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January
98
COVER STORY:
The Crazy Continuum of Film
Plus: An
interview with Bound (and eventually Matrix)
directors Larry and Andy Wachowski
CONTENTS: Over 100 Films That Will Change Your
Life |
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February
98
COVER STORY:
Sod
Awf!
David Dalton ruminates on the Sex Pistols, punkgeist,
rock theology and Sid the Id.
Plus: The Little Club That Could: An interview
with Hilly Kristal, the owner of CBGB's, the New York
club where American punk was raised.
CONTENTS: Punk albums old and new/Kurt
Vonnegut/Oliver
Stone & Gus Van Sant/Coen
Brothers' Blood Simple/Dr.
Strangelove & the Bomb/Faulkner
and Film/Jonathan
Fire Eater/Dr. Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy/Stanley
Spencer/George
Solti's Memoirs
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March
98
COVER STORY:
Slaughterhouse
Earth:
The Crucifixion
of Francis Bacon
By John W. Whitehead
Plus: Provoking Accidents, Prompting Chance:
An interview with Francis Bacon
By Michael Peppiatt
MUSIC: Source
of the Blues: Memories of Jimmy Witherspoon
By Eric Burdon
CONTENTS: John Prine/Les Enfants Terribles/A
Retrospective of Renoir's Portraits/The
Influence of Painting on Film/10
Recommended Films from '97/Interview
with poet Dana Gioia/The
Significance of Sinatra
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April
98
COVER STORY:
Does
fame kill?
Wish you were famous? Wish again. Some reflections
on fame & life expectancy
By Tyler Cowen
BOOK: The
Man Who Would Be Muse: An interview with Ray
Bradbury about the writing life
CONTENTS: M.C. Escher/Thumbs Down, Mr. Ebert/Painter
Lisa Yuskavage interviewed/Beach
Boys' Pet Sounds/Brian
Wilson's Epiphany at Azuma Beach/Raymond
Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please/Conspiracy
World
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May
98
COVER STORY:
James
Dean: Osiris Morphing
The anniversary of his death is celebrated annually
on September 30th—yet to thousands around the world,
the icon lives on.
By David Dalton
Plus: Who Was James Dean?
The man through those who knew him
CONTENTS: Rebel Males/Interview
with Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley/The
Crucifixion of Cool Hand Luke/A
conversation with Roger Shattuck/Egon
Schiele/Hüsker
Dü/Memphis
& The Beale Street Blues
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June
98
COVER STORY:
The
Seven-Ton Typewriter: Chronicles of Rage
Hunter S. Thompson's chronicles of rage
By Peter O. Whitmer
Plus: Fear
and Loathing at the America's Cup: An interview
with Ralph Steadman
BOOK: Trumpeting
Truman: A conversation with George Plimpton
about Truman Capote
CONTENTS: Interview with Tony Grisoni, co-screenwriter
of the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/New
Journalism: Fact or Fiction?/Novelist Laurie Gwen Shapiro/To
Be Like Tony/M.
Scott Peck/Hallucinated
Alphabets/Artist George Segal interviewed/Grunge Revisited/Tricky
Dick and the Pink Lady
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July
98
COVER STORY:
Cartoons
Are King, But How Long Will They Rule?
By Ken Lieck
Plus: Interviews with Dr. Katz creator
Tom Snyder and Ren & Stimpy creator
John Kricfalusi
FILM: Smart
Luck: An interview with sex, lies, and videotape
director Steven Soderbergh
CONTENTS: The Life & Works of Walker Percy/Bruce
Springsteen's Greetings From Asbury Park/Sculptor
Alberto Giacometti/First Avenue & 7th Street Entry/Carl
Perkins: 1932-1998/In
Search of Cindy Sherman/Joy
Division/The
Anime Alternative |
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August
98
COVER STORY:
Nineteen
Sixty-Eight
It was the best of times, the worst of times... The
legacy of this schizophrenic year.
By Jules Witcover
Plus: '68 Remembered
Interviews with Pat
Buchanan,
Bobby Seale, Curtis Gans, Alfred Corn, Pete Seeger
CONTENTS: David
Foster Wallace's Wacky World /That's
Mr. Reed to You: The Story of Uncle Lou /Chuck
Close/How
Rock 'n' Roll Saved Our Lives, or I Knew Linda McCartney
Before She Became a Vegetarian!/Berkeley's
Radical Roots/Lunch
with Ken Kesey |
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September
98
COVER STORY:
Clash
of the Titans: Van Gogh & Gauguin in Arles
By Lyn Bolen Rushton
Plus: Starry Starry Song: An interview with songwriter
Don McLean
CONTENTS: Cheap Thrills, Janis Joplin and
Big Brother & the Holding Company/The C.S. Lewis Generation/The
Space Age That Wasn't, or Why 2001 Won't Be Like 2001/"Lilith
Fair: A Dissent"/Pi
director Darren Aronofsky interviewed /Arles
Beyond van Gogh/Fear
& Loathing in New York/Chicago's
The Second City |
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October
98
COVER STORY:
Who's
Afraid of The Exorcist?
