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may 2010

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20 Rebels that aRe changing the

baRely pRivateA Look at fashion photographerSante D'Orazio's new book

japan’s coolest gadgets

bill mahaRWhat He Won't Say on TV

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46 ameRican idol Drew Barrymore is one of today’s ten highest-paid actresses, a blockbuster producer, and a woman who’s lived her whole life in the limelight. Now, as she sets her sights on serious acting, Jonathan Van Meter finds out how this Hollywood bad girl turned out so right

50 the WaR thRoUgh theiR eyesEmotional images taken by the soldiers who wit-nessed the war in Iraq first hand

68 30 days in the liFe oF the cUltUReGood ol’ boys-The Dukes of Hazzard are back. Elissa Schappell reviews Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days. Lisa Robinson charts the summer music festivals

76 We liKe Kate moss jUst the Way she isA beautiful mess, but why?

84 best mUsic dvdsFrom AC/DC to Green Day memorable moments that made music video history

112 neW yoRK stoRyLucy Sykes Rellie is making sweet, sophisticated clothes for the women of her adopted city

120 mattheW mcconaUgheyNext time you see an Airstream cruising down the highway, check who’s behind the wheel; it might just be everybody’s favorite leading man, trying to get lost

132 What’s yoUR giRls WoRst habitDoes she cheat? Gamble? Stay out all night? And what are you doing about it?

150 aFteR the gameOlympic speed skater Apolo Ohno grabbed the world’s attention four years ago. For seventeen days this winter, he did it again. How does he spend his summer?

FEATURES

There is no escape. Already relentless, the BOC hype ma-chine has reached a hysterical pitch around the world, but who are they?

40 BOARDS OF CANADA

contRibUtoRs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 editoR’s letteRs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 beaUty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 something to thinK aboUt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 enteRtainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 the KnoW Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 yoUR gUide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 political FRont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

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168 shoUld obama conFRont china?A high-definition TV you can carry in your pocket. A remote you talk to. A dongle for bringing HDTV broadcasts to your laptop while you’re on the go. Sound great? Too bad, because you’ll have to cross an ocean to get them.

ON ThE COVER150 baRely pRivate

His newest book, Barely Private, is exactly what the title would suggest, an uncensored and raw look at the fashion industry...Barely Private is a feast for the eyes and a rare look into a world most of us can only imagine.

137 20 Rebels change the WoRld

The renewal is just beginning — in the White House, on Wall Street, in our war zones, in your doctor’s office. Meet some of the people leading the way, our eighth-annual roster of innovators and renegade thinkers.

56 bill mahaR “What he Won’t say on tv”Bill is outspoken in every medium he’s ex-plored, and he’s certainly explored a lot of them. He tours the country as a stand-up comedian. He’s written a novel (True Story) and now he completely opens up in our ex-clusive interview

168 japan’s coolest gadgets

A high-definition TV you can carry in your pocket. A remote you talk to. A dongle for bringing HDTV broadcasts to your laptop while you’re on the go. Sound great? Too bad, because you’ll have to cross an ocean to get them.


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The crowds at this years SXSW festival gives hope for the future of the music industry

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CREATED A VISIONARY NEW SOUNDAn in-depth look at how they began.

In a rare face to face interview at their Scottish retreat, Boards Of Canada break their self-imposed isolation to scotch the myths that have coalesced around them.

The Bass Rock is barely visible in the late summer heat-mist, lying about three miles off the deserted coast near north Berwick. The crag rises 350 feet out of the turquoise sea, and faintly visible against its sheer cliff sides is a white lighthouse. a millennium and a half be-fore the light was set on the rock at the beginning of the last century, a lindisfarne monk, st Baldred of Bass, lived a hermit’s existence alone on the island, shuttered in a rain-lashed cell to confront alone his god and, doubtless, his demons too. Today gannets are the island’s sole visitors, as well as the occasional tourist boats ploughing through the surf to visit the martyr’s chapel.

as i crunch along the Ravensheugh sands with Boards Of Canada’s mike sandison and marcus eoin, the guanostained Rock takes on a mythical hue: the distance and the sea mist cause it almost to melt into thin air, the wraith of a giant white molar on the horizon. There’s a moby-Dick quality to it - you could spend a lifetime staring at it but it would remain eternally out of reach.

