ONLINE ARCHIVE

Formerly a print magazine, Gadfly launched as an online magazine in May 2001. This page contains links to much of the major content since Gadfly Online's inception. Return here each week for additions to the archive. For some choice selections from the print mag, click here.

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European Journal
Film/Theater

Issues
Joyful Noise
Music
Sports
Television

 

ART


Shrieking Ugly Ongeries
Frank Stella and art criticism
By Joan Altabe
04-29-02


Francis Bacon and the
Death of Art

By Joan Altabe
04-22-02

The Passive Nudes of History
Irving Penn at the Met
By Joan Altabe
04-15-02

Vernacular Drawings
Sketchbooks of the
cartoonist "Seth"
By Alan Bisbort
04-08-02

Museums Get Away with Murder
By Joan Altabe
04-01-02

You Can Tell by the
Way She Smiles

Does anyone understand
the Mona Lisa?
By Joan Altabe
04-08-02

The Importance of Fine Art
An e-mail conversation with
artist Bryten Goss
By Jonathan Whitehead
03-25-02

Blinders to History
John Ashcroft and "The Spirit of Justice"
By Joan Altabe
03-18-02

Wood Be Master
The sculptures of William Kent,
A carving artist
By Alan Bisbort
03-04-02


Fallingwater Is Falling Apart

By Joan Altabe
02-18-02

"Everything I hate now is different"
A conversation with the Academy Award-nominated cartoonist Dan Clowes about Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff, and the world of comics. By Dan Epstein
02-18-02

A "Soaring Monumental Memorial"

By Joan Altabe
02-04-02

Don't Say That Art Is
Good for the Soul:
An open letter to the
chair
man of the NEA
By Joan Altabe
01-21-02

Old Masters:

Overlooked women artists
By Joan Altabe
01-14-02

Just a Capitalist Illusion: Commemorating Warhol
By Joan Altabe
01-07-02

In Spite of Everything
The life of French surrealist Jacqueline Lamba
By Joan Altabe
11-26-01

No Explanation Needed:
The art of Howard Finster
By Joan Altabe
11-12-01

Bacon's Eye
Works on paper attributed to Francis Bacon
By John W. Whitehead
11-05-01

"We know the story.We need an illustration for it."
By Joan Altabe
10-29-01

"Fragile Horizon"
Daniel Kohn talks about a series of paintings he completed from the 91st floor of the World Trade Center.
10-22-01

Guggenheim Vegas
"Art has taken some hits in its time, but this one feels like a wallop."
By Joan Altabe
10-22-01

Found Art in the Smoke
The World Trade Center
devil photo.
By Nick Mamatas
10-8-01

The Art of John Dos Passos
A current exhibition showcases the literary figure's artistic inclinations.
By Tanya Stanciu
9-10-01

"I Make Therefore I Am"
A profile of folklorist Henry Glassie
By Coy Barefoot
8-20-01

No Girls Allowed
Casey Franklin documents women's fight for a place in the comic book nation.
8-13-01

Anais Nin
Writer or perfume?
By Judy Chicago
7-30-01

Anchors Away!
Under the Big Top of the 49th Venice Biennale
By Christina Ball
6-13-01

BOOK


Visiting Spirit
A conversation with Eric Burdon
By Dan Epstein
05-20-02


How the Beats Came to China
By Jim Jones
05-13-02

Anybody Can Rule
An interview with Gilligan Unbound
author Paul Cantor
By Jayson Whitehead
05-06-02

How I Learned to Worry and
Stop Loving the Bomb

An interview with
L. Douglas Keeney
By Kevin Canfield
04-29-02

Dig and Be Dug in Return
The life and works of
Langston Hughes
By Alan Bisbort
04-29-02

A Vivid Place
An interview with author
Ben Marcus
By Eric Maxson
04-22-02

Cinematic Writer

An interview with Chuck
Palahniuk
By Jonathan Kiefer
04-15-02

Bill Moody's Looking
for Chet Baker

By Neal Shaffer
04-08-02

An Irresistible Study

An interview with David Hajdu,
author of Positively 4th Street
By Kevin Canfield
04-01-02

