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By Salon Staff Dec 31, 2008

  • Bargain gifts for the culture vulture

    Because it's boring to just buy "Kung Fu Panda" or "Incredible Hulk."
    By Andrew O'Hehir, Joy Press December 1, 2008

  • Talkin' bout my generation

    A new book argues that the baby boomers were a "greater generation" than the one that beat the Depression and Hitler. But what did we really do?
    By Gary Kamiya February 3, 2006

  • The death of Al Mutanabbi Street

    Iraqi culture was reborn when Saddam fell, only to die again. A report from Baghdad's fear-haunted literary cafes.
    By Phillip Robertson August 26, 2005

  • The mouse who would be king

    Disney's ever-expanding copyright powers are threatening to squash everyone's cultural creativity. As two new books compellingly argue, the time is ripe for more anarchy, and fewer lawyers.
    By Farhad Manjoo April 8, 2004

  • New from Weber ... Girls!

    Barbecuing needs feminism like grilled fish needs a bicycle.
    By Chris Colin June 17, 2002

  • The man from Neen

    Miltos Manetas, who sent 23 invisible U-Haul trucks to the Whitney Biennial, explains the "art" movement that's out to change the way we perceive technology, intellectual property and moving vans.
    By John Glassie March 21, 2002

  • Tummy talk

    Belly dancing is deemed pornographic by Egyptians, but more foreign women are taking up the art.
    By Susan Hack July 19, 2000

  • Why we travel

    It whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head.
    By Pico Iyer March 18, 2000

  • Ode to "Joy"

    The sacred text of the kitchen has a powerful and lasting resonance.
    By Lloyd Fonvielle March 7, 2000

  • Celebrating Switzerland

    Savoring rvsti, fondue and the legacy of William Tell.
    By Burt Wolf January 20, 2000

  • China good? China bad?

    Nothing is simple in Tibet.
    By Hank Hyena August 7, 1999

  • Is culture endangered in the digital age?

    Is culture endangered in the digital age? By Chris Bray Ironies abound at a Los Angeles conference pondering the future of museums and libraries
    By Chris Bray October 29, 1998

  • Paris's cafe renaissance

    For centuries they have been the stomach and soul of the city, but today the cafes of Paris are enjoying a renaissance. Wanderlust's man in Paris, David Downie, reports on the new scene in the City of Caffeine.
    By David Downie September 21, 1998

  • Ignorants abroad

    An American expatriate weathers the slings and arrows of learning another language.
    By Rolf Potts June 22, 1998

  • Blinded in the desert

    Hospitality and hostility become blurred for a traveler stranded among Bedouins at the desolate tip of the Sinai.
    By Andrew Bill June 19, 1998

  • Newsreal: The fame economy

    What's good for Michael Jordan is good for America
    By Jonathan Broder December 18, 1997

  • Middlebrowbeaten

    Earnestly clutching his list of Improving Books, the hapless middlebrow can't get no respect. But even culture on the installment plan is better than no culture at all.
    By David Futrelle March 11, 1997

  • Dixie Rising

    Paige Williams reviews Peter Applebome's book "Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture".
    By Paige Williams November 11, 1996

  • The Awful Truth

    You want art? Look through the hole in the token, jiveasses
    By Cintra Wilson June 24, 1996

  • Heart of Darkness

    Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois went deeper into America's crack culture than anyone before him. Too deep.
    By Gary Kamiya December 2, 1995
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