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beats                      <tune in, turn on, rock the nation >

Featured article  [ CHECK THE RHYME ]

‘Industry rule number 4000 and 80, record company people are shady’. Record company people aren’t shady; it is not called an industry for nothing.  It exists to make money not art, to suggest there is anything shady or covert about this is naïve to say the least. 

* interview > Atomic Hooligan face the slinkster big 21; Afrika Bambaataa

* new music >> Laidback, DJ Icey, Nu Breed rocking the spot

POLITIK                        <anarchy, liberty, revolution>

Featured article [ AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN SHOCKS ]

American policy in the Middle East has gone from Clinton's interventionism to Bush's alleged ‘non-involvement’- yet when Israel walked from the UN conference, the USA was right behind it with little debate. Whatever the right or wrong of Israel's position, either you are involved - or you’re not.

* special report>> China’s execution frenzy

* news>>  roots of racism; lies videotape and sex rock India;  latest news

FILM                        <independent media and visuals>

Featured article  [ INSIDE THE FILM FESTIVAL HYPE ]

Every January, more than 12,000 Hollywood types descend upon Park City, Utah, a normally sleepy ski resort town thirty-five miles from Salt Lake City.  They rent literally every hotel room, motel room, high school auditorium, lodge, (anywhere where you can fit a projector and some chairs, or just crash for the night) in Park City.  They hire every car, cab, van, horse, anything that moves.  And they drink nearly all of the fancy bottled water, and all of the alcohol in the state (this is Utah, remember)

* reviews>>  Cornman;  Blow;  Operation Chloe;  Quills;  more

* news>>  Sean Penn slams ‘trash ethos’ of film industry

ARTscene                       <tasty bits, creative types>

Featured article [ THE MYSTICAL ART OF VICTOR BRAUNER ]

Victor Brauner was one of the most interesting people in the Surrealist art movement.  Described by many as a “painter of premonitions” and a pioneer in several different art movements, it is a shame that his work is not more widely known

* book review >> Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet

* spotlight>> graf pioneer, Zephyr

THREADS                        < (anti) style, cut to shreds>

Featured article [ DEAD FEET DÉCOLLETAGE ]

Dead is the new alive!  Get the latest look unfresh from the runway to wow them at work, step out at night and spark up your love life.  Forget heroin chic, forget anorexia- the word from the top fashionistas in Europe is DEAD FEET DECOLLETAGE. The style is easy to emulate. Just follow our five-step guide and you'll soon be having your fifteen minutes six feet under.

* interview >> Triple Five Soul’s Jennifer Wannarachue

* in focus >>  Canada’s urban underground

EROTIK                      <pleasure, delight & all things nice>

Featured article [ MUSIC TO GRIND BY ]

Alright, let’s set the scene: it’s late Friday night/Saturday morning.  You managed somehow to get her back to your place.  She looks good: no visible scars, rashes or unexplained Adam’s apples (get fooled once, and you learn). If the mood doesn’t already tell you, her whiskey-soaked leopard skin miniskirt will: it’s time.

* article >>  wild woman hear me roar;  more

* erotic text >>  the perfection of her salamander;  more

CREATIVE                   <imaginings, thought, consciousness>

Featured Fiction   [ THE PUSSYCAT PYRE ]

by Hertzan Chimera

Arraz Woman had 'performance anxiety'. Not the usual sort of performance anxiety, nothing sexual there. Nothing purely analysable, you understand. Just something quite spectacularly wrong would happen when the need to do her best in front of a living audience that reared its ugly head.

* new fiction >>  suicide angels, part one; more

* poetry >> the aidan baker collection; more

OUT                           <what’s going on out there>

Featured article [ BURNING MAN AGAIN ]

This is our third year going to the Burning Man Festival and our most ambitious one yet! Why do we do this? Here's my take on the importance of Burning Man to our culture and why thousands of us spend inordinate amounts of time and money to create this temporary community in the Nevada desert.

* event reviews >>   Botchit Breaks Tour

* event guide >>    September/ October

Life                      <attitudes, culture, addictions, trends>

Featured article [ A VAGUE HISTORY OF THINGS THAT EXPLODE ]

In the beginning there was nothing but deep, black, infinite darkness.  It was the kind of darkness that makes a rainy day in Antarctica feel like a stroll on the sun; It was the kind of darkness that only people who were born without eyes could understand; It was really fucking dark.

* experience >> To Pee or not to Pee, that is the question; more

* culture >> Newars of the Valley; more

GLOBAL VILLAGE              <eco solutions, global consciousness>

Featured article [ A NEW ECOLOGICAL CONSCIENCE ]

Times are tough.  As post-millenial tension sets in, and the world seems to be edging closer and closer to its own eventual demise, it becomes apparent that big changes need to happen and be considered.  All one has to do is to look around them at the state of this fragile earth to see what a tragic position it has found itself in- basically at the hands of what has been described as the ‘next great plague’- human beings. 

* news >> latest environment headlines

* articles >> reading betwn the lines- what the recycling symbol means

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