April 2001

Radio's big bully By Eric Boehlert
Dirty tricks and crappy programming: Welcome to the world of Clear Channel, the biggest station owner in America. (04/30/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, April 30, 2001 (04/30/2001)

The Paris Review sessions, Part 3
Galway Kinnell and Charlie Smith read poems published in the Review, concluding our celebration of National Poetry Month. (04/30/2001)

Cut the flap By Charles Taylor
Why must the promo copy on book covers be "in the tradition of" total stupidity? (04/30/2001)

"The assault on the USS Liberty" and "Slaughter in the stacks"
Readers respond to revelations about the USS Liberty and Nicholson Baker's challenge to America's libraries. (04/30/2001)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Perspectives on free trade! (04/30/2001)

Expensively girded for battle By Janelle Brown
One can now accessorize one's chic military couture with a chastity belt and nipple enhancers. (04/30/2001)

I want my HGTV! By Nancy Spiller
Why bother wreaking havoc on your own home with remodeling when you can watch other people do it on Home and Garden TV? (04/30/2001)

Help me, David Horowitz!
By David Mazel (04/30/2001)

PETA's Ingrid Newkirk By Peter Brandt
A month after asking Timothy McVeigh to die a vegan, the president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals dares you to say she cares more about animals than people. (04/30/2001)

Bushed! By Salon staff
Suck-up watch. (04/30/2001)

Torricelli to senator: "I'm going to cut your balls off!" By Anthony York
Plus: Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman says he will take his own look into the death of a former Clinton friend. (04/30/2001)

Nothing but spin By Arianna Huffington
Bush assures us that he "cares deeply" about the environment, but his administration's green-washing is so thin it's transparent. (04/30/2001)

Saying goodbye to Mark By Lucy Alexander
A working girl has her heart broken in the most unexpected way. (04/30/2001)

The pro-business nature boy By Damien Cave
Who cares about the war against the environment? Amory Lovins is convinced capitalism will clean up after itself. (04/30/2001)

Serf city
By King Kaufman (04/30/2001)

Battered women By Fiona Morgan
Abortion rights advocates get clobbered by pro-life groups as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act advances in Congress. (04/28/2001)

Hey, NASA, quit hoggin' space! By Eric F. Lipton
It's time to share the universe. Dennis Tito ranks with John Glenn. He's a pioneer, leading the way in bringing space down to earth. (04/28/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, April 27-29, 2001 (04/27/2001)

"Town & Country" By Andrew O'Hehir
Andie MacDowell and Warren Beatty play perverted games with hand puppets while the rest of the cast romps through this (supposedly) beleaguered farce. (04/27/2001)

"One Night at McCool's" By Charles Taylor
Liv Tyler consoles criminals with blow jobs, but this sleazy noir just isn't smutty enough. (04/27/2001)

Look back in hunger
Episode 14: Survivors agree -- you can be too thin! Plus: A surprise guest. (04/27/2001)

"Driven" By Andrew O'Hehir
Sylvester Stallone's homoerotic car-racing actioner delivers something between "Speed Racer" and gay porn. (04/27/2001)

The Paris Review sessions, Part 2
More lunchtime recordings: Rachel Wetzsteon, David Yezzi and Max Winter read from their work. (04/27/2001)

The latest and greatest Web meme oddity: Hyakugojyuuichi! By Katharine Mieszkowski
We tracked down the creator of a weirdly wonderful animation site and found ... a home-schooled 14-year-old from Massachusetts. (04/27/2001)

"Double Fold" by Nicholson Baker By Stephanie Zacharek
A crusading novelist indicts America's libraries for destroying precious archives of newspapers and books -- and puts his own savings on the line to rescue them. (04/27/2001)

The wrong kind of black By Cecelie S. Berry
Since high school, white liberals have told me that the authentic black experience is brutal and victimized. What does that make me? (04/27/2001)

Right-wing colleges reject "God is an abortionist" ads By David Mazel
Thrilled to hear David Horowitz's pronouncement that "campus censors are on the run," I try a little free speech of my own -- at Bob Jones U. and other conservative schools. (04/27/2001)

April blandness By King Kaufman
The NBA sure takes its sweet time getting through the boring first round of the playoffs. Plus: Charlie Ward -- meshuggener! (04/27/2001)

Come again? By Karen Croft
When you ask men and women about succeeding and failing in the sack, you get the expected answers -- and the unexpected ones. (04/27/2001)

Till the end By Carina Chocano
Friends can dump you, just like a lover. And what's left is the vague fart waft of failure. (04/27/2001)

No sex for Destiny's Child! By Amy Reiter
Beyoncé and the gals also gave up cheerleading; John Mellencamp: "What the %@&*&! was I thinking?" Was Ahnuld a bad lad? Plus: The NPXtra celebrity quotes quiz! (04/27/2001)

Bushed! By Salon staff
Don't say it loud: He's pro-life but not proud. (04/27/2001)

Freepers laud free breast impants for British soldiers By Anthony York
Plus: President Bush's policy of strategic ambiguity toward the English language. (04/27/2001)

The erotic camera By David Thomson
Sarah Miles was only 21, and acting wild and experienced in front of all the men. (04/27/2001)

$8.25 an hour in a million-dollar world By King Kaufman
It was hard for lower-end workers to make ends meet in the Bay Area of the dot-com boom. And it's still hard in the bust. (04/27/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, April 26, 2001 (04/26/2001)

"The Filth and the Fury" By Jeff Stark
The Sex Pistols couldn't find enough treasure in their vaults. Plus: A second documentary that doesn't reduce punk to a slogan. (04/26/2001)

"61*" By Allen Barra
Billy Crystal directs two relative unknowns as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in maybe the best baseball movie since "Bull Durham." (04/26/2001)

A balloon bursts By Carina Chocano
Episode 5: McSweeney goes bonkers! Moretty just says no! (04/26/2001)

The Paris Review sessions
Poets Matthea Harvey, Agha Shahid Ali and Daniel Kunitz read from their work in celebration of National Poetry Month. (04/26/2001)

A moveable feast By Katharine Garden
Contentville's pseudonymous book-party columnist gives the inside dish on the recent "Little Gray Book Lecture #1" in Brooklyn, and sumptuous book parties thrown for Richard Rayner's "The Cloud Sketcher" and Nell Casey's "Unholy Ghost." (04/26/2001)

In bad faith By Ivan Oransky
A researcher offers evidence that religion is good for your health. Too bad so much of it is bunk. (04/26/2001)

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Super-Fun-Pak Comix: "America Loves Mobsters," "The Mad Cow" and more! (04/26/2001)

Jay Belsky doesn't play well with others By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Colleagues of the controversial child-care expert say he hogs the limelight, has an agenda and makes alarmist claims that the evidence doesn't support. (04/26/2001)

Face facts By Joe Conason
David Horowitz accused me of lying, but he's the one who plays loose with the facts on Reagan-era conservatism. (04/26/2001)

Does the U.S. spy too much? By Fiona Morgan
In the wake of the spy plane flap with China, experts propose international rules of order that would limit excessive espionage. (04/26/2001)

The drug war goes to college By Arianna Huffington
What kind of vindictive social agenda could lead to a law that denies financial aid to a student convicted of smoking a joint but not one convicted of rape, murder, arson or armed robbery? (04/26/2001)

