Of babyfaces and heels By Andrew O'Hehir
From crimson masks to electrifying sports entertainers, two bestselling wrestling books chronicle the blood, sweat and touching humanism of America's most popular redneck soap opera. (05/02/00)

Grudge match By Eric Boehlert
After a severe WWF smackdown, Ted Turner's WCW wants to win back wrestling fans. But will more raunch and less paunch be enough to put the league on top? (04/25/00)

Hail, Metallica! By John Perry
In which a British artiste of minor repute salutes his very heavy colleagues for their intrepid bravery in suing Napster. (04/24/00)

"Down the vagina trail" By Pamela Grossman
"The Vagina Monologues" writer Eve Ensler on laughter, desire and reentering her own nether regions. (04/19/00)

"Erin Brockovich": The real story By Kathleen Sharp
In the movie, the victims in the celebrated lawsuit won big. In reality, many are wondering where the money went -- and they're mad at their lawyers. (04/14/00)

Giving up By Eric Boehlert
Record labels move to lift the minimum-price rules that kept mom-and-pop stores in business. (04/12/00)

Love hate By Ana Marie Cox
Jennifer Love Hewitt lacks charm, grace and magnetism. How in the world did she end up playing Audrey Hepburn? (03/27/00)

Artists to Napster: Drop dead! By Eric Boehlert
To many musicians, the MP3 trading software isn't a revolution -- it's a rip-off. (03/24/00)

Island fever By Dylan James
I was willing to spring my gay porn past on my unsuspecting family if it would get me on the TV show "Survivor." But would it? (03/13/00)

The writing on the wall By Apollinaire Scherr
Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt doesn't do his own work, doesn't make originals and doesn't follow his own rules. Thirty years on, he's still making people nervous. (03/10/00)

Public radio's bad dream By Susan Emerling
Joe Frank conjures up the nightmares that "This American Life" and "A Prairie Home Companion" have when they go home at night. (03/07/00)

Dreaming in television By Daniel Kunitz
Nam June Paik's TV installations paint the Guggenheim Museum with the psychedelic colors of the cathode ray. (03/02/00)

All in la familia! By Andrés Martínez
A week in the life of "La Vida en el Espejo," one of the hottest prime-time telenovelas. (02/28/00)

"La Vida" loca By Andrés Martínez
The modern Mexican telenovela is an oversexed stew of giddy promiscuity, weird couplings, substance abuse and repressed homosexuality. Let's watch! (02/28/00)

Oh, Rosie, shut up By Bill Wyman
A silly organization gives out frivolous awards to has-beens and evanescent pop -- for the 42nd year. (02/24/00)

Real art is murder By Michael Scott Moore
Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, died forgotten a decade ago. Now her never-produced play has been dusted off to combat NEA "censorship." (02/23/00)

Black and white and taboo all over By Charles Taylor
Hollywood is more phobic than ever about interracial love, but now it's blacks who are putting on the brakes. (02/14/00)

"The Bitch Is Back" By Jeff Stark
Exclusive: Secret production notes for "Blair Witch Project" sequel revealed. (02/09/00)

The other man on the moon By Connell Barrett
From Letterman sidekick to "Get a Life" to, um, Dogbert, Chris Elliott -- a true alt-comedy innovator who might be funnier than Andy Kaufman -- just can't get no respect. (02/08/00)

Prisoner of love By Austin Bunn
Why is Mary Kay Letourneau, the 35-year-old teacher who slept with her 13-year-old student, trying to keep her own book out of American stores? (01/27/00)

The other beauty myth By Daniel Kunitz
At the turn of the century, with Picasso behind and Matthew Barney in front, does beauty still matter? (01/10/00)

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