 | Will Dada for Food Enjoy gumming up the works? A job working at ®™ark, the nation's leading corporate-subversion organization, may be for you. |
 | A Journey Through Iraq Stephen Ausherman recounts the two dismal weeks he recently spent trying to provide Iraqi civilians with medical training and supplies. |
 | A Klan Victory The crowd swelled in downtown Memphis. The police panicked. People fled. The Klan burned a cross to celebrate. |
 | Hold Everything In order to test the acumen of fast food take-out windows, we sent a few brave souls to go out and place absolutely ridiculous orders. |
 | Running It Off Is running a marathon anything like being an obsessive, incorrigible drunk? For Rob Simbeck, who has experience in both departments, it certainly is. |
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There's more than one way to fight The Man. Just ask the people at ®™ark, a top-secret organization that pays ordinary folks big money to sabotage the products of their corporate employers. Plus: Why did the anti-Klanners get tear-gassed at a recent KKK rally in Memphis? How do the authorities justify what happened? And shouldn't KKK have to pay for the expenses? Also: A look at the continuing difficulties of homosexuality in the workplace, Iraqi medical care, and feminist ideals. [13 articles]
Film & TV
As always, reviews galore: Jean Luc Godard's "Contempt," "Spice World," "Kundun," "Hard Rain," "The Sweet Hereafter," "The Boxer," "Happy Together," "Love Serenade," and even the last trickle of "Titanic" and "Deconstructing Harry" reviews. Better yet: An interview with the Spice Girls, an homage to the raw filmmaking talents of director John Cassavetes, a tribute to art-house movie theater owners, and a terrific preview of all the off-season crud Hollywood will be sending our way for the next couple months. [22 articles]
Music
A respectful look back at the long, influential life of the late Carl Perkins reveals there was a lot more to the rockabilly crooner than "Blue Suede Shoes" and teaching Elvis to dance. Plus: The 73-year-old Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown explains why he's given up on traditional blues in favor of experimenting with big-band arrangements; Mary Lou Lord relates what it's like to go from singing in a subway to flying in a jet with Jimmy Buffett; and Nashville Pussy revels in bringing circus antics to the punk rock arena. [10 articles]
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An ex-alcoholic provides a detailed description of the parallels between obsessive binging and methodical, disciplined marathon running. Meanwhile, some equally obsessive but not-quite-so-disciplined pranksters recount how they turned bizarre fast-food orders into a fascinating culinary and sociological experiment. Still not amused? Try these articles about the joys of firearms shooting, poetry slamming, and motorcycle ice racing. Not to mention multiple theatrical-performance reviews. Dig in! [11 articles]
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Move over, Dorothy L. Sayers. Mystery writer C.E. Poverman has risen to the top of his field by merging the mysterious with the literary. What's next? Sophisticated Fabio romances? Plus: Need help augmenting your parlance, jargon, lingo and slang? Try these helpful online slang dictionaries! Then find out what a few Memphis children wrote to their city's great civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., on his holiday. And don't miss our reviews of non-fiction books about feminine fashion identity, anthropomorphism, snowboarding, and more! [8 articles]
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