 | Tending His "Garden" In his new film "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," Clint Eastwood depicts gays, drag queens, oddballs, and even directs his own daughter in a sex scene with John Cusack. How did Dirty Harry manage? |
 | Virtual Peeping Toms Concerned about privacy? Forget about it. Thanks to the Internet and the booming information business, your personal life is now a best-selling commodity. |
 | End Times Ah, autumn, that enchanting season full of delicate mists and mellow fruitfulness, warm colors and golden maple leaves, premature darkness and cranky children, tedious yard work and carefully concealed dog poop... Ah, autumn. |
 | The Psychic Solution Can psychics help locate criminals? We're skeptical. Yet this family claims that 10 years ago, they used a psychic to apprehend a trio of killers. |
 | Shopping Alternatives Oh no, is the Christmas shopping season here already? Blech. Good thing we've got these dazzlingly helpful guides to mail-order, Web, and bargain-store gifts. |
November 24 - December 1, 1997
What's New? 
The odds don't look good for Bruce Babbitt's "Department of Ulterior." Read this
special Weekly Wire / Phoenix NewTimes Xtra to see what we mean.
Our online tribute to the late Rainer Ptacek has new contributions from his fellow musicians.
One of the all-time best film-review resources on the Web. Sort
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Red Meat
The most tasteless and twisted comic strip in the world. Featuring the Red
Meat Archive, Reader Favorite Archive, and the Meat Conference Forum!
A tribute page says goodbye to Rainer Ptacek, the well-loved blues guitarist
who died recently after a prolonged bout with cancer. Also: try our Comics
Xtra, containing first-rate artwork from some of the best national
cartoonists you've never seen; read about National Public Radio's refusal to
air a poem by Martin Espada; and peruse the staff's favorite articles from
the first 10 issues.
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News & Opinion
Peeping Toms change their methods, psychics apprehend a few killers, philanthropists reexamine their strategies, and Microsoft gets in a whole lotta legal trouble. Meanwhile teens make enemies with neighbors, Clinton makes friends with gays, and Orrin Hatch makes waves by taking negative action. Plus: a dog finds a home, an autumn mourner finds some poop, and a columnist finds new wisdom in getting old. [15 articles]
Film & TV
They said "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" couldn't be filmed, but Clint Eastwood feels lucky. Not so with amateur filmmaker Lory Smith; he knows luck has nothing to do with it. Also: reviews of "Love Serenade," "Kiss or Kill," "One Night Stand," "The Ice Storm," "Gummo," "Heavenly Creatures," "Harold and Maude," the films of Ida Lupino, TV's "Ally McBeal," and even "My So-Called Life"! [23 articles]
Music
Does Christmas music make you want to toss your sugar cookies? Try these cool alternatives. Then read how music is making a breakthrough on the Web -- in ways both revolutionary and minty fresh. Also: the respectability of women in Country progresses by leaps and twangs; Mike Watt writes the world's first punk opera; and Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter continue to jazz up the atmosphere. Plus reviews of re-releases galore! [15 articles]
Arts & Leisure
Shop till you drop without so much as a hop. Let these guides to mail-order, Web, and bargain-basement consumerism lead the way. Read what "Seinfeld" and U2 have in common; find out why Julia "It's Pat!" Sweeney's life has been taken over by family; link to the first-ever Cyber Opera; and learn how to make some really bitchin' pies. Plus: how not to travel in India, the mysterious meaning of "turducken," Where the Nerdy Things Are, and more theatre reviews than ever! [21 articles]
Books
After winning accolades for his book "Travels with Lizbeth," Lars Eighner and his dog are back on the street again. Read this interview to discover why. Also interviewed are Thomas Lynch, whose book about undertaking stirs up some serious life-and-death issues; and Vivan Gornick, a harsh-minded essayist who has decided love no longer serves a viable cultural purpose. Plus: reviews of books about imaginary cities, global economies, jazz wars, and KISS! [12 articles]
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, Random Shots, and La Cucaracha. [7 comics]
All the contributors to Weekly Wire, along with other AAN (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies) publications, can be read from this one easily accessible spot. Strongly recommended for bookmarking. [107 newspapers]
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