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Best Music of 2000
BY POPMATTERS MUSIC CRITICS
After two relatively weak years with few truly great albums, 2000 was a major rebound year. The Billboard 200 charts in the US were littered with plenty of dreck as always, but beyond that, there was a rich offering of phenomenonal new music, particularly in the genres of indie rock, alt.country, and hip-hop.
[end of year 2000]
Best Film & TV of 2000
BY POPMATTERS FILM AND TV CRITICS
Which leads us to conclude: there's always good stuff out there, you just have to be open to it. Except, perhaps, if you're trying to cast a countable vote in Florida.
[end of year 2000]
I Can Sing a Rainbow: Towards a Sensible Music
BY CHRIS SAUNDERS
According to Coldplay, recently lofted bafflingly high in the UK charts, 'It was all yellow'. Quite what it was and how it came to be yellow are not specified, although several unsavoury suggestions come to mind by the time of the fourth hearing of this song (ingeniously entitled 'Yellow').
[11 November 2000]
Purple Haze, Swoopy Maze: EMP in Review
BY LINDA S. WATTS
All the fanfare in the world won't tell you what it's like to visit a museum. Seattle's Experience Music Project (EMP) had all the publicity imaginable as it opened its doors in June 2000, and the claims were as hyperbolic as the Gehry-designed building it occupies.
[28 September 2000]
Bigger and Bigger: Toronto International Film Festival 2000
BY MARK HAYWARD
Now that the 2000 Festival is over, there are still a few posters up, but most signs of it have been swept away by the street-cleaning crews. Some of the stars have gone home or wherever they go.
[27 September 2000]
Notting Hill Carnival 2000
BY TOBIAS MARCHINGTON
The last weekend of August has meant one thing and one thing only to Londoners for thirty-six years, the Notting Hill Carnival. This street party is the largest in Europe and second only to the Rio Carnival in the world. What began as a festival designed to bring cohesion, celebration and hope to the disenfranchised black communities of 1960s London has evolved into a huge multi-cultural arts spectacle.
[2 September 2000]
She Just Takes Pictures: Interview with Roberta Bayley
BY CHARLOTTE ROBINSON
As the door person at CBGB and photographer for Punk magazine, Roberta Bayley was one of the first to document the '70s punk scene in pictures.
[30 August 2000]
London: The Urban Plastic Utterance
BY CHRIS SAUNDERS
Maybe now that London has a Mayor — Ken Livingstone, a real Londoner who, despite his love of newts, has not an eel about him — the city will regain a little bit of civic pride and consign these pantomime Cockneys to our fevered collective memory.
[4 July 2000]
Stars In Newport
BY RAHUL GAIROLA
The third annual Newport International Film Festival transformed the quiet seaside city of Newport, Rhode Island, into a kind of media storm from June 6 to 11.
[4 July 2000]
24 hours live - the new cyborgs: Cyberculture and Women's Webcams
BY WES LEE
What is so exciting about an unmade bed? And not just one unmade bed but thousands across the globe sitting in empty rooms alongside empty chairs and the tattered remains of last nights parties. These are some of the sights that have become addictive to the many people who regularly view 24 hour live Webcam sites on the Net.
[7 June 2000]
My Jewel
BY THOMAS SWISS
In 1998, recording artist Jewel (Kilcher) released a book of poems, a night without armor, through HarperCollins.... Jewel's 87-poem collection eventually became one of the best-selling books of the year, selling more than 432,000 copies.
[30 May 2000]
Memories of the Family Vacation at Gayworld
BY MOLLY MCCLOY AND KAT IUDICELLO
I was hanging out with my ex that night. We were talking about how amazing it was to see queer folks holding hands and walking arm-in-arm down Pennsylvania Avenue. Women were kissing women. Men were kissing men. Nobody noticed.
[13 May 2000]
South by Southwest 2000
BY THOMAS SWISS
[15 March 2000]
The Distance Between Them and Me
BY ERIC GARDNER
At aproximately 11:50 p.m. and for less than a second, television viewers tuned to CBS could see me on the tube sitting in the front row of David Letterman's audience that night. And how did I achieve my fifteen milliseconds of fame?
[3 March 2000]
The Comic Strip Moves to the Suburbs: Settling For Less & Loving It!
BY JOE GALLO
Growing up in the suburbs wasn't as deadly as my friends and I assumed. At best it was safe, and at worst it was boring. My neighborhood was filled with aspiring Blondies and Dagwoods, clotting their life's blood with knickknackery, soulless trophies, and the latest gizmos.
[3 March 2000]
The Clash: From Here to Eternity
BY JIMMY SMITH
Sometime in October of '98 I received an angry email from a woman who was clearly upset. She recounted, in somewhat broken English, long flirtations in chat rooms and promises of more to come, and how my long silence had been troubling to her.
[7 February 2000]
I Never Promised You an Identity: E-love and the End of Intimacy
BY PETER BEBERGAL
Sometime in October of '98 I received an angry email from a woman who was clearly upset. She recounted, in somewhat broken English, long flirtations in chat rooms and promises of more to come, and how my long silence had been troubling to her.
[17 January 2000]
Being Lara Croft, or, We Are All Sci Fi
BY MIKE WARD
Now that Eidos Interactive has come out with another iteration of the long-standing Tomb Raider series — just in time for Christmas, too, ensuring that legions of Lara fans will spend the balance of their winter months dully stimulated and largely unproductive — this might be a good time to look into Lara Croft's skyrocketing status as a sex symbol.
[14 January 2000]
Progressive History: A Year with the King Crimson Collectors' Club
BY AXEL BRUNS
King Crimson have never been known for playing things by the book — rather, they'd write the book first, in their own set of glyphs, play by it, and then switch to a different language at the first opportunity.
[1 January 2000]