By John W. Whitehead
Plus: "A
Great Love Story": An interview with The
Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty
CONTENTS: Richard Diebenkorn/The
legacy of Edgar Allan Poe/If
Christ Came Back as a Con Man, Or How I Started
Out Thinking Charlie Manson Was Innocent and Almost
Ended Up Dead/Divine
Decadence: Memories of Glam/Squirrel
Nut Zippers/As Good as It Gets: A rookie filmmaker encounters
flatbed editing, film fests, and life amongst critics
and stars/Hoodoo Voodoo
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November
98
COVER STORY:
Hands
Up: Outlaw Country
By Stanley Booth
Plus: Are There Any More Real Cowboys?
Interviews with Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings
Born
in a Place: An interview with Emmylou Harris
CONTENTS: BR5-49/Ernest Tubb/Chaim
Soutine, An Expressionist in Paris /Exploring
Form and Narrative: The Fourth Annual West Chester
University Poetry Conference/Writer Elwood Reid/Ayn
Rand/Nashville Just Before the Outlaws Rode Into Town/The
Legacy of Uncle Tupelo/Filmmakers Brad Anderson & Lyn
Vaus interviewed/Dogma 95 |
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December
98
COVER STORY:
In
Oprah We Trust
By Bobby Maddex
BOOK: Still
Digging: An interview with writer William Gass
CONTENTS: Reflections on Jackson Pollock's Retrospective
at the Museum of Modern Art/Flannery
O'Connor /The
Films of Preston Sturges/The
Canonization of Pulp /The
Cultural & Historical Ramifications of Saved by
the Bell/The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus
Thirty Years On/Interview with singer-songwriter Mary
Cutrufello/The
Prieboy Principle
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January
99
COVER STORY:
Top 5 Hits of the Twentieth Century
By Paul Williams
MUSIC: What's
Welsh for Zen?
John Cale on Lou Reed, weather magic, mercenaries,
and the Velvet Underground
By David Dalton
MUSIC: Waving
the Punk banner: An interview with Greg Ginn
CONTENTS: A Guide to '80s Hardcore Punk/Strange
Fame: Bret Easton Ellis /Akira
Kurosawa/Sweet Dreams, James Dean/Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie
Prince Billy: Lo-fi poet of the mind's own tides/Jana
Sterbak/The
life and death of Bob Crane |
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February
99
COVER STORY:
Bring
the Noise: An album-by-album rundown of hip-hop's
best years
By Nathan Brackett
Plus: Hip
Hop 101: An interview with Black Thought of the
Roots
MUSIC: Buddy Holly: Never Fade Away
By Lenny Kaye
MUSIC: Just
A Good Ol' Boy: Waylon Jennings talks about Buddy
Holly
CONTENTS: Salvador Dali/Bullshit Artist: The work
of Breece D'J Pancake/Ralph Fiennes/The Prisoner/20th
CENTURY'S GREATEST HITS: Billie Holiday's "God Bless
the Child" and "I Cover the Waterfront."/Moss-Gathering:
The live recordings of the Rolling Stones/The Theatrical
Top 10 |
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March
99
COVER STORY:
Serious
Spectacle: Little Stevie goes Hollywood
By Daniel Kraus
BOOK: The
Heart Under Stress: An interview with author
Tim O'Brien
CONTENTS: The folk art of St. James/Psycho/Remembrance
of Kinks Past: Ray Davies /20th
CENTURY'S GREATEST HITS: The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights/Sun
Ra: Space is the place/Pauline
Melville's original fiction/Shakespeare
Festival |
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April
99
COVER STORY:
The
Perfect Interview: The Ali-Warhol Tapes
By Victor Bockris
BOOK: His
Wonders to Perform: Crime writer Chester Himes
By Melvin Van Peebles
MUSIC: Charles
Mingus: A musician beyond category
By Nat Hentoff
CONTENTS: David
Mamet/Jonestown/D.
