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WELCOME
TO URANUS
Space tourism is
ready to book you beyond the beyond
NICE
BUZZ
The beekeeper's
quest for honey transcends commerce. It's an epicurean obsession,
like home brewing or breeding orchids.
READY
TO RUN
Training for a
marathon is 90 percent perspiration, 10 percent lunacy
RANT
& RAVE
Why the electronica
scene is still getting a bad rap
EUROPEAN
BABECATION
How regular men
can become James Bond--if they're willing to pony up at least $50,000
for a Supermodel Vacation
CRUELEST
YEARS
For "fags" and
other outcasts, high school can be a living hell
BLOODBATH
For Vanessa Tiegs,
menstrual blood isn't something to be flushed away. Among other
significant uses, it's a good source of paint.
HEY,
PEZ GUY!
Enter the eye-popping
world of Steve Baker's candy-colored obsession
PUTTING
ON THE DOGS
Can music really
soothe your crazy canine?
PATH
OF THE GODDESS
A shadowy Las Vegas
pagan group goes public for the first time
BRASS
IN POCKET
Coin collecting
rates as a rock-solid investment
GUCCI
HOOCHIE?
Apparently, there
are enough out-of-shape vaginas in California to keep "vaginal rejuvenation"
surgeons in business
CIVIL
WAR ASSERTION
A member of Sons
of Confederate Veterans makes a case for remembering black Confederates
OUT
OF THE WILDERNESS
Jewish converts
are sprouting across the American heartland
LUNARGATE!
Anxieties about
monolithic social institutions controlling information lie at the
core of conspiracy theories claiming the Apollo moon landings faked
MUSCLES
& MORALITY
"Priest Turned
Beast" Michael Francois brings his faith to the Arnold Classic
VINYL
ANSWER
Cutting records
the good old way for the cognoscenti
THE
Z LIST
There are all the
entertainers you have heard of, and then there are the elderly Z-listers
who now call Vegas home and still cling to the dream
WHAT
ABOUT BOB?
The Church of the
SubGenius seeks to save your Slack
FRANKENKOSHER
A growing movement
within the Jewish community fears that genetically engineered food
is a threat to their health--and their faith
MEET
CAPTAIN MYSTIC
He's a psychic
who only wants to help. Get ready for his phone call.
TAPPING
THE TAPPERS
Shortwave radio
remains the best way to communicate secret information over great
distances. Which means you can listen in to the spy numbers game.
WEIRD
SCIENCES
Inside the mind
of Dr. Jack Sarfatti, a leader of the controversial New Physics
movement
THE
CLOWN'S CLOWN
Meet Earl Chaney,
leader of the rubber-nose pack
SPRINGTIME
IN SERBIA
A story of baseball's
improbable survival in a war-torn country
WHY
DON'T YOU PAY THE GIRL?
Exotic dancers
sue for employee rights
GET
YOUR DOSHAS IN BALANCE
Exploring Ayurveda,
a complete holistic approach that integrates healing through the
elements
LOVE
HURTS
If yours doesn't,
maybe an adult store can help
VIRGIN
GUNSLINGERS
Want to live in
this Southern Utah town? You'd better get a gun. It's the law.
ACCESS
STILL DENIED
The ups and downs
of the disability culture
LIVE
LONG & DIE OUT
Is the Voluntary
Human Extinction Movement just a big joke?
DRAG
RACES
It takes a real
man to fill a woman's shoes
ON
A LIGHTER NOTE
Music therapy scores
great gains for a variety of needs
BAD-BOY
YOGA
Forget peaceful
and serene. Ashtanga yoga provides a vigorous, heart-pumping workout.
