Issue edited by Josh Friedman. Cover stories include "On the Road with the Great Pretenders," by Alan Platt; "Apocalypse Soon," by Doug Ireland; "Easy Listenin' Poems," by Robert Coe; "An Art Colony Grows in B'KLYN: Artists' Escape to Williamsburg," by Peter Freiberg; and "Heartbeatniks," by Richard Corliss. Art reporting includes "Serra Tries Out Tribeca," William Zimmer on Richard Serra; "Soft-Focus, in Focus," by Andy Grundberg; "Riverside Drive's Stately Mansion," by Eleni Constantine; "Going Soft," Andy Grundberg on Daniel Wolf, Clara Sipprell, and Marcuse Pfeifer. Cover photo of the Pretenders by Ebet Roberts.