Cover: All-Girl Radio
Radio talk-show host, author, and Gen-X visionary Shann Nix knocks 'em out.

News: Welfare Travesty
Notes from an ex-Clintonite frontman on welfare reform.

The Scoop: Let's really honor Jackie Robinson.

Blue Plate Special: Prairie Oyster serves up some tasty C&W licks.

Gut Instinct: Intuitive eating means never having to say you're sorry.

Talking Pictures: Unpredictable New York poet Maggie Estep looks at the poetry-world comedy love jones.

Gross Receipts: Pink Flamingos director John Waters elevates bad taste to high subversion.

Cinema Verité: Theater owner Dave Corkill to screen art and foreign films. Finally.

Disaster Down Under: Australia's Love and Other Catastrophes mimics TV's Friends to a fault.

Dance of Enticement: The lessons of love are tempered with a cautionary message in Mira Nair's Kama Sutra.

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