July/August 2000

COVER STORY
Culture that Splatters: The Blue Man Group
By Shawn Gewirtz

MUSIC
The Mad, Mad World of Glenn Gould
By Amy Domingues 

BOOK
The End of Innocence
The evolution of pop and the revolution of style
By Nat Whilk 

COMEDY
The Genius of Curly
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
By Marty Wombacher 

ISSUES
When Killing Makes No Sense
The execution of Steve Roach
By Doug Hornig 

LITERATURE
The Monster Within
The evolution of the myth of Frankenstein
By Susan Tyler Hitchcock 

ART
Girls Playing a Boy’s Game
Female graffiti artists
By Katie Haegele 

FILM
The Morbid Urge
Do we abhor snuff films or do we need them somehow?
By Daniel Kraus

ART
Machines of Sex and Death
Machines that fight like gladiators? Robots that seek to copulate like humans? True! This is the dark side of Machine Theater.
By Andrew Marcus 

MUSIC
Lester Bangs, King of the Noise Boys
By David Dalton 

MUSIC
On Not Leaving the Nest
On TV from 1970 to 1974, The Partridge Family was seen by many as trivial. But not to the Reverend Partridge, as he worships the bygone sitcom family in the Partridge Family Temple.
By Kendra Hurley 

FILM
A Look at Incest in Film
Sex that shares a surname
By Grant Rosenberg 

FICTION
The League of Non-Voters
By Robert Castle 

REVIEWS
Super Chikan, Nashville Pussy, William Matthews, Walt Whitman in the Civil War and more