A. Pennebaker on Bob Dylan, John Lennon, cinema vérité
and Mary Poppins/TWENTIETH CENTURY'S GREATEST HITS: Winnie-the-Pooh/Olivia
Tremor Control |
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May
99
COVER STORY:
The
Universe of Frank Zappa
By Richard Abowitz
CONTENT: Elvis
Presley: World of Hurt/An
interview with Careless Love author Peter Guralnick/Phantom
Menace/Annie Oakley/TOP FORTY HITS OF THE 20TH
CENTURY: Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip/The Drug Bust
of the Rolling Stones/Minimum
Mandatory & the War on Drugs/Andy
Kaufman: I'm from Hollywood/
James
Ensor and Christ's Entry into Brussels |
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June
99
COVER STORY:
Something
Bad: David Cronenberg
By Daniel Kraus
Plus:"I
still want to be an obscure novelist."
An interview
with David Cronenberg
By Victor Bockris
MUSIC: Brian
Epstein: The Fifth Beatle
By Jon Savage
MUSIC: Iggy and The Stooges: "Your Pretty Face
is going to Hell..." and back
By Lenny Kaye
CONTENTS: Jonathan
Lethem interviewed/Francis
Bacon: The King of Pain/TOP FORTY HITS OF THE 20TH
CENTURY: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"/Frida
Kahlo: Mexican Visionary/Interview
with novelist Tristan Egolf |
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July
99
COVER STORY:
GORE VIDAL GALORE!
America's Biographer: An interview with Gore Vidal
By Richard Abowitz
Plus: Vidal fields questions from Stanley Crouch,
Marianne Faithfull, Michael Lind and others.
Dick Cavett remembers "Mailer vs. Vidal"
MUSIC: Songs to Save the Planet: An interview with
Pete Seeger
CONTENTS: Adventures in Art/Michael Herr's Vietnam/The
Photographs of Linda McCartney/We
Visit Mr. Zeitgeist or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love Jane Wenner/Free
the Billboards: The Billboard Liberation Front's guerrilla
campaign/What
Killed Albert Goldman?/Indie Savant |
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August
99
COVER STORY:
King
of the Underground: The Magic World of William Burroughs
By Victor Bockris
MUSIC: Band of the Decade: Flaming Lips
By Richard Abowitz
BOOK: The
Tao of the Willow Tree: An interview with Hubert
Selby, Jr.
CONTENTS: Re-Inventing
the Wheel: Lars-Erik Fisk/The
Art of Georgia O'Keeffe/The
Return of Bernardo Bertolucci /Akio
Morita: Hero of Headphones /Finally
the Shocking Truth about Woodstock Can Be Told!/Sound
Theater: L.A. Theatre Works |
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September/October
99
COVER STORY:
Cataclysm
Now
So you think wrestling is for idiots... Well, you're probably
right (but our writer had fun anyway).
By Daniel "Stone Cold" Kraus
TV: The
Black and White World of Rod Serling
By Jonathan Lethem
CONTENTS: 15 Great Twilight Zone Episodes/Honky
Tonk Protest: Jon Langford's The Death of Country
Music/The
Existentialist at Rest: Paul Bowles/The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Twenty-Five Years Later /The
Return of Blind Joe Death: John Fahey and Revenant Records/Poetry
by Alfred Corn, Michael Lind and Kate Light/Oz
and Order/The
Prison Playwright/Thomas
Merton |
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November/December
99
COVER STORY:
Altamont:
End of the Sixties or Big Mix-Up in the Middle of Nowhere
By David Dalton
INTERVIEW: Women
and Art: An interview with Judy Chicago
By John W. Whitehead
MUSIC: Marion
Williams: The Genius of Gospel.
