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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
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"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
chairman 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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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by Grant Rosenberg
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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
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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
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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
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Star
WarsEpisode 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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, Dylans "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
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by
Neal Shaffer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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At
Home with Sid & Nancy
David Dalton on The Osbournes
04-15-02
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