Kulture

Phil Abbot talks to France's first "openly" female erotic author about sex, PC and globalization.

A rumination on tattoos, history, and Twisted Sister.

Here's the Jack London your mother never told you about.

Joey Ramone's greatest contribution to music was being an ugly son of a bitch. Discuss.

A profile of the the Most Hated Woman in America, Maddy O'Hair.

Heather Wakusch on why Americans can't talk straight about sex these days.

Why would anyone shoot up a school?

On St. Patrick's Day, everyone's a little bit Irish. Unless you were actually born in Ireland, as my father taught me by example.

Mike Manville on why Bill Clinton should buy the Red Sox.

On ganja, squats and police brutality in South Africa. Filmmaker Michael Lee reports.

A-Rod can have his 250 million, Mike Manville just wants his 13 hours back.

An open letter to Maxim covergirl and middle-school classmate Tara Reid.

Why use Third World children as prostitutes when you can just sell their organs? Leonardo Calcagno gives you one more reason to hate the new global economy.

A loving review of Matthew Callan's days at Action Park, a death-happy amusement park in Jersey that defied both logic and the survival instinct.

Ten years ago, the City of Destiny was a thriving destination for ambitious young slackers. Moving into 2001, expat Prague is bourgeois, tired and slightly grey. Sy Antonelli watched it happen.

During most of the last decade, baseball has survived--and even thrived--against the odds in Serbia. Alex Zaitchik reports on that interesting intersection of sports and politics.

Like Che in the jungles of Bolivia, Rage has met its end. Dan Sherman respectfully takes a retrospective spit on the warm grave.

One reason why creationism is still popular is because science has failed to plug the holes in its own version of events. Like much of science, the theory of evolution has massive detail in some parts, and huge question marks in others.

It's Olympics time again. Cyanide, anyone?

Alone among advanced industrial nations still practicing state sanctioned murder, the USA is heading for a long overdue identity crisis. Mike Manville holds up the mirror.