In "Mall of the Wild," Hans Eisenbeis explains why he can no longer shop happily; Sam Lipsyte explores the world of public access television; Andrew L. Shapiro explains why he doesn't want his WebTV; G. Beato looks at the Web's "dark alliance" with tabloid TV.

We've just put up the first nominations for our new Feature, "The Ten-Second Top Fifty," our list of the fifty greatest pop music soundbites of all time, sponsored by Music Boulevard.. Write in with your own candidates in the Feedbag discussion area.

Our panel of experts -- FEED's David Greenberg, NYU's Ellen Willis, The Weekly Standard's Matthew Rees, and MSNBC commentator Laura Ingraham -- dissects the Dole and Clinton campaign books in "Between Hype and Hypocrisy."

We've just moved onto Round Three of our Dialog on women icons, "Becoming Her," featuring Katha Pollitt, Nancy Friday, Bram Dijkstra, Hilton Als, and Martha Sherrill -- sponsored by Wired News. As always we encourage you to post your thoughts in our discussion area.

In the Filter Five, Lisa Carver describes five women icons. In the Filter section: the radical left shuffles paper in Brooklyn; the World Series according to the Wall Street Journal; the dead air during the Clinton/Dole debate.