 | Behind the Mask Coming soon to a club near you: Fetish Night! Many bar owners have turned to these leather-lined S&M spectacles to turn on their customers. What they're finding, though, is that the results don't always hurt so good. |
 | Rising Starr With her just-released Geffen Records debut, the 22-year-old Garrison Starr may soon be living up to her last name. |
 | Hog Wild Feel a mid-life crisis coming on? No problem. Kickstart your mundane existence with a ride on a Harley-Davidson hog. That is, if you can afford it. |
 | 279 Movies and 2 Funerals You may never experience a big film festival first-hand, but here's your chance to live vicariously through someone who did -- all the while getting the scoop on the best upcoming independent movies. How can you lose? |
 | Beyond the Multiverse Michael Moorcock, beloved author of science fiction, fantasy and comic epics, shares his insights during a conversation at the 55th World Science Fiction Convention. |
September 22 - September 29, 1997
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When University of Texas professor Lino Graglia blamed the poor academic performance of minorities on their culture, was he being a racist, or a loudmouth? What's the best plan for instituting campaign finance reform? What did readers think about last week's Diana editorials? Who will be the Democratic presidential candidates for the year 2000? How does one avoid Mad Squirrel Disease? What's not fair about the Fair? And why is the eternal fight against Barney futile? [11 articles]
Film & TV
A writer finds that even a five-film-a-day-diet just isn't enough to taste all the delicacies at the Toronto Film Festival. Also: Two reviewers take turns analyzing the puzzle that is The Game, while producer Steve Golin explains the game he had to play to get the movie made. Between you and me, L.A. Confidential gets two, yes two, very praiseful reviews, and In the Company of Men, The Full Monty, and Mrs. Brown don't fare too badly either. And: Video-heads examine favorite new releases, the films of director Mira Nair, and the happy Emmy winners. [13 articles]
Music
Coming soon to a bar near you: Fetish Night! Get ready for a whippin'. Don't feel like taking the pain? Then tell your boss to Take This Job and Shove It: that's what songwriter David Allen Coe did, and 25 years later he's still every bit the independent-minded country outlaw. In other realms, these profiles of Garrison Starr, Pavement, Robert Palmer and Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers prove that everybody has their passion. And: critics look at concerts and albums by Galactic, Lucinda Williams, Leo Kottke, 311, and Barry Black. [11 articles]
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Thanks to Harley Davidson, dentists, doctors and other yuppies are finding new meanings for "choppers" and "bad to the bone." This article reveals that the motorcycle company's product, once a proud symbol of working-class cajones, has been gentrified. Also: Do you have a good relationship with your socks? This author doesn't, and he's quite footsore about it. Plus: What happens when Montana gets overrun with Californicators? A columnist traveled nearly 2,000 miles to find out. [7 articles]
Books
The 55th World Science Fiction Convention was a spectacle that combined geeks, bookworms, and futurists into one out-of-this-world event. Several stories provide a magnificent nerd's-eye view. And: What was the influence of New Orleans upon William Faulkner, and what did he leave behind? How did William Pitt Root, Tucson's new poet laureate, find his muse? And what the hell are Tijuana bibles? Plus reviews of new works by Arundhati Roy, Harlan Ellison, Tim Sandlin and a couple of 35-year-old virgins. [14 articles]
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, Random Shots, and La Cucaracha. [7 comics]
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