Failing, falling and burning to bits By Chris Colin
On its red-hot deathbed, the Mir space station helped us root for misery, a good story and fiery debris. (04/26/2001)

Smelly woman By Amy Reiter
Benjamin Bratt blabs about undies and the odor of Julia's largest organ; Billy Crystal gets cranky about magic numbers. Plus: Ivana Trump spanked and Miss France presumed to be a woman! (04/26/2001)

Bushed! By Salon staff
Gaffe riot: Didn't the president get tutored before his 100-days interview blitz? (04/26/2001)

Briefs or no briefs? By Jake Tapper
As tensions with China build, Bush's history of ignoring those foreign policy briefing papers from Condoleezza Rice seems to be catching up with him. (04/26/2001)

Condi Rice, American imperialist By Anthony York
Plus: 100-days fever! And: Were those doughnuts in Al Gore's lockbox? (04/26/2001)

Straight women, begone! By Michael Alvear
You are ruining sex for gay guys with your need for dinner first. (04/26/2001)

All hail Neil Cicierega By Katharine Mieszkowski and Amy Standen
The creator of the Web-animation hit "Hyakugojyuuichi" is a home-schooled aspiring screenwriter -- and he's only 14! (04/26/2001)

The product placement monster that E.T. spawned By Anthony York
From "Survivor" to "Will and Grace," advertising is becoming just another part of the story line. (04/26/2001)

Is the RIAA running scared? By Janelle Brown
A fumbled attempt to silence a Princeton professor backfires on the recording industry. (04/26/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, April 25, 2001 (04/25/2001)

Here's to you, Ms. Robinson By Danielle Arceneaux
I'm smitten with the host of "Weakest Link." (04/25/2001)

The fifth wheel By Carina Chocano and Anthony York
Episode 2: One gal with standards, four guys who just wanna party. We say, He who smelt it dealt it! (04/25/2001)

Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hear Parker Posey read an early Fitzgerald story, "Benediction." Subscribe to Salon Premium and get the complete nine-hour audiobook for free. (04/25/2001)

"Body of Secrets" by James Bamford By Bruce Schneier
The author of a pioneering work on the NSA delivers a new book of revelations about the mysterious agency's coverups, eavesdropping and secret missions. (04/25/2001)

The assault on the USS Liberty By Suzy Hansen
Experts respond to new evidence that the deadly 1967 attack on a U.S. spy ship by Israeli forces was deliberate. (04/25/2001)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
One day at ye olde comic book convention. (04/25/2001)

A free press, for pennies a day
Introducing Salon Premium: A message from Salon editor David Talbot. (04/25/2001)

Sneak attack By David Lindorff
Self-employed parents are the targets of financial aid discrimination -- and most of the time, they don't even know it. (04/25/2001)

The day-care scare, again
By Jennifer Foote Sweeney (04/25/2001)

The golden age of pitching is now By Allen Barra
When you consider what today's hurlers have to deal with, our low opinion of them is way off-base. Plus: Does God answer NASCAR prayers? (04/25/2001)

A slip of the tongue By David Horowitz
Paul Weyrich offended Jews with his recent column, but is it worth burying his career over a single statement in a 40-year public life? (04/25/2001)

Almost triumphant By King Kaufman
You win some, you lose some, some get rained out. No hard feelings. Except for me. (04/25/2001)

Unlucky 13 By José Klein
At a Clippers basketball game my innocence got ejected. (04/25/2001)

Eminem, buck naked and ready to blow! By Amy Reiter
Marshall Mathers' explosive family jewels; Paul McCartney on his Tokyo pot bust. Plus: Was Miss France a man? (04/25/2001)

Bushed! By Salon staff
Everything you need to know about our most unusually elected president, every day. (04/26/2001)

Burning Bush  
Links to the Web's best sites for hardcore Bush watchers. (04/25/2001)

Does Katherine Harris have Golden Balls? By Anthony York
The Freepers say yes. Meanwhile, the Florida secretary of state defends a New York Knicks point guard. (04/25/2001)

Divine decadence By David Thomson
Helmut Newton is a connoisseur of contemporary sex and death. (04/25/2001)

From each according to his IPO By James Grimmelmann
Stalin would have loved Silicon Valley's dot-communists. Too bad they got purged. (04/25/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, April 24, 2001 (04/24/2001)

Show and tell By Charles Taylor
Moviegoers and readers ought to learn to love the book and the film. (04/24/2001)

The week in dirt Read by Amy Reiter
Smells like ... Joan Rivers! Plus: Why Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson didn't pan out, and how Sharon Stone's beaver ended up on PETA's Worst Dressed list. (04/24/2001)

Real gone guy
By Laura Miller (04/24/2001)

We were closer than lovers By Garrison Keillor
Getting dumped by my best friend was harder than any relationship breakup I've been through. And she claims it's because she fell in love with me! (04/24/2001)

Story Minute By Carol lay
Here's $10 million. Give me all your paintings. (04/24/2001)

Empathy for the devil By Amy Benfer
In "Facing the Wind," author and journalist Julie Salamon explores the strange case of a family man who murdered his family and went on to have a second family 11 years later. (04/24/2001)

Blinded by the right By Joe Conason
A prominent conservative leader makes an anti-Semitic comment, and his colleagues on the right look the other way. (04/24/2001)

Treachery over the Andes By Jeff Stein
The downing of a U.S. missionary plane over Peru raises questions about whether we can trust our drug-war allies -- and the families of soldiers who died in Colombia say the answer is no. (04/24/2001)

Deadly mistake By Fiona Morgan
Why did the Peruvian military shoot down a plane full of innocent people -- and why was the CIA involved? (04/24/2001)

Success and failure of a Southern man By Cary Tennis
Strivers, ass kissers, carpetbaggers, Pilgrims, Sherman's March and my mom. (04/24/2001)

Betsey Johnson By Carina Chocano
Her sexy clothes make merciless fun of sex. She's naughty, dresses like a kitschy rock Muppet and remembers when fashion had a sense of humor. (04/24/2001)

Janet Jackson: "I have sex in my head" By Amy Reiter
Singer says parents bred like bunnies; Christy Turlington wants to breed like Jacksons. Plus: Angelina wears Billy Bob's blood! (04/24/2001)

The vast Jewish Pokémon conspiracy By Anthony York
Is it really Japanese for "There is no God in the universe"? (04/24/2001)

Poster boy for corruption By Arianna Huffington
The public has grown numb to campaign finance abuse. But the spicy Sen. Torricelli story could break through the sleaze fatigue. (04/24/2001)

One word: Vinyl By Chris Colin
Fetishists adore the sexy plastic polymer, but the European Commission wants it outlawed within two years. (04/24/2001)

A boy and his computer By Andrew Leonard
Linus Torvalds' autobiography reveals a geek's geek who is changing the world, just for the heck of it. (04/24/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, April 23, 2001 (04/23/2001)

Rude Britannia By Joyce Millman
Anne Robinson, host of NBC's hit "Weakest Link," takes all the fun out of watching TV game shows. (04/23/2001)

Heroin sheik
In celebration of National Poetry Month, musician and "Basketball Diaries" author Jim Carroll reads poems published in the Paris Review. (04/23/2001)

