Rants and raves deconstructing our culture

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1997 Columns:
Tyler Jane Barley
  • Pitch in (1/12/97)
  • Zipped by the pinheads (2/02/97)
  • The real elitists (3/02/97)
  • Harlot's ghost (6/15/97)
  • Unconditional love (10/5/97)

    Todd Foltz

  • Talk about a cat house (2/02/97)
  • What's good for the goose ain't so hot for his gander's fanny (2/16/97)
  • Give us the P-chip, puh-leeze! (2/23/97)
  • Bashing hurts everyone (3/02/97)

    John Hedgecoth

  • Dick's world (2/16/97)
  • Of brown hornets and other endangered species (3/02/97)
  • It worked (3/09/97)

    Chris Jungle

  • Should we talk about the weather? (1/12/97)
  • How much is your name worth? (1/19/97)
  • So you want to be rich and famous? (1/26/97)
  • There's always a worst (2/02/97)
  • Letting it go to your head (2/16/97)
  • Lie, lie, lie (2/23/97)
  • So what does it really mean? (3/02/97)
  • You got a connection, man? (3/09/97)
  • Ignorant Experts (3/16/97)
  • Rated art (3/23/97)
  • The smokescreen we should've seen through (3/30/97)
  • The spoils of war (4/06/97)
  • Moving to Europa soon (4/13/97)
  • A lesson in ethics and such (4/20/97)
  • The flipside to more readers (4/27/97)
  • When would you like to exist? (5/04/97)
  • Myanmar was once Burma, now it's Myanmar, not... (5/11/97)
  • Who's invited to the party? (5/18/97)
  • We've got spirit, yes we do (5/25/97)
  • Craving the time clock (6/01/97)
  • Drawing distinctions (6/08/97)
  • The last laugh (6/15/97)
  • My Michael Jordan pitches a product (6/22/97)
  • Stuck in the gateway (6/29/97)
  • The place is all right (7/06/97)
  • What was that first one again? (7/13/97)
  • Drifting through the dog days (7/20/97)
  • Not all movies bust blocks (7/27/97)
  • Lack of news interest (8/03/97)
  • United we stand, UPS man (8/10/97)
  • Going nowhere with a lot of noise (8/17/97)
  • The hip, hip, hip new recreational drug (8/24/97)
  • A higher minimum (8/31/97)
  • The pubic talk (9/07/97)
  • Dead gods (9/14/97)
  • It's all speed to me (9/21/97)
  • Living a miraculous life (9/28/97)
  • Cash to make a cause (10/5/97)
  • The search for 22,000 friends (10/12/97)
  • The improbable dreams of a sports junkie (10/19/97)
  • Campaign finance irrelevance (10/26/97)
  • A time without time (11/2/97)
  • The next big news story (11/9/97)
  • The wacky 105th (11/16/97)
  • The road less practical (11/23/97)
  • Taking it too far (11/30/97)
  • Looking good, with exceptions (12/7/97)
  • A bout of the holiday blues (12/14/97)
  • The new new year (12/21/97)
  • The pick up line (12/28/97)

    Michael Maiello

  • Mission: China (6/15/97)
  • It's Frank and the boys, baby (8/03/97)
  • Partnership for a thought-free America (8/24/97)
  • Don't get me started about the British (12/7/97)
  • Mine, mine mine! (12/21/97)
  • Forward and backward (12/28/97)

