The Duhks: Green Music You Can Dance To
The Canadian band pulls their own environmental weight to solve our society's sustainability problems, and they're spreading the word.
—By Jesse Finfrock
Jesus Is Magic
Inside the Fellowship of Christian Magicians, where Scripture-quoting puppets and flaming Bibles win souls for the Lord. With VIDEO.
—By Catherine Price
Book Review: Obscene in the Extreme
Rick Wartzman on the burning and banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
—By Nathalie Jordi
Inside the Firefox's Den
Mozilla Foundation chair Mitchell Baker, arguably the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley, talks about nerdy sex symbols, open-source software—and what it's like to be the only woman in the room, almost all of the time.
—By Laura McClure
Film Review: Critical Condition
Roger Weisberg's forthcoming PBS documentary about 4 of the 47 million people in America without health insurance feels like Sicko, only sadder.
—By Laura McClure
Book Review: Burmese Daze
French-Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle's Asian travelogue navigates culture shock with a keen eye.
—By Dave Gilson
Music Review: Stereolab
Stereolab's latest album finds the sextet in a friendly groove. Don't miss the title track.
—By Jon Young
The MoJo Interview: Sophie Uliano
The author of Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life talks about the Prius vs. Smart Car debate, ecofriendly yoga poses, and her one green sin.
—By Brittney Andres
Book Review: Babylon Rolling
Amanda Boyden reveals a slice of pre-Katrina New Orleans triumph and tension by illustrating a year in the lives of an Uptown street's inhabitants.
—By Rose Miller
Roundtable Review: Trouble the Water
MoJo staffers riff on a new Hurricane Katrina documentary about one Ninth Ward couple's journey to higher ground—and back.
—By Kiera Butler, Jesse Finfrock, Nikki Gloudeman, and Daniel Luzer
Hellraisers: the Next Generation
From the eco-MBA to the Christian hipster, college activism is alive and kicking—but what today's students care about might surprise you.
—By Kiera Butler and Leigh Ferrara
Why Barack Obama Is Still Your New Bicycle
San Francisco writer and meme creator Mathew Honan explains BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com, Twitter publicity, and what it's like to have the Obama campaign favorite his photo on Flickr.
—By Jen Phillips
Book Review: War Nerd
Does it matter if controversial military columnist Gary Brecher is really an overweight data-entry clerk from Fresno?
—By Daniel Luzer
First Person: Excerpts from The Beat Within
Personal essays from prostitutes, gang members, and other incarcerated teenagers.
Not Another Teen Movie
Three MoJo staffers dissect American Teen.
—By Kiera Butler, Casey Miner, Gary Moskowitz
Why Iraq War Movies Suck
Can David Simon's Generation Kill do for Iraq what The Wire did for Baltimore?
—By Ethan Brown
Music Review: Two Men With the Blues
Short of smashing their instruments onstage, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis probably couldn't shock an audience at this point. But this 2007 live set has some surprises.
—By Jon Young
Film Review: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
Eleven years after Marines killed an American teenager near the US-Mexico border, director Kieran Fitzgerald's movie sifts through the details of the shooting.
—By Joyce Tang
Book Review: This Land Is Their Land
Barbara Ehrenreich's no garden-variety pessimist on health care, Wal-Mart, and the superrich. She's a full-fledged member of the glass-has-only-one-drop-left cohort.
—By Mike Mosedale
Books: Scrapbook of the Stateless
Acclaimed photojournalist Susan Meiselas revisited Kurdistan. Here's what she found.
—By Mark Murrmann
Music Review: Exit Strategy of the Soul
Ron Sexsmith's brooding introspection is the perfect antidote to irony overload.
—By Jon Young
Book Review: A Nuclear Family Vacation
Authors Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger provide a guided tour to atomic weaponry tourism, from nuclear labs to blast-proof bunkers (including Dick Cheney's rumored "undisclosed location").
—By Bruce Falconer
Book Review: Hospital
Journalist Julie Salamon spent a year at Maimonides, and her finely observed book captures how medical care is—and isn't—delivered at a large urban hospital.
—By Bradford Plumer
Music Review: Warchild
While 28-year-old former Sudanese child soldier Emmanuel Jal speaks with an authority other rappers lack, he also passes muster musically.
—By Jon Young
The MoJo Interview: John Cusack
The former Lloyd Dobler banters with MoJo editor Clara Jeffery about his movie War, Inc., her inner 16-year-old, and what it's like to still be Gen X's favorite antihero heartthrob.
—By Clara Jeffery
Books: Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias
A review of Andrew Blechman's look at seniors, sex, and STDs.
—By Elizabeth Gettelman
Interrogating Errol Morris
The Oscar-winning filmmaker talks about turning his camera on Abu Ghraib for Standard Operating Procedure. Plus, the best political ads you never saw and why.
—By Dave Gilson
Music Review: Pershing
The mesmerizing sophomore outing of this oddly named Missouri quartet recalls a lost era of rock and roll innocence.
—By Jon Young
And Now, the Honeymoon
Four years after my moms exchanged vows in San Francisco, the state of CA finally decided they could get married. This time, I'll give them both away at their wedding.
—By Celia Perry
When Chick Flicks Get Knocked Up
Is the new fertility-movie genre feminist or conservative?
—By Alissa Quart
Books: Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
A review of Amy Richards' book on child care, fertility, and the mommy wars.
—By Rachel Fudge
DeVotchka: Music to Swoon To
After a decade of playing Eastern European music, mariachi and ballads, the Grammy-nominated Denver quartet is signed and touring the world.
—By Gary Moskowitz
Music Review: Carlene Carter
Anybody who's not touched by reflective moments like "Bring Love" or the mournful-yet-uplifting title track must be a cold-hearted creature indeed.
—By Jon Young
Yo La Tengo: "It's Our Life"
Members of Yo La Tengo drop free-throw metaphors and debate whether or not mixing hip-hop and jazz on bazookies is a good idea.
—By Gary Moskowitz
