COVER
STORY
Cyber-Rome
Why
Nero would feel at home in Las Vegas
By
Christina Ball
LITERATURE
Heroine
Addict Creates Perfect Fix as Dear
Abby Meets Born-Again Virgin
Peter
O. Whitmer talks with novelist Tom
Robbins.
PHOTOGRAPHY
El
Che Vive!
A
revolutionary for the ages
By John W. Whitehead
POETRY
Bonhoeffer
FILM
The
Novelist and the Megaphone
Stephen
King, Paul Auster, Norman Mailer and
other authors have gone behind the camera
to direct. But can they really make movies?
By
Grant Rosenberg
MUSIC
Meet
Me on Mermaid Avenue
Punk
folk Billy Bragg gets together with music
legend Woody Guthrie.
By
Kimberly Chun
FILM
Nashville
It’s
the 25th anniversary of Robert
Altman’s classic film, Nashville. Go behind the scenes to find out
what made it all come together.
By
Lou Harry
MUSIC
Internet
Pop: The End of the Party
Chuck
Berry and Elvis Presley sang about the
women and cars that dominated their times.
Now it’s the blip-blip-blip of
the Internet screen that dominates our
lives. What tunes can come from it?
By
Andrew Marcus
COMEDY
The Whitest Man in America
Fifteen minutes as the hottest
black screenwriter in Hollywood
By
Cary Anderson
LITERATURE
Are
You There, God? It’s Me, the
Miscreant Little Brother
Judy
Blume’s harrowing bestseller of
adolescent sexuality turns 30.
By
Daniel Kraus
ISSUES
A
Dachau Memory
Jim
Marquez traveled to the concentration
camp in Dachau and discovered not only
the ghosts of death and torture but the
reality of what it means to be human.
By
Jim Marquex
TELEVISION
A New York City Boy Comes Face to Face with the World of
Televangelism
The
Trinity Broadcasting Network goes into
millions of homes 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, in hopes of reaching the
people with the message of Jesus. But
with all its gold and glitter, does TBN
really have anything to do with the Jesus
Christ of the Bible?
By
Marty Wombacher
FICTION
PI
What
do pi, sex and childhood have in common?
By
Michael Finkel
ART
Killer
Art
The
great artists give their all to their
art. But Andrew Krasnow gives his own
skin and body parts to compose his artworks.
MUSIC
All
Most Heaven
An
interview with Drag City producer and
artist Rian Murphy
By
Jayson Whitehead
REVIEWS
Louis
Armstrong, Best American Essays 2000, Merle Haggard, Nietzche, Shel Silverstein and much more
