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Volume II, Issue 46 May 10 - May 17, 1999

News & Opinion

What's with Bill Clinton? Is he Touchy-feely Billy, who shares pain with adolescents, or Camouflage Clinton, who sends fuel trucks to put out fires? But how about big newspaper companies buying up the alternative market? Or meditation: trendy practice or plainly practical? And does the Drug Czar's hesitancy to see marijuana as medicine undermine his credibility? These answers and more... News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

Is "Entrapment" a stylish caper film, an elaborate commercial, not entirely awful, or an example of its aging star's on-screen charisma? Our reviewers have their say on Sean Connery's latest, as well as on "Election," a parody of the 1992 presidential elections set during a high-school campaign. Also the new version of "The Mummy," Julia Sweeney's "God Said 'Ha!'," suggestions for a TV Bill of Rights, an interview with a documentarian of Appalachian culture, and more film and video. This week in Film & TV Entrapment(1) Entrapment(2) Entrapment(3) Entrapment(4) Election(1) Election(2) The Mummy God Said 'Ha!' The Winslow Boy Lovers of the Arctic Circle PLUS Words on Film A Reel of Two Cities King of the Hillbillies TV Bill of Rights Host with the Most TV Eye Videos a Go-Go and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

In our blues package this week we're playing the blues, ruminating on blues origins, the state of the country blues, dilution of the blues by white poseurs, and blues practitioner Bobby Blue Bland. Also, female musicians wonder whether motherhood fits into their music. For those who have kids, Mother Rock Star is a network of music-related businesses owned by moms. Also, reviews of the latest from Naughty by Nature, Fountains of Wayne, and Michael Gira, and more. This week in Music Elephant 6 Collective Hot Club of SF Cat Power Naughty by Nature Fountains of Wayne Michael Gira PLUS Why They Call It Blues The Blues Is All Right Down In The Delta Authentic Under Glass Black Nights Biological Clock MotherRockStar Dueling Arias Out of Time Ghost Track and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	Travel With My Uncle Camp Concentration Bull Zen Hoop Hop Racin' on the River Vegetarian Barbecuing Performing in the Moment and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

Books

Salman Rushdie -- though he may have wished otherwise -- has become perhaps the most famous writer in the world. Stewart O'Nan has shown himself to be one of America's most thoughtful and versatile young novelists. "Otherwise Engaged" suggests that engagement is a hell in which men and women find each other at their most irritating. Also, "Mothers Who Think," the "Secret World of Hershey and Mars," and many 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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