Urban Desires

An Interactive Magazine of Metropolitan Passions

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Volume 1, Issue 4, May/June 1995

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The Written Word | Art | Tech-Toys | Sex/Health | Music | Performance | Food | Style | Travel
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THE WRITTEN WORD

REVIEWS: The Inferno of Dante and An Anthropologist From Mars
Reviewers Judith Van Buren and Peter Selgin explore Hell and insanity in a whirlwind of words.

THE RANT: Rantings of a Mad-Fan
Resident spew-master Brian Dykstra is in a good mood this time. It's a happy, wonderful, ball-catching, base-stealing, fly-hitting time of year, and Brian tells you (once again) how he feels about it.

FICTION: Planet Dad
Gilbert Girion weaves a magnetic childhood tale.

RANDOLFO ROCHA: Black and White
Welcome to our gallery. Turn off your underlined links option. Use Netscape 1.1N. Words by Eleanor Heartney. Interactive curating by the crew at AGENCY.COM.

NINA GLASER: From the Earth We Come
A.D. Coleman provides the framework on which we hang the chilling photography of Ms. Glaser.

I Fought the Law
Resident technologist Mike Peck uses the Simpsons to help put this whole censorship issue in order. And you know what...it works!

REVIEW: Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Interactive.
That angry wordsmith Ken Gabütner tees off on Dylan's, Highway 61 Interactive CD-ROM. Bitter? You betcha. But in a FUN way.

RAIN
Zane Rivera gets a little wet in the pursuit of one of the baser pleasures.

Teens Living With AIDS
Footloose & fancy-free. With so much perceived AIDS awareness, Denise Dowling grapples with the question of why so many teens feel immune to the 20th century plague.

REVIEW: The Band, Across the Great Divide
A 3-CD compilation of their best tunes, reviewed by David Levine. (Do we pay him for one review or three?)

Demo Universe
Jim Santo offers the best of demo tapes he's received from every corner of the globe. Can you say Croatian funk?

INTERVIEW: John Leguizamo
After having just wrapped To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, John Leguizamo hangs up his heels. Deborah Gregory spends some time talking to the lipstick-laden actor.

Three Movie Reviews
Jackson Armaly sets his eyes loose on three offerings of the Springtime movie frenzy: Basketball Diaries, Crumb and Exotica await his lucid opinion.

Late Nite Bites
Okay, you've been dancing for hours. The overpriced meal--where you were treated like the scum that the waiter thinks you are--is a distant memory and gosh darn it, you're feeling a bit peckish. What to do? Sarah Bragaw and Peter Cassell lend a helping hand to late night noshers.

Chinese Tea Ceremony
Paulette Licitra journeys to the Lower (Far) East side and is greeted with a ritual where the Tea is the thing.

Leisure Suit Convention
There was a time in history when these things weren't embarassing. Here's a group of folks pretending that's still the case. Denise Dowling dons the polyester and dusts off her macrame suspenders.

Lounge Bars
Curl up on the velvet and steel sofa, pretend your reading Nietzsche and see who you can impress. The eighties are over and have been replaced with a hipness a touch too relaxed. Amelia Dallis shares the secret of cool.

Designer Cynthia Rowley
Bart Boehlert talks high fashion and roof-top trampolines with hyper-designer Rowley.

A Country Place
Peter Selgin gives us his take on "a weekend in the country".

Let us know what you think!
Really. We WANT to know. Good, bad, indifferent, insensitive, unintelligible whatever. Are you a writer, artist or photographer? Have a good idea for an article? Tell our managing editor Gabrielle Shannon-gaby@desires.com.