Issue: February 28, 2002

Metropolis

Local Dems are looking for recruits in all the wrong places.
By Dan McGraw



That's not whipped cream in your coffee -- it's polystyrene.
By Betty Brink




STATIC
Die, Life & Arts, Die!


Calendar

New exhibit explores danger and safety.
By Kristian Lin


Fuel Injectors
Marvin Rodak keeps the Cadillacs running and the coffee beans flying.
By Beth Enochs



CHOW, BABY
Hot, Hot, Hot

Music

The Dismemberment Plan prepares to confound critics and delight fans. Again.
By Paula Felps



HEARSAY
Nashville on My Mind




Voice Of America reissue
(Mute Records)
By PJ Gach

Almeria Club
(Curb Records)
By Paula Felps

Bad Religion
By Christy Goldfinch

Film

The momentous We Were Soldiers is overly reverent but affecting.
By Kristian Lin

The memoirs of a great novelist's deterioration form the basis of Iris.
By Kristian Lin