http://dir.salon.com/topics/damien_cave/?source=rss&aim=damien_cave en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/04/01/yetnikoff/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/04/01/yetnikoff/index.html?source=rss Walter Yetnikoff talks about running CBS Records in the '70s, Michael Jackson's strange habits -- and Janet Jackson's breasts. Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/letters/2003/12/09/lear/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/letters/2003/12/09/lear/index.html?source=rss Yes, he's a progressive, says the famed TV producer -- but his campaign to turn out the youth vote is nonpartisan and open to conservatives and liberals alike. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2003/12/05/tell_us/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2003/12/05/tell_us/index.html?source=rss Bush-bashers are hoping that entertainment celebrities will turn out crucial first-time voters. But the audiences aren't sold. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/01/28/bardach/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/01/28/bardach/index.html?source=rss Ann Louise Bardach talks about the fading of Fidel, the end of the embargo, and the drive for democracy -- and why exile leaders aren't happy about any of it. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/31/film_literacy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/31/film_literacy/index.html?source=rss If young film buffs choose Tarantino over Antonioni, are they culturally illiterate? Some of their elders, self-appointed guardians of the cinematic canon, think so. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/23/martyr/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/23/martyr/index.html?source=rss The author of "The Martyrs of Columbine" on the strange and sometimes violent collision of religion and politics. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/10/11/mosex/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/10/11/mosex/index.html?source=rss Overserious, rushed and muddled, the Museum of Sex comes across like an awkward adolescent on a first date. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/10/spitzer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/10/spitzer/index.html?source=rss Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good? By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/08/hpv_dam/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/08/hpv_dam/index.html?source=rss Abstinence crusaders are exploiting fears of a mysterious virus to scare teens away from having sex. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/09/25/grindstaff/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/09/25/grindstaff/index.html?source=rss The producers of daytime TV talk shows must woo wife beaters, drug addicts and other scum as guests. Their reward? Being treated like bottom-feeding slime by a public that laps it up. Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/11/forbidden_letters/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/11/forbidden_letters/index.html?source=rss From "It was only white people" to hoping to get a 212 cell phone number to "I hope my father died," readers share their secret reactions to Sept. 11. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/07/forbidden/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/07/forbidden/index.html?source=rss From gloating about getting off work to enjoying the "country road" ambience of lower Manhattan to hating on-the-make firemen: A spectrum of improper responses to the terror attacks. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/03/baby_boom/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/03/baby_boom/index.html?source=rss Once again, Americans have conjured a baby boom out of a national tragedy. What better way to create a happy ending? By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/23/liebowitz_redux/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/23/liebowitz_redux/index.html?source=rss New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/15/forbidden_truth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/15/forbidden_truth/index.html?source=rss Did a shadowy group of American diplomats threaten the Taliban last year, provoking the 9/11 attack? Many on the left think so. Now the diplomats tell their side of the story. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/08/06/razac/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/08/06/razac/index.html?source=rss Here's how a simple twist of spiked metal ravaged the American West, crucified a generation of young men and terrorized millions of Europeans. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/08/05/air_jordan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/08/05/air_jordan/index.html?source=rss What changed leisure footwear forever and created the wonderful, hideous behemoth of contemporary consumer culture? It's gotta be da shoes. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/07/29/superfund/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/07/29/superfund/index.html?source=rss Bush's cuts to the Superfund reward corporate polluters for stonewalling and leave neighbors of toxic sites frustrated and desperate. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/03/stiglitz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/03/stiglitz/index.html?source=rss Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy. Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/audio/nonfiction/2002/07/03/stiglitz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/nonfiction/2002/07/03/stiglitz/index.html?source=rss The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics talks with Damien Cave about his book "Globalization and Its Discontents," the WorldCom scandal, the mistakes of the IMF and more. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/index.html?source=rss John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/29/voucher_q_a/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/29/voucher_q_a/index.html?source=rss Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on school vouchers, one expert says dramatic change could be decades away. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/26/cftc/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/26/cftc/index.html?source=rss President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/index.html?source=rss An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why. By Damien Cave Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/06/netflix/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/06/netflix/index.html?source=rss Will the success of the pioneering DVD-rental company convince a reluctant music industry to embrace its own subscription strategy?