Kathleen Hanna’s Fire Kathleen Hanna’s Fire
On the self-titled debut record by punk/dance band Le Tigre, there's a short song called "Eau d'Bedroom Dancing" that pays tribute to the timeless tradition of spinning around ...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Empire of the Air Empire of the Air
Kristin Thomson, Michael Bracy and Peter DiCola also contributed to this article.
Dec 23, 2002 / Feature / Jenny Toomey
Sweet Soul Music Sweet Soul Music
As Trent Lott struggled to "repudiate" segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is that he was a soul-mus...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Tap Roots Tap Roots
It's a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the world, because he's the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty
A Sorry Lott A Sorry Lott
Trent Lott has grudgingly relinquished his grip on the Senate majority leader post, but that doesn't mean that the Republican Party has purged "the spirit of Jefferson Davis" t...
Dec 23, 2002 / The Editors
Blind Sweeps Return Blind Sweeps Return
They say history repeats itself. But usually not quite so quickly.
Dec 23, 2002 / David Cole
Innocent Abroad Innocent Abroad
I went to a reception the other night to celebrate the efforts of a group called the Innocence Project, which provides legal assistance to prisoners for whom the technology of ...
Dec 23, 2002 / Joyce Maynard
The Incubator Returns! The Incubator Returns!
So onward into 2003 we go, amid INS roundups of Middle Easterners in Southern California and the grand hunt for Saddam's "material breaches," which could be a song out of Gilbe...
Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
National Security and Immigrant Rights National Security and Immigrant Rights
The debate over how to protect the United States from terrorism while safeguarding its guiding values rages with particular intensity in immigrant communities.
Dec 19, 2002 / Feature / Donald Kerwin
The People’s Church The People’s Church
Margaret Spillane is a native Bostonian.
Dec 18, 2002 / Margaret Spillane