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Volume III, Issue 12 September 13 - September 20, 1999

News & Opinion

The mentally ill have always wound up in jails. But in recent years, they've been arriving in a torrent. Parents struggle to find quality day care in Tennessee, one of the lowest ranking states for day care quality. Now that Skaneateles, New York, has been visited by the Clintons, you've probably heard of the place. Plus, homeowners' associations, approved churches, and more. News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

The place to see pessimistic movies is at a film festival, but the Montreal Film Fest still offered some works to spread some good cheer about. "Stir of Echoes" is one cinematic visceral jolt, but screenwriter and director David Koepp is interested in more than special effects. Despite its lack of originality, Outside Providence is watchable because it avoids contemporary teen-film stylings. Plus, "The Muse," "Twin Falls Idaho," a new Fox TV sitcom, and more. This week in Film & TV The Muse Outside Providence(1) Outside Providence(2) Stir of Echoes Twin Falls Idaho PLUS Fox's 'Get Real' The Iron Chef Montreal Film Fest and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

They Might Be Giants are key players in a tradition of enigmatic, humorous pop that has all but disappeared from the arena of rock music. Eliades Ochoa has performed steadily and successfully since age 11, always with the goal of rejuvenating Cuba's folkloric music. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel will forever be inextricably linked, even if they never appear together again on the same stage. Plus, Linda Ronstadt thinks about "retiring," jazz legend Dickie Thompson, and more. This week in Music Grady Champion Sarah Dougher Kris Kristofferson Julie Miller Eliades Ochoa Okros Ensemble Simon and Garfunkel Linda Ronstadt Royal Trux Horace Silver They Might Be Giants Dickie Thompson Those Darn Accordions! and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	Crater Lake E-mail Scams Saving Seeds NFL Season and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

Books

Alfredo Véa's "Gods Go Begging" is so ambitious thematically and stylistically, and so timely in its interests, that it deserves a broad readership. Po Bronson has a talent for translating Internet culture, but his examination of Silicon Valley doesn't ask what happens when work swallows life. A new cookbook for cannibals discusses such concerns as choosing the right cut of meat and expanding your basic kitchen utensil collection to include an electric hacksaw. Plus, a look at the quickening pace of contemporary life, an introduction to great Western thinkers, 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, K. Rat and Random Shots. Comics contents page Visit the official Red Meat site

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