People Features

  • Sexy monkeys and mutant bunnies

    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

  • "Normal will never happen again"

    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

  • Mormon misogynist goes soft

    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

  • A cool cowpoke gets political

    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

  • Baseball greetings, Ernie Harwell

    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

  • The life of the Dead

    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

  • 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

  • The shadow president

    People say I look like you know who. Why me, lord?
    By Sean Elder August 2, 2002

  • The kid is back in the picture

    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

  • 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

  • Lord Buckley rides again!

    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

  • Spelunking the empire of death

    In the catacombs beneath Paris, a legendary trespasser enacts the theater of psycho-terror.
    By Christopher Ketcham June 19, 2002

  • Watching the giant mediums

    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

  • Shooting crap

    Alleged psychic John Edward actually gambles on hope and basic laws of statistics.
    By Shari Waxman June 13, 2002

  • Been there, smashed that

    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

  • Men who hurt themselves for a living

    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

  • How do you design a "Keep Out!" sign to last 10,000 years?

    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

  • The Gumball 3000 rally: Yet another reason to hate the rich

    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

  • Al Franken

    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

  • "Dracula's" secretary

    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

  • A night of engrams and clears

    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

  • Buffalo soldiers

    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

  • Through clowning

    You can laugh, but the mummified clown at the California Institute of Abnormalarts appears to be serious business.
    By Stephen Lemons March 25, 2002

  • Denis Halliday

    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

  • Scott Ritter

    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
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