I Like Good Stories

An interview with author
Mark Bowden
By Dan Epstein
03-25-02

"I Wouldn't Be Here If I Hadn't Been There."
A conversation with Jerry Stahl, the author of Permanent Midnight and Plainclothes Naked
By Dan Epstein
03-11-02

"Get the Guy Who's in Those
B movies in Our A Movie"

An interview with cult actor and best-selling author Bruce Campbell
By Dan Epstein
02-25-02

Hypnotist Collector:
The alchemy of Harry Smith
By Darrin Daniel
12-24-01

Finding P. J. O'Rourke

By Andrew L. Robles
12-17-01

We Got Dem Ol' Minstrelsy Blues Again, Mama
(Nick Tosches
Explains It All)
By David Dalton
12-10-01

The Career of J. G. Ballard Considered as a Downhill Motor Race
By Mark W. Hornburg
11-26-01

What Fresh
Hell Is This?
David Dalton talks to
Richard Hell about his
new book, Hot and Cold
11-19-01

David Byrne's New Sins
By Ryan Bartelmay
11-12-01

The Accidental Writer
An interview with Among the Missing author Dan Chaon
By David McNair
10-28-01

Naipaul Rocks the Casbah
By Alan Bisbort
10-22-01

Channeling Biker Bob
An interview with
Nik C. Colyer
By David McNair
10-15-01

Barry Hannah
An interview with the author of Yonder Stands Your Orphan
8-20-01

Eudora Welty
1909-2001
By Nisha Mohammed
07-23-01

Grand Dad Terry:
Growing Up with Terry Southern

By Nile Southern
7-23-01

At the Airport
Tom Bradley's memoir of a chance meeting with a famous author
7-16-01

Kalle Lasn: Culture Jammer
Grant Rosenberg speaks with the publisher and founder of Adbusters Media Foundation and author of Culture Jam.
7-14-01

Mad Max
Death of a bohemian king
By Alan Bisbort
7-09-01

Gregory Corso

Last of the Beats
By David Dalton
6-25-01

Hunting Henry

Alan Bisbort follows Christopher Hitchens into the heart of Kissinger country.
6-04-01

Eric Bogosian: Hard,
Loud, and Fast

The author of Mall talks about his debut novel, his past work, and what it's like being the Louis Armstrong of suburbia.
By Ryan Bartelmay
5-28-01

Getting into Bob
Ryan Bartelmay finds a way into the New Yorker Festival's Bob Dylan tribute.
5-21-01

CINEMA TIME CAPSULE by Daniel Kraus


2010: A Space Sequel That's Not as Bad as You Thought
By Daniel Kraus
04-01-02

And the Award for Best Actor
Goes to... Bob Dylan?

By Daniel Kraus
03-04-02

TRON:
20 Years Later and Still Unbelievably Weird
01-28-02

Hoodlums, Junkies,
and Droogs:

The ultra-violent year of 1972
01-14-02

Black Christmas:
The anti-Christmas Story
11-26-01

Citizen Shame
Avoiding Orson
11-26-01

Michael Jackson:
Invincible or off-the-wall?
11-12-01

Paradise Lost:
Stallone's follow-up to Rocky
10-29-01

Still the Fairest of Them All
Snow White gets the royal treatment.
10-15-01

Boogeymen: A fine reminder of horror highs (and lows)
10-01-01

One More Game:
The Hustler Turns 40

09-17-01

The Wicker Man Cometh
09-02-01

The Omega Man Turns 30...And Boy Can You Tell
8-20-01

When Scary Just Isn't Scary Anymore
Christine, Fright Night,
and The Goonies
8-06-01

Those Damn Dirty Apes:
A complete primate primer to the Planet of the Apes films
7-23-01

Revisit the original Shaft, "the cat who won't cop out."
7-16-01

 

 

COMMENTARY


I Wouldn't Want It Any Other Way
Some thoughts on being Jewish in Germany
By Bruce Gatenby
05-13-02


Beyond Skepticism:
The rise of 9-11 conspiracy
theories and the discourse of armchair sleuths
By Grant Rosenberg
03-25-02


Mainline Switzerland
By Bruce Gatenby
03-18-02
   

EUROPEAN JOURNAL by Grant Rosenberg


Soul Food in France:
Monique Wells talks about the African American experience in Paris and cooking the foods of home.
By Grant Rosenberg
03-11-02

