features - Darlings of music fans across the spectrum, Tortoise continues to perplex and inspire with their new album, TNT. Has this Chicago ensemble been pulling the strings all along? PORTISHEAD: THE SAVVY TRAVELLER (Tricia Romano cozies up to globetrotter, Seattle fan and party partner, Geoff Barrow)

shortwaves - AIR, PINK 6, MORGAN GEIST, BEBOP & DESTRUCTION, CRAIG ARMSTRONG

departments - PRINT (Chicago artist Chris Ware: the genius behind Jimmy Corrigan & the Acme Novelty Library) FILM (first-time director Jake Kasdan reinvents the detective hero in Zero Effect), THE FINAL CUT (Ultra Naté, the queen diva of house, gets wise and proverbial), SONIC FIX (Robert Wyatt, Bardo Pond. Mogwai, Fiend One, Grain, Pistel, Lambchop, and loads more)

columns - WHO THE HELL? (you don't know disco if you don't know Sylvester. Kurt B. Reighley revisits the glitter ball vamp), WAX ON PAPER (the feast begins: Deep Dish, Kevin Saunderson, Sir Me