THE
UNITED NATIONS OF BOXING
An up-and-coming
fighter from Nepal represents the new face of pugilism
NEW
AGE VS. OLD AGE
The inspiration
for modern energy healing is found in beliefs from the past
ALT.HEALTHCARE
A beginner's guide
to holistic healing
INTO
THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Traipsing through
an abandoned mental hospital with a gang of "urban explorers"
BRIT
BET
Las Vegas has plenty
of mad dogs, and it's also home to 30,000 Englishmen
EXERCISING
FREEDOM
Falun Gong practitioners
around the world organize to protest China's suppression of a meditative
spiritual movement
HE
SEES DEAD PEOPLE
Psychic Tana Hoy
believes that helping his clients communicate with the deceased
will lead him down the path of fame
TRICKS
OF THE TRADE
In praise of sorcery
MULLET
OVER
Can rejection of
a bad hairstyle be the rallying cry of a generation?
QUEER
RITES NOW
A brief history
of the Radical Faeries
JUST
CREW IT
A previously landlocked
writer learns the joys of sculling
THE
WAY OF FLOWERS
Lessons for life
from the ancient Japanese art of ikebana
TOMORROW'S
NEWS TODAY
Psychics take on
2001
TURNING
THE WHEEL OF BUDDHIST TEACHINGS
The controversy
swirling around Falun Gong has done more to increase interest in
the fledgling practice than any high-paid advertising campaign
ART
FOR THE AGES
One man constructs
a reasonable facsimile of Stonehenge in his backyard
CAPTAIN
CHESAPEAKE
Taking an unsentimental
journey with Baltimore's last independent tugboat skipper
WEED
BEATER
Follow the hemp-powered
car as it tours North America
REDEMPTION
ON WHEELS
"Riders for God"
documents the spiritual quest of former motorcycle gang members,
but are Christian readers ready for this gritty story?
MANNY
POWER
It's not easy being
a male nanny
ALL
MY ROWDY FRIENDS
A day in the lives
of playoff-rabid football fans
OVERWHELMED
BY THE WORLD
Highly sensitive
people--20 percent of the population--need a regular exit from life
in the fast lane
THEY'RE
HEEEERE
For some tortured
souls, meeting the dead is the answer
O,
HAVANA!
Watching the cops
in Cuba
ENDGAME
IMPOSSIBLE
The online game
Everquest is tremendously successful. It's also seriously addicting.
THE
CRITTER MAN
Who you gonna call
when things start going bump in the night?
COUNTER
SPACE
Blunt truths behind
the counter of a 24-hour restaurant
WHITE-HOT
CHRISTMAS
"Surfing Santa,"
sunglasses and sweat. Welcome to Xmas in Australia
FROM
BEIJING TO MOSCOW
Six days on the
Trans-Siberian railway
WOMAN,
STUDIED
She teaches queer
theory and women's studies in Utah--and students love her for it
AIMING
FOR THE END ZONE
The National Women's
Football League stakes its claim to the gridiron
ON
YOUR WAVELENGTH
A hands-on guide
to the human energy field
POETRY
IN BRICK & MUD
For 50 years, Laurie
Baker has drawn upon India's traditional architecture to create
buildings that are affordable, beautiful and energy efficient
VIRTUAL
PUFFERY
Legal designer
drugs muscle into the hash market via the Internet
MARRIAGE
MEETS MODEM
The tangled Web
of arranged marriage in 21st-century India
CHERYL
STEARNS IS BRAVER THAN YOU
With nearly 14,000
parachute jumps under her belt, she has collected more world records
than a bus full of East German shot putters
DANCER
IN THE DARK
He wandered into
a bondage-themed nightclub seeking good music and walked out with
a job as a dancer
OVERCOMING
SECRET SHAME
Women who gave
up children for adoption reach out to offer other birth mothers
support
THE
TRUTH IS WAY OUT THERE
It isn't easy to
resist aliens in Roswell
NIGHT
EYES
Puzzling out what
a dream might mean is hard enough. But there's a deeper question:
What does it want?
NO
STRINGS ATTACHED
Artists find new
inspiration in the ageless craft of puppetry
THEY
ROLL! THEY SCORE!