"Turning on the Girls" by Cheryl Benard By Janelle Brown
Women run the world in this satirical novel, banning stiletto heels and rape fantasies and making vegetarianism and "nurturing" classes for men compulsory. (04/23/2001)

Salon recommends
A new translation of Proust's funny, biting early stories about rich Parisians, Jim Thompson's cult-classic trip into the head of a coldblooded killer and more. (04/23/2001)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
A secret meeting of California utilities. (04/23/2001)

Go home! By Carina Chocano
Italian designers hawk prenatal habitats like Mom used to make. Plus: Coffee-stain chic. (04/23/2001)

The new black By George Kelly
Diesel gets in our face with fashion and fantasia. Or is it weird pants and surreal blasphemy? (04/23/2001)

Will free trade kill democracy? By David Moberg
Thousands of protesters send out an SOS in Quebec: Governments are giving corporations free rein to negotiate a hemispheric trade pact. (04/23/2001)

What if our goals are meager and strange? By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Perfection is the new minimum in child rearing and I am the lowest common denominator. (04/23/2001)

You are what you eat, but so's the panther By Douglas Cruickshank
Welcome to a special series of articles on winning, losing, succeeding, failing, ascending, descending and living to tell the tales. (04/23/2001)

Darling, you scent me By Amy Reiter
Joan Rivers cooks up her own perfume -- and her dog loves it! Plus: Madonna changes her name and Penélope Cruz sets a record between the sheets! (04/23/2001)

Sauls and the Free Republic By Anthony York
The Florida judge takes a beating in his home state for accepting an award from the conservative online group. (04/23/2001)

Every basket must count! By Jake Tapper
Bush to Notre Dame women's basketball team: You won, no matter what anybody tells you. (04/23/2001)

Virtually NORML By Jake Tapper
Gov. Gary Johnson comes to Washington hoping to find converts to his anti-drug-war crusade. He leaves one frustrated man. (04/23/2001)

My turn By Stacy Brumpkys
The stripper responds to "I dated a stripper." (04/23/2001)

Time to buy a new computer -- but why? By Scott Rosenberg
To the dismay of PC makers, the old knee-jerk desktop upgrade has lost its allure. (04/23/2001)

Bush to once-busted students: Do as I say By Alicia Montgomery
The ban on college aid to those convicted of drug charges is arbitrary -- and has more than a whiff of hypocrisy. (04/21/2001)

Leo goes the green mile By Alicia Montgomery
We had planned on mocking the boyish screen god for his part-time activism. He proved us wrong. (04/21/2001)

"Freddy Got Fingered" By Stephanie Zacharek
Tom Green is subtle, like a giant elephant dick. (04/20/2001)

"The Circle" By Stephanie Zacharek
In Tehran, it's frowned upon for women to smoke in public or even walk alone on the street. A beautiful Iranian film tells their story. (04/20/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, April 20-22, 2001 (04/20/2001)

"The Claim" By Charles Taylor
Michael Winterbottom's audacious new movie triumphantly blends Thomas Hardy and "McCabe & Mrs. Miller." (04/20/2001)

The crying game
Episode 13: It's a three-hankie night. Plus: Fire -- the TV of the outback! (04/20/2001)

Kozmo's bright idea By Janelle Brown
The Web-delivery service wants you to return that video, but they aren't saying how. (04/20/2001)

The company of men By Justin Hopper
Admirers of "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk convene to discuss art, life, masculine pain and why groin kicks are very, very popular. (04/20/2001)

"Sex and science" and "Ode to Frances"
Readers respond to a story about women in the sciences by Cathy Young. Plus: Russell Hoban's daughter responds to Kate Moses' article on the Frances books. (04/20/2001)

The day-care scare, again By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
If the care of anyone but mom really makes kids more aggressive, why don't researchers propose reform? And if it doesn't, why don't they stop scaring us? (04/21/2001)

Free trade, closed talks By Daryl Lindsey
As authorities build a wall around the FTAA summit in Quebec City, anti-globalization protesters are hoping to infiltrate the discussion. (04/20/2001)

The drug companies' racket By Arianna Huffington
Pharmaceutical giants are finally bending to worldwide public pressure on AIDS drugs, but we're still victims of their profiteering. (04/20/2001)

Our unimpressive president
By Camille Paglia (04/20/2001)

The music known as Vin Scully By Douglas Cruickshank
In which a reader's recollection of the acclaimed baseball announcer, still "impossibly hale, red-haired and perfect," makes our day. (04/20/2001)

Ewan what army By Amy Reiter
McGregor didn't break up Tom and Nicole, no matter what they say; PETA sticks it to Sharon Stone's "tired old beaver." Plus: Aniston and Winona to lock lips, while Elton hocks cars. (04/20/2001)

Bush's new drug czar? By Daniel Forbes
John Walters, a hard-line drug warrior, is the leading candidate to replace Barry McCaffrey. Advocates say he's a throwback to the bad old days of Bill Bennett. (04/21/2001)

The war on the war on drugs By Anthony York
The online community blasts Bush's rumored choice to head the ONDCP. (04/20/2001)

Sexual healing By Stanley Simon
As a phone-sex operator, I talk to people about their emotions as much as I help them have orgasms. (04/20/2001)

The stat junkie's perfect high By King Kaufman
While other big sports sites crash and burn, Baseball-
Reference.com has become almost too popular for its own good. (04/20/2001)

Not just another pretty face By Stephanie Zacharek
Johnny Depp was supposed to be another TV idol. But the beautifully underplayed roles -- like the voracious dealer in "Blow" -- are adding up to a career. (04/19/2001)

"American Movie" By Jeff Stark
Chris Smith's film about a horror auteur with a dream would have made a great mockumentary, if only it weren't all true. (04/19/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, April 19, 2001 (04/19/2001)

We get our thrill on Dismissal Hill
Episode 4: For once, Yaney blows up something besides a balloon. (04/19/2001)

Where the "Girls" are Read by Jenny, Laura and Martha McPhee
A new book of essays, interviews and photographs reveals the astonishing scope of girls' lives today. (04/19/2001)

"Sputnik Sweetheart" by Haruki Murakami By Laura Miller
A cult-favorite novelist's seductive, eerie tale of a vanished lover. (04/19/2001)

"This Is Not a Novel" by David Markson By Maria Russo
Another cheeky, strangely moving tour de force from a master of experimental fiction. (04/19/2001)

"Fixer Chao" by Han Ong By Amy Benfer
A con artist posing as a feng shui master infiltrates New York high society in an acclaimed playwright's hilariously bitchy first novel. (04/19/2001)

"The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse" by Louise Erdrich By Amy Reiter
The author of "The Beet Queen" delivers an enthralling tale of a Catholic priest who's secretly a woman. (04/19/2001)

"The Gardens of Kyoto" by Kate Walbert By Suzy Hansen
A dazzling, intricate novel spins out the back story of American soldiers sent overseas, and the women they left behind. (04/19/2001)

"The Far Field" By Edie Meidav By Amy Benfer
In an eagerly anticipated debut novel, a colonialist in Ceylon faces political deception, erotic intrigue and the failure of his own ideals. (04/19/2001)

"The Hero's Walk" by Anita Rau Badami By Suzy Hansen
A Canadian-raised orphan returns to her grandparents' Indian village in an irreverent look at the clash between tradition and modernity. (04/19/2001)

