Sidewalk.
Duneier, Mitchell (with photographs by Ovie Carter). Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 383 pp. ISBN 0-374-52725-3 $24.95 Sidewalk, a winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, is required for readers interested in old-school urban...

Great summer ideas on Sunset.com.
Get the most out of this season: Drop by Sunset.com and you'll soon be smelling the flowers and grilling like a chef. AOL users have automatic access to our website. Sunset subscribers have unlimited access after logging in once. Newsstand buyers (and subscribers) may use this month's password: BASIL...

News up. (Media on Media).
By the end of 2001, the number of listeners tuning to all-news radio stations had hit its highest total in 10 years, according to Interep. During the most recent survey, Interep found 23 percent of residents in the nation's 10 largest metropolitan areas had listened to all-news stations. The...

Islamic Britain: how the UK deals with radical Muslims.
London has become the center of the Arab political world, leading one writer to describe it as "Beirut-on-Thames." The racks outside newspaper stands on Edgware Road and Queensway are stacked with dozens of Arabic newspapers and magazines, many produced in the capital. While the majority of Arabs in the...

Chile's backyard.
Social movements create alternative channels The changed political climate in Chile since Pinochet's arrest has given birth to several new critical magazines enlivening the country's news kiosks, and two new electronic daily newspapers, El Mostrador and Primera Linea, are providing online outlets for alternative voices. Chile's National...

Valerie J. Korinek. Roughing It in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 460 pp.; $75.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8020-4180-9. For the browser in a magazine stand today, there is little to distinguish Chatelaine magazine from the other glossies racked in the "women's" section. In her quest for self, familial, and domestic improvement, the reader...

Enforcement of the Sunday closing laws on the lower east side, 1882-1903.
On Sunday, December 3, 1882, a day described by the New York Times as one "long to be remembered in the history of this City," (1) New York's finest took to the streets and with great zeal arrested 137 persons for various violations of the newly codified "Crimes against...

A distinctly bluesy condition. (The Reader Replies).
Carlo Rotella's piercing essay on Buddy Guy and the startling American cultural phenomenon that is Chicago blues (a form invented by the children of slaves in steaming fields in Mississippi and then electrified and translated and bent by them into the most urban of musics as they went north...

Current controversy. (Off the record).
With more and more college administrators, professors and aggrieved students stealing campus newspaper press runs around the country, it's no surprise that some staffers for University of Missouri--St. Louis's student paper thought they were similarly victimized this semester. The offending issue featured a front-page story about a...

Melway Publishing Pty Ltd. v. Robert Hicks Pty Ltd.
I INTRODUCTION The decision of the High Court of Australia in Melway (1) was handed down on 15 March 2001. It is only the second decision of the High Court in a substantive market-centred case under Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth). The first...