STANDARDS
9 CONTRIBUTORS
12 MAIL CALL
17 ROCKSTAR REPORT
You'll Feel Totally Normal After Reading This
21 STAT ATTACK!
Your Numbers Are Up, Pal
27 GEAR FACTOR
Five Accessories for Your ROCKSTAR Lifestyle
29 CONSOLE CULTURE
The Hottest New Video Games
32 CONTENT JUNKIE
A Quick Fix for Media Addicts
128 LOVE LETTER
Halle Berry—So Hot, it's Scary!
136 PARTING NOTE
Elevator Going Up: The Resurrection of Roky Erickson
FEATURES
44 THE RISE OF TRIPOLI
Funnyman and Wild World of Spike Host Sam Tripoli Gives Us a Mouthful by Katie
Shimer
48 PUTTING THE "ASS" IN "RASSLIN"'
Naked Wrestling? With Carmen Electra? Our Sports Editor Finally Finds Something
to Write Home About by Rick Cipes
54 HAVE A BALL, AND EAT IT TOO!
Raunch, Revelry and Rocky Mountain Oysters at the Testicle Festival by Pete
Bronski
73 BURN, BABY, BURN!
Former Limp Bizkit Guitarist Wes Borland Puts the Past Behind Him With His New
Group, Black Light Burns by Patrick Berkery
88 HIGH AND MIGHTY
Free Soloist Rock Climber Michael Reardon Just Might Be the World's Ballsiest
Man
by Hans Feuersinger
105 BUBBLING OVER
It Takes Some Huge Balls to Participate in Zorbing, a Bizarre New Sport That's Rolling Across America by Lewis Helfand
