Monday, February 22, 1999 Spiritual trip to India softens singer MUSIC: Morissette finds bliss in herself, records moodier follow-up CD By Steve Morse The Boston Globe When Alanis Morissette went on a spiritual search in India two years ago, she planned to visit Mother Teresa in Calcutta. Read more...

Monday, February 22, 1999 Sound Bites Far Too Jones, "Picture Postcard Walls" (Mammoth) "Banal" is the music vocabulary word of the day. Commonly referring to things that are boring, insipid, etc., it accurately paints the portrait of all those bands that the music industry force-feeds us today. Read more...

Monday, February 22, 1999 Songs of Sonny and Cher beat on with coming film TELEVISION: Duo’s fame revived on small screen as reminiscent ’60s tale By Mark McGuire Albany Times Union ALBANY, N.Y. Read more...

Monday, February 22, 1999 Dating guide only shows a good Feller is hard to find BOOKS: Awkward work yields offensive jargon, tactics to handle females By Erin Beatty Daily Bruin Contributor #There is absolutely nothing wrong with casual dating – or with baseball terminology. Read more...

Friday, February 19, 1999 Shiny and new THEATER: Garishly entertaining, newest revival of ‘Cabaret’ speaks to a ’90s audience By Cheryl Klein Daily Bruin Senior Staff Norbert Leo Butz had just taken over the role of Roger in "Rent" when his agent called with an opportunity to audition for a revival of "Cabaret." It would be a supporting role, and Butz would have to play the banjo. Read more...

Friday, February 19, 1999 This time, the interviewer is in spotlight EVENT: Meet person behind the voice as National Public Radio’s Terry Gross shares experiences, both good and bad By Stephanie Sheh Daily Bruin Senior Staff It is intelligent and warm, understanding and sympathetic. Read more...

Friday, February 19, 1999 Crashing computers, neglected nominations … COLUMN: Beware wrath of Microsoft, great performances don’t get nod from Academy, vote for worst film of all time I tend to write these columns about one topic, and drone on about it for paragraphs and paragraphs, grinding whatever idea it was that I had earlier that week into the ground in a fruitless attempt to elicit laughter or maybe even thought from an unwilling UCLA audience. Read more...