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The Southwestern desert has become a second home for the Australian didgeridoo, that hypnotic aboriginal humming instrument.
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Volume III, Issue 5 July 26 - August 2, 1999

News & Opinion

Dayton Hudson Corporation wants to turn Target into a national brand, but the company is facing allegations of sweatshop conditions in factories that supply it. Northern Maine has seen a dramatic increase recently in methamphetamine trafficking and use. Wrestler Jerry "the King" Lawler would like to hang up his leotards in order to become mayor of Memphis. Plus, the meaning of humanity, a conversation about dying, poverty in Tucson, and more. News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

From his death to the opening of "Eyes Wide Shut," filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was the subject of essays and conversations. His final film is reviewed from from Boston, Tucson, Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville. The NAACP recently pointed out that none of the 25 new shows on the big four networks this fall has an African-American in the lead. Plus, "Run Lola Run" is the subject of two reviews, and more. This week in Film & TV American Pie Detroit 9000 Dr. Akagi Drop Dead Gorgeous Eyes Wide Shut(1) Eyes Wide Shut(2) Eyes Wide Shut(3) Eyes Wide Shut(4) Eyes Wide Shut(5) Lovers on the Bridge Muppets From Space Run Lola Run(1) Run Lola Run(2) The Wood PLUS Blacks on TV 'Millennium' Reruns Stanley Kubrick and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

Jane Bunnett and her Spirits of Havana still run into red tape when travelling with the Afro-Cuban group. Two Tucson musicians are in Chamber Music America's Rural Residence Program. The intangible quality of Gram Parson's music remains elusive, as an ill-fitting tribute shows. Also, a Red House Painters retrospective, Germany's new "Teutonic boom," and more. This week in Music Captain Beefheart Harry Connick Jr. Gram Parsons The Pretenders Red House Painters Spirits of Havana PLUS Chamber Music Residency Teutonic Boom and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	History Lesson Looking for Memphis Hard Pressed Ahead of the Game and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

Books

Ernest Hemingway's "True At First Light" has attracted a dense thicket of controversy, but little attention has been spent on the editor, Patrick Hemingway, his motives, his workings and his memories. Other volumes are also being published to mark the 100th anniversary of the author's birth. Bruce Sterling's universe is dire and fraught with a Big Brother-like power structure, but there's still plenty of fun. Plus, hubristic efforts of mere mortals to create life, Navajo tribal college press, and more. Books contents page

	Comics
	Come down from your Staggering Heights and get to the Red Meat of the matter with this swell set of cartoons that also includes Mueller, Eye of the Beholder, K. Rat and Random Shots. Comics contents page Visit the official Red Meat site

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