By Robert Santelli
BOOK: The
Business of Literary Art: An interview with literary
agent Andrew "The Jackal" Wylie
By Victor Bockris
CONTENTS: Kalle Lasn excerpted/Hans Namuth: Portraits/Nadar-Warhol/He
Was a Camera: Novelist Christopher Isherwood /Lynch
vs. Burton/A Short History of Atari/Writer Mark Slouka
interviewed/The Top Ten Albums of 1999/Paddy
Chayefsky Turns on the Television |
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January/February
00
COVER STORY:
The
Mystery of Terry Southern
By Victor Bockris
MUSIC: The
Being of Bayyaybee: Ronnie Spector
By Lenny Kaye
FILM: Complete
Harmony: An interview with filmmaker Harmony
Korine
CONTENTS: Harry Smith/Meredith Monk/Marketing
God /The
Extra/"Regarding
Beauty" at the Hirshhorn/Bluesman Will Roy Sanders/A
Guide to the Royal Trux /The
John Lennon FBI files/Luisa
Casati/Jerome Kitzke/Alberto Korda's Cuban pictures/Tommy
Jarrell /Three
great films and their tumultuous pasts |
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MARCH/APRIL
00
COVER STORY:
Saint
Marilyn
By David Dalton
MUSIC: Louis
Armstrong
By Nat Hentoff
CONTENTS: Keith
Haring/Being
Woody Allen/The American Comedy/Best Films of 1999/The
Man George Dubya Loves to Hate/The
Legend of Oscar Micheaux /Herndon
Ely: the Poetry of Tin-Can Bracelets and Mismatched Gloves |
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MAY/JUNE
00
COVER STORY:
The
Man in the Mirror: Michael Jackson's Tabloid Reflections
and Racial Rejections
By Daniel Kraus
ART: The
Life and Work of Basquiat
By Victor Bockris
CONTENTS: I
Feel Your Pain/A
Real Beer Bust in NYC/The
Man Who Killed Paul McCartney /The
Ozark Saga of Singer and Songwriter Jimmy Driftwood/It
Came on a Flaming Pie and Left on a Bullet/The Language
of Rock Fashion/Media Startups/Douglas
Coupland interviewed |
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July/August
00
COVER STORY:
Culture
That Splatters: The Blue Man Group
By Shawn Gewirtz
MUSIC: Lester
Bangs, King of the Noise Boys
By David Dalton
CONTENTS: The Mad, Mad World of Glenn Gould/The
Evolution of Pop and the Revolution of Style/The
Genius of Curly/When
Killing Makes No Sense/The Monster Within: The Evolution
of the Myth of Frankenstein/Female
Graffitit Artists/The
Morbid Urge: Snuff Films/Machines
of Sex and Death/Worshiping
the Partridge Family/A Look at Incest in Film/The League
of Non-Voters |
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September/October
00
COVER STORY:
Which
Way the Wind Blows: What Has Happened to Protest
Music?
By Grant Rosenberg
MUSIC: Hank Williams-Too Late, Too Late
An excerpt from John Fahey's How Bluegrass Music
Destroyed My Life
CONTENTS: Militarization
of Police/At
the Movies with Franz Kafka/Does
Dr. Laura Want to Spank America?/Yo! The Last Poets, Progenitors
of Rap/American
Zombie: George A. Romero's Three Decades of Cultural Cannibalism /Glimpses
of Reality: Walker Evans/I Once Had a Human Who Loved
Me/Monty Python and The Great British Invasion That Almost
Wasn't/Something
Was Happening, But I Didn't Know What It Was /Melville
and Malt Liquor |
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November/December
00
COVER STORY:
Cyber-Rome:
Why Nero Would Feel At Home in Las Vegas
By Christina Ball
BOOK: Heroine
Addict Creates Perfect Fix as Dear Abby Meets Born-Again
Virgin
Peter O. Whitmer
on Tom Robbins
CONTENTS: Internet Pop/Meet
Me on Mermaid Avenue: Punk-Folkie Billy Bragg Gets Together
With Music Legend Woody Guthrie/A
New York City Boy Comes Face to Face with the World of
Televangelism/Fifteen Minutes as the Hottest Black Screenwriter
in Hollywood/Are
You There, God? It's Me, the Miscreant Little Brother:
Judy Blume's Harrowing Bestseller of Adolescent Sexuality
Turns 30/A
Dachau Memory/Robert
Altman's Nashville /The
Novelist and the Megaphone: Authors Who Direct/EL
CHE VIVE!/Killer Art/Bonhoeff |
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January/February
01
COVER STORY:
Visions
of the Seventies:
The Rise and Fall
of a Cultural Challenge
By Victor Bockris
LIFESTYLES: Frank
Serpico: The Fate That Gnaws At Him
By Kathleen F. Phalen
MUSIC: Too
Cool For School:
An interview with Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices
CONTENTS: The
Phillips Art Collection in Las Vegas
/Eleven Mind-Blowing Films/Brando/The
Music of Harry Partch /Boris
Vian Gets Paraphysical /Tom
Waits/Allen Freed and the Rock 'n' Roll Revolution/Jimi
Hendrix /Hank
Williams III talks/Fela Kuti |
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March/April
01
COVER STORY:
Lenny
Bruce: The Crucifixion of a True Believer
By Nat Hentoff
MUSIC: Into
the Big Pink Yonder: The Band and I
By Barney Hoskyns
MUSIC: Bloomfield's
Doomed Field
Al Kooper on Mike Bloomfield
CONTENTS: Cocksucker
Blues /The
Silencing of Clara Bow /10
Great Films of 2000/What
the Devil is Up To /The
Art of Yoko Ono/Tulsa: Drugs and The Flirtation with Death/The
Art and Death of Pee-wee Herman/Boundaries/Ten Great Books/Salon.com's
Jake Tapper interviewed/Corey Harris/Wild
and Woolly: Janis Joplin and Bonnie Bramlett /The
Saddest Man On Earth/Jew
Boy
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