COVER
STORY
The
Man in the Mirror
Michael
Jackson’s tabloid reflections
and racial rejections
By
Daniel Kraus
FILM
I
Feel Your Pain
In
the past few years, anti-heroes in
films have been projected as heroes who
earn our respect and even our admiration.
What are the consequences?
By
Grant Rosenberg
ISSUES
A
Real Beer Bust in New York City
Or
how I was Rudy Giulianied out of sleep
one fine October morning
By
Marty Wombacher
ISSUES
The
Man Who Killed Paul McCartney
An
eyewitness account of the surrounding
incidents which fanned the flames of
the “Paul Is Dead” rumors
By Jim Yoakum
MUSIC
The
Ozark Saga of Singer and Songwriter
Jimmy Driftwood
By
Robert Cochran
MUSIC
It
Came on a Flaming Pie and Left on
a Bullet
Thirty
years since the Beatles’ breakup
By
John W. Whitehead
BOOK
Keeping
the Faith
The
language of rock fashion
By
Nat Whilk
ART
The
Life and Work of Basquiat
By
Victor Bockris
LITERATURE
Media
Startups
An
excerpt from a collection of first-job-in-the-media
stories
By
Garret Mathews
INTERVIEW
Douglas
Coupland
The
man who gave us the label Generation
X expounds on his newest works and
talks about his search for meaning
and transcendence.
By
Johan Conrod
REVIEWS
Christopher
Isherwood, Rock obituaries, Supergrass,
Will Oldham and more