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Volume II, Issue 51 June 14 - June 21, 1999

News & Opinion

The Web is a communications phenomenon, but the frenzy doesn't appear to include journalism. The word "feminist" is pretty much taboo at Becoming an Outdoorswoman workshops. A Supreme Court decision on media presence during a police search may endanger the First Amendment. Plus, features on urban sprawl and a new program for controlling gangs in prisons, and columns about swearing, lusting after Jack Lord, and more. News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

Shagadelic, baby! Austin Powers is back in the house, and we have reviews of "The Spy Who Shagged Me" from Boston, Austin, and Nashville. John Sayles's new film, "Limbo," is also playing. There are reviews from Chicago and Austin, and a report from the set of "Limbo." Also, reviews of "A Stranger in the Kingdom," "Conceiving Ada," and "Get Real," HBO's "Sex and the City" series, and more. This week in Film & TV Austin Powers(1) Austin Powers(2) Austin Powers(3) Limbo(1) Limbo(2) Limbo(3) Stranger in the Kingdom Conceiving Ada Get Real Tea with Mussolini The Winslow Boy King of Masks Hideous Kinky PLUS HBO's 'Sex in the City' Cultural Representation Babylon 5 Follow-up Videos A Go-Go and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

The New York City funk label Desco has cranked out a series of releases on the premise that James Brown is the alpha and the omega of music. What Gloria Stavers did as editor-in-chief of teen idol magazine "16" forever altered the female psyche in America. A new release of field recordings vividly illustrates how emancipated African-American culture and musical traditions of white America came together to form the cornerstones of bluegrass, country, and folk music. Also, profiles of Brian Wilson and Duke Robillard, reviews of short punk tunes, and much more. This week in Music Asylum Street Spankers Conny Florance Duke Robillard Brian Wilson PLUS American Music 1999 Black Appalachian Music Boy-Band Groupie Desco's Funk Series Essential Blues Short Punk Music '16' Magazine and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	Culinary Nonfiction Classic Video Games Hoop Dreams and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

Books

The dark riffs in Dennis Lehane's detective series are there to make you think, as our interview makes clear. Published five years after his death, Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth" tells the stories of a racist senator from the North and a black preacher from the South. In Jhumpa Lahiri's first collection of short stories, she changes cultural perspective as easily as a bilingual speaker shifts languages. Edith Anderson's "Love in Exile" is a gold mine of information about postwar German political history. Also, books on Jesus, Mark Twain, the craft of poetry, and 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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