The goal of wheelchair
hockey is fun, but the competition is fierce
SATURDAY-NIGHT
SINATRAS
Karaoke crooners
grab their four minutes of fame
QUEER
CONVERSION
Fundamentalist
religious organizations claim to be able to "convert" homosexuals
through "the healing love of Jesus Christ"
PLAYING
THE RACE CARD
A new board game
called Life As a BlackMan deals with racial issues in an accessible
and entertaining way
EXPAT
PRAGUE TURNS GREY
Ten years ago,
the City of Destiny was a thriving destination for ambitious young
slackers. Moving into 2001, expat Prague is bourgeois and tired.
CALLING
ALL CHROME DOMES
Bald pride has
arrived
TEACH
YOUR CHILDREN WELL?
Homeschoolers claim
their kids are happy, well-adjusted and intellectually stimulated.
But some homeschools look more like playtime than education.
ODD
COMPANY
The spooky vaudevillians
of the Oddvillian Sideshow take center stage
THE
LAST WORD
How a group of
Montana teachers saved the Blackfeet language from extinction
CZECHS
JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN
It's Saturday night
in Prague, and hundreds of people are united in their love for an
American song
DOWN
& DIRTY
Caving: An introduction
BEHIND
THE WHEELS
Rollerskating is
on thin ice these days--and that's a damn shame
TOUCH
MY MONKEY
Animal trainer
Lisa Whiteaker loves monkeys--a lot
THE
WET SPOT
A showdown simmers
over one city's new topless car wash
THRIFTING
USA
Competing in the
Thrift Store Olympics
MOOD
BARS & OTHER TREATS
Can you nosh your
way to health?
GIMME
AN X!
XFL cheerleader
tryouts can be a kick
BELLY
HIGH
There's more spirituality
than sexuality in the traditional art of belly dancing
PARTY
PLANIMAL
Meet the party
planner to Silicon Valley's stars
PRETTY
VACANT
Punk style charges
back into the spotlight, but is it too mainstream to matter?
STILLWATER
AFTERNOON
Living the good
life on a sailboat at anchor
INTO
HOOPS
The comeback of
hoop earrings proves that fashion trends are truly circular
TRUE
GRIT
Sweating through
one week of a "military style" workout
SIDESHOW
MOB
Visit a Coney Island
freak show for Halloween
VIAGRA
IN THAILAND
For 30-plus years
the Thai beach resort of Pattaya has ranked as one of the sleaziest
corners of Asia, a sexual Disneyland for foreign men
YO,
BEER MAN!
Memoir of a Yankee
Stadium vendor
THE
WILD ONES
The Exotic Feline
Rescue Center is a haven for abused lions, tigers and cougars
EXCESSIVE
CELEBRATION?
Hanging out in
football tailgating land
STRIP
MAUL
Women just love
a man in uniform--especially when he takes it off
SPECIAL
K
The real joys of
keeping a scorecard at baseball games lie in what isn't written
BARBARIANS
ON THE LAWN
Backyard wrestlers
take their violent obsession outdoors
LETTING
IT ALL HANG OUT
He recounts his
four hours as a nudist wannabe
DHARMA
& GREED
Popular Buddhism
meets the American dream
FRESH
AIR ON TAP
Sucking it up at
an oxygen bar
BANDERAMA
Are rubber-band
balls the ultimate collectors' item?
ROTTEN
ROOTS
The U.S., Nazis
& The CIA
WHERE
THE BUFFALO STILL ROAM
Behind the scenes
at Montana's annual bison roundup
BURNED
BY THE MAN
Burning Man's new
police state
SKATEBOARDING
IS NOT A CRIME
Some say skateboarding
has gone mainstream, but it's been part of youth culture for quite
some time
UNCONVENTIONAL
TREATMENT
Alternative medicine
fights for respect
TRUE
BELIEVERS
Christian environmentalists
crusade for an ecological revival
THE
SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS
Meet an artist
who changes his gallery every few days
THE
BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
Street gangs from
the 1960s rumble in for a reunion
STICKS
& STONES
Building with salvaged
materials can save dollars, help the environment and make an artistic
statement
PUSHERS
& PUMPERS
Get on track with
railroad handcar racers
PRAY
& PLAY
It's Christ vs.
