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2006 Stories by John Powers

• Hived In

  published October 19, 2006

  Not to go all Singing Detective on you, but I’ve spent the past fortnight covered with hives brought on by some allergic reaction,... More >>

• Milking It

  published September 14, 2006

  LIKE MOST AMERICANS, I SPENT much of the last 10 days avoiding all the crap about 9/11. I know that nearly 3,000 people died that day,... More >>

• Post Cards From a Paranoid Universe

  published August 24, 2006

  My Century, My AssBack in 1990, a few months after the fall of the Wall, I was in Berlin and wanted to interview one of my heroes,... More >>

• Blue Velvet: Last Tango in Lumberton

  published July 13, 2006

  Call it a dream. It does not change anything.­—Ludwig WittgensteinA young man hides in a closet and peers... More >>

• Unbuttoning David Lynch

  published July 13, 2006

  In these publicity-crazed days, more and more filmmakers can talk a great movie but can’t make a decent one. David Lynch is their... More >>

• Head Games

  published July 13, 2006

  IF ANYTHING WAS MORE UNEXPECTED than Zinédine Zidane head-butting an Italian defender during Sunday’s World Cup final, it was... More >>

• Fantasy Islands

  published June 29, 2006

  WHEN RONALDO SCORED HIS SECOND GOAL against Japan last week — prompting jubilant yellow-and-green-clad fans to break into an... More >>

• Scary Clowns

  published June 15, 2006

  IT’S HARD TO CONDONE CELEBRATING any man’s violent death, but in the case of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, I’ll make an... More >>

• Good Night and Good Luck

  published April 27, 2006

  1. All the President’s Men (and Women)Along with marking the end of the Olympian Anchor — the new prototype is the... More >>

• Lists

  published April 27, 2006

  JOHN POWERS (Weekly columnist and author of Sore Winners: American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in... More >>

• Hollywood’s Newest Age of Liberal Cinema

  published January 12, 2006

  “LIBERALS,” JOKED LENNY BRUCE, “can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.” Tha... More >>