May 1999

COVER STORY
The Universe of Frank Zappa
By Richard Abowitz

BOOK
World of Hurt

A review of Careless Love, Peter Guralnick’s biography of Elvis Presley
By Robert Cochran
Plus: An interview with Peter Guralnick

FILM
The New Hope of the Phantom Menace
By Daniel Kraus

THEATER
The Real Thing?
On Broadway, the surrounding of Annie Oakley by politically corrected Indians raises questions about the future of musical theater
By Lou Harry

TOP FORTY HITS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip
By Paul Williams

LET IT BLEED
The Empire on Acid
The drug bust of the Rolling Stones

ISSUES
Minimum Mandatory
A twenty-five-year-old Olympic hopeful with no criminal record is sentenced to six and a half years in a federal prison for half a shoe box of dried marijuana seedlings. Should minimum mandatory laws be overturned?
By Eric Rickstad
Plus: In the Time of the War on Drugs
By Richard Cusick

TELEVISION
Carnival Days
A look at the documentary Andy Kaufman: I'm from Hollywood

ART
An Exacting Revenge
James Ensor and Christ's Entry into Brussels
By S. Amanda Davis