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Contents: What’s Going On Here? (Catastrophic hurricanes like Katrina are only harbingers of extreme climate changes to come. The fate of humanity, not to mention the rest of the planet’s animal and plant life, is already in desperate peril – as shown by the facts presented in this excerpt from what may be the year’s most important book); The Year In Music 2006 (From veterans lighting up the comeback trail to promising new artists from every genre, the winners in our annual music poll prove that 2005 was abundant with aural pleasures. We also check out the rise of Houston hip-ho, ponder the fate of the New Orleans music scene and reveal which songs members of Smash Mouth, Spoon and other bands were listening to when they lost their virginity); Playing For Keeps (Here are the things to play with when playing’s the thing. Our ultimate game room has it all: a pool table that would make Minnesota Fats do sit-ups, a selection of classic pinball and arcade games, pinup-girl poker chips, a chess set made from auto parts, a high-end backgammon set (for when Hef comes over), a table hockey game, a Ping Pong setup, foosball and more. Don’t ever tell us you’re bored); Jeremy Bloom Can’t Lose (America’s best hope for gold in Turin could be Jeremy Bloom, a freestyle skier so competitive that he plans on taking his muscular five-foot-nine physique and model’s looks from his MTV gig to the NFL. Meet a man who may have the word limit in his vocabulary but hasn’t much use for it) Fiction – Sogbo’s Wife (An international relief worker assigned to an African village tries to go native. He falls in love with a married woman but soon finds his secret affair threatened by racial and culteral clashes – and a bit of jungle witchcraft) The Playboy Forum – China Syndrome (Don’t blame China for outsourcing. The country is adopting the latest developments in technology so quickly that it attracts enormous investments from global corporations. Yet China is losing large numbers of jobs as well, which goes to show that the creation of a fair global labor market amid pervasive offshore outsourcing is one of the great challenges of our time) 20Q – Franz Ferdinand (Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy are the driving forces behind Franz Ferdinand, the million-selling nu-new wave band from Glasgow. The two come clean about backward messages on their albums, why their group is named after a certain archduke and their affinity for Interpol) Interview – Kanye West (He’s sold millions of albums, earned Grammys and scored last year’s biggest rap hit with “Gold Digger”.” Now the anything-but-modest rapper and producer talks about why he said George Bush doesn’t care about black people, how he compensates for not having the best flow, how his stand against homophobia has affected him and why his mom wants him to shut up) Pictorials – Willa Ford (The singer and Lingerie Bowl competitor behind “I Wanna Be Bad” finally fulfills her wish); Playmate: Monica Leigh (Miss March, a future dental hygienist, shows how pretty a girl can look wearing nothing but a smile); Playboy’s 25 Sexiest Celebrities (From Jessica Alba to Ziyi Zhang, we show who’s hot from A to Z) Notes And News – Hef’s House Of Horrors (The sight of Paris Hilton; Jenna Jameson, Adrianne Curry and a bevy of Playmates at Hef’s Halloween bash is truly haunting); Centerfolds On Sex: Courtney Rachel Culkin (Miss April 2005 hunts for the perfect sex toy and admits to having a weakness for well-endowed nerds); Playmate News (Niss November 1980 Jeana Tomasimo Keogh is wistful for wisteria on her new reality series, The Real Housewives; Pam Anderson gets lovingly roasted on Comedy Central) Departments – Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Mantrack; The Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Where And How To Buy; On The Scene; Grapevine; Potpourri Fashion – Rock/Rap/Fashion (Different worlds, different threads. We put together looks that make statements for artists as diverse as Queens of the Stone Age, Tru Life, The Sounds and Corey Gunz) Reviews – Movies (The future looks bleak in V For Vendetta; Bruce Willis and Mos Def team in the buddy action flick, 16 Blacks); DVDs (Philip Seymour Hoffman is disarmingly creepy in Capote; 1938’s Holiday makes its DVD debut in The Cary Grant Box Set); Mussic (The Subways craft music free from today’s microfads. Van Morrison takes on Nashville with Pay The Devil); Games (Full Auto showcases vehicular weapons of mass destruction; we check out some games that help you release your inner musician); Books (Learn about the postpunk bands today’s artists revere in Rip It Up and Start Again; The best recent biographies of music legends)
Issue: March 2006
Condition: Very Good