the courts on the playing fields of Mississippi
PEDAL
TO THE MEDAL
Truckers duke it
out with sponge, rag and polish to see who's got the prettiest big
rig
TOKYO
TACKY
Beneath the sheets
of a Japanese love hotel
ASTROLOGICAL
PHENOMENON
Free Will Astrologer
Rob Brezsny writes weekly love letters to 10 million worldwide
MAKING
A SPLASH
Want to celebrate
life, liberty and the pursuit of nudity? Look no further than Coney
Island's notorious Mermaid Parade.
GAY
SUBTEXTING
Homoerotic fan
fiction focuses on every science fiction series you can think of,
and many non-SF ones as well
TOUGH
AS NAILS
Quirky neighborhood
hardware stores refuse to be left in Home Depot's sawdust
HAIR
APPARENT
Is the mullet cut
headed for extinction?
DIVINING
MADNESS
Dowsers bring the
ancient practice of water witching into the brave New Age
GRATEFUL
DEAD AHEAD
Five years after
Jerry Garcia's death, the long, strange trip rolls on
MODERN-DAY
OLIVER TWISTS
Inside the world of credit-card heist gangs
LAZER
TAGGED
Zapping back in time at a rundown arcade
BIG
TOP, KOKO-BOP
African-American-owned and operated UniverSoul Circus gives a new
flavor to an old formula
JUGGLER
VEIN
Tossing about with a juggling club
SING
IT PROUD
The karaoke experience has become an artform for those who transcend
their stage fright via liquid courage
A
(VERY) SHORT WALK SPOILED
Mini-golf pros putt their way to a championship
HOUSE
OF STRAW
You don't have to chop down trees to build a home
STEP
RIGHT UP
Learn the secrets of the carnival milk can toss
KNITTERS'
UNDERGROUND
It's no yarn, no loose thread--knitting is suddenly fashionable
SOMEONE'S
IN THE KITCHEN
Celeb chef Anthony Bourdain spills the beans about what really happens
behind kitchen doors
SEEING
STARS
In "The Televisionary Oracle," Rob Brezsny takes the celestial wisdom
of his weekly astrology column and refracts it through a 500-page
cyclotron of a road novel
THE
TESLA FILES
Metaphysical leanings, scientific breakthroughs and conspiracy theories
surround the life of Nikola Tesla
HOME
IS WHERE THE HANGAR IS
Airports are cities of tomorrow, designed for the next five minutes
BICYCLES
FOR FISH
Marking the 25th anniversary of the anti-sexist men's movement
WHEN
WORLDS COLLIDE
Entering a parallel dimension at Wizard World 2000
2CB
OR NOT 2CB?
Vegas is the place to try new drugs
CREMATION
NATION
With more Americans choosing cremation for their dearly departed,
the options for memorializing cremains are getting downright bizarre
THE
SELLING OF ROSWELL
Keeping the alien phenomenon fresh
POPPING
WHEELIES
Mountain biking goes big time, but the money brings celebrities
and drug tests
LADY
DRIVER
NASCAR pioneer Renee Dupuis talks about life in the fast lane
GETTING
THE KINKS OUT
Detroit's fetish scene is whipping up the mainstream
HELL
TO PAY
A small city's police force cracks down when the Hell's Angels come
to town
SQUAT
LIFE
"Rent is theft" is the motto of the anarchists in the graphic novel
"War in the Neighborhood"
SITTIN'
WITH A FENCE
Dmitri the Great used to steal cars, but now he sticks to the barter
and sale of stolen goods
SEEK,
DESTROY, ENJOY
There's a fine line between sport and sideshow at the demolition
derby
CAVING
IN
Some folks enjoy journeying to the center of the earth
LIFE
STYLING
Feng Shui, the art of beneficially arranging one's living environment,
is now practiced by hotels, corporations, government agencies and
households around the world
700
MILES IN A BOX
For the sake of art, Aaron Timlin traveled to New York the hard
way
THEY'RE
GAME
For role-playing geeks both young and old, it's still a D&D world
RAW
DEAL
A healthy-living movement warns against cooked foods
ON
THE CASE
Take a swing at the World Pillow Fighting Championships
KEEPING
COMPANY
Checking in on a communal living co-op
STEALTH
WORKOUT
Getting a kick out of ninjaerobics
BUGGIN'
Insect eating among the ruling classes
GYPSIES,
TRAMPS & THIEVES
Let it all hang out at Cher Convention 2000
VAD
KIDS
Vadding--or urban exploring--gains covert popularity
TATTOO
TALES
Tribal art adorns the skin of many young upstarts, but flesh drawings
are nothing new
CROSSING
SWORDS
Slashing through the National Fencing Tournament
TAKING
THE PUNCH
A night at a Toughman Competition turns ugly
BLUE-COLLAR
BLUES
Security guards see a lot more than you think they do
SNAKES
ALIVE!
