• EPILOGUE (BUY THE BOOK!)
  Brutal Liza is back -- and Right Before Your Eyes.
  by ellen shanman
  [05.07.2007]
• DANCE PARTY.
  Oh, the horror: The best and brightest take to the dance floor.
  by emily kagan
  [05.21.2005]
• SKILLS.
  Thinking I belonged in the lab, they handed me the drill. A writer plays scientist.
  by kevin bullis
  [04.06.2005]
• CULTURE SHOCK.
  Ten lessons learned during my year in Newcastle.
  by sonya poller
  [03.25.2005]
• CINEMA.
  For me, indie film means Lloyd Kaufman, and the Toxic Avenger.
  by david elliott
  [03.15.2005]
• FICTION.
  Short fiction: My terror ends in masks, zippers and blood on the rug. Part II of II.
  by trish elms
  [03.15.2005]
• CINEMA.
  I lost my head -- briefly -- for The Thing That Couldn't Die.
  by corey mesler
  [02.28.2005]
• CINEMA.
  My educator: Emmanuelle.
  by paul toth
  [02.28.2005]
• FICTION.
  Short fiction: Moving out, one CD at a time. Part I of II.
  by trish elms
  [02.15.2005]
• FASCINATION.
  I couldn't stop rewinding, because that ugly kid on the videotape was... me.
  by siri steiner
  [01.19.2005]
• FIRSTS.
  One female first after another, and I couldn't figure out how Tabitha -- and all those other girls -- did it.
  by minter krotzer
  [01.17.2005]
• PIG GUTS.
  My night at the fair with Tommy: I'm not sure I can help this brother out.
  by justin cioppa
  [01.03.2005]
• MEMO TO D.C.
  A trip to the dentist yields personal insight: It's time to yank me out of here.
  by lindsay muscato
  [12.23.2004]
• CINEMA.
  It's been 10 years since the lovers of Before Sunrise failed to keep their promise. Are they happy with that?
  by samantha bornemann
  [12.16.2004]
• E-PROFILE.
  Adam Langer talks about his first novel, Crossing California, the demise of Book magazine, growing up in Rogers Park and more.
  by samantha bornemann
  [12.07.2004]
• MYSTERY SOLVED.
  It was hard work hating high school, but I gave it my all in the interest of being ... unique.
  by paige maguire
  [12.01.2004]
• TURNING PAGES.
  So many books, so little time. But you never forget your first great book, or second, or third...
  by corey mesler
  [11.22.2004]
• E-PROFILE
  Producer, songwriter, musician, engineer... It's all about music for Brian McTear. Meet the man behind Bitter Bitter Weeks.
  by bryson meunier
  [08.25.2004]
• THE GOODBYE.
  To California with love. A long-distance romance begins.
  by ben kim
  [08.02.2004]
• BAD NEWS.
  Wiser doesn't equal wisdom: The Chicago columnist -- and sometime reporter -- you should avoid at all costs.
  by antonia simigis and samantha bornemann
  [07.27.2004]
• E-PROFILE.
  Marah's Serge Bielanko wasn't always so good with a guitar. That and other revelations in our Q&A.
  by samantha bornemann
  [06.30.2004]
• EXPRESSIONS.
  How Lucinda and Miller Williams inspired me to 'fess up to my N.W.A.-smuggling past.
  by bryson meunier
  [06.03.2004]
• BOLD NEW WORLD.
  Revisit the highs and lows of Gilmore Girls' fourth season, when Rory claimed her tree and Lorelai and Luke waltzed toward romance.
  by samantha bornemann
  [05.28.2004]
• NEVERMORE.
  The good, the bad and the funny. Why Kurt still matters 10 years after his death.
  by a.p. friday
  [04.05.2004]
• E-PROFILE.
  After five years Will Leitch retires his online column, Life as a Loser. A Q&A.
  by samantha bornemann
  [03.29.2004]
• BASEBALL.
