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1999 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• Do U Know Us?

  published December 16, 1999

  The cover art for Armand Van Helden’s single “U Don‘t Know Me” makes for a powerful marriage of image and music. It’s a reminder... More >>

• The War Zone

  published December 2, 1999

  Photo by John CliffordIN RIDE WITH THE DEVIL, DIRECTOR ANG LEE WANTS TO bring a complex perspective to the intertwined issues of honor,... More >>

• No More Rain

  published December 2, 1999

  ANGIE STONEBlack Diamond (Arista) Angie Stone‘s Black Diamond, a ’70s-style black-femme opus that just happened to appear at t... More >>

• Animating the Century

  published November 4, 1999

  Early on in the Japanese animated film Princess Mononoke, a monk soaked in street-hustler wiliness admonishes the young warrior Ashitaka with... More >>

• In Sync

  published October 14, 1999

  Tucker Harding -- a scotch-chugging,chain-smoking writer of hard-boiled fiction and ballsy news reportage -- is actually named Violet. A pretty... More >>

• Darkness Audible

  published September 16, 1999

  Photo by Sheryl Nields"YOU EVER HAD LOVE SO GOOD . . . IT MAKE YOU WANNA buy a house?" Me'Shell Ndegéocello asks the sold-out crowd at the Roxy. H... More >>

• Good Friday

  published September 16, 1999

  When her band, Strangefruit, broke up last year, L.A.-based singer and sax player Ngozi Inyama retreated from music altogether. She didn’t eve... More >>

• A Boy's Own War Story

  published September 9, 1999

  THE MUSLIM TEENAGERS IN ZIAD DOUEIRI'S WEST Beirut can expertly identify the various military planes that fly high overhead. They... More >>

• Like a Virgin

  published June 17, 1999

  TODD HAYNES' VELVET GOLDMINE WAS AN INTELLECTUAL'S fevered love letter to his youth, to the era -- the glam '70s -- that shaped his... More >>

• Soul Catchers

  published June 17, 1999

  Photo by Kate SwanONE OF THE BEST R&B PERFORMANCES OF THIS decade was all but lost in a blur of hoochie outfits, hooker hair and sexpot posturing.... More >>

• The Secret Sharer

  published June 10, 1999

  IT'S A COMMON WAY FOR WRITERS TO PASS THE time: Spot a face in the crowd and draft a story to go with it. Sketch in the person's background,... More >>

• Princess Power

  published May 27, 1999

  Photo by Piotr Sikora, D.R.IT'S IN THE VOICES: THE PHRASING, INTONATION, blended tones. The fact that the songs are parlayed in French makes them... More >>

• Homegrrrlz

  published May 13, 1999

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• Renaissance Man

  published March 18, 1999

  Photo by David LeeSPIKE LEE'S FEATURE DEBUT, THE 1986 FILM SHE'S Gotta Have It, opens with a quote from Zora Neale Hurston's... More >>

• A Funky Epiphany

  published February 25, 1999

  Photo by Debra DiPaoloIn the book Sister Outsider, a collection of speeches and essays by the late Audre Lorde, there's an excerpt from an... More >>

• The Femme Mystique

  published February 18, 1999

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• Buzz (Not Buzz)

  published February 11, 1999

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• You Gotta Believe

  published January 28, 1999

  Bobby was gonna teach her to sing the blues. That was the cruel prophecy-tucked-within-a-joke folks whispered when the buppie princess married the... More >>