Get in the sack with a reptile club
DOG
DAYS
A coon-dog confab reveals that hunting with canines is evolving
into a catch-and-release sport
RAWHIDE
The leather scene isn't just for gay men anymore
GETTING
THE JOKE
Stand-up comedy isn't the funny business it was in the eighties
NUDE
AWAKENING
An onlooker-turned-artist tries his hand at figure drawing
RAVING
AGAINST RAVES
Police keep trying to stamp out the rave scene, but all they've
done is drive it underground
HOT
LAVA
Celebrating 35 years of everyone's favorite lamp
HOT
DOGGERS
Fun in the bun at a hot-dog-eating contest
BABYSITTING
BENJI
Barking up the tree of a doggie daycare
STALKING
BOWIE
Take a rock-star vacation with Adventures in Rock
HANDCAR
HAVEN
Only in America will you find something as odd--and genuinely sincere--as
a handcar racing competition
HIGHWAYMEN
Thousands of Americans opt for full-time life on the open road
MAIDENHEAD
REVISITED
It's never too late to become a born-again virgin
MARRY
FIRST, LOVE LATER
The inside scoop on arranged marriages
WHAT
PLANET IS ROB BREZSNY FROM?
A down-to-earth interview with the country's most writerly astrologer
PORN
& CIRCUMSTANCE
If you don't enjoy the porn party, maybe the porneoke contest will
do the trick
FUZZY
BUDDIES
The sci-fi lovers in the furry fandom take their enjoyment of anthropomorphic
animals to oddball lengths
THIS
SUV SPONSORED BY...
Autowraps Inc. bundles private vehicles in wheel-to-roof advertisements
ESCAPE
FROM TELE-HELL
How one man vanquished the demons of telemarketing
CADDIE
TRACK
Hauling a player's clubs around a course is not just a job--it's
an adventure with health benefits
VROOM,
VROOM
Bikers find happiness in a wide-open throttle
ALMOST
A GOOD IDEA
Working over the theories of Bob Black, the anarchist icon who proposed
a zero-work society
THE
WHEEL DEAL
Scooters roll onto the scene as the hot urban transportation trend
SOMETHING
IN THE AIR
In this city, skating dominates youth culture--and delivers an economic
boost
JUNK
LOVE
Thrifting is life in Michael Zadoorian's first novel, "Second Hand"
RACE
BAITING
Some people consider bigotry a sport
BIG
BIRD COUNTRY
True confessions of an amateur ostrich wrangler
TURN
ME ON, DEAD MEDIA
A backward look at backward masking
ACE
FREHLEY IS MY CO-PILOT
A long day at the Kiss Convention
DID
YOU HEAR THE ONE...
Urban legends are marketed as benign fun, but they also have a dark
side
ALL
THE WAY BACK
After past-life regression therapy, she faces a multiple-identity
crisis
SECRET
LIVES OF VEGAS WHALES
Make no mistake about the intoxicating treatment of Vegas high-rollers.
They lose big, too.
