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1998 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• The beat goes on

  published January 15, 1998

  Sonny Bono looked so fragile the day we met, wearing an insurance salesman's suit and a politician's smile. The suit was brown, the smile... More >>

• Mavs held hostage

  published January 15, 1998

  On January 6, the Dallas Mavericks ended a 15-game losing streak in front of a crowd team officials said hovered around the 9,000 mark--though, in... More >>

• The Comeback of Harvey Martin

  published January 8, 1998

  The football field is a dull, dry brown against the blue December sky. It's generous even to call it a football field; it looks more like an... More >>

• Robert Wilonsky's best albums of 1997

  published January 1, 1998

  Richard D. James, Aphex Twin (Elektra Records). The revolution starts and stops here: This is techno music, noise as melody, static as pleasure,... More >>

• Roadshows

  published January 1, 1998

  Soul brother Stevie Ray Vaughan died just as he was becoming the great guitar player the cult of millions always insisted he was--not just... More >>