Urban Desires 3.5 TOC

<BODY BGCOLOR="#99CCCC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#009999" VLINK="#669966" ALINK="#FF6300" LEFTMARGIN="8" TOPMARGIN="8">  <P> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="word"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">word</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="/3.5/word/rant/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Rant</B></A> <BR>Brian Dykstra is Far Gone in Fargo North Dakota. <P> <A HREF="/3.5/word/fiction/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Fiction</B></A> <BR>Metafiction the Contest: and the winner is... Urban Desires mounts the metafictitious best from our challenge to writers of the Web's own genre. <P> <A HREF="/3.5/word/reviews/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Book Reviews:</B></A> <BR>Ron Hogan finds Richard Russo's <U>Straight Man</U> hilarious and reviews Herbert Thomas's first novel <U>The Superlative Man</U>. Sioban Reagan reviews Richard Ford's latest <U>Men With Women</U>. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="art"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">art</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="/3.5/art/branco/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Miguel Rio Branco</B></A> <BR>Denise Carvalho leads us through the vibrant, elemental drama of Brazilian photographer Miguel Rio Branco's work. Text in Portuguese and English. <P> <A HREF="/3.5/art/crumb/index.html" target="content2k"><B>A Certain Sanity</B></A> <BR>Photographer Lisa Crumb's urban portrait. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="food"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">food</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="/3.5/food/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Effie May's One Pot Suppers</B></A> <BR>Isabelle Molerio does it like Granny did it: one big pot, the simplest of kitchenware, imagination and a whole lot of flavor. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="style"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">style</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="/3.5/style/alpana/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Alpana Bawa</B></A> <BR>Alpana Bawa, the designer (not the flowery rice powder renderings of Hindu goddessses on Bengali floors), comes out of India and lands in Soho with a few heavenly creations of her own. By Sean L'Smith. <P> <A HREF="/3.5/style/specks/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Specs</B></A> <BR>Jeffrey R. Sipe gives us a bespectacled history lesson. Do your glasses say, "fuck you" or "fuck me?" </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="sex"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">sex/health</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="/3.5/sex/lying/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Erotica</B></A> <BR>Maria Pollack's story, <B>Lying</B>, exposes some bare truths. <P> <A HREF="/3.5/sex/books/sex.html" target="content2k"><B>Book Review</B></A> <BR>Tracy Quan unzips three recent feminist sex books and takes a few vital measurements. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="tech-toys"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">tech toys</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <B><A HREF="http://www.Wait4it.com" TARGET="_top">Wait4it.com</A></B> <BR>Wait4it.com is the latest innovation from the visionary tinkerers at AGENCY.COM. Hailed as "the most effective waste of time on the Internet," Wait4It.com features a series of countdown clocks rendered in pop-fantastic splendor. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="music"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">music</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="/3.5/music/suede/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Interview</B></A> <BR>Dave Levine brushes up on <B>London Suede</B>. <P> <A HREF="/3.5/music/reviews/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Reviews</B></A> <BR>It's Tribal Delta. What? Levine says Wisdom Tooth's album <B>Mental Floss</B> is ZZ Top on acid in Africa. Megadeath is still alive on <B>Cryptic Writings</B> and all things Rocking Latin are found on <B>Reconquista/The Latin Rock Invasion</B>. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="performance"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">performance</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="/3.5/performance/london_theater/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Reviews</B></A> <BR>Stan Schwartz collects a jolly stack of playbills as the curtain goes up on London's new theater season. Twelve plays in twelve days and a look at the The Globe Theater, polished up and spinning the way The Bard once made it spin. <P> <A HREF="/3.5/performance/conversations/" target="content2k"><B>Conversations With...</B></A><BR> <B>Gravesend</B> director Sal Stabile and Danielle Gardner, director of <B>Soul in the Hole</B> chat over lunch about small budgets, big screens and Brooklyn. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="travel"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">travel</FONT></A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="/3.5/travel/beauty/index.html" target="content2k"><B>Edinburgh: Beauty and Substance</B></A> <BR>Roz Calvert chases the ghosts of Edinburgh from palace to pub to Princes Street. With much sampling of Scottish fare but, thankfully, no haggis. </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="feedback"><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Helvetica, Arial" COLOR="#000000">feedback</FONT></A> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="mailto:gaby@desires.com"><B>Want to contribute?</B></A> <BR>Are you a writer, artist or photographer? Have an article or piece you would love to see in UD? 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