  On baseball underdogs: Would fans recognize the Cubs -- or themselves -- if the team won it all?
  by andy cline
  [11.28.2003]
• MS. AND MRS.
  Minding my potty mouth on the phone with the girl who used to be my best friend.
  by annie abrams
  [11.28.2003]
• E-PROFILE.
  Meet Jim Baur, the man playing classical guitar at a ceremony near you.
  by michael solita
  [09.10.2003]
• FICTION.
  Short fiction: Unhappy Marriage.
  by joan wilking
  [07.30.2003]
• LOVE & MATING.
  Married; then unmarried.
  by erik solita
  [07.03.2003]
• NOT YOUR DAY.
  Never mind Ms. Post -- this is the real bridesmaid's etiquette.
  by jennifer mathieu
  [06.30.2003]
• FICTION.
  Short short fiction: Anniversary.
  by jason deboer
  [06.23.2003]
• CHANTS & VERSE.
  Protesters with posterboard, poets with pictures.
  by bryson meunier
  [04.23.2003]
• CHAPTERS.
  Old favorites like Middlemarch offer new views.
  by samantha bornemann
  [02.27.2003]
• BUMPY RIDE.
  A rare glimpse of the glamorous underbelly of an author's reading tour.
  by steve almond
  [02.17.2003]
• E-PROFILE.
  Short story author Steve Almond talks reading and writing -- and wimps out of the one tough question we asked.
  by samantha bornemann
  [02.17.2003]
• E-PROFILE.
  Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne dishes on touring with Beck and chatting up Ted Danson.
  by ted sablay
  [12.20.2002]
• CHAPTER & VERSE.
  Gazing at the man behind Solaris, author Stanislaw Lem.
  by carl albrecht-buehler
  [12.10.2002]
• CHAPTER & VERSE.
  When I was 12, my silly little story got everyone all fired up.
  by bryson meunier
  [12.10.2002]
• EIGHT DAYS A WEEK.
  My guide to rockin' and copywriting.
  by bryson meunier
  [10.23.2002]
• WINDOW SEAT.
  Midwestern living has changed the look of New York.
  by ben kim
  [10.22.2002]
• 15 MEGABYTES OF FAME.
  The long-running humor column visits ShinyGun.
  by amy krouse rosenthal
  [06.21.2002]
• E-PROFILE.
  Author Amy Krouse Rosenthal dishes on magazines in a post-Might world, motherhood and chasing a Poet Laureate.
  by samantha bornemann
  [06.21.2002]
• THE SPORTING LIFE.
  How baseball brought my sex life to life.
  by cathy vail
  [06.07.2002]
• THE SPORTING LIFE.
  How baseball saved my life.
  by andy cline
  [06.07.2002]
• REALISM TV.
  Why Felicity is so freakin' smart, and why I'm sad to see it go.
  by bryson meunier
  [05.22.2002]
• CHAPTER & VERSE.
  A young writer takes the Kafka challenge.
  by bryson meunier
  [04.12.2002]
• LIGHT & DARK.
  Ghosts linger amid the temporary Towers in Light at ground zero.
  by paul w. morris
  [03.27.2002]
• CINEMA.
  Pucker up for Vampire's Kiss, a twisted take on the undead world of publishing.
  by a. richard langley
  [03.26.2002]
• PREDICTIONS.
  Part Two: The message in the Tarot cards is clearer than ever before, but she doesn't want to see it.
  by damon brown
  [03.23.2002]
• GRRR! ARGH!
  Ten years ago this month, Buffy landed on the WB. Relive the fights, the spells and the singing in this essay from the archive: A girl can get tired of saving the world. Just ask Buffy -- er, Sarah. That brilliant Joss Whedon is making it more and more difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins.
  by anaheed alani
  [03.20.2002]
• PREDICTIONS.
  Part One: A visit to a New Orleans psychic uncovers Joy -- or something like it -- in my future.
  by damon brown
  [03.16.2002]
• LOVE & MATING.
