Feature/Interview

• Living The Dream, a lengthy profile of Seattle's most successful cover band, The Beatniks, and their place in the local rock culture
• The Holy Ghost Shuffle, a visit to the All Nations Christian Center in Seattle
• Road Trip to Snoqualmie, an ill-fated attempt to have a good time by getting out of town for a day (part of a recurring series)
• For Want of an Answer, an interview with writer/social critic Christopher Hitchens
• Safety First!, a profile of Anacortes, WA's Department of Safety, where a pack of well-educated former Christians with socialist leanings have created a haven for weird art and music out of a beautiful old municipal building
• Maximum T&A, a look inside Suicide Girls.com, where the (soft-core) pornography is punk flavored
• D.C. Metro, a love note to a metropolitan rapid transit system, from a city that needs one
• Overconnected, a Luddite's consideration of Friendster, the internet dating service that's not really a dating service
• Coffee Capitalism, a look at the war between two rival independent coffee shops on one small block
• Third Place, an argument for a little urban squalor in Seattle

FILM

Review

• Beyond the Sea
• A Very Long Engagement
• Tarnation
• The Brown Bunny
• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• Bowling for Columbine
• The Pianist
• Hellboy
• Stevie
• George
• If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger
• Femme Fatale
• CQ
• Lost in La Mancha
• Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns
• Amandla!
• I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
• Men In Black 2
• No Such Thing
• Amadeus/The Last Waltz
• Startup.com
• Monsoon Wedding
• The Believer
• Twentieth Century
• Storytelling
• Austin Powers: Goldmember
• Black Hawk Down
• Kandahar
• Charlotte Gray
• Amelie
• Performance
• Apocalypse Now Redux
• Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
• Shampoo
• The Filth and the Fury
• Band of Outsiders
• It's a Wonderful Life
• A.I.

Short Review

• Alias Betty
• Assassination Tango
• Broken Wings
• The Butterfly Effect
• Comedian
• Culture Jam
• De-Lovely
• Die Another Day
• Divine Intervention
• Dr. Strangelove
• Fight to the Max
• Gaza Strip
• Grey Gardens
• The Happiness of the Katakuris
• The Heart of Me
• How's Your News
• I'm Going Home
• In Praise of Love
• John Cale: Beautiful Mistake
• Latter Days
• Laurel Canyon
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Love, Liza
• The Man From Elysian Fields
• The Mayor of Sunset Strip
• Mickey One
• Miracle
• Moonlight Mile
• Mystic River
• Naqoyqatsi
• Owning Mahowny
• Rabbit-Proof Fence
• Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
• Riding Giants
• Russian Ark
• Shanghai Ghetto
• The Shape of Things
• Spider
• Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town
• Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser
• Till Human Voices Wake Us
• The Truth About Charlie
• Tribute
• Two Brothers
• We Don't Live Here Anymore
• Wesley Willis: The Daddy of Rock'n'Roll
• White Oleander

Feature/Interview

• Bruce Campbell Interview (Bubba Ho-Tep)
• Charlie Kaufman Interview I (Human Nature)
• Charlie Kaufman Interview II (w/ Nicolas Cage & Spike Jonze; Adaptation)
• Charlie Kaufman Interview III (w/ Michel Gondry; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
• Todd Haynes Interview (Far From Heaven)
• Roger Avary Interview (The Rules of Attraction)
• Richard Linklater Interview (Waking Life)
• Jim McKay Interview (Our Song)
• Tilda Swinton Interview (The Deep End)
• Neil LaBute & Paul Rudd (The Shape of Things)
• Top 10 Films of 1981
• Woody Allen in Hell
• In Praise of Timothy Carey
• In Praise of the Summer Blockbuster (2000)
• The World Trade Center on Film

Column
Erasing Hours

1. Remove Lid
2. Grand Illusions
3. Just Because (Pokemon)
4. Apartment Cinema
5. DVD TV
6. Glut
7. Iowa-dentity
8. Historiography
9. Just Lust
10. Ludivine Redux
11. War, Remembrance (Ararat)
12. Terminally Like Achilles (Dylan on film)
13. Trailer Trash
14. Art and Commerce (Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park)
15. Cultural Empiricism (Michael Moore in Europe)

Music

Feature

• The Presidents of The United States of America Interview
• Clem Snide Interview
• Dismemberment Plan Interview
• Elvis Costello (circa When I Was Cruel)
• Sleater-Kinney (circa One Beat)
• Bob Dylan (circa Love and Theft)
• Randy Newman Interview
• The Crust Brothers Preview
• Michael Penn Interview (circa MP3)
• The Streets Interview
• Throwing Muses
• Pernice Brothers Preview
• Smoosh!
• The Posies

Review

• Paul McCartney McCartney II
• Paul McCartney Wingspan
• Randy Newman Good Old Boys

Short Reviews

• Sarah Dougher, The Walls Ablaze
• Dukes of Stratosphear, Chips From The Chocolate Fireball
• Clem Snide, The Ghost of Fashion
• The Fall, The Real New Fall LP
• Flaming Lips, Finally The Punk Rockers are Taking Acid
• Komeda, Kokomemedada
• Ben Kweller, On My Way
• Lovedrug, Rocknroll EP
• Soft Boys, Nextdoorland
• Sonic Youth, Sonic Nurse
• Spoon, Kill The Moonlight
• Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You
• Weezer, Maladroit

Books/Theatre

Reviews

• Ian McEwan Essay
• Koba the Dread, by Martin Amis
• Against All Enemies, by Richard Clarke
• Gag Rule, by Lewis Lapham
• The Fabulist, by Stephen Glass
• Perfect Sound Forever, by Rob Jovanovic
• Our Band Could Be Your Life, by Michael Azerrad
• Drag City Publishing
• An Interview with Playwright Craig Lucas

Short Book Reviews

• Actual Air, by David Berman
• Truffaut, by Antoine De Baecque and Serge Toubiana
• The Tenacity of the Cockroach, by The Onion staff
• I, Me, Mine, by George Harrison

Miscellaneous, Funny/Sad

• The Soul of Mott the Hoople, a response to media coverage of the Kurt Cobain diaries
• Reason vs. Religion, a consideration of the Bali nightclub bombings (2002)
• Waiter Anxiety
• How To Talk Good, or Grammar Tips for College Students
• In Favor of Straight Marriage
• In Praise of Dropping Out of College
• TV Without Pictures, Inside the Corporate Radio Music Festival
• Riding the Fader, tips for working with a record producer
• The New Patriotism, a report on the post-9/11 trend of hanging American flags in freaky businesses
• Yes Logo, intro essay to a special issue about corporate monoculture