What to read: The best of April fiction By Salon's critics
Louise Erdrich's tale of a Catholic priest who's secretly a woman, Haruki Murakami's story of a vanished lover, a hilarious debut novel about a fake feng shui master who cons New York society and more. (04/19/2001)

"The Rights of Desire" by Andre Brink By Jonathan Miles
A May-December romance in a post-apartheid South Africa where violence is always ready to erupt. (04/19/2001)

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Cows hold beef industry hostage: When will the madness end? (04/19/2001)

My harem of elegant ghosts By Martin Plimmer
Seven bewitching women of a certain age haunt my happy home. (04/19/2001)

Dragged back into the fight By Ben Barber
As the confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians threatens to engulf the region, the Bush administration is no longer able to stay on the sidelines. (04/19/2001)

Georgie Mnemonic By Lance Gould
A new breakthrough technique to help our numero-uno malapropmeister memorize the monikers of other countries -- "Ice" Cuba, "Killer" Wales, "Wig" Guam and dozens more! (04/19/2001)

Not suffering in silence By Chris Colin
People unaffected by the economic downturn are forced to fill their days with work, lunch and maybe thinking about taking a vacation. (04/19/2001)

Shake, rattle and roll!
Tommy Lee: "Mommy" means Pamela; Cybill Shepherd on sex after 40; Chloe Sevigny: Charlize is tacky. Plus: Renée Z., don't put away those bras! (04/19/2001)

Where's Ralph?
By Anthony York (04/19/2001)

The Bushes, from afar By Jake Tapper
For a White House that revels in restraint, a visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dignified -- and very private. (04/19/2001)

Perot ally signs up with Judicial Watch By Anthony York
The online community debates who should be allowed to watch Timothy McVeigh die. (04/19/2001)

Wayne's world By Karen Croft
Wayne Wang's new film, "The Center of the World," shows how dangerous geek love can be. (04/19/2001)

"The Center of the World" By Janelle Brown
Are computers turning geeks into sex-starved automatons incapable of meaningful connection? (04/19/2001)

Death to the AMT
By Damien Cave and Amy Standen (04/19/2001)

The execution will not be webcast By Katharine Mieszkowski and Amy Standen
A judge rules that a company better known for softcore porn cannot bring Timothy McVeigh's death to the masses. (04/19/2001)

Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
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Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, April 18, 2001 (04/18/2001)

Goodbye, Joey Ramone
In memories from readers, the late punk rocker is many things: a hero, a friend -- even the spirit of Christmas! (04/18/2001)

"The Tao of Steve" By Jeff Stark
In this smart and charming indie romance, a slacker guy gets wise to the shortcomings of serial conquests. (04/18/2001)

Dopes on a rope By Carina Chocano and Anthony York
Episode 1: Andy, a guy who has issues with women, is chained to four babes. Welcome to reality TV, UPN style. (04/18/2001)

The week in dirt By Amy Reiter
Janet Jackson says Puffy was her pet pooch and Hugh Grant ropes Salman Rushdie. Plus: Ben Affleck, Todd Bridges and the tennis player formerly known as Steffi. (04/18/2001)

"Buddha" by Karen Armstrong By Laura Miller
A former Catholic nun's short biography of the Buddha explains the elusive Eastern sage in terms that even drama-hungry Westerners can understand. (04/18/2001)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Tastes like chicken! (04/18/2001)

The saga of the Bra Ball By Amy Benfer
It is a tale about art, commerce, intellectual property, technology and gender. And thousands of bras, of course. (04/18/2001)

Air ball By Allen Barra
Michael Jordan's rumored return to the court sounds like a great idea for the NBA. It isn't. (04/18/2001)

A strange love By Joan Walsh
Or: How one Giants fan learned to stop worrying and love Barry Bonds, just in time to appreciate his 500th home run. (04/18/2001)

The killer cocks of Oregon By Phil Busse
Why does the land o' many Birkenstocks allow fowl to be bred for cockfights? (04/18/2001)

Stalking, family-style By Amy Reiter
Mom takes kids to Mel Gibson's house -- and over his fence; Depp makes whoopee on the set. Plus: Kid Rock gropes Sheryl Crow in front of Gwyneth Paltrow! (04/18/2001)

Pat Robertson condones abortion in China By Anthony York
Plus: Mississippi reaffirms its Confederate roots; the Freudian Free Republic? And: Timothy McVeigh tells PETA they've got the wrong bomber. (04/18/2001)

Don't go near the water By Jake Tapper
Jeb Bush's controversial plan to dump wastewater near drinking wells may be his big brother's next environmental mess. (04/18/2001)

Diary of a divorce By Lillian Ann Slugocki
What a ridiculous time to fall in love with my husband. Last of four parts. (04/18/2001)

Death to the AMT! By Damien Cave and Amy Standen
Silicon Valley gets political as an obscure tax clause strikes deep at the wallets of the rich and the middle class. (04/18/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, April 17, 2001 (04/17/2001)

"Ghost in the Shell" By Max Garrone
How a team of animators made this action feature faster, louder and more kinetic. (04/17/2001)

"All the Pretty Horses"
Brad Pitt reads from Cormac McCarthy's award-winning novel (04/17/2001)

Inside the pleasure quarters By Lucy Moss
The author of a new history of Japan's geisha talks about their secretive world, their art and patrons, and their ambiguous relationship to sex. (04/17/2001)

Story Minute By Carol Lay
A fate accompli. (04/17/2001)

Ode to Frances By Kate Moses
Who would have known that Russell Hoban's tales of a badger would teach generations of children the difficult work of becoming human? (04/17/2001)

The $252 million man By King Kaufman
Why does every single story about Alex Rodriguez have to mention the Rangers star's salary? (04/17/2001)

Cincinnati's killer cops
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson (04/17/2001)

Robert Kaplan By Laura Rozen
The controversial "Balkan Ghosts" put him on the map. His opinionated, darkly seductive reports of an unraveling world have kept him there. (04/17/2001)

Good vote hunting By Amy Reiter
Fellow groper Ben Affleck follows Schwarzenegger into pre-politics; Todd Bridges saves a life and his reputation. Plus: Tom Green corks the fart jokes, and Clooney's girl takes sex over dieting. (04/17/2001)

Where's Ralph? By Anthony York
With Nader and Gore missing in action, environmentalists are desperately gearing up to stop Bush's pro-business juggernaut. (04/17/2001)

Ayn Rand, Earth Day and communists -- Oh my! By Anthony York
Plus: The Oklahoma City bomber waxes philosophical about vegetarianism. And: This is not a porn column -- really. (04/17/2001)

Diary of a divorce By Lillian Ann Slugocki
A letter to the man I made love to last night. Third of four parts. (04/17/2001)

Life and death on the Well By Janelle Brown
Author Katie Hafner says the online community made history -- from a legendary fight against anti-porn hysteria to the simple task of providing information on head lice. (04/17/2001)

Mickey Mouse is the devil By Andrew O'Hehir
The long, strange journey of New York activist Rev. Billy and his struggle against Starbucks, Disney, Nike and Cindy Crawford. (04/16/2001)