  Starter marriages and the single man. What's with the stampede to the chapel?
  by ben kim
  [03.14.2002]
• LOVE & MATING.
  I'm 24 and a virgin. Am I saving myself? Yes -- for a girl who will have sex with me!
  by elijah marshall
  [03.06.2002]
• SCREWED.
  There are two kinds of luck. Only one of these is to be trusted.
  by meredith zeitlin
  [02.22.2002]
• E-PROFILE.
  The Playboy Advisor talks about being a sexpert, a zine fiend and a successful Playmate interviewer. Meet Chip Rowe.
  by samantha bornemann
  [02.19.2002]
• CINEMA.
  Yes to The Royal Tenenbaums, its music and its misanthropes.
  by bryson meunier
  [01.31.2002]
• CINEMA.
  No to The Royal Tenenbaums: A series of beautiful stills doth not a "genius" movie make.
  by ben kim
  [01.31.2002]
• BOTTOM RUNG.
  Fear and paranoia: How do you keep it together when the office body count keeps rising?
  by samantha bornemann
  [01.12.2002]
• BOTTOM RUNG.
  Unemployed and undermined at every step. Who let the world get so cold?
  by meredith zeitlin
  [01.01.2002]
• BOTTOM RUNG.
  A dream job found and lost, her dotcom gig remains an affair to remember.
  by alison evans
  [01.01.2002]
• NEVERLAND.
  Nirvana ruined my life, sure, but thank god for that. Exploring the real impact of a watershed 1991 album.
  by bryson meunier
  [10.23.2001]
• THAT TUESDAY.
  I wait and wonder, as if by thinking about it I will have some say in the outcome.
  by meredith zeitlin
  [09.25.2001]
• THAT TUESDAY.
  Lesson learned: I am a New Yorker. And I love this city now more than ever.
  by shana naomi krochmal
  [09.21.2001]
• THAT TUESDAY.
  At work they told us we could go home if we felt uncomfortable. I can't figure out how to feel any other way.
  by jennifer mathieu
  [09.20.2001]
• THAT TUESDAY.
  The FDNY lost many Brothers -- many heroes -- when the WTC towers fell.
  by ellen shanman
  [09.17.2001]
• BOYS W/ BUZZ.
  An attempted email debate on well-hyped band the Strokes and the machine they rode in on.
  by michael solita
  [08.30.2001]
• SOMETHING STINKS.
  The defecating burglar: My cat saw it all, but she's not talking.
  by samantha bornemann
  [08.28.2001]
• FILMMAKERS.
  Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann has a single aim. His films are meant to make you -- every last one of you -- not think, but feel.
  by samantha bornemann
  [08.14.2001]
• LOCATION: CHICAGO.
  Call her the second city all you like, but Chicago's my number one girl.
  by gregory perez
  [07.26.2001]
• WHAT'S ON TV.
  You've gotta know when to go: On primetime hits that are past their prime.
  by shana naomi krochmal
  [07.19.2001]
• E-PROFILE.
  Hey Mercedes frontman Bob Nanna talks music, fritters and the view from the stage.
  by michael solita
  [07.12.2001]
• BANDWAGON.
  A Reality TV staffer explains why the format is a network's wet dream.
  by j. ryan stradal
  [06.19.2001]
• LOCATION: HOUSTON.
  This urban cowgirl can't imagine hanging her hat anywhere but Houston.
  by jennifer mathieu
  [05.25.2001]
• NO CONTROL.
  There's someone out there committing crimes under my name -- which is why I spent Easter evening in the back of a squad car, scared to death.
  by glenn jeffers
  [05.18.2001]
• PHOTOS BY M. SOLITA, APRIL 26-30, 2001.
  Photo Essay: They hang like grapes on vines that shine. Capturing California .
  by michael solita
  [05.10.2001]
• OBITUARY.
  No more Yo La Tengo, no more thrift-store identification badges of cool -- this girl's hipness has tragically and suddenly passed on.
  by jennifer mathieu
  [05.08.2001]
• PHONING IT IN.