WE'RE
SUCH INDIVIDUALS
To avoid mainstream adoption, "modern primitives" are now encompassing
horns, fins, bone-sculpting and more
HIGH
ANXIETY
The friendly patient discussing the anxiety disorder drug that helped
her was on the take
TWISTIN'
THE NIGHT AWAY
"Hot" yoga is practiced in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees
VANITY
UNFAIR
The pressures of gay vanity and keeping cutting-edge cool exact
a heavy price
BLONDAGE
If she has but one life, let her live it as a blonde
FREE
WILL POWER
Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology makes the zodiac seem magical
again
PUNS
OF STEEL
Groaning through the 23rd Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships
FAT
POWER
Heavy hitters fight discrimination in the streets and between the
sheets
SEX
WRAP
Spend an evening observing the intricacies of the S&M lifestyle
ROPE-A-DOPED
You could throw in space aliens and pirates and it wouldn't make
boxing any less reputable
CHURCH
OF COMEDY
A bizarre cable-access show's host mixes comedy and religion
IT'S
A GUY THING
Female-to-male transsexuals put the gender blender into high gear,
alienating some hardcore feminists along the way
ALL
GROWN UP
The recent March on Washington showed off the gay movement's growing
success at breaking into mainstream American life
BUY
PAGAN
Shopping around at Pagan Expo 2000
TOKIN'
CELEBRATION
Growing a hemp consensus at Millennium Marijuana Day
TOUCHDOWN!
OR FUMBLE?
Female athletes tackle pro football with a league of their own
LONG-LOST
SISTER
A century after her ouster from the women's rights movement, forgotten
feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage gets a little respect
PRIDE,
BUT NO JOY
Is San Francisco's Pride parade a celebration of community--or a
marketing opportunity?
PINBALL
WIZARDS
Bounce around the world's only remaining pinball factory
STEAL
THIS MEAL
"Beating the Check" outlines ways to scam chain restaurants--and
one reviewer proves that the tips really work
ABOMINABLE
ENCOUNTERS
Two books tell shaggy tales of tracking the Yeti
ORACLE
FIXATION
Free Will Astrologer Rob Brezsny shares his novel perspective in
"The Televisionary Oracle"
SMACKDOWN
CANDIDATE
Pro wrestler Bob Backlund runs for Congress on hard work and homilies
COCKY
HORROR
The incredibly strange but true story of Mike the headless chicken
KARAOKE
COOL
It still resides on the fringes of entertainment, but here are some
tips to maximize your karaoke enjoyment
BEYOND
THE GRID
City dwellers can learn a few lessons in responsible energy and
water consumption from their country cousins
AMERICAN
PIES
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays bakes up a sweet way to
lobby Congress
THE 23 ENIGMA
Why do so many strange things happen in association with the number
23?
FEMINISTS
UNITE
At Feminist Expo 2000, young women seized the chance to meet veterans
of the women's rights movement and delegates from women's groups
around the world
SMART
MOUTHS
Just who uses the international language of Esperanto?
SILO,
SWEET SILO
For just $2.3 million, you can live in your very own three-bedroom
Atlas-F missile silo
PANTIES
WITH A TWIST
Welcome to the wild and whacked-out world of selling used undies
online
SKA8
BABY SKA8
Author Inga Muscio reflects on her experience as a badass skateboard
babe and wonders why more women don't fancy life on four wheels
LORDS
OF THE RING
The Toughman World Championship Series entices local everymen to
go toe-to-toe
PROTEST
THEATER
NYC's Surveillance Camera Players perform through the neon glare
of security camera monitors
GREEN
FAIRY FLIES AGAIN
The heart grows fond for Absente
EVER
UPWARD
Climbers reach for the sky, one rock at a time
UFOS
REVISITED
Society has embraced aliens, but are we ready to handle biological
competition of that magnitude?
WICKIN'
CEREMONY
Get lit at a candle party
SUB
CULTURE
Who wants to buy a Russian nuclear submarine?