Big in Europe:
The mystique of our pop culture in other cultures
By Grant Rosenberg
03-04-02

Sad White Boy:
Talking to Josh Rouse about why being one is not such a bad thing
By Grant Rosenberg
02-25-02

Aloft, En Route to Paris Again
Thoughts on flying, gentrifying, and the new currency
By Grant Rosenberg
02-18-02

Adapting to Our Flag Culture:
Thoughts on returning to the United States for the first time since September 11th
01-21-02

Chewbacca in Paris:
Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew draws a crowd of French Obi-Wans, Amidalas, Vaders, and stormtroopers.
12-17-01

North Atlantic Across the Atlantic:
Willem Dafoe's Wooster Group performs in Paris.
11-12-01
          
Dubuffet for Dummies
A layman tours an artist retrospective and poses many questions.
11-5-01    

A Day in the Life of
a Parisian Cafe

10-31-01

Taking Folk, Rock and Roll, and North American Stage Presence Abroad:
Does the music of Ron Sexsmith and Ani DiFranco translate?
12-10-01

Sanctimony and
Self-Loathing in Paris:
Thoughts on fitting in and having pride, but not too much
12-3-01

Abbey Road-block:
Grant Rosenberg walks the walk of the Beatles’ famed London studio.
11-19-01

The Beatles-in-Residence:
The Hamburg home of the lads from Liverpool
10-15-01

Behind the Red Light:
An interview with an Amsterdam window prostitute
10-08-01

Woody Allen in Paris:

The droll press junket that was
10-05-01

Paris, Dream City of Moviegoers
10-01-01

After the End:
Jim Morrison's 30-year
tenure in a French cemetery
9-24-01

European Journal #1:
Paris

9-20-01

FILM/THEATER


Star Wars—Episode Two:
Attack of the Clones

By Daniel Kraus
05-13-02


Unfaithful
By Daniel Kraus
05-13-02

Spider-Man
By Daniel Kraus
05-06-02

Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps)
By Jonathan Kiefer
05-06-02

Headshrinking Horrors:
How the current formula for scary
blockbusters fails to deliver true fear
By Lisa Lambert
04-15-02

Arliss Howard's Big Bad Love
By Ryan Bartelmay
04-08-02

Billy Wilder: 1906-2002

By Jonathan Kiefer
04-08-02

Something I Need to Do
Jodie Foster talks about motherhood, her ambition to direct again, replacing Nicole Kidman and her new movie Panic Room.
By Dan Epstein
04-01-02

"Have You Ever Been Wrong?"

An e-mail conversation with
Roger Ebert
By Grant Rosenberg
03-25-02

The Best Lesbian Flicks
By Terry Loncaric
03-18-02

Blade Runner

What it means to be human in
the cybernetic state
By John W. Whitehead
02-18-02

Fear, Anxiety, and Depression:

Todd Solondz's rarely seen first film reflects a career of, well, fear, anxiety, and depression.
By Daniel Kraus
02-11-02

How's Your News?

An interview with director Arthur Bradford
By Ryan Bartelmay
01-28-02

I Just Film:

Filmmaker Les Blank talks to David Dalton.
01-28-02

A Brief History of Errol Morris

By Daniel Kraus
01-28-02

Nine Inch Nails Get Misty-Eyed over And All That Could Have Been
By Aaron Jentzen
01-21-02

Filming the Mind:
The ten best films of 2001
By John W. Whitehead
01-07-02

O Tenenbaum!
An appreciation of Wes Anderson
By Jonathan Kiefer
12-10-01

Luis Bunuel and That Obscure Object of Desire
By Jonathan Kiefer
12-10-01

What Is Urinetown?
An interview with Greg Kotis
By Stephen Johnson
12-3-01

Invasion of the Body Snatchers:
A tale for our times
By John W. Whitehead
11-26-01

"A Five-Course Cordon
Bleu Meal with a Big Mac":

An interview with
filmmaker Terry Gilliam
By Jonathan Kiefer
11-5-01

Vampires Forever
Must-See vampire films and television shows
By John W. Whitehead
10-22-01

