Inthefray.com

Rice harvest
Finding roots in rural China
By Harry Mok
November 25, 2002

Waiting in Delhi
Dealing with delay gets entertaining if you're reading Ha Jin
By Nicole Leistikow
November 25, 2002

When dreams take a detour
A former journalist reflects on his new life on the 'Rez'
By Curtis L. Esquibel
November 25, 2002

Kids in color
PART ONE OF TWO. Nurturing the adults of tomorrow
By Lia Chang
November 15, 2002

'Tis the season
Vote for the Best of Inthefray 2002
Written by Victor Tan Chen
November 27, 2002

Waging a just war
Saddam must be overthrown, but the devil is in the details
Written by Victor Tan Chen
November 8, 2002

10.2002

October cycle

Let the rhythm soothe you
Transforming a neighborhood through art, love, and mindful drumming
By Jia-Rui Chong
October 22, 2002

Requiem for a mustache
Goodbye, faithful companion--and hello, you pretty thing
By Hari Sreenivasan
October 31, 2002

9.2002

September cycle

When suburban goes urban
A look at Silicon Valley's Sunnyvale, a suburban community in search of a sense of place
By Nick Hoff
September 22, 2002

Homes for the displaced
Rebuilding a country devastated by civil war, one house at a time
By Laura Pohl
September 6, 2002

Supermarket poems
Poetry
By Angie Chuang
September 2, 2002

One nation, indivisible?
Are we pledging allegiance to God or country?
By Derek Araujo
September 2, 2002

Kith and kinship
A friend to many, and to me, Philippe Wamba was one of the brightest hopes of his beloved Africa
By Zachariah Mampilly
September 18, 2002

8.2002

August cycle

The legend of a train jumper
A tribute
By Tony Jenkins
August 12, 2002

7.2002

July cycle

dead spaces
Artistic expression in dead environments
By Brad Farwell
July 3, 2002

A little bit of ritual smoke, no fire
John Woo's latest movie Windtalkers needs some spark, desperately
By Etienne Benson
July 24, 2002

Testing my faith blindly
Scenes from a hospital on Madison Avenue.
By Marques Harper
July 24, 2002

6.2002

June cycle

Stepping to the beat of a different drummer
What is David Henry Hwang doing reviving Flower Drum Song on Broadway?
By Jia-Rui Chong
June 26, 2002

Coming to terms with history
Why stereotypes are never just innocent fun
By Harry Mok
June 26, 2002

LA@10

Myth and reality in South Central
SPECIAL MAP FEATURE. Charting the past and future course of the neighborhoods at the heart of the unrest.
By Albert Benedict and Ben Helphand
April 29, 2002

Interact

PULSE
Links to resources on the 1992 Los Angeles riots

Image

The riots revisited
A city reborn, a city forgotten--and a city that has never healed
Photographed by Sheila Masson and assembled by Dustin Ross
May 2, 2002

Imagine

Sa-I-Gu
A poem.
By Ishle Yi Park
June 19, 2002

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The death of the integration dream
A former South Central resident looks back on ten years of ... nothing
By Tamura Howard
May 13, 2002

Waiting for the flames
If police brutality isn't stopped, the next uprising will just be a traffic stop away
By Keith Rushing
May 13, 2002

Turning the melting pot to simmer
Riots in the midst of a move made this couple glad to go
By David Helphand
May 20, 2002

Searching for the soul of Los Angeles
A recent migrant to the City of Angels reflects on her new home
By Nancy Snow
May 20, 2002

Remembering the rage
An introduction to the special Inthefray.com series
By Ben Helphand
April 29, 2002

4.2002

April cycle

Bolton Hill 21217
Progressive parents face the public school dilemma in Baltimore
By Nicole Leistikow
April 2, 2002

City beaches
Sandy stretches of expansiveness and isolation in Far Rockaway and Coney Island, New York
By Brad Farwell
April 8, 2002

Poems
By ibn Kenyatta
April 2, 2002

An American in London
Notes from an invisible woman
By Irene Hahn
April 3, 2002

Fighting for the cause
An uproar over an offensive headline makes a reporter wonder why she works for The Man
By Sharon Pian Chan
April 15, 2002

3.2002

March cycle

Freedom, deferred
PART TWO OF TWO. The right of refusal.
By Marguerite Kearns
March 7, 2002

Dislocation
Expressive possibilities in lifeless environs
By Peter Light
March 9, 2002

Testing my "A-dar"
Trying to pick out who is what
By Harry Mok
March 4, 2002

When propaganda tries to have a heart
John Q. attempts to put a human face on its message
By Etienne Benson
March 18, 2002

Guarded intimacy
A prisoner, a patient, a lover
By Safiya Bandele
March 9, 2002

The darker face of our future
In Jamaica under the new world order, there are more choices--and no way to pay for them
Written by Victor Tan Chen
March 18, 2002

2.2002

February cycle

Freedom, deferred
PART ONE OF TWO. Ibn Kenyatta is a writer and artist--and a perpetual prisoner
By Marguerite Kearns
February 7, 2002

Neontest
Testing the waters of wide open apertures and neon lights in New York City.
By Jonathan Flaum
February 10, 2002

Into the mines of Middle Earth
Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring is a complex vision of a fantasy classic.
By Etienne Benson
February 4, 2002

Parlor jazz
Every week, Marjorie Eliot welcomes the city into her Harlem living room.
By Alexis Clark
February 19, 2002

My survivor's guilt
Safe and sorry in New York
By Anthony Lin
February 4, 2002

Black like me
On being post-South Asian
By Zachariah Mampilly
February 19, 2002

'Mr. Keeler, read Candide and chill'
Reactions to 'War in a time of ignorance'
Written by Victor Tan Chen
February 19, 2002

1.2002

January cycle

Back in the Latter-day
Nauvoo, Illinois, is a glimpse of Mormonism's past--and future.
By Ben Helphand
January 7, 2002

Adversity reveals, diversity reels
PULSE. Meanwhile, how about some fries?
By Kelly Yamanouchi
January 22, 2002

The High Line
Remnants of New York's once mighty elevated railway system
By Jonathan Flaum
January 2, 2002

The black, the bourgeois, and the beautiful
Are bestselling authors Eric Jerome Dickey and E. Lynn Harris just meddlers, or have they got something to say?
By Saba Bireda
January 9, 2002

The ITF Bookshelf: Moby-Dick
Our pick of dime-store paperbacks and old-school classics
By Jia-Rui Chong
January 22, 2002

War in a time of ignorance
Two lessons learned
By Bob Keeler
January 7, 2002

For rape victim, vocalizing attack helps heal wounds
Dear rapist: I wish you all the pain I still live with
By Sharon Franck
January 22, 2002