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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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