ARTICLES BY STEVE LAFRENIERE
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 GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR
In the history of experimental film, George and Mike Kuchar stand out like a luridly lit, throbbing purple thumb. Along with Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, et al., the twin Kuchars are among the most emblematic avant-garde filmmakers of their generation. Unlike some of their more educated fellows, their careers began in 1954 when they tore the wrapping paper off an 8-mm camera on their 12th birthday. They quickly taught themselves to use it and set about shooting brilliant, exotic, absurd features...
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  STEPHEN SHORE
If Stephen Shore were known just for the iconic photos he shot as a teenager at Warhol’s original Silver Factory, he’d probably still get a place in the history of photography. But galvanized by a road trip from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas, in 1972, Shore went on to pioneer the use of color in fine-art photography. Over the intervening years, his photos have also documented America and Americans in a way that presaged the straight-on deadpan...
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 URSULA K. LE GUIN
Any major science-fiction gourmand will tell you that Ursula K. Le Guin is among the most compelling writers living today. At age 79 she's also a renowned poet and essayist, but it's as the author of some of the more mind-warping sf and fantasy tales of the past 40 years that she's most revered: ...
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 MIKE LEIGH
I've been watching Mike Leigh's movies for almost 20 years and every time I see a new one I have a fantasy conversation with him afterward, which generally consists of me trying to worm crucial personal info out of him. Because his characters can be so hyperreal-the kind of people who are so interes...
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 MARY ELLEN MARK
Mary Ellen Mark holds down a double slot in the world of photography. Widely known for stark, unblinking photojournalism, she also maintains a separate career as a production portraitist for the movie industry. A 1969 magazine feature on Federico Fellini filming Satyricon became her calling c...
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 BLOOD SPLASHED ON A DAISY IN THE SUNSHINE
An Interview With Siouxsie SiouxWhen Siouxsie Sioux climbed onstage at the 100 Club in September 1976 with a band made up of nonmusician buddies-Marco Pirroni, Steven Severin, and Sid Vicious-she probably wasn't thinking about world tours with roadies, lighting rigs, and costume changes...
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 DO THE HUSTLE
American Boys from 1975 to 2003Hey, fellas. How much would you charge a 52-year-old Tribeca math tutor with furry knuckles and a comb-over to flicker-lick your sac and moan softly into your butt-hole for, say, an hour? What's that? $225? How about for a CitiCorp account exec to treat you to a t-bone at Angelo & Maxie's, then roll...
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