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Nirvana: Missing the Comfort in Being Sad

by Nathan Hall
Published November 21, 2002

He has a "new" hit song on radio stations around the world and the corresponding music video is consistently one of MTV's most requested. He's the subject of not one, but two best-selling books. He's got...

Backseat Driver

by Monica LaBelle
Published November 21, 2002

An adult man and a teenage girl share the stage. He is teaching her how to drive and she is listening attentively. Their exchange seems to become flirtatious, but that just does not seem right since he...

Unquiet Riot

by Kari Petrie
Published November 21, 2002
Pearl Jam: "Riot Act" (Alternative Tentacles Records)

Noticing How Bad Things Really Are

by Brianna Riplinger
Published November 14, 2002

For all of us bleeding-heart-liberal college students who have been in a blurry haze of depression, frustration and rage for the past few weeks sparked by Sen. Paul Wellstone's death and prolonged by the...

Viva Villa!

by Amy Danielson
Published November 14, 2002

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 in the state of Chihuahua as peasants reacted to elevated food prices and exploitation by affluent landowners. Revolutionaries elected Pancho Villa as their First Commander,...

Playing “Telephone” with Shakespeare

by Nathan Hall
Published November 14, 2002

Losing things in translation can be very funny sometimes. The transference of dialects often devolves the original author's meaning into one big game of "telephone," as anyone who has compared the Dead...

Interstate Men of Mystery

by Nathan Hall
Published November 14, 2002

Everything anyone thinks they know about The Residents ought to preface it with the phrase "alleged." In stark contrast to our celebrity-obsessed times, these mysterious avant-garde jokers cloak themselves...

Insane in the Membrane

by Nathan Hall
Published November 7, 2002

Odds are a crazy person is part of your life. I'm not talking somewhat moody or mildly bipolar, but barking-at-the-fire-hydrant-and-drooling-while-eating-raw-macaroni insane. Perhaps this person asks you...

He Drives Me Crazy

by Monica LaBelle
Published November 7, 2002

Jevetta Steele must be a masochist. For the past two weekends, she has repeatedly enacted one of the most painful and personal parts of her life to an audience of hundreds. In a voice that's stronger than...

There’s Still Room for Jello

by Nathan Hall
Published November 7, 2002

By all accounts, it appears that the 44-year-old ex-Dead Kennedy front man Jello Biafra needs a hug or three. His indie label Alternative Tentacles is financially strapped after bitter ex-band mates successfully...

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