
Road Warrior tips on staying and playing around the world
(12/08/97)
Informed Sources
Are new aircrafts' tray tables corrupting laptop hard drives?
(12/08/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(12/08/97)
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FRIDAY
DECEMBER 5, 1997
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Television Pemberton's heroics on "Homicide"; "Simpsons" (12/05/97)
Mothers Who Think:
Self-indulgent stocking stuffers By Lori Leibovich
Who else would think to give you gifts like these? (12/05/97)
A Few Good Men Boyfriend-In-A-Box By Lori Leibovich
Men: Can't live with 'em, can't stuff 'em in a drawer (12/05/97)
Books Reviewed by Daniel Reitz
"Wonder Bread and Ecstasy," "Autopornography," "Making it Big": Three books that delve into the glamour, and the excesses, of the gay pornography industry (12/05/97)
Newsreal Purveyor of catastrophe By Jonathan Broder
How the U.S. arms trade has blown up in our faces (12/05/97)
Media Circus Queen of the dish rags
By Catherine Seipp
Movieline is the buttered popcorn of film magazines -- good to the last yummy, vaguely nauseating morsel
(12/05/97)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Christian sex manuals, part two (12/05/97)
Letters Paglia is dead wrong about Prozac (12/05/97)
21st Challenge By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Change a letter and rename that software (12/05/97)
Music By David Bowman
Paint it black: A prayer for His Holy Hipness, Johnny Cash (12/05/97)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Pammy and Tommy's honeymoon video Reviewed by Susie Bright
The bootlegged version of Pamela Anderson Lee and Tommy Lee's honeymoon is strictly for lovebirds (12/05/97)
Good Will Hunting Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Gus Van Sant's "Good Will Hunting" offers a handsome young star and some dreamy filmmaking, but not much to write home about (12/0/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's daily travel section:
Mondo Weirdo
By Lori Makabe
Ravenous bed bugs ruin one woman's quest for a good night's sleep (12/0/97)
Surreal Gourmet
By Bob Blumer
Olive you, Santa: Herbed olive oil holiday gifts (12/05/97)
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THURSDAY
DECEMBER 04, 1997
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Television Peter Jennings explores dark side of JFK (12/04/97)
Mothers Who Think Word by Word By Anne Lamott
The night I humiliated myself onstage with Grace Paley (12/04/97)
Today in Books:
Save these books! By Dwight Garner
Some well-known writers celebrate and mourn their favorite out-of-print books (12/04/97)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"Circumnavigation": Intelligent short stories populated by neighborhood bullies, decent husbands who drink too much, effeminate Navy guys and tough, skinny, clairvoyant teenage girls (12/04/97)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
More Super Fun-Pak strips (12/04/97)
Letters Embrace Jesus, not Peter Coyote (12/04/97)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Future crock: Wired has seen the democracy of tomorrow -- and it belongs to that putz on the cell phone (12/04/97)
Music Reviewed by Douglas Wolk
"Closed on Account of Rabies" works as a reclamation of Edgar Allan Poe for
the world of sound: the croak of an insistent, dark bird that won't go away
(12/04/97)
Newsreal The Satanic pissing contest By Christopher Hitchens
Le Carré joins the fatwah
(12/04/97)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Kiddie porn -- the enemy everyone can agree on (12/04/97)
Wanderlust Maya Color, Photographs by Jeffrey Becom By Don George
'Maya Color': Jeffrey Becom's passionate pix (12/04/97)
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WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 3, 1997
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Television U2 in Mexico City; "3rd Rock," Egypt massacre
(12/03/97)
21st Interface this! By Scott Rosenberg
A review of Steven Johnson's sharp critical manifesto, "Interface Culture" (12/03/97)
Books Reviewed by Laura Miller
"Idiom Savant: Slang as it is Slung" & "America in so Many Words: Words That Shaped America": Two lively new reference books about the origin of words and the slang slung by American subcultures (12/03/97)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Sex with the ex
(12/03/97)
Media Circus By Richard Kadrey
Black tarantula: The glamorous life and uncompromising death of Kathy Acker
(12/03/97)
Mothers Who Think The good doctor By Caroline Leavitt
Why I love my OB (12/03/97)
Newsreal The great Arlington National Cemetery smear By Jonathan Broder
Grave injustice: How GOP honchos abetted the Arlington Cemetery smear
(12/03/97)
Letters Horowitz is conservatism's real face (12/03/97)
Music Reviewed by Stacey Kors
Stephane Grappelli, 1908-1997: A beloved jazz legend passes (12/03/97)
Wanderlust: Salon's daily travel section:
The man who loved books in Turkey By Lisa Michaels
An encounter with a book-starved shopkeeper in Turkey provides a new perspective on literary packing (12/03/97)
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TUESDAY
DECEMBER 2, 1997
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Television "10 Most Fascinating People of 1997"; "American Comedy Honors"
(12/02/97)
21st Are we ready for the library of the future? By Cate T. Corcoran
Librarians have become the public's last-resort help desk (12/02/97)
Books Reviewed by Maud Casey
"Heroes Like Us": From a young German writer, a political fantasy about how one man's sexual obsessions helped bring down the Berlin Wall (12/02/97)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Flexed to death: Americans are addicted to stimulating themselves -- sometimes to death
(12/02/97)
Letters HIV-positive woman shouldn't have gotten pregnant
(12/02/97)
Mothers Who Think Time for one thing By Kate Moses
All eggnogged up and nowhere to go
(12/02/97)
Media Circus The man who wrote the century By Laura Johnston
At home with Eddie Ellis, the greatest diarist of all time
(12/02/97)
Newsreal A tale of two families By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
The "miracle babies" you didn't hear about (because they're black)
(12/02/97)
Music By Michelle Goldberg
Erykah Badu may never be as haunting as Billie Holiday, but Holiday never
had the perfect comic timing Badu reveals on "Live"
(12/02/97)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
A cosmic wager
(12/02/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Italian affair By Laura Fraser
Laura Fraser finds a passionate healing on a post-breakup trip to Italy
(12/02/97)
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MONDAY
DECEMBER 1, 1997
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Television Ally McBeal defends transvestite (12/01/97)
"Progressive" education By David Horowitz
What the Black Panthers won't show you on their "historic" tour (12/01/97)
Mothers Who Think Reading between the whines
By Inda Schaenen
The sevenfold path to coping with seven-step parenting manuals
(12/01/97)
Newsreal America's Asian "Berlin Wall" has crumbled By Jonathan Broder
Is the U.S. to blame for Asia's economic collapse? (12/01/97)
Media Circus Popcorn is served
By James Surowiecki
Reserved seating comes to the movies
(12/01/97)
Books Reviewed by Scott McLemee
"Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1991-1995 ": Journal entries from the ultra-hip, post-everything French intellectual, on such subjects as sex, America and the information revolution
(12/01/97)
Letters Jethro Tull fans, unite! (12/01/97)
Music By Gina Arnold
If they could just learn a little restraint, Chumbawamba could be one of
the better lesson-bands of the decade (12/01/97)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
White dreams By Mary Roach
Why I was wandering around Antarctica with a white
plastic garbage pail over my head
(12/01/97)
21st Pornutopia lost By Andrew Leonard
The X-rated Web is building a
bold and bewildering new world of sleazy techno-tricks (12/01/97)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(12/01/97)
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