May 2003 Archives
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Stories
The Miracle of Dust
Marjorie had a perfectly functional, model family in the suburbs, until the Blessed Face of Holy Mother Mary appeared on her television. New fiction by Dennis Mahoney.
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Letters From the Editor
A Mental Glimpse
Imagine an old stock machine, with the ticker tape spitting out the side: this, then, is my brain right now: wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding work wedding cheeseburgers wedding wedding...
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New York, New York
It Must’ve Been Something I Hate
New Yorkers judge each other every day, but some days they get to do it in court! The dating pool of voir dire and the other joys of jury duty.
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Gallery
The World’s Largest Rattlesnake Round Up
Only in Texas would rounding up 120 tons of western diamondback rattlesnakes sound fun. Photographer Geoffrey Badner heads to Sweetwater for the beheadings.
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Personalities
Washington Gothic
Within the halls of Washington, D.C., lurks a stench of unsolved crimes, muttering highwaymen, and altogether strange behavior. Our writer peers into the capital’s dark corners.
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Listening
Mercury Rev, Deserter’s Songs
I’ve long held a belief in the twin, astral spirits of Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips. Maybe it’s not real, but I’ve always perceived this direct...
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Opinions
Unloading on The Matrix Reloaded
The first Matrix was cool, but this new one needed a bit more work before they let it out of the gate. An open letter to the Wachowski brothers.
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Wedding Guide
Part I, 15 Fights to Have Before You Get Engaged
If you’re the couple that never fights, now’s your chance. Vent now, or forever hold your peace.
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Letters From the Editor
Finding The Cure
We are clouds / and terrible things happen in clouds.– Dean Young It’s been a hard winter and spring for almost everyone I know. A lot of my friends and...
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Personalities
To Tell You the Truth
As the journalism world feeds on its own frenzy, SARAH HEPOLA confronts an intimate past with exposed Times fabricator Jayson Blair, and her own history of exaggeration.
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Opinions
Mess With the Bull, You’ll Get the Horns
The hazing at Glenbrook North High School and that other story about disregard for journalistic propriety can find judgment in the college classroom.
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New York Diary
Eating With Harley Spiller
SARS be damned: a search for the perfect dumpling in New York’s Chinatown, guided through eight restaurants in two hours by the man known as Inspector Collector.
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Letters From the Editor
You Are My Best Friendster
Um, Friendster? No, I haven’t heard of it. Oh, I see. Well, obviously this is just some online dating thing. I don’t get it – why do...
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Gallery
The Vanishing Act
Normal evening routine: Your sister goes to her room, closes the door, and falls asleep. Normal, that is, until you never see her again. New fiction by Kevin Fanning, illustrated by Joshua Allen.
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Personalities
Seven Steps to the Perfect Mix
We know it’s ill-advised to drop Blonde Redhead next to word jazz, but our mixes are still hopeless. Jennifer Conrad talks with Isaac Green of the StarTime International record label about putting together the best mix tape ever.
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Personalities
Selections From My Most Wanted
The U.S. printed the 55 most-wanted Iraqis on a deck of cards to enable both easy apprehension and quick games of rummy. But its villains aren’t the only ones on the loose. JOHN WARNER deals a more personal hand.
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Gallery
They All Became New York
There are a million stories in the naked city, and here are four of them. The Cross Atlantic Report, a group of four photographers spread across the globe, present a gallery of a time when they were all together in New York.
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Personalities
Walking the Rx Red Carpet
Where do you get the scoop on the drug industry’s hot new products? Why, at the Rx spring show, that’s where! Our writer makes nice with the celebrated followers of pharmaceuticals.
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Personalities
Page Daze
Low-rung employees at Saturday Night Live may not make Lorne’s salary, but they do get to hobnob with the weird and wonderful. Former page ALAN BAIRD looks back on the Belushi days.
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Opinions
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Psychoanalysis in literature is old hat, but there were days when it was new. Returning to Mary McCarthy to see which neuroses still ring true.