From the Magazine
February 2008 Table of Contents
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Big Wiig With her unhinged characters and uncanny timing, scene-stealing comic Kristen Wiig is this season’s Saturday Night Live standout. What’s she like when she finally lets her hair down? By Andrew Goldman |
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The Panic Boom! Mega-tsunamis, melting ice caps, angry Arabs, balding Britney. Clearly, the world is coming to an end. But don’t give up just yet ... By John Cook |
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Suspicious Minds A ragtag group of camera-toting conspiracy nuts have politicians and A-list comedians running scared. Call them crazy, but their media-savvy tactics have fueled a growing skepticism about what really happened on September 11. By Jebediah Reed |
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"It's Mini Britney, Bitch!" While Britney Spears bottoms out in Malibu, the singer’s mini-doppelgänger and her pint-size posse are making giant waves in Las Vegas. By Tricia Romano |
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| Opening Shot Soap Oprah Righteous and maternal, Oprah Winfrey is the closest thing we have to a living deity. But no one said sainthood was easy. |
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| The Sell Gay for Pay Corporate America is hot and heavy for the pink dollar. But just what is it trying to sell? |
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| Species Meet the NPRents Straight outta Minneapolis, these privileged progressives are silently judging your lifestyle. |
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| Fresh Intelligence Dirty D.C. politics; Tabloid Editors—They’re Just Like Us!; Man-bangs take over. |
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| Books Pimples and Hos Sex! Drugs! Study Hall! How a new breed of teenage lit has grown women hot and bothered. |
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| Movies The Ugly Awards The Oscars may be tacky, but the little golden statuette is still a design icon—unlike these eight other highly coveted atrocities. |
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| The Web Best Face Forward Social climbing, the Facebook way. |
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| Radar Love Buffy's Revenge Ghoul-gutting actress Sarah Michelle Gellar slashes her way back to the cineplex. |
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| Second Acts The Bubble Boy Josh Harris was the decadent golden boy of the '90s dot-com boom; $100 million later, he woke up broke on an apple farm. Now he's plotting his comeback. By Jim Hanas |
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| Vanities Hair Wars In America's toniest salons, the era of the $1,000 haircut has arrived, and the competition among stylists has gotten downright snippy. By Sarah Horne |
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| Private Lives The Last Days of Big Red Dean Johnson survived HIV, heroin, and two decades as the clown prince of New York's downtown demimonde. Then one day he turned up dead in D.C. By Frank Owen |
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