  They're dialing in your destruction, one conference call at a time. Heed this warning, mid-size business boys and girls.
  by dan ratner
  [05.06.2001]
• EIGHT DAYS A WEEK.
  Diary of a temporary jack-of-all-trades searching the web for signs of life.
  by alison evans
  [05.02.2001]
• LA REPORTA SCENA.
  An evening of Latin death metal at La Kueva.
  by jake alrich
  [04.13.2001]
• FOREIGN WORLD.
  Peace Corps reality replaced the hypothetical when I boarded a plane for a two-year stay in the West Indies.
  by m. kathleen pratt
  [04.06.2001]
• MISDIRECTED MAIL.
  Misdirected mail: Her very first letter to a famous person -- and she chose Chris Klein.
  by jessica popover-cimino
  [03.23.2001]
• GREASEY DREAMS.
  Who's that guy? One woman's ode to the world of Grease 2.
  by robin schorr
  [03.22.2001]
• BODY COUNT.
  Enumerating the acts of reckless violence in Seagal's comeback of the year.
  by doug mosurak
  [03.22.2001]
• SCREAMING GENIUS.
  Affectations that become habit. The cult of Kicking and Screaming, Noah Baumbach's 1995 film.
  by samantha bornemann
  [03.20.2001]
• SERVICE PIECE.
  How to make a movie on no budget.
  by mark e. greene
  [03.19.2001]
• DAILY GRIND.
  The opportunity of a lifetime for a young journalist: The Florida recount knocked me on my ass.
  by glenn jeffers
  [03.16.2001]
• EIGHT DAYS A WEEK.
  Time out of mind: A week in the life of an artist for hire.
  by andrew skwish
  [03.14.2001]
• SERVICE PIECE.
  Things to do in high school besides homicide.
  by jennifer mathieu and michael solita
  [03.12.2001]
• ROMANTIC CHEMISTRY.
  Romantic Chemistry: Stable couples and disruptive pairs FINALLY explained.
  by mark e. greene
  [02.22.2001]
• THE MODERN MAN.
  Angry words about Maxim, the biggest "lad" of them all.
  by michael solita
  [02.15.2001]
• MISSTEPS.
  May I have that dance? In search of the perfect foxtrot.
  by samantha bornemann
  [02.14.2001]
• CRUSHED.
  Crushed: In love with love and lousy poetry.
  by michael solita
  [02.13.2001]
• DIRTY POLITICS.
  A rant from the good old days... Why George W. Bush is like a yeast infection.
  by jennifer mathieu
  [01.26.2001]
• WINDOW SEAT.
  Part Two: Would he find foreign romance on his journey? Not with this many American girls on the loose in Europe.
  by dan safarik
  [01.26.2001]
• DEMENTED MAN.
  Our resident scientist wants you to recycle. Ignore his advice at your -- and your Diet Coke's -- peril.
  by mark e. greene
  [01.10.2001]
• EIGHT DAYS A WEEK.
  Ever wonder what it's like to run an indie record label? We got the details from the man behind My Pal God.
  by jon solomon
  [01.10.2001]
• VERBAL ASSAULT.
  "Chicago needs an enema" -- that and other ruminations on the Great Midwest Metropolis in this email excerpt.
  by andre vospette
  [01.07.2001]
• BOTTOM RUNG.
  Cultural assessment surveys and mandatory screen savers? Is this a workplace or a cult?
  by jennifer mathieu
  [01.07.2001]
• WINDOW SEAT.
  Part One: A young American in Europe. A tragicomedy of Daedalian proportions.
  by dan safarik
  [11.22.2000]
• PARIS DISPATCH.
  Paris Dispatch: Just how the hell did I end up in France after graduation?
  by drew nielsen
  [11.22.2000]
• SERVICE PIECE
  How to procrastinate.
  by prescott tolk
  [11.22.2000]

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