"Easy Rider" By Max Garrone
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda go back to a time when a kilo of good pot was a budgeted movie expense. (04/16/2001)

The late, great Joey Ramone
Friends, musicians and journalists remember an avatar, a star -- and a lonely guy who never felt appreciated enough. (04/16/2001)

Twenty-five words or less Read by Terry Ryan
In "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," Terry Ryan's mother, Evelyn, keeps poverty at bay with wit, luck and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and '60s. (04/16/2001)

"My Misspent Youth" by Meghan Daum By Laura Miller
A former Gen X journalist finds fodder for her essays in an Internet romance, going broke in New York and hating science fiction fans. (04/16/2001)

Salon recommends
Voluptuous poems about love, lust and art, an American's view of everyday life in the new China and more. (04/16/2001)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
How the U.S. pulled the wool over the eyes of those inscrutable Chinese! (04/16/2001)

All's fair in love and the fashion media By Janelle Brown
Actresses steal supermodels' lunch! Plus: Naomi Campbell warbles for the masses. (04/16/2001)

Decoding the White House dress code By Carina Chocano
We're looking at wholesale pollution of the air and water, and our food is starting to seem kind of scary, but those Bushies sure are well-dressed! (04/16/2001)

Why I won't pay the Daily Princetonian By David Horowitz
Yes, the paper ran my anti-reparations ad, but the editorial printed alongside it was pure slander. (04/16/2001)

Dr. Hofmann's problem child turns 58 By Chris Colin
It started causing trouble as a teen and has never really stopped. We can't name names, but its initials are LSD. (04/16/2001)

Janet Jackson dogged by Puffy? By Amy Reiter
Did P. Diddy want to put his paws to work? Hugh Grant: Rushdie liked extra sex game. Plus: Will Tony Soprano and his shrink do it? (04/16/2001)

The Bush education plan is too timid By Arianna Huffington
We need to give families a choice -- and that means vouchers and charter schools. (04/16/2001)

Media Whores vs. Hitchens, Part 3 By Anthony York
The columnist responds to the Clintonites at the journalism gadfly site. (04/16/2001)

Sex school By Chris Colin
Taiwan plans to open an institute of sexology in an effort to reduce its divorce rate. (04/16/2001)

Follow the money By Andrew Leonard
From shrimp farms in Thailand to electric blanket makers in Maine, one woman's journey rips the lid off the "global economy." (04/16/2001)

Joey Ramone, R.I.P. By Bill Wyman
He had no voice, no looks, no chest, butt or knees. But he kicked a generation in the ass, hard. (04/16/2001)

Cincinnati's killer cops By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath. (04/14/2001)

Killing as "closure" By Kerry Lauerman
John Ashcroft says the closed-circuit TV broadcast of Timothy McVeigh's execution will help victims heal. But will what they see look too brutal -- or not brutal enough? (04/14/2001)

Smile and slash By Jake Tapper
Bush's habit of cutting the budgets of organizations he's used for photo ops is making him an easy target for Democrats. (04/14/2001)

"Bridget Jones's Diary" By Stephanie Zacharek
A smarted-up, tarted-up take on a book about a girl who unapologetically enjoys sex. (04/13/2001)

Surf's up!
Episode 12: Floods, famine and Colby -- the Barramundi tribe faces a Bible's worth of troubles. (04/13/2001)

Why I relish the PG&E power fiasco By Cary Tennis
In the wake of California's utility bankruptcy and skyrocketing energy costs, Salon's Cary Tennis asks: "Isn't there some grim but droll satisfaction in seeing our grid of power sputter like a drunken uncle and keel over on the floor?" (04/13/2001)

Fine young cannibals By Douglas Cruickshank
Amateur ethnographer and author Tobias Schneebaum has lived and loved among former headhunters -- and even sampled their cuisine. (04/13/2001)

A male biological clock? By Amy Benfer
A new study may make older men think twice about fatherhood. (04/13/2001)

Macedonia on the brink By Laura Rozen
Colin Powell urges peace, but a walk through the capital city reveals a country on the verge of civil war. (04/13/2001)

Brilliant Careers: Robert Downey Jr.
By Charles Taylor (04/13/2001)

More of her to love By Carina Chocano
My own habits are rather Bridget-like, so I feel it's OK for me to point out that she looked like Karl Malden. (04/13/2001)

Whitney and Bobby: Smashing couple? By Amy Reiter
Hotel denies Houston and Brown wrecking report; Al Gore demands canned ham from Letterman. Plus: Matt Damon golfs, dodges gunfire! (04/13/2001)

President Bush's corporate catnip By Arianna Huffington
Welcome to the GOP's ethical Washington, where Rep. Tom DeLay sells White House access and Bush ladles corporate gravy over his "fat-free" budget. (04/13/2001)

Critics: Bush caved to China By Jake Tapper
Gary Bauer and William Kristol break Republican ranks to publicly attack the China deal while others mutter under their breath. (04/13/2001)

Spread 'em, junior By Anthony York
The White House reportedly plans to frisk toddlers. (04/13/2001)

Dangerous By David Thomson
Juliette Binoche's character in "Damage" is like the real-life Christine Keeler of the Profumo affair. (04/13/2001)

That's "Mistress Freelancer" to you By Katharine Mieszkowski
When the market for her articles dried up, this tech hack became a dominatrix. (04/13/2001)

The bankrupt generation
By Damien Cave (04/13/2001)

Elegy for Kozmo By Damien Cave
We come to bury the defunct dot-com delivery service, not to praise it. (04/13/2001)

"Charlie's Angels" By Jeff Stark
First-time director McG spins out a hilarious list of tongue-in-cheek filmic homages in his commentary to this "pop-a-wheelie" candy-colored thrill ride of an action movie. (04/12/2001)

The week in dirt By Amy Reiter
Boy George brings cross-dressing to Bosnia. Plus: Anna Nicole Smith needs to get laid, the next reconciliation of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson is on the horizon and Claudia Schiffer has a brand-new stalker. (04/12/2001)

The invention of peace By Suzy Hansen
A leading military scholar talks about what caused the world wars, why Kissinger was a true peacemaker and whether peace is incompatible with human nature. (04/12/2001)

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Fun facts about baseball! (04/12/2001)

Sex and science By Cathy Young
Are women discriminated against in the lab? Or are gender imbalances due to intellectual differences? (04/12/2001)

War of words By Daryl Lindsey, Alicia Montgomery and Jake Tapper
The Chinese get what sounds like an apology, and President Bush gets a resolution that silences the right -- for now. (04/12/2001)

Paul Peek By King Kaufman
He was there when rock was a baby, playing his red guitar next to Gene Vincent and Jayne Mansfield. Last week he moved on -- to rockabilly heaven. (04/12/2001)

Dickie "Be-Bop" Harrell By King Kaufman
The original drummer for Gene Vincent's Blue Caps remembers life in one of rockabilly's rowdiest bands, and his friend Paul Peek. (04/12/2001)

Model behavior By Amy Reiter
Hotheaded, potty-talking Naomi Campbell can't get a break! Plus: Tom and Drew will wed; Schwarzenegger waffles; and Sly Stallone won't put on a thong. (04/12/2001)

Is George W. Bush a wimp? By Anthony York
Plus: H-a-v-o-c in Cincinnati; history and the Resurrection. (04/12/2001)

