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Contents: Step Right Up, You Bastards (“TV bores us, movies have let us down, and the Top 40 is downright revolting” The Bindlestiff Family Circus keeps vaudeville and burlesque alive and well in the US), Outlaw Politics (Not only did we as a generation not stop imperialism and unfettered capitalism, but we have been surrounded, seduced, subsumed and sucked off, to some degree or another, by materialism on a global scale), Reform Or Bust (John Taylor Gatto is a self-styled saboteur at the forefront of a quiet little revolution of radical school reform, in short, Gatto has engaged in guerrilla warfare in the classroom), HT Interview: Mark Webber (With great celebrity comes great responsibility. Mark Webber knows this all too well. Equal parts actor and activist, a recipe for change), Drug War Enemies (If you’re a recreational drug user, they want to put you in jail (or worse), if you’re a simple law-abiding taxpayer, they are lining their pockets with your money), if you’re a simple law-abiding taxpayer, they are lining their pockets with your money), Smuggler’s Blues (It’s not easy bringing large amounts of marijuana from Canada to the US anymore. What was once a nearly unchecked border is not a battleground in the war on terror. Here’s one man’s story), Genesis And Revelation (Genesis P-Orridge has been an artist, a rock star, a cult leader, a father, an exile – dodging bullets in hostile territories in the hopes of bringing back a story that might open the eyes of the world), The Man Who Would Change The World (Proprietor Eddy Lepp has an almost Zen-like attitude towards his battles with the Feds) Departments – Eat Fast, Die Young (A rising playwright gets to the core of America’s true addiction: McDonald’s), Music (Interviews with the Dandy Warhols, folkie Dan Bern and Brazil’s Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil), Reviews (CD’s: Neil Young’s Greendale, Robert Randolph & the Family Band’s Unclassified, North Mississippi Allstar’s Polaris DVD: National Lampoon’s Animal House: Double Secret Probation Edition Books: Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs; Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Oscar Janiger’s LSD, Spirituality and the Creative Process; Sam Abrams’ The Old Pot Poems), Highwitness News (DEA offers $5 million bounties; Florida inmates sue over torture claims; Seattle deprioritizes marijuana offenses; antidepressant could cause suicidal behavior in children; homeless ex-con camps behind jail), Highworld, Style, Sports, Grow America, Burning Questions & Garden Calendar
Issue: January 2004
Condition: Very Good