• My Life As an Ambien Zombie

One scribe’s misadventures with Ambien, the world’s freakiest sleep medication

• Sexual Healing

Full moon madness at a weekend Tantra seminar

• Sign Language

A skeptic’s cosmic quest for a reason to believe in astrology

• Naked and Afraid

I showered in brutally cold water for 15 days for your entertainment

• I Can’t Get It Out of My Head

When your internal DJ won’t stop playing an infuriatingly catchy song, you’ve got yourself an earworm. Our intrepid reporter dissects the tunes that drive us insane—in the membrane.

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• Glory Days

GT’s music editor relives his footloose days of guns and roses

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• Rock of Ages

Are rock music and religion at cross purposes?

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• Jukebox Heroes

He went in like a virgin and returned a daydream-believin’, one-man wrecking machine. The titillating tale of a brave music editor and his curious karaoke quest.

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• Clay Aiken review
• Tiffany concert preview
• Baby Gramps concert preview

• The Doobie Brothers

Burning questions for the crown princes of cannabis, Cheech & Chong

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• Bill Says the Darnedest Things

Bill Cosby speaks his mind on humor, Barack Obama and the African-American condition

This article was written before the filing of felony charges leading to Cosby’s imprisonment.

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• World War Zzz

Trying the advice of sleep experts

• Chocolate-Covered What?

Marini’s scores a spot in the new Ripley’s Believe It Or Not book with its strangest offering: chocolate-covered bacon

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• GT – Best & Worst Issue

• Calling Doctor Love

Drs. Vera and Steve Bodansky on seduction, training your mate and the art of the one-hour orgasm

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• Mistaken Identity

(An interview conducted by GT editor Greg Archer in which I pretend to be Matt Damon)

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• The World Accordion to Al

He’s lampooned hernias, morbid obesity and surgical catastrophies. Now Weird Al shows us the lighter side of the apocalypse.

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• Lest We Forget

One high school reunion and a bundle of memories spawn a bunch of head-scratching. Welcome to Human Memory 101.

• Wine Tasting for Dummies

Clueless about vino? Don’t let that stop you from blending in at a tasting.

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• Curse of the Burning Belle

A Halloween Fable

• Why Do People Have More Sex During Christmastime?

Here’s the science and psychology behind all those carnal Christmas cravings