Sweet thing By Casey Ford
I'm a 46-year-old man, I've been with only one woman and I'm happy about that. (04/12/2001)

Generation bankrupt By Damien Cave
They got hooked on credit cards when the good times seemed forever. Now the bills are due. (04/12/2001)

"Josie and the Pussycats" By Stephanie Zacharek
The latest cartoon-to-screen spoof finds the rock-chick band taking on the music industry. (04/11/2001)

"Joe Dirt" By Andrew O'Hehir
David Spade is a redneck with heart, but he can't pull a movie out of acid-washed jeans and a mullet. (04/11/2001)

Tell it to the Marines!
Episode 3: Just another recruit meets balloons, recruit loses balloons, recruit gets ballons back again story. (04/11/2001)

William Blake
National Poetry Month on Salon Audio: Listen to William Blake's poem "The Garden of Love." (04/11/2001)

Volcano wars By Laura Miller
Nine scientists met grisly deaths in a 1993 eruption in Colombia, but the battle over who was to blame rages on. (04/11/2001)

The patriot
By Gary Kamiya (04/11/2001)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Make the energy crisis work for you! (04/11/2001)

Goddess in a girdle By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Evelyn Ryan, "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," has delivered me from the evil of lousy mothering manuals. (04/11/2001)

Is Ken Griffey Jr. past his prime? By Allen Barra
His slipping stats raise questions about whether he's really baseball's best. Plus: Remembering Willie Stargell, who let us know the sheer joy of being a big-league ballplayer. (04/11/2001)

Our unimpressive president By Camille Paglia
The China crisis showed that presidential eloquence does matter. Plus: Is goofy, stork-legged Julia Roberts really what passes for Hollywood elegance? (04/11/2001)

Stuck in the middle By Alicia Montgomery
Without any clear defenders -- and plenty of detractors -- the Bush budget looks awfully vulnerable. (04/11/2001)

So, was it an apology? By Anthony York
The online community digests the White House statement on China. (04/11/2001)

Protecting us from predators By Virginia Vitzthum
Is it fair to send sex offenders deemed "dangerous" to mental wards after they've served prison time? (04/11/2001)

Playing God
By Wagner James Au (04/11/2001)

We're all temps now By Katharine Mieszkowski
The economic downturn is making life harder for independent contractors. But is having a staff job really any more secure? (04/11/2001)

Brian Wilson, card-carrying genius By Ira Robbins
After a life custom-made for cable catharsis, the force behind the Beach Boys is now being honored even for things he didn't do. Does that card ever expire? (04/10/2001)

"Scarface" By Max Garrone
When the profanity-laced cocaine epic finally made it to TV, editors scrambled to find 160 words that rhymed with "suck." (04/10/2001)

"Being Digital" Read by Penn Jillette
The founding director of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, explains how computer sytems can be designed to understand us better, not the reverse. (04/10/2001)

"The Immortal Class" by Travis Hugh Culley By Maria Russo
A suburban lad tells how he found guts, glory and a sustainable transit option in the renegade world of bike messengers. (04/10/2001)

Story Minute By Carol Lay
To bee or not to bee. (04/10/2001)

The carp in the bathtub By Alan Deutschman
In the Brooklyn of my youth, we didn't know from ahi tuna, but carp made good pets -- and great gefilte fish, too. (04/11/2001)

Gefilte fish from the "Jewish Alps" By Alan Deutschman
A dish that would meet with Great-Grandma Minnie's approval. (04/10/2001)

Robert Downey Jr. By Charles Taylor
His future's uncertain, but even if Hollywood's beloved screw-up never acts again, he'll stand as the most talented actor of his generation. (04/10/2001)

Ernie the cat found! By Anthony York
Plus: Is Jesse going to China? David Horowitz defends Christopher Hitchens. And: The war between Judicial Watch and Tom DeLay. (04/10/2001)

China breakthrough: Bush takes questions! By Daryl Lindsey
"Diplomacy sometimes takes a little longer than people would like," the president says. And the people who don't like it include many conservative allies. (04/11/2001)

Lunchtime quickies? By Chris Colin
A fifth-grade girl says her classmates trade soda and cash for sex. (04/10/2001)

"Why I relish the PG&E power fiasco" and "'2001': The real odyssey"
Readers respond to stories by Cary Tennis and Greg Papadopoulos. (04/10/2001)

Playing God By Wagner James Au
The long-awaited game Black & White is everything fans hoped it would be: A state-of-the-art excursion into our own souls. (04/10/2001)

Bloomberg's box By David Carr
His machine owns Wall Street, but the rest of the world has been resistant. (04/10/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, April 9, 2001 (04/09/2001)

"Snakes and Ladders"
In her book of essays on modern India, Gita Mehta explores subjects ranging from Bollywood to women buying themselves out of bondage. (04/09/2001)

Salon recommends
James Ellroy's sleazy take on Kennedy-era politics, Don DeLillo's paranoid minor masterpiece and more. (04/09/2001)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Why, those damned Republicans! (04/09/2001)

Business in the front, party in the back By Janelle Brown
The mullet is the über-do as irony trumps beauty in the VIP room of high fashion. (04/09/2001)

Stupid ideas make good By Carina Chocano
Girl Scouts go Starbucks. Plus: Put a sock in it. (04/09/2001)

The Edison debate continues  
A San Francisco schools activist critiques Salon's Edison Charter Academy coverage, and Joan Walsh replies. (04/09/2001)

Protest chic goes global By Richard Blow
Latter-day hippies and martial arts masters form an odd coalition in Taiwan to promote "global peace." But something is lost in the translation. (04/09/2001)

Robert Smigel By Rex Doane
The man who brought you a cross-dressing kangaroo, a necrophiliac lobster and Robert Goulet takes you inside the mind that made "TV Funhouse." (04/09/2001)

Breaking up is hard to do! By Amy Reiter
Pamela and Tommy get cuddly all over again; Boy George to save Bosnia; and Hef's got no room in his bed. Plus: Angelina Jolie calls for a backup butt! (04/09/2001)

Judicial Watch vs. DeLay By Anthony York
Plus: Bush's poll numbers plummet; Is Florida Judge Sanders Sauls a card-carrying Freeper? And: Is Richard Mellon Scaife pimping for Chris Hitchens? (04/09/2001)

A little arsenic water with that tainted beef? By Arianna Huffington
You're not paranoid: The Bush administration really is trying to poison you. (04/09/2001)

Bush swings both ways By Jake Tapper
Appointing a gay AIDS czar, the president confounds both family-values supporters and homosexual groups. (04/09/2001)

Made women By Karen Croft
"The Sopranos" deals with female emotional and sexual desire better than any other show on TV. (04/09/2001)

"2001": The real odyssey By Greg Papadopoulos
How well did Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke predict the future? They nailed it, says Sun's chief technology officer. (04/09/2001)

I hate TV By Robert David Sullivan
After eight years of half-hour chunks and three-minute breaks, a TV critic bids the idiot box goodbye. Almost. (04/07/2001)

This thing of ours By David Thomson
Some Italian-Americans say "The Sopranos" traffics in stereotypes. You got a problem with that? (04/07/2001)

The patriot Gary Kamiya
He was prepared to shed blood to defend liberty. What separates American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from thousands of other gun-worshiping zealots? (04/07/2001)

