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EVENTS — FEATURE Gaining on the Green Man: A Road Odyssey in Four Acts By Ben Oswest [29.Sep.06] :. In an epic cross-hemisphere trek, writer Ben Oswest treads the long road between Cape Town and Wales to consummate a 13-year, 20,000-mile long-distance love affair with the Silver Jews.

TECHNOLOGY — FEATURE Saint Steven By Kristiano Ang [29.Sep.06] :. The legendary career of the Mac and iPod impresario may have culminated on October 12, the day he made online video viable. But what will become of the Cult of Mac now that Apple has become as ubiquitous as McDonald's?

BOOKS — FEATURE Story Just Wrote With Music: Interview with Doug Hoekstra By Nikki Tranter [28.Sep.06] :. "I do believe that, that even when someone is "bothering" the coffee drinkers, you can look around the audience and find folks connecting and digging what he or she is doing, and from those connections, all sorts of good things emerge, immediately or further on down the road."

MUSIC — FEATURE Weather Report: Partly Sunny, Then Showers—Looking Back on the Fusion Supergroup By Will Layman [27.Sep.06] :. A new box set encapsulating the jazz group's career causes our jazz critic to reassess his love-hate relationship with Weather Report.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW Songs of Faith and Struggle: An Interview with Wovenhand By Jennifer Kelly [26.Sep.06] :. Wovenhand's David Eugene Edwards tells PopMatters about his bleak view of humanity, his love of outsized percussion, his fascination with traditional music, and the difficulties of being a devout Christian in the rock world.

TELEVISION — FEATURE Watch The Wire By Jack Reed [26.Sep.06] :. A tidal wave of hype should not dissuade you -- you should care that this HBO drama has returned for its fourth season.

MUSIC — FEATURE Found Genres #2: The Soundtrack to Satan's Life By Bill Gibron [25.Sep.06] :. Not the demonic metal that pleads for the Dark Lord's favor but genuinely tormented music suitable for clearing all but the truly damned from a party.

VISUAL ARTS — FEATURE Packaging Optimism By Barbara Alexandra Szerlip [25.Sep.06] :. Not only were the lives of Andy Warhol and industrial-design pioneer Norman Bel Geddes surprisingly similar, but they seemed to share a mission, to explore the artistry of commercialization.

MUSIC — FEATURE The Dogg, The Doctor, & Death Row By Quentin B. Huff [22.Sep.06] :. By consistently giving us addictive beats and hot lyrics, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg have had an undeniable influence on the world of rhyme. This is dedicated to the rapper and the producer who were down from Day One.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW Danceable Darkness: The World of the Knife By Marc Andreottola [22.Sep.06] :. The Swedish brother-sister electro-duo speaks with PopMatters about concepts, characters, and adapting to the challenges of the music industry.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW Intersections of Musical Directions: An Interview with Keyboard Great Bruce Hornsby By Greg M. Schwartz [21.Sep.06] :. Hornsby looks back on 20 years performing, considering Russian spies, great flukes, and remarkable collaborations.

MUSIC — FEATURE Indie-Rock Stripes By Andre Perry [20.Sep.06] :. Through tour tribulations and member reconfigurations, San Francisco band Film School has endured.

BOOKS — FEATURE Cult Fiction: Ayn Rand, Anais Nin, and the Feminist Backlash By Sady O. [19.Sep.06] :. Nin and Rand were both writers of great force, who dared to take on some of the defining issues of their time, and who refused to sacrifice the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of their thoughts for the relative safety of a party line. In that respect, they both approach the feminist ideal of self-determination and confidence.

MUSIC — FEATURE NOW HEAR THIS!: Kill Hannah By Nona Willis-Aronowitz [19.Sep.06] :. Chicago's hometown modern rock heroes are starting to get some play outside the Windy City, proving that dedication and hard work pays off. And if the same devotion that they've generated in local fans can be instilled in new audiences, then the brand extension is likely to blossom following a new album and tour.

FILM — FEATURE Surround Sound #7 - Souvenir By Bill Gibron [18.Sep.06] :. Back in the days before VCRs and sell-through VHS/DVD titles, a soundtrack was your only tactile souvenir of any entertainment experience. The only real way to relive the moment -- at least in your mind -- was to trot on down to your local record store and pick up the official companion LP.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW The Reluctant Chanteuse By Scott Wright [18.Sep.06] :. Charlotte Gainsbourg talks about the perils of having famous parents and the films that inspired her new album.

