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Here's what you should have been reading about last year while the daily papers were full of blow jobs and fluff.
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Volume II, Issue 44 April 26 - May 3, 1999

	News & Opinion
	Despite the evidence from Littleton, Colo., this past week, the nation's teens are a pretty civilized lot, and America's next great youth boom plunges forward, GAP cargo pants flapping. Also, New Mexico's legislative maneuvering toward a school voucher system, an update on the Steve Forbes campaign, making the world safe for American bananas, and more. News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

"eXistenZ" is the latest from David Cronenberg, who has given us such memorable films as "Scanners," "Videodrome," and "Dead Ringers." There's reaction from Albuquerque, Boston, and Chicago. "Hideous Kinky" is actually from director Gillies MacKinnon, and lots of other cinematic selections. This week in Film & TV eXistenZ(1) eXistenZ(2) eXistenZ(3) Hideous Kinky Goodbye Lover(1) Goodbye Lover(2) Pushing Tin(1) Pushing Tin(2) Windhorse A Walk on the Moon La Cucaracha Lost and Found Mighty Peking Man Steam: The Turkish Bath PLUS Gillies MacKinnon Videos a Go-Go Independent Film Fest and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

The 100th anniversary of the birth of Duke Ellington is upon us, and the celebration ensures that there will be plenty of re-releases of the master's material. Tom Waits has just put out his first album of new material since 1993. Profiles of Ben Folds, Chris Whitley, and much more. This week in Music Ben Folds Five Ronnie Dawson Duke Ellington Jonathan Richman Tom Waits Interview Tom Waits Review What We Live Chris Whitley Neil Young PLUS Scott Hendricks Red Norvo Jesse Stone Steve Taylor and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	An Eye for History Billy Shakes, Superstar Hockey Honeymoon To Baldly Go... Old South, New Jews Natural Progression and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

	Books
	Doug Rushkoff has earned a name as a perceptive cultural critic, and he discusses the counterculture, politics, and the media. Genre fiction may get snubbed, but contemporary crime fiction has a lot to offer. John Sugden lifts the great Shawnee chief Tecumseh out of the quagmire of myth. Plus a debut novel and much more. Books contents page

	Comics
	Come down from your Staggering Heights and get to the Red Meat of the matter with this swell set of cartoons that also includes Mueller, Eye of the Beholder, K. Rat and Random Shots. Comics contents page Visit the official Red Meat site

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