I was an apparatchik for Red China By Cara Anna
An American former editor at a government-run Chinese newspaper blasts coverage of the spy plane crisis. (04/07/2001)

Regrets, we have a few By George Kelly
From China to Australia, Dan Rather to Grace Slick, the whole dang world is sorry about something. (04/07/2001)

Bruce Brugmann's moment of glory By Anthony York
California's energy crisis is a long-awaited vindication for the feisty publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. (04/07/2001)

Why I relish the PG&E power fiasco By Cary Tennis
Of course we kept the lights on! That misguided monolith gave us no incentive not to. (04/07/2001)

Sex, e-mail and Modem Media By Janelle Brown
Another day, another inadvertent corporate e-mail spreading rage and embarrassment. (04/07/2001)

"Blow" By Stephanie Zacharek
A cocksure Johnny Depp swaggers through a sleazy, glamorous head trip about the '70s and '80s drug trade. (04/06/2001)

"Along Came a Spider" By Charles Taylor
Morgan Freeman returns as Alex Cross in a dreary, ludicrous thriller. (04/06/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Weekend, April 6-8, 2001 (04/06/2001)

Bathroom secrets of the outback
Episode 11: Everything you didn't want to know about survivor digestion! Plus: Jeff Probst makes a deal. (04/06/2001)

Escaping the Napster trap By Damien Cave
DivX Networks aims to do for video what MP3s have done for music. Can it please both hackers and the movie biz? (04/06/2001)

The roots of the Rolling Stones By Stephanie Zacharek
Andrew Loog Oldham, the man who turned the Stones into bad-boy icons, tells his story, and a fan weighs in. (04/07/2001)

"Faith in the baby" and "Mommy's little monster"
Readers respond to two stories about the agonies and joys of raising kids who don't fit the norm. (04/06/2001)

Bush's Euro-skeptics By Steve Kettmann
In France they call him "an idiot." In Germany they call him a "big bully." Forget China -- Europe could turn out to be President Bush's biggest foreign policy problem yet. (04/06/2001)

Welcome to my world
By Camille Paglia (04/06/2001)

Everybody's stalking! By Amy Reiter
Claudia Schiffer's latest fan bloodies up the manse; Britney had "help" with her autobiography; and "Survivor's" Jerri Manthey wants to get nekkid ASAP! (04/06/2001)

Olson's easy day By Alicia Montgomery
Former Bush attorney and anti-Clinton plotter breezes through his Senate hearing. (04/06/2001)

Jane, you ignorant slut By Anthony York
We've got fan mail! Plus: Where, oh where is Ernie the Cat? And: Will it be Ben Stein vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger in California? (04/06/2001)

Flirting while flying By David Thomson
I can't help seeing this Chinese business in sexual terms. (04/06/2001)

Personalize me, baby By Janelle Brown
Who needs MTV or Rolling Stone? The Net is finally delivering on an old promise: Introducing us to new music that we really, really like. (04/06/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, April 5, 2001 (04/05/2001)

Days of the Nü By Joey Sweeney
Today's young metalheads wallow in self-pity and sound like Limp Bizkit. These kids don't need rock -- they need Paxil. (04/05/2001)

"Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" By Max Garrone
Not all DVD versions of the two groundbreaking computer-animated movies are created equal. (04/05/2001)

Pooped!
Episode 2: Everything you wanted to know about boot camp bathrooms. Plus: "There's always a Gomer Pyle!" (04/05/2001)

The Great Coral Caper! By Bill Wyman
Australia investigates "Survivor" for eco-crimes after a contestant pilfers pieces of the Great Barrier Reef. (04/05/2001)

"Your One Good Dress" By Brenda Shaughnessy
Critically acclaimed young writer Brenda Shaughnessy reads two poems from her first book, "Interior With Sudden Joy." (04/05/2001)

Islam's black slaves By Suzy Hansen
The author of a book on the 1,400-year history of the other slave trade talks about the power of eunuchs, the Nation of Islam's falsehoods and the persistence of slavery today. (04/06/2001)

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The education of Louis (04/05/2001)

Faith in the baby By Kristin Ohlson
They told me he was fine. I don't know that I ever believed them. (04/05/2001)

Green eggs and irradiated ham By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Could President Bush's short-lived plan for irradiated school burgers bring nutritional salvation? (04/05/2001)

Under pressure By Salon staff
Forget the campaign trail's pop quizzes. The diplomatic impasse with China is President Bush's first major foreign policy test. (04/05/2001)

Ted Olson's anti-Clinton past By Joe Conason
Bush's solicitor general-designate can't hide his connection to the notorious "Arkansas Project." (04/05/2001)

Why the kid-glove treatment for China? By Dave Lindorff
Corporate interests are trumping human interests in President Bush's handling of the spy plane crisis. (04/05/2001)

It's a wonderful lifestyle By Carina Chocano
Just in time, the Olsen twins are giving us a magazine to help us be the Olsen twins. (04/05/2001)

Anna Nicole Smith: "I do miss sex"! By Amy Reiter
Bodacious blond claims no nookie makes her nuts; Ahnuld: "I will enter politics." Plus: Eminem says Donny Osmond was "a big influence." (04/05/2001)

Is Willie Brown playing the race card? By Anthony York
Plus: Conservative Web sites take the gloves off: "That's why we had to bomb Hiroshima"; George W. Bush, the poison president. (04/05/2001)

How to widen the black-white wealth gap By Dalton Conley
Ignore the claims of rich, black estate-tax foes. The tax is good for African-Americans. (04/06/2001)

To have sex or not? By David Tuller
One night, shortly after Gary fell asleep, love squeezed Bill's insides so hard that his hands sprang forward like claws. Last of three parts. (04/05/2001)

The world according to Paul By Damien Cave
Economist du jour Paul Krugman weighs in on the China standoff, California's energy crisis and whether the economy has hit rock bottom. (04/06/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, April 4, 2001 (04/04/2001)

President Dumbass By Joyce Millman
In the bratty "That's My Bush!" the "South Park" boys claim they're sending up sitcoms, not George W. Right. And Cartman's a genius. (04/05/2001)

"The Sopranos" By Jeff Stark
On the DVD of the first season of "The Sopranos," creator David Chase admits that a lot of his family drama was painfully real. (04/05/2001)

The week in dirt By Amy Reiter
Great news: John Travolta says sequel to "Battlefield Earth" not a priority. Plus: Pam Anderson's bikini golf tournament, Moby's sorry ass and more. (04/04/2001)

"Crawling at Night" by Nani Power By Mary Gaitskill
In this complex, erotic new novel, Asian and Western characters pursue desire's mysterious byways. (04/05/2001)

The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Life's little victories: It's what you do with 'em that counts (04/04/2001)

Putting egg whites where the sun don't shine By Kate Edwards
Infertility makes me do the darnedest things. (04/05/2001)

Spy plane showdown By Salon News staff
Can the hard-line Bush administration use diplomacy to prevent a crisis with China? Experts weigh in. (04/04/2001)

General soreness By Allen Barra
Why don't the players Bob Knight kicked off the Texas Tech basketball team have any rights? And why doesn't the media care? (04/05/2001)

