February 1998

PUNK ROCK EXTRAVAGANZA
Sod Awf!
Ruminations on the Sex Pistols, punkgeist, rock theology and Sid the Id
By David Dalton
Plus: Interviews with CBGB’s owner Hilly Kristal and England’s Dreaming author Jon Savage

Punk Albums Old and New
Ten from the ‘70s and the ‘90s
By Richard Abowitz and Jayson Whitehead

Breaking Punk
London’s 100 Club
By Nick Taylor

In the Name of Punk Rock
By Cowboy Mouth’s John Thomas Griffith

ART
“To Be, To Live”
Stanley Spencer’s English vision
By Jayson Whitehead

FILM
The Director as Novelist
Oliver Stone & Gus Van Sant
By David Sherwin

NEW ARTIST
Jonathan Fire Eater
By Richard Abowitz

IDEAS
Tangled Up In Blah
Dr. Viktor Frankl and logotherapy
By Bobby Maddex

FILM
A Look Back at the Coen Brothers' First Film Blood Simple
By Bobby Maddex

BOOK
Georg Solti's Memoirs
By Tanya Stanciu

ISSUES
Dr. Strangelove & the Bomb
By Margot Henriksen

FILM
The Sound and the Picture
Faulkner and film
By Jayson Whitehead

BOOK
The Survivor: Kurt Vonnegut
By William Rodney Allen

THEATER
Eugene O’Neill: Makings of a Poet
By Amy Nickell

REVIEWS
Patti Smith, Bjork, Tom Wolfe, Merce Cunningham and more