 | Indentured Servitude There's no such thing as a good record deal. And what on the surface looks like a bad deal for artists is actually even worse than it seems. |
 | The Ultra Cult Run fifty miles over rocks, sand and dirt in under twelve hours. Lose toenails. Piss blood. Defecate in the woods. Break a bone, take Advil and keep on going. Get saline IVs from paramedics at the finish. That's ultra-running. |
 | Point of No Return Meet the "Odd Couple", the co-founders of a unique rehab program for released offenders, which boasts a 6 percent recidivism rate despite its policy of seeking those most likely to land back behind bars: thieves, sex offenders and drug addicts. |
 | Wired to Virtual Reality An interview with multimedia guru and technology critic Howard Rheingold, in which he ponders pharaohs, electric trolleys, tougher tomatoes and the Amish. |
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How good a governor was Bill Clinton? Don't ask the media covering the new presidential candidate--they had stars in their eyes. The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies just had their national conventions. Here's two different takes after the auspicious event. AIDS seems to be fading from the public's conscious. Read about one man's struggle in Knoxville. [11 articles]
Film & TV
Why review summer movies when you can review the trailers!!? Interviews with Don Roos--the writer/director of "The Opposite of Sex" and Howard Rheingold, new media pundit. Plus reviews of "Six Days, Seven Nights", "Can't Hardly Wait", Italian horror films, "X-Files", and more. [14 articles]
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Country music is apparently coming out of it's glassy-eyed stupor and it's beginning to put the song and singer first instead of gimmicks. Who benefits from the Record Deal? Junior Brown is someone you should listen to. Rebecca Gates continues the Spinnanes in Chicago. A current update on Frank Black, a number of books on music, and more. [11 articles]
Arts & Leisure
Some people need to prove themselves by running a marathon after surviving double-bypass heart surgery. Others push their threshold in a new sport--ultra running: grueling 50 mile wilderness runs where you run til you drop. Check out a fresh view of Chicago (by a southerner). Don't understand all the hubbub about the World Cup. Here's Tom Danehy's take on it. [9 articles]
Books
Non-Fiction a go go this week! Jim Hightower's new one plus a word association game. A number of books on the Black experience in the south and segragation. A biography of Doc Holliday. A book on the present day Civil War "Re-enactors". Roy Blount Jr.'s newest. [8 articles]
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