Created
in February 1997, Gadfly Magazine launched as a full-size print publication in
January 1998, morphed into a heftier bi-monthly in the fall of '99,
and continued online after the publication of its March/April '01 issue. Called "odd, eccentric
and eclectic" by The Washington Post, the Utne Reader selected Gadfly in 1999 for best Cultural Coverage for their Eleventh Annual
Alternative Press Awards. "Gadfly's stupendous eclecticism makes
this glossy bimonthly second only to the Library of Congress as a warehouse
of American pop culture," Utne stated. "And number one when it comes to fun reading." Now online, the print content from specific issues, featuring commentaries on public beliefs, literature, television, film and the arts, is accessible by clicking on the cover of a particular magazine.
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January
98: Over
100 Films That Will Change Your Life/Crazy
Continuum of Film/Larry and Andy Wachowski
February
98: Sex
Pistols/CBGB’s owner Hilly Kristal/Punk
albums/Kurt
Vonnegut/Oliver Stone & Gus Van Sant/Blood
Simple/Dr.
Strangelove & the Bomb/Faulkner
and Film/Jonathan Fire Eater/Dr. Viktor
Frankl/Stanley Spencer/George Solti
March
98: Francis Bacon/Jimmy
Witherspoon/John Prine/Les Enfants Terribles/Renoir's
Portraits/The
Influence of Painting on Film/10 Recommended
Films from '97/Poet
Dana Gioia/Sinatra
April
98: Does
fame kill?/Ray Bradbury/M.C. Escher/Roger
Ebert/Painter Lisa Yuskavage/Pet Sounds/Brian
Wilson/Raymond Carver/Conspiracy World
May
98: James
Dean/Rebel Males/Jonathan
Yardley on Fred Exley/Cool Hand Luke/Roger
Shattuck/Egon Schiele/Hüsker
Dü/Memphis & The
Beale Street Blues
June
98: Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph
Steadman/Screenwriter Tony Grisoni/New Journalism/Novelist
Laurie Gwen Shapiro/Saturday Night Fever/M.
Scott Peck/Hallucinated Alphabets/Artist
George Segal/Grunge Revisited/Tricky Dick
and the Pink Lady
July
98: Cartoons
Are King/Dr. Katz creator Tom
Snyder and Ren & Stimpy creator
John Kricfalusi/Steven Soderbergh/Walker
Percy/Springsteen’s Greetings
From Asbury Park/Sculptor Alberto Giacometti/First
Avenue & 7th Street Entry/Carl Perkins/Cindy
Sherman/Joy
Division/Anime Alternative
September
98: Van
Gogh & Gauguin in Arles/Don McLean/Cheap
Thrills, Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the
Holding Company/The C.S. Lewis Generation/Why
2001 Won't Be Like 2001/"Lilith
Fair: A Dissent"/Pi director Darren
Aronofsky/Fear & Loathing
in New York/Chicago's The Second City
October
98:The Exorcist/William
Peter Blatty/Richard Diebenkorn/Edgar
Allan Poe/Charlie
Manson/Memories of Glam/Squirrel Nut
Zippers/A Rookie Filmmaker/Hoodoo Voodoo
November
98: Outlaw
Country/Willie Nelson/Waylon
Jennings/Emmylou
Harris/ BR5-49/Ernest Tubb/Chaim
Soutine/Fourth Annual West Chester
University Poetry Conference/Writer Elwood
Reid/Ayn Rand/Nashville Just Before the
Outlaws Rode Into Town/Uncle Tupelo/Filmmakers
Brad Anderson & Lyn Vaus/Dogma 95
December
98: Oprah’s
Book Club/Writer
William Gass/Jackson Pollock/Flannery
O'Connor/Preston Sturges/The
Canonization of Pulp/Saved
by the Bell/The Rolling Stones' Rock
and Roll Circus/Singer-Songwriter Mary Cutrufello/The
Prieboy Principle
January
99: Top 5 Hits of the Twentieth Century/John
Cale/Black Flag’s
Greg Ginn/'80s Hardcore Punk/Bret
Easton Ellis/Akira Kurosawa/Sweet Dreams,
James Dean/Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie Prince
Billy/Writer Jana
Sterbak/Bob Crane
February
99: Hip-hop's
Best Years/The Root’s Black Thought/Buddy
Holly/Waylon Jennings/Salvador Dali/Breece
D'J Pancake/Ralph Fiennes/The Prisoner/Billie
Holiday's "God Bless the Child" and "I
Cover the Waterfront."/Rolling Stones’ Live
Recordings/Theatrical Top 10
March
99: Little
Stevie Spielberg/Author
Tim O'Brien/St. James’ Folk Art/Psycho/Ray
Davies/The Universal Declaration
of Human Rights/Sun Ra/Writer Pauline Melville/Shakespeare
Festival
April
99: The
Ali-Warhol Tapes/Writer Chester Himes/Charles
Mingus/David
Mamet/Jonestown/Filmmaker
D. A. Pennebaker/Winnie-the-Pooh/Olivia
Tremor Control
May
99: Frank
Zappa/Elvis
Presley: World of Hurt/Author Peter
Guralnick/Phantom Menace/Annie
Oakley/Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip/The
Drug Bust of the Rolling Stones/Minimum
Mandatory & the War on Drugs/Andy
Kaufman: I'm from Hollywood/James
Ensor and Christ's Entry into Brussels
June
99: David
Cronenberg/Brian Epstein/Iggy and The
Stooges/Jonathan Lethem/Francis Bacon/Allen
Ginsberg's "Howl"/Frida
Kahlo/Novelist Tristan Egolf
July
99: Gore Vidal/Dick Cavett/Pete Seeger/Adventures
in Art/Michael Herr's Vietnam/Linda McCartney’s
Photographs/Rolling
Stone editor Jan Wenner/Billboard
Liberation Front/Albert Goldman/Indie Savant
August
99: William
Burroughs/Flaming Lips/Hubert
Selby, Jr./Sculptor Lars-Erik
Fisk/Georgia
O'Keeffe/Bernardo
Bertolucci/Sony’s Akio Morita/Woodstock/L.A.
