http://dir.salon.com/topics/people_features/?source=rss&aim=people_features en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT By Douglas Cruickshank Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/09/30/hogin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/09/30/hogin/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/09/09/brook_noel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/09/09/brook_noel/index.html?source=rss 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 Dimitra Kessenides Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/09/04/labute/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/09/04/labute/index.html?source=rss Director Neil LaBute surprises everyone but himself with "Possession." On the eve of its release, LaBute talks about a case of mistaken identity. By Mark J. Miller Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/29/earle/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/29/earle/index.html?source=rss 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 King Kaufman Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/27/harwell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/27/harwell/index.html?source=rss 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 Douglas Cruickshank Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/20/dead_life/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/20/dead_life/index.html?source=rss Band insider Dennis McNally talks about his new 600-page biography of the Grateful Dead, and answers questions about their long, strange trip. By Janelle Brown Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/09/vin_hot/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/09/vin_hot/index.html?source=rss I know lusting after this big ugly hunk of a man is ridiculous -- but it's not just physical. Really. By Sean Elder Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/02/shadow_prez/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/08/02/shadow_prez/index.html?source=rss People say I look like you know who. Why me, lord? By Dimitra Kessenides Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/07/30/evans/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/07/30/evans/index.html?source=rss 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 Janelle Brown Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/07/18/reno_interview/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/07/18/reno_interview/index.html?source=rss The Latino lesbian comedian detonates a series of explosive observations about patriotism, the Bush administration and John Walker Lindh. By Douglas Cruickshank Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/26/buckley/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/26/buckley/index.html?source=rss The new biography of the Hip Messiah gives us a quintessentially American character worthy of a Mark Twain novel. By Christopher Ketcham Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/19/catacombs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/19/catacombs/index.html?source=rss In the catacombs beneath Paris, a legendary trespasser enacts the theater of psycho-terror. By Laura Laughlin Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/13/psychics/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/13/psychics/index.html?source=rss James Van Praagh and John Edward are the Spears and Aguilera of psychic readings. After seeing them, I'm not so skeptical. By Shari Waxman Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/13/probability/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/06/13/probability/index.html?source=rss Alleged psychic John Edward actually gambles on hope and basic laws of statistics. By Douglas Cruickshank Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/05/30/krafft_profile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/05/30/krafft_profile/index.html?source=rss 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 Cintra Wilson Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/05/21/blaine/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/05/21/blaine/index.html?source=rss 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 Douglas Cruickshank Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/05/10/yucca_mountain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/05/10/yucca_mountain/index.html?source=rss 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 Cintra Wilson Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/27/race/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/27/race/index.html?source=rss 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 Douglas Cruickshank Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/20/franken/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/20/franken/index.html?source=rss 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 Jonathon Keats Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/17/stoker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/17/stoker/index.html?source=rss The resurfaced manuscript of Bram Stoker's legendary vampire novel reminds us that even a hack can create an immortal tale. By Sara Kelly Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/03/hubbard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/04/03/hubbard/index.html?source=rss At the Scientologists' birthday bash for the late L. Ron Hubbard, it all comes down to the e-meter. By Arthur Allen Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/28/buffalo_soldiers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/28/buffalo_soldiers/index.html?source=rss 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 Stephen Lemons Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/25/clown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/25/clown/index.html?source=rss You can laugh, but the mummified clown at the California Institute of Abnormalarts appears to be serious business. By Hadani Ditmars Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/20/halliday/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/20/halliday/index.html?source=rss 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 Asla Aydintasbas Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/19/ritter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/19/ritter/index.html?source=rss 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.