September 20, 2004

COVER STORY

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culture

  • We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

    How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk?

    By Garrison Keillor
  • music

    Up From the Wackness

    Philadelphia’s The Roots have spent 13 years banging out organic hip-hop with real instruments and unquestionable swagger. They’... more

    By Chris Blose

Columnists

Jim Rinnert Vol. 28, Iss. 21