 | A Furthur Update All tie-dyed up with nowhere to go? Time to pack away that patchouli and get a job -- your Deadhead days are over. |
 | It's Not Easy Being Free Adapting to the dull, gray sameness of prison life may be tough, but it's nothing compared to the shock of re-entering the real world. |
 | Speed Got a hill, an empty street, and a fondness for "hauling ass"? The high-speed sport of road luge may just be for you. |
 | Mississippi's Man of Letters The 100th Centennial celebration of William Faulkner gives us a chance to reflect on the author's penetrating Southern fiction. |
 | Haiku You Poetry contest entrants write in haiku verse, a lot of winners |
September 29 - October 6, 1997
What's New 
We've been digging around in dark, dank underground corridors, sifting
patiently through accumulations of cinematic criticism, reticently refining
databases, calmly correcting kooky code, and for what? So we can unveil the
new, vastly superior Film Vault sometime within the next week. Come back
soon and give it a try -- you won't be disappointed.
If you like cartoons, I mean if you really like cartoons, take a
gander at this Comics Xtra, containing first-rate artwork from some of the
best national cartoonists you've never seen. Also: read about National
Public Radio's refusal to air a poem by Martin Espada, and peruse the
Weekly Wire staff's favorite articles from the first 10 issues.
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News & Opinion
It's rehabilitation versus recidivism as an editor, an author and an ex-convict discuss the painful real-world re-entry process known as parole.... Lousiana State University's ritual hazing/alcohol poisoning incident stirs up the state's liquor laws.... Developers duke it out with NIMBY-minded neighbors in Austin.... Concerned parents warn teachers "You'll be Montesorri".... A gubernatorial candidate gets caught inhaling.... The last word on Custer's last stand.... And more! [13 articles]
Film & TV
Notes from the reel world: Critics put A Thousand Acres out to pasture, wish for Wishmaster to disappear, create a disturbance over The Peacemakers, don't ask but do tell about In & Out, secretly explain L.A. Confidential, and stand around the water cooler discussing In the Company of Men. Plus: Conan barbarizes the small screen, Hype takes a not-so-level-headed look at the grunge phenomenon, a fan hacks apart the Friday the 13th series, and Betty Boop tells all in a new documentary. Boop-boop-be-doop. [9 articles]
Music
Jerry Garcia's dead, but his legions of Deadheads keep going, and going, and going. John Fogerty's still going too, ressurecting his C.C.R. songwriting skills for an album titled Blue Moon Swamp. Meanwhile, Courtney Love's life gets the Geraldo treatment in a new book by Poppy Z. Brite; Pavement explain their babbling lyrics; an anthology of folk music gets a well-deserved reissue; a writer recalls a magical jazz moment from the '60s; and a few dozen album reviews tell you where it's at. Yeah. [13 articles]
Arts & Leisure
Street luges: they're all fun and games until somebody crashes and gets pitched headlong into a ditch. Plus: What has Rand Carlson, of the Random Shots cartoon fame, been doing all these years? A profile chronicles his long and winding career road. And: An alleged bigot defends his alleged bigotry; Hayley Mills sings her guts right out of her body in The King and I; the plays Blithe Spirit, Tartuffe, and Pretty Baby receive full stage productions; and a day tripper praises the glory of the Big Bend National Park in Texas. [11 articles]
Books
Albuquerque's Weekly Alibi releases their fall books issue, and you know what that means: fiction writing, in-depth reviews, and haikus like there's no tomorrow. Also: literary-loving cityfolk celebrate William Faulkner's 100th birthday; bookstore giants Barnes & Noble and Borders battle it out over territory; and classy readers recommend classic (or oughta-be classic) novels, as well as new works about desert hydrohistory, physicist Richard Feynman, overlapping societal worlds, and a variety of other terrific books. [10 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]
All the contributors to Weekly Wire, along with other AAN (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies) publications, can be read from this one easily accessible spot. Strongly recommended for bookmarking. [107 newspapers]
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