The Horror! The Horror!
21 great war movies
By John W. Whitehead
10-08-01

Steven Spielberg's Favorite Extra
By Cary Anderson
10-08-01

A Week at the Deauville American Film Festival
Serious Cinema and Johnny Depp as the Playmate of the Year
By Grant Rosenberg
9-17-01

Jackson Pollock:
Helplessness before the void
By John W. Whitehead
9-10-01

Kiss Me Deadly: 25 great screen villains
By Grant Rosenberg
9-02-01

Glory in the Flower: Elia Kazan
By Ian Jeffers
9-02-01

Hannibal the Cannibal Is You and Me
"He may eat people, but he has feelings, too."
By John W. Whitehead
8-27-01

Sophisticated Stalker
How to have dinner with Milton Berle and view art with Jeff Bridges
By Cary Anderson
08-13-01

Arousing an Apathetic Audience
How movie sex scenes turn us on (or off)
By Daniel Kraus
07-16-01

Independent Women
Remembering America's other filmmakers
By Christina Ball
05-28-01

Celluloid Rock
The former Rolling Stones manager explains why most rock 'n' roll movies don't work and why A Hard Day's Night did
By Andrew Loog Oldham
05-14-01

Salutations De Cannes
A daily diary from the 54th Cannes Film Festival
By Daniel Kraus
05-09-17-01

Roger Ebert's Overlooked
Film Festival
By Grant Rosenberg
05-11-01

"Places to Kind of Gasp At"
An interview with Jesus' Son screenwriter/producer David Urrutia
By Grant Rosenberg

 

 

 

ISSUES


Does Evil Have a History?
By Jim Curtis
03-04-02

"We Are All Going to
Suffer from It."

An interview with Howard Zinn
By Kevin Canfield
02-25-02

The Off-Ramp Motel as a 3-Page Suicide Note
By David Dalton
02-04-02

The Most Influential Author of the Millennium. Not.

By David Dalton
01-14-02

I Drink, Therefore You Am Not

By Alan Bisbort
01-14-02

With This Ring, I Thee Dread:

David Dalton takes on hobbits, orcs, and Peter Jackson.
01-07-02

Dispatch from Anthrakistan
On the front lines of the war against dissent
By Martin A. Lee
11-26-01

Follow the Sun to
the Shady Dell

Where the American Dream still resides
By Charles Spano
11-19-01

An Infidel in Afghanistan
By David Dalton
Part I: Iran
Part II: Herat,
A City Half as Old as Time
Part III: The Fleshpots
of Asia
11-12-01

 

Eavesdropping
on the Police:
The Michael Hyde story
By Neal Alpert
11-19-01

"I Like Doing Basic Science":
A brief conversation
with MacArthur genius
Brooks Pate
By Tanya Stanciu
11-05-01

Introverts of the World, Unite!
By Silja J.A. Talvi
10-29-01

The Curious Case
of Caryl Chessman

By Alan Bisbort
10-29-01

Thirteen Questions for
George W. Bush
Doubt about America's anti-terrorism crusade
By Martin A. Lee
10-22-01

XXX ACTION!
Daniel Kraus gets caught in the excitement of the X-Games.
8-27-01

Breakable Bayonets,
Made in China
Tom Bradley chronicles the death of student Wei FuLiao.
8-20-01

Vegas Vacation
By Richard Abowitz
8-13-01

Bobby Seale's Shadow
Alan Bisbort revisits New Haven with the "old cripple-foot Revolutionary Humanist."
8-06-01

Marijuana as Medicine
The Supreme Court doesn't like the idea, but we do.
By Doug Hornig
7-02-01

Footnotes from the
Book of Job
Stefene Russell profiles the former "Most Hated Man in America" and longtime champion of "the underbelly of society."
6-18-01

The Great Generation Hoax
By Alan Bisbort
6-18-01

Overnight in Terre Haute:
A Journal
Grant Rosenberg's report from the site of the McVeigh execution
6-12-01

The Trials and Tribulations of Christine Maggiore
Kathleen F. Phalen documents the struggles of an HIV activist.
6-11-01

The Year Abbie Hoffman Changed the Channel
By David Dalton
5-07-01



JOYFUL NOISE by James Lindbloom


Everett True's Live through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties
04-15-02

