Janelle Brown

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With its teen sex, meth habits and quarter-life crises, Janelle Brown's addictive Silicon Valley novel shows that in every boom, there's a bust.
By Rebecca Traister May 28, 2008

  • Bitter pills

    Thousands of Americans buy cheap prescription drugs in Mexico. Some end up in squalid south-of-the-border prisons.
    By Janelle Brown June 1, 2006

  • Your glow stick could land you in jail

    The latest incarnation of the RAVE Act punishes drug users and bystanders alike -- and tramples civil liberties.
    By Janelle Brown April 16, 2003

  • Over my dead body

    Activists are flocking to the West Bank to serve as human shields, protecting Palestinians and protesting the Israeli occupation. Are they part of the solution -- or part of the problem?
    By Janelle Brown January 15, 2003

  • All-American soft-porn sweats with a twist

    The Juicy Couture tracksuit is the height of haute in L.A., a uniform for starlet and wealthy wannabe alike.
    By Janelle Brown January 14, 2003

  • The unexamined thug life

    Makers of an ill-fated indie film about L.A. gangbangers claim that a fear of unruly black audiences has prompted theater owners to shun their work.
    By Janelle Brown November 5, 2002

  • Brother, can you spare a dime for my Gucci bills?

    Cyber-begging fuels the new philanthropy, in which brand, beauty and instant karma matter most in raising funds.
    By Janelle Brown October 2, 2002

  • My past life as a dog

    For 12 years, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo meditated alone in a tiny cave in Tibet. Now she wants to elevate the status of other Buddhist women, believed to be reincarnated as females as punishment for past mistakes.
    By Janelle Brown September 30, 2002

  • Trial by public humiliation

    Some birth mothers in Florida must publish their sexual histories in local newspapers if they wish to place their child for private adoption.
    By Janelle Brown August 21, 2002

  • Summers at Camp Ethnicity

    Are camps for foreign adoptees just a place for their parents to exorcise white guilt, or do they help the kids develop pride, cope with prejudice and get in touch with their roots?
    By Janelle Brown August 12, 2002

  • Vin Diesel is hot

    I know lusting after this big ugly hunk of a man is ridiculous -- but it's not just physical. Really.
    By Janelle Brown August 9, 2002

  • Reno

    The Latino lesbian comedian detonates a series of explosive observations about patriotism, the Bush administration and John Walker Lindh.
    By Janelle Brown July 18, 2002

  • L is for lawsuit

    Angry that little Johnny flunked, increasing numbers of parents are suing teachers.
    By Janelle Brown July 12, 2002

  • When the drug war invades the chess club

    ACLU lawyer Graham Boyd discusses the impact of Thursday's Supreme Court decision to allow drug testing of students who participate in extracurricular school activities.
    By Janelle Brown June 28, 2002

  • Porn provocateur

    Lizzy Borden, whose ultraviolent films feature women being beaten, raped and doused in vomit, insists that she is a gender pioneer whose repellent movies are morality tales.
    By Janelle Brown June 20, 2002

  • Here come the buns

    Butt cleavage is not just for the plumber anymore.
    By Janelle Brown May 28, 2002

  • Smoke a joint and your future is McDonald's

    A federal law passed in a burst of drug war fervor denies financial aid to the country's neediest students.
    By Janelle Brown May 20, 2002

  • Napster's wake

    The company that launched a thousand rips may be dead, but the movement it launched continues to thrive -- and to make a mockery of the music industry's pathetic online offerings.
    By Janelle Brown May 17, 2002

  • A new stunt to stunt growth

    New restrictions on high school graduation go further to infantilize teenagers in the hope of making them perfect adults.
    By Janelle Brown May 13, 2002

  • Jeff Probst is not an idiot

    The weather-beaten host of "Survivor" talks about his debut indie film, "Finder's Fee," and why no one takes him seriously.
    By Janelle Brown May 8, 2002

  • Baby panic and drug tests

    Readers respond to recent articles on Sylvia Ann Hewlett and mandatory drug testing in public schools.
    April 26, 2002

  • Why drug tests flunk

    If the Supreme Court rules in favor of drug testing in public schools, will students come clean? Kids at schools in Indiana, where drug tests rule, say no way.
    By Janelle Brown April 22, 2002

  • Evicting Grandma

    Elderly residents of public housing must police their children and grandchildren or lose their apartments. But the Supreme Court ruling apparently doesn't apply to the Bush family.
    By Janelle Brown April 10, 2002

  • Anger and grief, from Ramallah to San Francisco

    Palestinian corner stores are like mini-embassies in many cities, dispensing goodwill along with groceries. But in the wake of Sharon's assault, expatriates are mainly peddling fury.
    By Janelle Brown April 2, 2002

  • A frock of memories

    Hundreds of dresses with rich pasts flow into a project to get formal clothes to prom-bound teens.
    By Janelle Brown April 1, 2002
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