“When i was a kid, about five or six years old,” mike sandison is say-ing, “a relative of mine had one of those tacky ceramic owls on their mantelpiece, and it had multifaceted diamanté eyes. i was totally obsessed with these sparkly glass eyes, for ages. i felt like looking into them was like looking sideways through everything, right through time. That’s what we’re trying to do with our music.”

When you think about Boards Of Canada, the idea of hermits is nev-er too far away. For the best part of a decade and a half now they have dwelt in what appears to be - to a london/urban-centric media, anyway – an isolated wilderness in scotland (in fact, they’ve always lived within a half-hour’s drive of the capital city edinburgh, not in the Highlands, as is often reported). Their interviews have invariably been conducted by e-mail. since their wistful, queasily nostalgia-soaked electronic music began to appear in the mid-90s, they have only done a handful of face-to-face interviews, none of those on home turf. Care-ful managers of their own public image, even today their homes and studio are out of bounds, but they do willingly and generously drive us all over the stretch of coast and countryside that‘s close to the place they call home. until recently they lived in the pentland Hills, south

west of edinburgh; without much fanfare they have moved eastwards since then, into the flatter terrain of east lothian. “We’re not far away from where we were before,” explains sandison, “we relocated, but we’re trying to let that slip by without anyone knowing about it, be-cause we felt that if we made a big deal of it, it would start that whole thing again of the geography being more important than - the music.”

“i always got this feeling that people were saying, ‘because they were surrounded by the pentland Hills, this is why their music sounds this way’,” sighs eoin. “and i don’t really like that, because it’s almost like saying, ‘you’re just like anyone else, and it’s just because you happen to be there’. That’s unfair - it’s not giving you credit for actually just doing music the way you want it to be.”

For better or worse, the Boards’ ‘secrecy’ has endowed them with enigmatic status; the relative media silence has opened a space in which fans can speculate, myth make, invent and interpret to their hearts’ content- much of which happens in chat rooms and message boards, thankfully well out of harm’s way. But the pair certainly moni-tors these discussions and while they don’t take part in them, they do seem somewhat confounded by the kinds of rumors that have got out. as eoin says, “lf there’s no apparent facts or information about you, then what happens is stuff just floods in to fill that gap, and very often it’s basically a flood of bullshit that fills in your silhouette. and we’ve really suffered from that.”

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The West’s Best WinesThe best bottles and winemakers to watch for. We sipped until we found them all.

Our panel blind-tasted more than 180 bottles in three price categories. California is producing more and more amazing wines, and they’re not all Chardonnay.

steal oF the yeaR deep pocKetspecial occasions

Dry Creek CheninBlanc 2007aromas of honeysuckle, banana, orange peel and tropical fruit burst forward.(Clarksburg; $12)

nickel & nickelMedina Chardonnay 2006The wine shows brilliant acidity and tangy green apple flavors, enriched with spicy, smoky new oak.(russian river valley; $45)

Brassfield estate CabernetSauvignon 2005There are lovely layers of cedar and cigar box surrounded by a roundness and soft tannic structure that lead to a lingering finish.(Monte sereno; $55)

ancient PeaksZinfandel 2006 Juicy flavors of raspberry, brambleberry, and black cherry unfold along a broad, seamless texture.(Paso robles; $14)

Clos LaChancegrenache 2005notorious for its berry, cocoa, and vanilla flavors and aromas. Has enormous affection for food(Central Coast; $30)

hanzellChardonnay 2005White flowers, pear and apple scents emerge as the wine opens.(sonoMa valley; $65)


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Tech Wars! The verdict is in, Amy Zunk rates the Top 10 Gadgets, find out who the Winners and Losers are.

vs.Apple ipad hp slate

5 Biggest LosersZuneIt’s a clear number two in the mp3 department behind the iPod Touch, if that.

OLyMPuS Fe-45An Expensive Paperweight. The worst digital camera ever.

wInDOwS VIStaAny operating system that provokes a cam-paign for its predecessor’s reintroduction de-serves to be classed as terrible technology.

SOny BMg MuSIC CDS Sticking the CD into your computer would turn your PC into a hacker’s delight. What were the thinking?

OQO MODeL 1 PaLM-SIZe PCWorld’s smallest Windows XP computer—that was a big part of its problem. It ran hot to the touch, and at $1900 it could easily burn a hole in your wallet.

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