The White Stripes and Peggy Honeywell
03-25-02

Andrew W.K., I Get Wet

02-25-02

Matthew Shipp's Nu Bop

02-04-02

The Last Hard Men
01-14-02

 

Top Ten: "These are the records that spent the most time in my stereo this year."
12-17-01

Bill Frisell,
With Dave Holland
and Elvis Jones
Various Artists
A History of Garage & Frat Bands in Memphis 1960-1975
12-03-01

Recordings from Syd Barrett, Circulatory System, and David Barbe
11-19-01

John Coltrane:
Live Trane: The European Tours & The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
11-5-01

The Velvet Underground:
The Quine Tapes and Final V.U.
10-22-01

MUSIC


A Little Roaming Music
Donna the Buffalo's Live from
the American Ballroom

By Jonathan Kiefer

06-03-02

A Family Thing
Sara Lee Guthrie and
Shana Morrison
By Peter Stone Brown

05-27-02

Roger McGuinn: This Byrd
Has Flown Full Circle

By Alan Bisbort
05-13-02

An Understanding of Suffering
Tom Waits' Alice and Blood Money
By Neal Shaffer
05-06-02


That Music Was Actually Created
An interview with "Smile" historian Domenic Priore
By Neal Alpert

05-06-02


All But Done
By Barney Hoskyns
05-06-02


Epiphany at Zuma Beach Or Brian Wilson Hallucinates Me
By David Dalton
05-06-02

A Classifying Animal
By Tiernan Henry
04-29-02

Alt Country, Old Country,
and New Country

Uncle Tupelo, James Talley,
Jim Lauderdale, and Ralph Stanley
By Peter Stone Brown
04-22-02

Sort of Feeling Pretty Good
An interview with Brother JT
By Jayson Whitehead
04-15-02

Femi Kuti's Audience Connection
By Grant Rosenberg
04-08-02

I Just Love Hip Hop
An e-mail conversation with Gorillaz producer Dan "the Automator" Nakamura
By Jayson Whitehead
04-01-02

The Ineffable Why & Wherefore of a Cult Legend

An interview with Big Star's Jody Stephens
By Jillian Steinberger
04-01-02

Mississippi John Hurt and John Lee Hooker

By Peter Stone Brown
04-01-02

Broken Hearts and Auto Parts

An interview with Kevin Kinney
By Ryan Bartelmay
03-25-02

"Our Pure Love of the Music"

The Byrds' Sweetheart
of the Rodeo

By Neal Alpert
03-18-02

The Curse of the Multiplying Mariannes
Part 1: The Scattered Selves
Part 2: Sex with Strangers
By David Dalton
03-18-02

No Nostalgia

The return of Mission of Burma
By Dante Garland
03-11-02

The Music Ensemble

By Jonathan Kiefer
03-04-02

Southern Comfort

The slow but gratifying death of the Silver Jews
By David Harsanyi
02-25-02

Consolation and Melody:

The life of Isaac Stern
By Jonathan Kiefer
02-18-02

"A Musical Shakespearean
-like Aside":

Paul Burch's literary music
By Charles Spano
02-11-02

The Life (and Death) of Dave Van Ronk

By Peter Stone Brown
02-11-02

Creating Her Own Destiny:
Anggun Cipta Sasmi
By Adrian Brown
02-04-02

Love Imagined, Desired, and Lost: Paula Frazer's Indoor Universe

By Jillian Steinberger
01-28-02

Yellowjackets' Mint Jam
By Jonathan Kiefer
01-28-02

Music That Deals with Reality:
Boots Riley talks about the World Trade Center, capitalism, and Party Music.
By Katia Dunn
01-21-02

Road Rage:
The writings of Henry Rollins
By Alan Bisbort
01-07-02

"Part Animal, Part Machine"—ALL ROLLINS
By Aaron Jentzen
01-07-02

The Day the Angels Spent Christmas With the Beatles
By David Dalton
12-24-01

Still Squeezing Out Sparks:
An interview with Graham Parker
By Alan Bisbort
12-17-01

Many Layers, Many Levels, Many Dimensions
An interview with Circulatory System
By Jayson Whitehead
12-03-01

