Vol 18 Issue 886
Published 11/26/1997 through 12/2/1997
Blood, Sweat, and Supper (Cover Story)
What goes on inside the Bird Factory? Find out as we take you through one week on the evisceration line.
The Art of the Deal (Scrawl Feature Story)
Working with Steven Spielberg may be author Alexs Pate's claim to fame, but his best work has already been bound in two other books published years ago. Nevertheless, his latest novel Amistad is proof on the table of a job well done.
By The Book (Scrawl Books)
An interesting challenge: to write a book about a people's difficulty in looking past class sensibility. Radway's effort, A Feeling for Books, wants to display ambition and learning, but then fails to ask for enough.
Fruit Salad Days (Scrawl Books)
Lose the ability to be playful while learning is to be living half-dead--so goes the philosophy of Allan Gurganus in his novel Plays Well With Others.
Teen Spirit (Scrawl Comics)
Ghost World is a disciplined work of realism, with attention fixed on the quiet, meandering anxiety of its characters--a change of pace for critically acclaimed artist Daniel Clowes.
David Lebedoff: Cleaning Up (Scrawl Roundup)
James Tate: Shroud of the Gnome (Scrawl Roundup)
Kathy Acker: Bodies of Work (Scrawl Roundup)
Breaking the Culture Trust (Scrawl Periodicals)
In a new anthology, The Baffler continues its siege on the infotainment state. Now can they champion labor with the same sincerity?
Lame-Duck Lobby (Page 3)
Meet the New Boss (Page 3)
Puff Daddies (Page 3)
State ethics officials use fuzzy logic to dismiss complaints about Gov. Arne Carlson's Cigarette-Company Junket
Minnesota Hunting Accidents, 1997 (Public Domain)
Dust in the Wind (News)
The cost of clean electricity, environmentalists say, should be borne by all Minnesota ratepayers, not just ecologically minded customers who can afford the premium.
Speed Freaks (News)
Minneapolis police are involved in too many dangerous high-speed chases, according to a local civil-rights attorney.
The Mauling of America (News)
Five years after its grand opening, the megamall is both an anachronism and a national obsession.
Dirty Little Hands (Clinton Watch)
Maybe it's time Americans took a page from Italy's experience. There, the anti-corruption drive "Operation Clean Hands" was placed in the hands of a permanent ethics czar to shield it from political influence.
Shades of Mediocrity (Media)
McClatchy Newspapers won't abandon the Strib in favor of the bottom line, at least not in the short term. But it also won't kick up any dust.
The Cheeseheads' Graveyard (Sports)
As usual, the Packers and their fans won't like the Metrodome's fast track.
The Other Half of the Franchise (Sports)
Opponents have figured out that beating the Wolves means rattling Stephon Marbury. Now he must rise to that challenge.
Kabul Kibbitz (Eaters' Digest)
Da Afghan's secret ingredient is your satisfaction. The result is an impossibly successful restaurant in the flat industrial tundra of nowhere.
Produce Results (Eaters' Digest)
Live healthily out of the produce section at any decent supermarket with The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook.
Artsyplexing (Arts Feature)
As Time Goes By (Arts Feature)
In the newly commercial era of "alternative" film, U Film Society director Al Milgrom clings to tradition--at a cost.
Return to Sender (Music)
Best Buy announces that the CD-release party is over.
Verve vs. Voyeurism (Music)
Clubs take a beating as many patrons just sit and stare.
Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus (CD Review)
Guitar Wolf: Planet of the Wolves (CD Review)
Prince Paul: Psychoanalysis (What is it?) (CD Review)
Will Oldham: Joya (CD Review)
Born Again (Film)
Like Alien3, Resurrection doubles as a right-to-choose tract. And check out those swimming aliens!
Go Ahead, Make Me Gay (Film)
How the Other Half Lives: John Cusack and Kevin Spacey in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Opera Man (Film)
Performing a Ritual: Matt Damon makes a new case for his old-fashioned director in John Grisham's The Rainmaker.
The Stray's the Thing (Theater)
Take a Sad Song and Make It Better: Karl Baker Olson in the Children's Theatre Company's Peter Pan.
