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Volume III, Issue 48 May 22 - May 29, 2000

News & Opinion

If the West wants to sell the concept of democracy without cynicism, it had better care about what happens to places like East Timor, writer/director John Sayles reports. Everyone in Washington is digesting the latest punditry concerning George W. Bush's possible vice-presidential running mates. Thirty years ago, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the appearance of President Nixon at a Billy Graham rally sparked anti-war protests. Also, getting tickets when there aren't any, the implications of global warming, and more. News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

You're bound to find something to get excited about in our Summer 2000 cinema preview. The latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen is an episodic yarn that features escaped convicts on a seriocomic journey through 1930s Mississippi. Disney's "Dinosaur" roared into the nation's movie houses this weekend. Does triumphant animation merge with cartoon voices and a slim story line? Also, reviews of Woody Allen's new "Small Time Crooks," the videos of Chris Elliot, and more. This week in Film & TV Battlefield Earth(1) Battlefield Earth(2) Beyond the Clouds The Big Kahuna Center Stage Dinosaur Held Up Road Trip Screwed Small Time Crooks(1) Small Time Crooks(2) Up at the Villa PLUS TV Eye and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

The Clash homed in on their concerns like sharpshooters, articulating much more clearly than the latter-day hardcore bands or the muddle cooked up by hippies with punk haircuts. Knoxville's most storied band, road warriors of some 500 shows and three albums spanning over a decade, defunct now for the last seven years, together again. Rhino's new diskdedicated to the delights of barbecue is also packed with lots of juicy information. Plus, comparing the latest Veruca Salt album with the new one from former frontwoman Nina Gordon, Nashville musicians who don't follow the mainstream, and more. This week in Music The Clash(1) The Clash(2) The Clash(3) Nina Gordon Smokin Dave and the Dopes Veruca Salt PLUS I Love Bar-B-Q Songs of Self and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	Little Engines That Can Better Than Myths Strange Museums Online One Of Their Own Triumph in River City and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

Books

Summer is often the time for light reading, but life's too short to waste on disposable literature, so check out some of these titles. George Saunders isn't interested in the way things are in real time, but he is interested in the internal skeleton, the spiritual truth below the truth. Two new books of photographs celebrate the joys of sex with differing results. One is a bare-skin memoir of old girlfriends, the other just a step below porn. Plus Carl Hiaasen's latest, and more. Books contents page

	Comics
	Come down from your Staggering Heights and get to the Red Meat of the matter with this swell set of cartoons that also includes K. Rat and Random Shots. Comics contents page Visit the official Red Meat site

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