TOP FORTY HITS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
By Paul Williams
1)   “Things We Said Today” (recorded June 2, 1964) by The Beatles
2)   “Sister Ray” (recorded Sept. 1967) by The Velvet Underground
3)   “Girl before a Mirror” (painted March 14, 1932) by Pablo Picasso
4)   The I Ching or Book of Changes (completed in the summer of 1923)
5)   Ulysses (published Feb. 2, 1922) by James Joyce 

MUSIC
What's Welsh for Zen?
John Cale on Lou Reed, weather magic, mercenaries, and the Velvet Underground
By David Dalton 

LET IT BLEED
Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy
Lo-fi poet of the mind's own tides
By David Dalton 

FILM
Made in Japan
How Akira Kurosawa made his mark
By Bobby Maddex and Greg Bottoms 

NEW ARTIST
Where a Kid Can Be a Kid
The warped world of Jana Sterbak
By Bobby Maddex 

IDEAS
Sweet Dreams, James Dean
How the bull market spawned affluence—and alienation—among a tribal group of teens
By Peter O. Whitmer 

MUSIC
80s Hardcore Punk
By Richard Abowitz 

MUSIC
Waving the Punk Banner
An interview with Greg Ginn of Black Flag
By Richard Abowitz 

BOOK
Strange Fame
As Bret Easton Ellis's fifth novel, Glamorama, hits stores, we take a look at one of the weirdest writing careers of the past two decades.
By Greg Bottoms 

THEATER
In the Night Kitchen
A Cleveland troupe offers something different.
By Lou Harry 

TELEVISION
Death of a Salesman
The life and death of Bob Crane
By Tyler Thoreson 

REVIEWS
The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cheap Trick, 253, avant-garde films, and more