New team names spell victory! By Susan McCarthy
Today the sports moniker game's not about identification, it's about intimidation. Just ask the Raging Drag Queens, the Syphilitic White Missionaries or the Declining Test Scores. (04/05/2001)

Top 10 new meals coming to McDonald's By Al Astor
A good cow is hard to find, but the savvy eatery is on top of things. Think: McKnuckles. (04/05/2001)

Nicole Kidman: Knee wide open By Amy Reiter
Hugh Grant: "Maybe I'm a perv"; Jennifer Aniston is out of bondage, into horse pills. Plus: David Bowie will bite you now and Jodie Foster is preggers! (04/04/2001)

And the winner was? By Jake Tapper
The Miami Herald's tally of Florida undervotes fails to yield a clear victor -- yet another reason the Gore team should have actually tried to "count every vote." (04/04/2001)

Now can we move on? By Salon staff
Wolfe, Carlson, Sullivan, Ebert and Horowitz react to the latest chapter to Election 2000. (04/04/2001)

Thanks, Justice Scalia! By Joan Walsh
With news that the very recount he stopped would have confirmed a Bush victory, the president's closest ally on the U.S. Supreme Court turns out to have been his worst enemy. (04/04/2001)

The return of the ugly American By Anthony York
National Review makes childish China jokes. Plus: What they're saying, or not saying, about the Florida recount; is Bill Clinton stealing from the White House again? (04/04/2001)

Buchanan wins! By Cary Tennis
In a stunning development, a new Florida recount reveals an unexpected result. (04/04/2001)

Distraction By David Tuller
Bill couldn't stop thinking about Gary, but he didn't want to have sex with him. Second of three parts. (04/05/2001)

The phantom cyber-threat By Caroline Benner
We should stop worrying about computer terrorism and learn who our real enemies are. (04/05/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, April 3, 2001 (04/03/2001)

Fighting pay-for-play By Eric Boehlert
Sources in the music industry call for a federal clampdown on the new payola. (04/04/2001)

"The Oldest Rookie" Read by Kevin O'Rourke
In 1998, at age 35, Jim Morris, a high school teacher and baseball coach, made a bet with his young players that would catapult him from a tryout with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays all the way to the major leagues. (04/03/2001)

"Facing the Wind" by Julie Salamon By Andrew O'Hehir
The author of "The Devil's Candy" tells the true story of the ideal family man who suddenly plunged into homicidal madness. (04/04/2001)

Time out By Garrison Keillor
Mr. Blue will be back April 24. Stay tuned. (04/03/2001)

Story Minute By Carol Lay
When the ax falls ... (04/03/2001)

Baby loves me, baby loves me not By Theresa Pinto Sherer
Is there a biological guarantee that your child will love you? Not yet. (04/03/2001)

The turning point By King Kaufman
When Arizona missed a chance to tie the game with more than 13 minutes to go, the NCAA title belonged to Duke. (04/04/2001)

Back to the Cold War? By Ben Barber
As Bush rattles his saber -- and China rattles back -- tensions rise around the world. (04/03/2001)

Wheelchairs, pig guts, computers and machetes By Carlos Amantea
Let me tell you what happened in the Mississippi of Mexico while I was out with the Pusher Divine, and visited by Peter Lorre and his giant knife. (04/03/2001)

The way they are By Amy Reiter
Streisand rails at Dems for what they've become; Depp wants 100 kids. Plus: Janet Jackson prefers a good-sized ship. (04/03/2001)

The China debate continues By Anthony York
Plus: A new, Bush-spoofing sitcom from the creators of "South Park," and the most annoying catch phrase on the Internet (04/03/2001)

Best buddies By David Tuller
When Bill kissed Gary it felt like he was kissing a steak. First of three parts. (04/04/2001)

Social Security and the big bad bear By Katharine Mieszkowski
Will an imploding stock market kill off plans to privatize our national safety net? (04/03/2001)

Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus
  (04/03/2001)

Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Monday, April 2, 2001 (04/02/2001)

"Alien" By Max Garrone
Don't call Ridley Scott a hack. Who else can make a cat hiss on cue the way he can? (04/03/2001)

Opening Day By Les Standiford
Mark Jupiter reads from Les Standiford's newly released e-book novella about baseball's Negro Leagues. (04/03/2001)

Where have you gone, Bill Grabarkewitz? By King Kaufman
An oral history of the Los Angeles Dodgers forgoes baseball for gossip, and leaves a hometown boy wondering where his memories fit into the picture. (04/03/2001)

Moveable feast By Katharine Garden
Contentville's pseudonymous book-party columnist gives the inside dish on book parties for Edmund White's "Loss Within Loss," Amitav Ghosh's "The Glass Palace," Danny Moynihan's "Boogie-Woogie," and a reading by Emmanuel Carrhre, author of the French best-seller "The Adversary." (04/02/2001)

"Psycho factories" and "The business of law and order"
Readers respond to our review of "Going up the River" and interview with the book's author, Joseph Hallinan. (04/03/2001)

Salon recommends
A thriller set in Paris on the brink of war, provocative profiles of Anaïs Nin and Ayn Rand and more. (04/02/2001)

This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
So the stock market goes down too? (04/02/2001)

The cruelty of compassionate conservatism
By Jennifer Foote Sweeney (04/02/2001)

Microwaved cat or faddish flowers? By Carina Chocano
You be the judge. Plus: Everybody loves Christian. (04/03/2001)

Hair whore By Amy Traverso
I cheated on the first stylist who gave me great locks. And then I cheated on everyone I had cheated on her with. (04/02/2001)

My 15 minutes By David Horowitz
"I couldn't be more pleased by the attention," columnist David Horowitz says, as the controversy over his anti-reparations ad rages on. (04/02/2001)

40 minutes By King Kaufman
When Duke meets Arizona for the NCAA title, the winner will be whoever can get closer to playing a whole game, which nobody's been doing so far. (04/03/2001)

The people speak By Max Garrone
Online discussions in the People's Daily forum slam the U.S. -- but take shots at China, too. (04/03/2001)

John Boorman By Stephen Lemons
The director of "The Tailor of Panama" talks about his movie, James Dickey, John le Carri, J.R.R. Tolkien and brothel etiquette. (04/02/2001)

My name is Moby. I'm a jerk By Amy Reiter
Techno-popster to world: "What's wrong with me?" Pam Anderson takes it off for golf. Plus: Seeing red -- Jagger battles Redford over Che flick. (04/02/2001)

Which way L.A.? By Anthony York
In a crowded field of contenders, a white guy and a Latino vie to be the 21st century's Tom Bradley, in the city's first post-ethnic mayor's race. (04/03/2001)

Katherine Harris, woman of the year? By Anthony York
Plus: Barbra Streisand lashes out at Democrats; Peggy Noonan says class warfare works; are Democrats calling for a flat tax? (04/02/2001)

The Bush-China monologues By Jake Tapper, with White House transcripts
The White House takes questions: A drama in multiple acts. (04/03/2001)

A special time By Anthony Giardina
I hope it's true that every marriage, sometime in its existence, knows a moment like this. An excerpt from a novel about a man's evolving sexuality. (04/03/2001)

Don't march for Napster By Andrew Leonard
Corporate co-optation of civil rights rhetoric is an abomination. It should be shunned. (04/03/2001)