TELEVISION — FEATURE Balancing on The Wire: David Simon and America's Forgotten War By Shaun Huston [15.Sep.06] :. The micro and macro storytelling mastery of HBO's The Wire shows the devastating effects creating social policy in the shape of war.

MUSIC — FEATURE How Cigarettes Killed My Youth, and The Killers Made Sure It Was Dead By Emily Thomas [15.Sep.06] :. A requiem for Toronto's Dance Cave, emblematic of underage dance nights everywhere, and the dark 1980s dance music entombed there.

FILM — FEATURE The PopMatters Fall Movie Preview: A Season of Musts By Bill Gibron [14.Sep.06] :. DECEMBER: This is it, the money month. The time in the Fall film season where the box office big guns are revealed and the patina of prestige covers each and every release. [September, October, November, December]

MUSIC — FEATURE NOW HEAR THIS! Casey Kessel: Patiently Biding Her Time... for Now By Roger Holland [14.Sep.06] :. An independent artist in the truest sense of the word, Casey Kessel may call Nashville her home, but she writes and performs country music on her own terms and at her own expense. Kessel's talents may only currently find their way to public ears in the mouths of others, but odds are that situation won't last long.

MUSIC — FEATURE MY FAVORITE THINGS The Semiotics of the Slow Dance: Reflections on the Dance within the Non-Dance By Mark Janka (The Lesser Birds of Paradise [13.Sep.06] :. With the precision of the adult analytical mind, musician Mark Janka takes us back to junior high school dances to study and evaluate the complexities of that most subtle of youthful rituals: the Slow Dance.

SPORTS — FEATURE The Apotheosis of Hulk Hogan By Shawn O'Rourke [12.Sep.06] :. If the sports-as-religion metaphor is accurate, then who is god in the professional wrestling world? While numerous potential candidates exist among the pantheon of wrestling superstars, one name shines a little brighter: Hulk Hogan.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW A Little All Over the Place: An Interview with Anathallo By Dave Brecheisen [11.Sep.06] :. Matt Joynt of Anathallo talks about the band's unusual journey to its finest work to date, Floating World.

MUSIC — FEATURE Crüe'd and Tattüe'd By Adam Williams [8.Sep.06] :. After catching nearly a dozen live dates, PopMatters' Adam Williams explores the rising ranks of a new class of Crüehead.

MUSIC — INTERVIEW Last No Longer: An Interview with Wu-Tang Clan's Masta Killa By Steven J. Horowitz [8.Sep.06] :. "Maybe they thought Masta Killa couldn't even have what it takes to be a solo artist," the rapper says of himself, but he didn't want to rush to prove anyone wrong.

BOOKS — FEATURE Behind Impetus Press: An Interview with Jennifer Banash and Willy Blackmore By Anthony Enns [7.Sep.06] :. "We founded Impetus Press because there are a lot of readers who don't necessarily want to choose exclusively between highbrow and lowbrow, who want serious literary fiction that takes popular culture as its muse." PopMatters talks to publishing house revolutionaries Jennifer Banash and Willy Blackmore.

MUSIC — FEATURE NOW HEAR THIS!: The Little Ones By Jennifer Kelly [7.Sep.06] :. The Little Ones capture the sweet/sad, just beginning and already wistfully nostalgic vibe of perfect power pop. Frontman Ed Reyes talks about his journey from emo Sunday's Best to the hand-clapped, euphorically harmonized Little Ones.

MEDIA — INTERVIEWS Low Road to the High Glossies: An Interview with Freelance Writer Jonathan Miles By Steven Ward [6.Sep.06] :. What a sweet thing that was, to see people reading your words, to hear them bitch and moan, to give them the behind-the-scenes bits and the unverifiable gossip.

MUSIC — INTERVIEWS All Aboard the Mule Train: An Interview with Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes By Greg M. Schwartz [5.Sep.06] :. Are you an entertainer or are you a musician? Warren Haynes discusses the expanding rift between art and entertainment in a climate that champions celebrity over integrity.

MUSIC — INTERVIEWS Between Wars: An Interview with The Flaming Lips By Brian Heater [1.Sep.06] :. Preparing to tour in support of At War With the Mystics, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne discusses politics, drugs and divine intervention.

BOOKS — FEATURE Moby Dick: American Chowder By Sean Murphy [1.Sep.06] :. "Reduced to more practical terms, if Jazz music is gumbo -- and it is -- the archetypal American novel, with Moby Dick as its progenitor and arguably its apotheosis, is a chowder." Sean Murphy takes a new look at an old classic.

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