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Blood and Feathers
Cockfighting may be illegal, but that doesn't keep people from enjoying the controversial sport.
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Volume III, Issue 52 June 19 - June 26, 2000

	News & Opinion
	Nashville is revamping how it handles drug-related crime. Ethnic Albanian journalists from Kosova visit Albuquerque to study free elections and the relationship between press and government. Monitoring and maintaining the Colorado River in Central Texas. Also, commuter rail transit in Tennessee, one of Chicago's ethnic bathhouses, the genesis of Juneteenth, and more. News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

"Gladiator" may be rewarded come Oscar time, but "Mission: Impossible 2" is both superior entertainment and superior art. Stewart Stern haunted L.A.'s Juvenile Hall until he found the characters to populate "Rebel Without a Cause." The real substance of "Pop and Me" emerges in the relationship between director Chris Roe and his father. Also, projection-artist Luke Savisky, the new "Shaft," and more. This week in Film & TV Croupier Gladiator Gone in 60 Seconds Mission: Impossible 2 Pop and Me Rebel Without A Cause Shaft Titan A.E. Winter Sleepers PLUS Projecting An Image TV Eye and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

Some think the New Era began with Sam Phillips. The music scene in Monterrey, Mexico, is growing exponentially. Alejandro Escovedo's family has been an integral part of his musical career, and now his first foray into theater continues that tradition. Plus, Chesney and McGraw fight the law, maverick label Rooster Blues is back in business, Jamaican supergroup Skatalites, and more. This week in Music Alejandro Escovedo The Handsome Family The Obscure Sam Phillips The Skatalites PLUS Kings of Monterrey Rooster Blues Horseplay and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	Site-seeing Bitter Pleasures A Lost Knight Six Degrees of Ron Berry and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

Books

His deadpan humor, wry social commentary, and shameless bitchery have led critics to mention David Sedaris in the same breath as Mark Twain, James Thurber, and Dorothy Parker. Aleksandar Hemon, a native of the former Yugoslavia, has written a collection of stories which range from the surreal to the all-too-bloody real. The bourgeois bohemians (bobos) are running America these days. Plus, a darkly humorous metaphysical satire from Tim Parks, 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 K. Rat and Random Shots. Comics contents page Visit the official Red Meat site

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