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Spokespeople For The Little Wheels
by By Linton Weeks, in Washington Post, Jul 31, 2001.
In the media age, flacks have found their voice.

An Amazing Journey
by By Roger Simon and Angie Cannon, in U.S. News, 6 Aug, 2001.
The mirror of the census reveals the character of a nation.

Bad Writers Never Had It So Good
by By Carlos Tejada, in Wall Street Journal, Jul 30, 2001.
Bad writers never had it so good. Largely thanks to increased exposure on the Internet, prices for their works have been rising.

E-book Outcast
by By M.J. Rose, in Salon, Jul 30, 2001.
The Web made me a successful author, but getting people to respect me as a "real writer" has been harder to come by.

Why Don't Men And Women Play Golf Together?
by By Charles McGrath, in New York Times, Jul 29, 2001.
The truth is, there is no sport in which men and women are able to compete more equally, thanks to golf's handicap system, which renders all players potentially equal, and to the placement of forward (or ladies') tees at most clubs, so that male and female drives wind up in more or less the same place.

Fellini Was Simply Mad About 'Satyricon'
by By Roger Ebert, in Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 27, 2001.
Roger Ebert visited the set of "Fellini Satyricon" in 1969 and wrote this interview with Federico Fellini.

A Revelation That Took Two Decades
by By Kenneth Turan, in Los Angeles Times, Jul 29, 2001.
The re-cut "Apocalypse Now" plays in a way the original never did. The passage of time amplifies the power of the 1979 Vietnam epic.

This Way, Please
by By Ylan Q. Mui, in Washington Post, Jul 27, 2001.
From passing the plate to calming the crowd, ushers discover there's method in their mission.

How To Bait A Mousetrap
by By Paul Belden, in Asiaweek, Jul 27, 2001.
Hong Kong hopes Disneyland can revive its tourism industry. But an offshoot of China's biggest travel firm plans to entice thousands of mainlanders to spend most of their yuan in Shenzhen.

Back To The Bad Old Days
by By Patience Wheatcroft, in The Times, Jul 26, 2001.
Too young to remember the three-day week? What about negative equity? Well, they spelt recession for past generations, and now the R-word is being whispered again.

Making Provisions For Sky-High Dining
by By Elinor Klivans, in Washington Post, Jul 25, 2001.
Rather than continuing to complain about the state of, or absence of, food in the sky, I always take along something good to eat.

Happy Birthday, Miss Welty
by By Kate Moses, in Salon, Apr 13, 1999.
Eudora Welty, dead at 92, was an unmarried, childless woman who spent her entire life living in the home of her parents — and became one of America's greatest short story writers.

Murphy's Law: Running Of The Fools
by By Austin Murphy, in Sports Illustrated, Jul 23, 2001.
One ingredient of Greek drama is the inevitability of tragedy. It need not be so in the great outdoors.

Java Man
by By Malcolm Gladwell, in The New orker, Jul 23, 2001.
How caffeine created the modern world.

The Public Will Play A Part In The Future Of Newspapers
by By Alan Lupo, in Boston Globe, Jul 22, 2001.
Over the years, I have had many occasions to ask the question - what good is a newspaper?

The End Of The World As We Knew It
by By Brennen Jensen, in Baltimore City Paper, Jul 18, 2001.
Taking a tour of cold war Baltimore.

ER Survival
by By Joanna Coles, in The Times, Jul 23, 2001.
The horror of watching a loved one sliced open may be so traumatic that relatives could need treatment themselves.

Cabbage Fever
by By Jonathan Reynolds, in New York Times, Jul 22, 2001.
Next to the turnip, the cabbage is probably the most reviled vegetable in the Western world.

The Incredible Vanishing Book Review
by By Kevin Berger, in Salon, Jul 19, 2001.
In the age of market research, newspaper editors have decreed that their readers just don't care about books.

Nothing Personal: Nice Rebound!
by By Amy Reiter, in Salon, Jul 18, 2001.
Penelope Cruz and Tom Cruise admit to dating; Minnie Driver denies tension with Streisand. Plus: Eminem's ex busted for drugs; and Iggy Pop demands dressing room dwarves!

The Disappearing Comic Book
by By Glenn Gaslin, in Los Angeles Times, Jul 17, 2001.
Superheroes reign on screen, but in print they face a mighty foe: apathy.

American Style From The 60's Captures New Imaginations
by By Guy Trebay, in New York Times, Jul 17, 2001.
Style, whether casual or otherwise, is increasingly the face of globalism, surface evidence of the mysterious subterranean movement of markets.

Fright Nights
by By Nancy Franklin, in The New Yorker, Jul 16, 2001.
After watching several hours of "Fear Factor" and "Spy TV," I just don't know who NBC is anymore.

The Silent Treatment
by By Robert Kurson, in Chicago Magazine, Jul, 2001.
Her show has made Oprah Winfrey the most famous woman in the world. In the early years she was open and accessible to the public and the media. But burned and blindsided by former employees and the press, and a target of the tabloids, the queen of talk has learned to clam up and clamp down, protecting that priceless brand — herself.

Spokesaurus Terribilis!
by By Carina Chocano, in Salon, Jul 16, 2001.
Behold the great postmodern two-headed monster, the spokesperson-client: Both mouths move — out comes surrealism.

A Do-It-Yourself 'Star Wars'
by By J. Hoberman, in New York Times, Jul 15, 2001.
"The Phantom Edit" is predicated largely on hatred of Jar Jar, a rabbit-eared ambulatory lizard whose pidgin English oscillates between crypto-Caribbean patois and Teletubby gurgle.

