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Vol. 3, No. 4, 2004

     
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Robert J. Lewis
 
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Mark Goldfarb
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Emanuel Pordes
 
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Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
 
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Rochelle Gurstein
 
     
CONTENTS
  1. Editorial
KIDDIE PORN,THE INTERNET AND UNCOMMON SENSE by Josey Vogels
If exposure to child porn doesn't turn us into pedophiles, why clean up the Internet?
  2. Interview
CONFESSIONS OF AN EMBALMER
Is working on the dead the last refuge of the socially challenged or a lapsed artist's labor of love?
  3. Art Review
THE PISS CHRIST: Part II - The Rebuttal by Fisher, Ramsay and M. Casey
The Christ figure submerged in a vat of micturate. Damien Casey argues its art. His opponents cry decadent, liberal excess.
  4.

Art Appreciation
ARMAND VAILLANCOURT - THE GENIUS IN OUR MIDST by Robert J. Lewis
Awarded the Order of Quebec for the highest achievment in the visual arts, the sculpture of Vaillancourt is for the ages.


  5. Photo Essay
ALEX WATERHOUSE-HAYWARD
Being naked in a tub isn't necessarily a hygienic consideration. Shots that make you ache for tubs for two.
  6. Health
SOME STRAIGHT TALK ON TOXINS by Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Dioxins, mercury and PCBs: the breakfast of champions -- and this ain't no joke.
  7. Film Review
THE AGRONOMIST by Cynthia Fuchs
Any film that makes us aware of our under-exercised humanitarian impulses is a film well done.
  8. Interview
DIANA KRALL: GIRL IN THE CORNER by Aaron Wherry
Some straight no chaser with a diva who doesn't like to divulge.
  9.

Music
SIX DEGREES OF BLUES with Emanuel Pordes
Floating light as a breeze across eighty-eight keys -- Otis Spann.


  10.

Music
SIX DEGREES OF JAZZ
With a voice that could suck the rust off your '64 Mustang, Coral Egan's I Don't Think So delivers healthy horsepower and torque.


  11.

Cartoon
By TOM CARROLL
The mother of all baits.


  12. Art Review
THE ART OF MARC A. J. FORTIER by Marissa de Consiglieri de Chackal
A daring, sometimes kinky art that forces us to confront the non-sexual implications of sex.
 
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