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Painter Laurie Hogin uses the style of Old Masters and a frightening menagerie of beasts to illustrate the nightmares to be found in the American dream.
By Douglas Cruickshank
September 30, 2002
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The author of two books about coping with sudden death talks about the emotional fallout of losing someone without having had a chance to say goodbye.
By Douglas Cruickshank
September 9, 2002
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Director Neil LaBute surprises everyone but himself with "Possession." On the eve of its release, LaBute talks about a case of mistaken identity.
By Dimitra Kessenides
September 4, 2002
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Steve Earle, a new disc under his belt, talks about his tumultuous career -- a hair-raising ride that has included many wives, an ugly romance with heroin, and watching a man die.
By Mark J. Miller
August 29, 2002
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The voice of the Tigers has broadcast more big-league games than anyone else. His retirement breaks one of the last links to an age when fans knew the home team through one man's words.
By King Kaufman
August 27, 2002
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Band insider Dennis McNally talks about his new 600-page biography of the Grateful Dead, and answers questions about their long, strange trip.
By Douglas Cruickshank
August 20, 2002
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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
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People say I look like you know who. Why me, lord?
By Sean Elder
August 2, 2002
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Robert Evans, the infamous movie producer who, by his own count, is on his fourth life, talks about breaking the rules and brushes with death.
By Dimitra Kessenides
July 30, 2002
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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
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The new biography of the Hip Messiah gives us a quintessentially American character worthy of a Mark Twain novel.
By Douglas Cruickshank
June 26, 2002
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In the catacombs beneath Paris, a legendary trespasser enacts the theater of psycho-terror.
By Christopher Ketcham
June 19, 2002
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James Van Praagh and John Edward are the Spears and Aguilera of psychic readings. After seeing them, I'm not so skeptical.
By Laura Laughlin
June 13, 2002
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Alleged psychic John Edward actually gambles on hope and basic laws of statistics.
By Shari Waxman
June 13, 2002
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From porcelain machine guns to plates commemorating hideous disasters, artist Charles Krafft's grimly satirical work sheds strange light on an age when terror is rattling our teacups. (With a portfolio of 14 photographs.)
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 30, 2002
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Whimpering existential wimp-thug David Blaine lays his cojones on the scales against cackling, criminally irreverent feces-diver Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville's have more heft.
By Cintra Wilson
May 21, 2002
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The Department of Energy is creating a vast monument to scare future trespassers away from radioactive waste sites. Their plan: A granite Stonehenge thing with warnings in Navajo!
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 10, 2002
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Depraved rock stars and party-hearty Playmates in overpowered Toadmobiles are our betters, and as they careen across America we must bow before their power.
By Cintra Wilson
April 27, 2002
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The political satirist scripts lines the Democrats could have used to win in 2000, muses on torture and orgasms -- and remains "concerned" about Rush Limbaugh.
By Douglas Cruickshank
April 20, 2002
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The resurfaced manuscript of Bram Stoker's legendary vampire novel reminds us that even a hack can create an immortal tale.
By Jonathon Keats
April 17, 2002
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At the Scientologists' birthday bash for the late L. Ron Hubbard, it all comes down to the e-meter.
By Sara Kelly
April 3, 2002
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When bison wander from Yellowstone National Park, they fall prey to Montana gunmen -- unless they're rescued by a motley band of eco-warriors.
By Arthur Allen
March 28, 2002
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You can laugh, but the mummified clown at the California Institute of Abnormalarts appears to be serious business.
By Stephen Lemons
March 25, 2002
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The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe.
By Hadani Ditmars
March 20, 2002
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The controversial former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq says Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are largely disarmed, the "Iraqi threat" is built on a framework of lies and President Bush has betrayed the American people.
By Asla Aydintasbas
March 19, 2002