The Gibraltar Of Wessex
by By Nigel Richardson, in The Telegraph, Jul 15, 2001.
All you need to take to the lighthouse: a pair of binoculars, and The Oxford Book of the Sea. Actually you won't even need binoculars.

Frames Of Mind
by By Frank Ahrens, in Washington Post, Jul 15, 2001.
Take sides in the new century: Are you flush with success or more drawn to despair?

His Brother's Keeper
by By Serge f. Kovaleski, in Washington Post, Jul 15, 2001.
When David Kaczynski let the FBI know that his older brother might be the Unabomber, he knew he was doing the right thing. But it's still hard to live with.

Quorn: 'Meat' From Mushrooms
by By Carole Sugarman, in Washington Post, Jul 11, 2001.
It has a Zelig-like quality, taking on the appearance and taste of whatever meat it's supposed to be copying.

Youth Is Served
by By June Thomas, in Slate, Jul 11, 2001.
What's behind tennis' adolescent revolution? Shouldn't game experience and physical maturity count for something on the court?

Ambitious 24-Year-Old Pushes Plan To Buy Salon And Turn It Into A Clearinghouse For Other Publications
by By Gerg Lindsay, in Inside.com, Jul 11, 2001.
When your stock price hits 13 cents, you'd be surprised who comes out of the woodwork with big plans. Bhu Srinivasan, ex-CEO of ThinkView and a veteran of Infospace, wants to slash the staff and substitute high-brow syndicated material.

How Critical Are Critics To The Industry?
by By Brian Lowry, in Los Angeles Times, Jul 11, 2001.
To the best of anyone's knowledge, nobody has bothered to fabricate a TV critic lately, though there are executives convinced the Washington Post's Tom Shales was dreamed up by a modern-day adherent of the Marquis de Sade.

The New Face Of Loyalty
by By Roxanne Roberts, in Washington Post, Jul 11, 2001.
In an age of free agents and divorce, we are true to ourselves.

A Bit Of Tuscany, All Over The World
by By Marian Burros, in New York Times, Jul 11, 2001.
Here in America, chefs are waking up to the possibilities this timeless classic presents, taking their ideas (and the basic ingredients) from Mediterranean countries. And, of course, adding their own spin.

Surly? They Jest.
by By David Segal, in Washington Post, Jul 8, 2001.
Rock stars have reason to smile. It's just uncool to grin and share it.

Hey, Gorgeous, Here's A Raise!
by By Steven E. Landsburg, in Slate, Jul 9, 2001.
As for you fatties, we're cutitng your salaries.

Me-Zine Journalism For Fun And (Sometimes) Profit
by By Alex Kuczynski, in New York Times, Jul 9, 2001.
Mr. Kaus is just one participant in a growing journalism format now known as the "me-zine," electronic magazines that feature the opinions of one man or one woman, writing alone, often late at night and often wearing pajamas, and indulging in the opinionated wordplay they all went into print journalism for and now find is much more fun ó and sometimes profitable, however slightly ó on the Internet.

Crass Customers, Vanishing Comforts Irk High-fliers
by By Kitty Bean Yancey, in USA Today, Jul 6, 2001.
First class isn't what it used to be.

Windows 1900
by By Judith Martin, in Washington Post, Jul 8, 2001.
Progress has given us a world in which the polite person refrains from uttering anything that is not strictly accurate, fresh and circumspect. But it has also given us something to take up the time formerly spent in spontaneous chatter. It has given us computer games.

It's Only Rhyming Quatrains, But I Like It: Do Songs Succeed As Poetry
by By John Leland, in New York Times, Jul 8, 2001.
The worst of the fighting has long been settled. Poetry is thriving — on the Internet, in slams and public readings — but for most of us, song lyrics now do the work of modern verse: they organize the truths that rattle around in our skulls.

Mean Cuisine
by By Greg Critser, in Washington Monthly, Jul/Aug 2001.
Gone is the Joy of Cooking. Today's celebrity chefs are serving up a menu of global doom and politically twisted snobbery.

Sober
by By jim Atkinson, in Texas Monthly, Jul 2001.
More than a decade ago I wrote about the virtues of the drinking life and the comforts of what I called a "bar bar." Then I hit rock bottom.

Welcome To Pottersville?
by By Alejandro Reyes, in Asiaweek, Jul 4, 2001.
Hong Kong isn't the free-market showcase many think it is.

On Board The Bombay Express: A Rolling Feast Of India
by By Shoba Narayan, in New York Times, Jul 4, 2001.
The most important thing when travelling by train in India is not whether you have a seat in first class (more comfortable) or second class (more congenial), not whether you have confirmed tickets or even your destination. The most important thing is the size of your neighbor's tiffin carrier, the Indian lunchbox.

Mommy Undearest
by By Sally Satel, in Slate, Jul 3, 2001.
Yates represents nature's aberration as a mother, but also a rather textbook example of postpartum psychosis.

Not So Elementary, My Dear Watson
by By Marcel Berlins, in The Times, Jun 30, 2001.
Let's face it, Sherlock Holmes wasn't very good. His methods of detection veered from the merely unscientific to the ludicrous. Yet more than a century after his creation in 1887, Holmes is still the only fictional detective with an international reputation.

What Are Friends For?
by By Ken Gross, in New York Times, Jul 1, 2001.
This whole business of friendship is growing murky in an age of sentimental overload and politically correct vapors.