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The Real MP3 Player
Pre-Napster piece on MP3.com in Wired’s April 1999 issue.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/mustread_pr.html

Parlez-Vous F*** You?
“Cop Killer” controversy in France. (Vibe 1997)

Slipping Past the Fact-Checkers
Brill’s Content’s angle on the Stephen Glass fiasco at The New Republic, from the debut issue, July 1998. With Lorne Manly.

Talk Of The Town
The shortest in history? (1996)

The Rap on The Source
On the end of editorial integrity at The Source, for Columbia Journalism Review.

Industry To Might: Drop Dead
On the death of Might magazine, for Columbia Journalism Review, 1997.

Surrender! Lay Down Your Arms! Hail Caesar!
A stunning guide to merging media megaliths, from Might. Accurate as of December 1996. Conceived by me, researched by Zev Borow, designed by David Moodie.

Black Noise
Review of Tricia Rose's book on hip-hop, from the San Francisco Review of Books.

Tortilla Curtain
Review of T.C. Boyle's novel "The Tortilla Curtain," from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Social Distortion
A review of three reissued Social Distortion albums, from the defunct magazine Edging West (1995). I have written many, many record reviews, and this one is emblematic.

Rollins-Rotten
Review of memoirs by two O.P.'s (Original Punksta's).
(SF Weekly 1995)