Theatre Works
Sept./Oct. 1999: Pro
Wrestling/Rod
Serling/15 Great Twilight Zone Episodes/Jon
Langford's The Death of Country Music/Paul
Bowles/The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/John
Fahey and Revenant Records/Poetry by
Alfred Corn, Michael Lind and Kate Light/Oz and Order/The
Prison Playwright/Thomas Merton
Nov./Dec.
99: Altamont/Judy
Chicago/Gospel Singer Marion Williams/Literary
Agent Andrew Wylie/Kalle Lasn/Hans Namuth/Nadar-Warhol/Christopher
Isherwood/Lynch vs. Burton/Atari/Writer Mark
Slouka/Top Ten Albums of 1999/Paddy Chayefsky
Jan./Feb.
00: Terry
Southern/Ronnie
Spector/Filmmaker Harmony Korine/Harry
Smith/Meredith Monk/Marketing
God/The
Extra/"Regarding Beauty"/Bluesman
Will Roy Sanders/Royal Trux/John
Lennon’s FBI Files/Luisa Casati/Jerome
Kitzke/Alberto Korda's Cuban Pictures/Banjo
Player Tommy
Jarrell/The Passion of Joan of
Arc, Grand Illusion, and The
Messiah
March/April
00: Marilyn Monroe/Louis
Armstrong/Keith
Haring/Being Woody Allen/The American
Comedy/Best Films of 1999/The Man George
Dubya Loves to Hate/Filmmaker
Oscar Micheaux/Artist Herndon Ely
May/June
00: Michael
Jackson/Basquiat/The
Immoral and Amoral in the Movies/A Real Beer
Bust in NYC/The
Man Who Killed Paul McCartney/Singer-Songwriter
Jimmy Driftwood/The Beatles’ Break-Up/Rock
Fashion/Media Startups/Douglas Coupland
July/Aug.
00: The
Blue Man Group/Lester
Bangs/Glenn Gould/The Evolution of
Pop and the Revolution of Style/Curly/When
Killing Makes No Sense/Frankenstein/Female
Graffiti Artists/Snuff
Films/Machines
of Sex and Death/Partridge Family/Incest
in Film/The League of Non-Voters
Sept./Oct.
00: Protest
Music/Hank Williams/Militarization
of Police/Franz
Kafka and Film/Dr. Laura/The Last Poets/George
A. Romero/Walker Evans/I Once Had a Human
Who Loved Me/Monty Python/Bob Dylan
and Les Blank/Melville and Malt Liquor
Nov./Dec.
00: Cyber-Rome: Las
Vegas/Tom Robbins/Internet Pop/Billy
Bragg/Trinity Broadcasting Network/Hottest
Black Screenwriter in Hollywood/Judy Blume/A
Dachau Memory/Nashville/Authors
Who Direct/EL CHE VIVE!/Killer Art/Bonhoeffer
Jan./Feb.
01: Visions
of the Seventies/Frank Serpico/Guided By
Voices’s Robert Pollard/Phillips
Art Collection in Las Vegas/Eleven Mind-Blowing
Films/Brando/Composer Harry
Partch/Boris Vian/Tom Waits/Allen Freed/Jimi
Hendrix/Hank Williams III/Fela Kuti
March/April
01: Lenny
Bruce/The Band/Mike Bloomfield/Cocksucker
Blues/Clara
Bow/10 Great Films of 2000/Religious
Thrillers/Yoko Ono/Pee-wee Herman/Boundaries/Ten
Great Books/Salon.com's Jake Tapper/Corey
Harris/Janis Joplin and Bonnie Bramlett/The
Saddest Man On Earth/Jew
Boy
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