SEE
DICK COUNT
How the U.S. Census can benefit the gay and lesbian community
MINE
FIELD
Seeking nuggets of wisdom from real gold diggers at a prospectors'
convention
TAKING
PSYCHEDELICS... SERIOUSLY
Hallucinations, science, and spirituality collide at the international
Ayahuasca Conference
MONEY
SHOT
A first-person journey into the curious world of a low-budget porn
film
TOLERATING
TAGGERS
Visit a school where graffiti is encouraged
MAGIC
MUSHROOMS
A fungus factory hits it big with a bug-killing shroom
TRIXIE
OF THE TRADE
This hooker has done a lot of living. Too much, in fact.
BREAK
ON THROUGH
Sure Paulie the Preacher burgles for a living, but that doesn't
mean he has no principles
GOOD
WEED
Stalking wild seaweed on California's North Coast
CIRCUS
MACHINAS
Burning rubber and spinning wheels at a monster truck rally
GET
A CTHULHU
Why are so many geeks obsessed with the slimy deep-sea force known
as Cthulhu?
THE
LAST CRUSADE
Wade Davis, the man Geraldo called "the real Indiana Jones," makes
the case that primitive cultures are worth saving
HAIR
RAISERS
Mulletsgalore.com is society's answer to a haircut subculture denied
SPACE
CASE
Toby Smith has fun debunking alien myths in "Little Gray Men: Roswell
and the Rise of a Popular Culture"
LOOKING
BACK IN ANGER
Susan Brownmiller's "In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution" repudiates
some of the recent milestones of feminism
NATURAL
AMPHETAMINES
Herb-infused drinks promise more kick than cure
SENIOR
SURFERS
A new film captures the endless summer of surfing pioneers who watched
the sport grow from fringe culture to enduring phenomenon
OUT
OF THE DUNGEONS
Role-playing gamers defy stereotypes while flexing creative muscle
CRUSHING
VIDEOS
Ferreting out the ugly truth about animal snuff films
FETE
FETISH
Checking out opening weekend at the Leather Archives & Museum
GOING
STRAIGHT
Seeking the meaning of the straightedge lifestyle
BITE
CLUB
Despite cultural taboos, the history of cannibalism offers food
for thought
MURDER
IN TEXAS
Austin's first 1999 homicide was the brutal slaying of a teen transsexual
APPETITE
FOR DESTRUCTION
Survival Research Labs orchestrates mechanized mayhem
JUST
SKIP IT
With skipping, getting fit becomes child's play
BIG
GAME BUSINESS
Captive-game hunting raises a herd of controversial issues
MARCH
OF PROGRESS
The all-female parade krewes of New Orleans prove that Mardi Gras
is not just a man's world
MONKEY
DO
A helping-hands monkey helps a family evolve
BAD
TO THE BONE
Manly men duke it out for the Toughman title
SATURDAY,
SATURDAY, SATURDAY!
Falling in love with monster trucks
GOING
TO XTREMES
The WWF hopes its XFL will slam the NFL onto the football sidelines
GET
NAILED
Fingering the latest fashion craze: airbrushed nails
RACING
TO THE DOGS
Tracking down the Greyhound Hall of Fame
EXHIBITION
GAME
Savoring the bites at an S&M restaurant
UNKINDEST
CUTS
Foreskin restoration advocates hope for healing as they fight a
long and sensitive battle against circumcision
SLUSH
FUN
Skateboarders and bikers get in on the winter festivities
NATIVE
AMERICANA
Taking part in an authentic hot-rock sweat lodge ceremony
ICE
MASTERS
Can the ancient sport of curling sweep into Stateside popularity?
BURNING
DRUG BOOKS
Will Congress outlaw the publishing of information on illegal drugs?
SLOW
CHANGE
Take the time to consider the Slow Food movement
SAKÉ
TALK
The Japanese rice wine, also known as the drink of the gods, may
be tomorrow's tipple of choice
HEART
OF THE FLOWER
Is aromatherapy New Age quackery or a helpful cure | 
