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Volume I, Issue 48
May 4 - May 11, 1998
So you think you're a Titanic buff? Ha. Sit your 13-year-old fanny right down and
read this story about some real Titanic fanatics. These people hang out
with survivors, they can recite a full list of the songs the band played on
the way down, and they regularly re-enact the disaster using toy boats and an ice
cube in their bathtubs. They've got Titanic on the noggin like you never will, you
watched- the- movie- four- times, listen- to- the- soundtrack- every- night, yet can't-
even- say- "Toy Boat"- five- times- fast- let- alone- play- with- one- properly- in- the- tub, Leo-loving
poseur.
What does their fanaticism tell us about the real meaning of the disaster?
Does it illuminate man's overweening hubris? (If so, is it as pornographic as it sounds?)
Does it teach us something useful about the historical zeitgeist of the early 20th century?
Or is it just another case of an all-too-romanticized, morbid fascination for something tragic? Do these
people have important thoughts to share, or are they harboring a Titanic-sized geekdom
on the level of "I spent my entire life studying the Titanic disaster and all I got
was this lousy trivia knowledge about rivets"?
Read the story and decide for yourself. There are no easy answers.
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Good and Old 
Vicksburg is a fun place, even if it makes you scratch your head occasionally. [5]
Paul Gerald
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Ship Fever 
These days, everyone wants a piece of the Titanic, but a convention of the Titanic Historical Society is where you find the unsinkable fanatics. [2]
Ellen Barry
Framing the Border 
A round-table conversation with curators, gallery directors, and a photographer whose passions lie in U.S.-Mexico border photography. [3]
Rebecca S. Cohen
Danger in Numbers 
Only one kind of person drives a two-wheel-drive van, with the lights off in the middle of the night, a stone's throw north of the Mexican border. [4]
Kevin Franklin
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Silly Sextet Shorts 
David Ives' "Mere Mortals" delivers what American audiences expect from TV comedy, with an added punch of meaningful insight. [6]
Scott C. Morgan
The Nick of Time 
"Nicholas Nickleby" is long but lively. [7]
Steven Robert Allen
The Ruling Class
"Master Harold...and the Boys" offers a stunning indictment against racism. [8]
Chris Davis
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Spanish Soul
The latest exhibition in the Tucson Museum of Art's newly expanded galleries offers a refreshing visual change. [9]
Margaret Regan
Ancestors and Others 
An African-American artist's works evoke an evolution of voodoo into the ongoing reconciliation of art and shamanism. [10]
D. Eric Bookhardt
CityScape
The curved universe of Bart Prince. [11]
Blake de Pastino
Now What? 
A gallery of captivating links to keep your imagination churning while the paint dries. [12]
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