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The Rant
Brian Dykstra lets loose on Media-Megalomania: JonBenet, A well-shod Tiger and the Hale-Boppers Last Supper.Fiction
Nesting Habits of the American House Finch. Jim Sanks' prose takes flight on the ruffled wings of a domestic-tragedy .
Books
Ron Hogan reviews Giovanni's Gift and interviews author Bradford Morrow. Ron also reviews Ressurection by David Remnick. And Patrick Quinn looks in on Roger Kahn's Memories of Summer.
The Great American Diner
Paulette Licitra and Peter Selgin slide across the vinyl booth and dine Americana.
Erotica
Mouthing. Gayle Brandeis tells a story of love among the ashes.
Illustrations by Tim Carrier.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Massage
Brett Leveridge gives up preoccupation and gives in to pampering.
The Puzzle
Try out this puzzler from the brain bank of riddlers at Urban Desires.
Playable in Netscape 3.0 only
How Fun is Phun if it's Legal? Grafitti
Gabrielle Mullem decodes the Boys who Bomb - from aesthetic to politics what makes 'em tic?
The New Republic
Bart Boehlert and Thomas Oatman contemplate Cowboy threads, Cary Grant, and Tokyo digs.
The Lyrical Side of the Absurd
Painter: Jacques Roch
Spaciously Incorrect
Questioning the rhetoric of the banal: art of Alex Villar.
Missing
Steed Taylor's not so Capraesque exploration of life without himself.
Helmet
David Levine listens to After Taste and talks guitars with Helmet head Page Hamilton.
Madeline Peyroux
Our music man pinches himself when he speaks with the young vocalist and reviews her Dreamland.
Reviews
Stan Schwartz gives us a double dose of Twin Town, interviewing director Kevin Allen and reviewing the film. Schwartz's Cinema is also playing Nowhere, Traveller and Ulee's Gold.
Tudo Bem, Bahia
Roz Calvert seeks the axé of 400 year-old Brazilian port city: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
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