Fugazi's Argument
The punk ethos evolved
by Neal Schaffer
12-03-01

Punk Is Not Dead
The Big Takeover's Jack Rabid
By Sean McLain
12-03-01

My Walk-On in the Life
of George
By David Dalton
12-03-01

George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh
By Neal Alpert
12-03-01

All Things Must Pass
By Andrew Klewan
12-03-01

The Mind of Charles Douglas
By Jayson Whitehead
11-26-01

Lennon's Legacy
The truth about Imagine
By Jayson Whitehead
11-19-01

Stephen Malkmus
& the Jicks

Live at Starr Hill
11-19-01

Old Gods Almost Dead:
David Dalton talks to Rolling Stones biographer Stephen Davis.
11-12-01

The Joan Baez Original
Master Series: Joan Baez, Joan Baez Vol. 2, Noel

By Nisha Mohammed
10-29-01

Howard Tate
The return of a soul music master
By Peter Stone Brown
10-22-01

Edith Piaf
The little sparrow
By Kelly Wittmann
10-15-01

"The Perfect Symbiosis of Elvis and Che Guevara"
(International) Noise Conspiracy's A New Morning, Changing Weather
By Neal Shaffer
10-15-01

Hats Off to Roy Harper
By Alan Bisbort
10-1-01

Leonard Cohen
A worker in song
By Grant Rosenberg
10-01-01

Phish: The Moment Ends?
By Jonathan Kiefer
09-20-01

Baba's Mind Music
Silja J.A. Talvi profiles the artist responsible for "one of the brightest and bravest full-length hip-hop releases in recent memory."
09-17-01

Seance with a Gretsch G 6120
Eddie Cochran's guitar at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
By Ian Kimmet
09-10-01

Around the Margins
Musician Doug Hoekstra talks about his new album, living in Nashville, Dylan’s "Isis", and the Chicago Cubs.
By Tim Potter
09-02-01

Turning the Key of the Universe: Jack Nitzsche Remembered
By Andrew Loog Oldham
08-27-01

Otis Redding: The Saint of Soul
Neal Alpert highlights Mr. Pitiful's essential albums.
08-20-01

A Folksinger in Greenwich Village
Randy Burns recalls his first gig at the Gaslight.
08-13-01

Chet Baker
Stop and just listen
By Neal Shaffer
08-06-01

Robert Goulet's Short-Lived
Show at the Venetian

By Richard Abowitz
07-30-01

The World Map of Calexico's Joey Burns
"Making music...it's painful but it's a really beautiful thing."
07-23-01

Karma Is on My Side
An interview with Mark Kozelek
7-16-01

The Artist Not at All
Known as Prince

James McNew talks about That Skinny Motherf***er with the High Voice?
7-10-01

BandNerd.com
Katie Haegele becomes an online Band-Aid.
6-25-01

John Lee Hooker:
An Appreciation

"[He] was perhaps the epitome of the blues..."
By Peter Stone Brown
6-25-01

Merle Haggard
Putting honesty back on the market
By Neal Shaffer
5-29-01

Filling Up on Ochs
By Lou Harry
5-23-01

SPORTS by Neal Shaffer


Pool and the Current Cultural Climate
04-29-02


You Can Count on It
Baseball is back
04-15-02

Every Thang's Gonna
Be All White

04-01-02

Nolan Richardson's
Biggest Mistake

03-04-02

He Still Has One Thing
Left to Prove

Michael Jordan and the Washington Wizards
02-18-02

A Feat Even Greater Than Victory:
Super Bowl XXXVI
02-04-02

The Annual NFL Coaching Carousel:
The casualties so far
01-21-02

Worth Talking About
The year past and the
year to come
01-07-02

The Trickiest One in the Deck:
Dave Stewart and the race card
12-03-01

NASCAR:
The last bastion of the Wild West
11-19-01

A Giant Void to Fill:

Why football beats baseball every time
11-5-01

TELEVISION


Tragedy, Like, Totally Strikes
The Real World

By Ian Simmons
05-13-02


Gilda Radner: It's Always Something
ABC's new Gilda Radner
biopic is a mixed bag.
By Nick A. Zaino III
04-29-02

At Home with Sid & Nancy
David Dalton on The Osbournes
04-15-02


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