    		• Jon Worley
  • Lift-off (1/12/97)
  • Theme from SWAT (1/19/97)
  • Buddy Holly never wrote a song called "We're Too Punk" (1/26/97)
  • Lucasian chair of theatrics (2/02/97)
  • Some weeks are made for drinking (2/16/97)
  • Cell tap (2/23/97)
  • Domingo deportivo (3/02/97)
  • Cold-blooded snake (3/09/97)
  • Some of my best friends are Jews... (3/16/97)
  • Time served (3/23/97)
  • On the road again (3/30/97)
  • Boozin' (4/06/97)
  • Sounding off (4/13/97)
  • Summer season (4/20/97)
  • No franchise on bigotry (4/27/97)
  • Vampyros lesbos (5/04/97)
  • Guilt Day (5/11/97)
  • The new spirit of volunteerism (5/18/97)
  • Fat and happy (5/25/97)
  • In search of the ordinary (6/01/97)
  • Grown up? (6/08/97)
  • Political World (6/15/97)
  • Future imperfect (6/22/97)
  • In the name of all that is decent and good (6/29/97)
  • Not quite out-of-the-box (7/06/97)
  • Hollywould (7/13/97)
  • Death designed (7/20/97)
  • Melvin (7/27/97)
  • Reunited (8/03/97)
  • Operation: Codebreaker (8/10/97)
  • Training camp (8/17/97)
  • A real fixer-upper (8/24/97)
  • My own private Labor Day (8/31/97)
  • Football Sunday (9/07/97)
  • Signed, sealed, stolen... (9/14/97)
  • Cool kids (9/21/97)
  • True brew (9/28/97)
  • Weenie roast (10/5/97)
  • Hail to the chick (10/12/97)
  • A fall classic (10/19/97)
  • Malaise in Mudville (10/26/97)
  • The megadeals keep rollin' in (11/2/97)
  • My special friend (11/9/97)
  • A diplomatic bulge in the ol' onion bag (11/16/97)
  • Just say thank you, stupid! (11/23/97)
  • Zeitgeist, or, The Reivers (11/30/97)
  • Shooting spree (12/7/97)
  • Bigot brother (12/14/97)
  • Entertaining impotence (12/21/97)
  • A father and son talk about freshness (12/28/97)

    Matt Worley

  • White shadows and gibberish (1/12/97)
  • Money, death & donations (1/19/97)
  • The repetition syndrome (1/26/97)
  • Bulldogs, snakes and me (2/02/97)
  • In a mind's eye (2/16/97)
  • Gambling our kids (2/23/97)
  • Going back to high school (3/2/97)
  • One world, united under entertainment (3/9/97)
  • Shutting down the machine (3/16/97)
  • I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard. (3/23/97)
  • Trust in me (3/30/97)
  • That baseball state of mind (4/06/97)
  • Fear of the unknown (4/13/97)
  • Tripping daintily through the giant killer tulips (4/20/97)
  • Explaining the game (4/27/97)
  • The bottom of the hill (5/04/97)
  • I see you shiver with antici... ...pation (5/11/97)
  • Lazy summer daze (5/18/97)
  • Just making it worse (5/25/97)
  • Can't we control ourselves? (6/01/97)
  • Behind closed doors (6/08/97)
  • Jody, Jodie, Jodeee (6/15/97)
  • Smoke me (6/22/97)
  • I can answer that in two words, Chuck... (6/29/97)
  • Roswell is not the future (7/06/97)
  • Undeniable attraction (7/13/97)
  • Oh man, I'm rambling again (7/20/97)
  • Teaching (7/27/97)
  • The circle turns again (8/03/97)
  • Wallow in frozen stupidity (8/10/97)
  • Here I go again (8/17/97)
  • Drifting (8/24/97)
  • The politics of death (8/31/97)
  • The politics of death, part II (9/07/97)
  • By the flickering light of a Sony Trinitron (9/14/97)
  • Summer's end (9/21/97)
  • Feeling Marv's pain (9/28/97)
  • Re-affirming my faith (10/5/97)
  • Love (10/12/97)
  • Lining the pockets of the unworthy (10/19/97)
  • Is it Porpoisehead or Portishead? (10/26/97)
  • I'm in the midst of a trauma--leave a message and I'll call you back (11/2/97)
  • A gay old motley crew (11/9/97)
  • We're all hypocrites and that sucks (11/16/97)
  • Thanks for the thought (11/23/97)
  • All Things Local (11/30/97)
  • Campaign reform? Champagne chloroform. (12/7/97)
  • History (12/14/97)
  • The crystal balls (12/21/97)
  • Death, part seven (12/28/97)

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