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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Section Tomorrow: Throwing tips Dr. Warren G. Harding means not the slightest i offense he intends to prevent injury when i he uses the term "throwing like a girl." Television 3 Comics 6 Puzzles 7 Editor: Sara Pearce, 768-8495 Fax, 768-8330 Tuesday -April 13, 1999 TEMPO H3 'Salon5 Web site moves into the realm of reporting Salon's stable of "cud-chewing Salon seems to have its pulse I 7 I I ii 1 been getting to the site by book-marking Salonmagadne.com or salon.net or salonl999.com, the address the site launched with in 1995. Salon took over the Salon, com address April 5 and launched a redesigned site that separated content into areas including news, arts, technology, health, books and the popular "Mothers Who Think." This makes stories easy to find. And the stories are worth finding whether it's breaking news or David Ratoff or Michelle Goldman deconstructing Gwyneth Paltrow.

Now, the site is among the top 500 sites on the Web and seems to have reporters doing real reporting. The Kosovo coverage is just another high point in what was a big week for Salon. Founder and CEO David Talbot finally wrestled away the Salon.com Web address (with a promise of stock and an undisclosed payment) from Roy Fred-erickson, owner of two beauty salons in Austin, Texas, who had hoped to develop a portal for the hairdressing industry. Previously, the 1.2 million monthly Salon junkies have turing and understand what really is happening to the displaced people of Kosovo and the bomb-weary residents of Belgrade (www.salon.comnews). Salon's coverage of the war has a breadth and depth unexpected of a non-traditional, Web-only publication.

This news coverage is a strong showing from Salon, which stormed its way into the Web news business last year with sensational and, some say, biased coverage of the Clinton sex scandal and its 30-year-old revelations of an affair by Rep. Henry Hyde. BY FRANCES KATZ Cox News Service "The cruelty is unimaginable," writes Laura Rozen, who is covering the war in Yugoslavia from nearby Macedonia for online Webzine Salon.com. Ms. Rozen is an excellent storyteller, and her reports of the tragedy of the Kosovars businessmen, secretaries, housewives, blue-collar workers and schoolchildren suddenly stripped of everything but the clothes on their backs are riveting.

It's a must-read for those who want to go beyond political pos pundits" who write for the magazine, combined with the "cud-chewing pundits" who post messages to Salon 's Table Talk and who log onto one or more of the 200 discussion groups on the Well (the celebrated online community Salon acquired last week) could make Salon a salon. The artists, writers, technology geeks, academic types and other deep thinkers who populate the Well will now be able to "chew their cud," about the news and trends of the day the same topics covered in Salon. on what people are talking about, thinking about, wondering about or might actually be doing, as is the case of Thomas Scolville's workplace serial "Silicon Follies" (www.salon.com 21st follies about abouthtml). Mr. Talbot says he knows his boutique publication can't compete with massive newsgather-ing organizations, but as fhe staff continues to go where the news and pop culture are heading, he may have found the secret to making content profitable.

To paraphrase James Carville: If the interactivity, stupid. I Tom Petty Color her clothes well-coordinated Little monsters conquer U.S. kids with video games, a TV show, plush toys and more on the way BY REON CARTER The Cincinnati Enquirer Each Tuesday, the Enquirer spotlights a Tristate resident who has distinctive fashion flair, whether it's with clothing, accessories, hair or makeup. This week we're looking at: Betty Stegall, 63, of North Avondale. Occupation: Retired three shoes." Earliest fashion memory: "My mother and I getting dressed up for Easter.

My mother and grandmother loved clothes, too. Though they couldn't afford fhe type of things I have now, what they had looked good." Fashion fetish: "Hats! I love them. All kinds of hats. Can never have enough. I have about 200.

But as much Tom Petty still young at his art BY LARRY NAGER The Cincinnati Enquirer Rock 'n' roll dead? No way. For proof, look no further than veterans Tom Petty the Heartbreakers, who today release their best album in almost 20 years. Co-produced by Rick Rubin (who produced the singer's 1994 solo album, Wildlowers) Echo mixes the various personae the singer has adopted since coming on the scene in 1976, the early days of punk and new wave. "Room at the Top" opens the 15-song disc in laid-back folk-rock mode. Crooning over a bed of gentle electric guitars, Mr.

Petty plays a rejected lover seeking solace in TJ 1 as I love hats, I nave one ru'e-1 i i years ago trom Shriners Burns Institute, where she worked as a Sfrfe JLiGcu. for 23 nurse never wear really big hats in the evening. That's just another one of those idiosyn years. Describe 1 if 1 xl I I i ALBUM REVIEW TOM PETTY THE HEARTBREAKERS Echo Warner Brothers; $17.99 CD; $10.99 cassette a room wnere everyone can have a drink and forget those things that went wrong in their life." But just when it seems we've heard this before, in comes guitarist Mike Campbell's BY REON CARTER The Cincinnati Enquirer Do you think Pikachu is the sound a sneeze makes? When you hear "master trainer" does your style: "Dressy, but very traditional." You're most likely to be seen dressed for: "Church. (Cathedral of Praise Church of God in Christ in Mount Auburn).

My wardrobe is built around it because I spend a lot of time there. I like suits and coordinating hats, bags and shoes." Thou shah not "Mix colors. For me, everything has to be the same color. It looks more pulled together. For example, I would never wear black shoes with a red suit, though I know the two can go together.

Color matching is an idiosyncrasy of mine." You approach tone-on-tone clothing shopping like: "Grocery shopping. It's easier to get everything at once. When I buy the outfit I immediately look for the matching bag, hat and crasies of mine." If you could ignite a comeback for a particular fashion item it would be: "Gloves. I love gloves. The kind worn as an accessory to an outfit Right now, most of my glove coDection is leather in crayon colors, but I'd love to wear more cloth.

White gloves add a nice finishing touch." Style icons: Diahann Carroll and Lena Home Those are two of the classiest ladk-s. They are sharp." Favorite designers: "Ellen Tracy for clothes and Jack McConnell for hats." Favorite place to shop: "Anywhere that has something I want" You wouldn't be caught dead in: "Skirts with slits. IH buy a skirt with a slit and take it right out to get fhe slit (closed). I just don't like them. I'd have to be dead to be seen in one And slits can cause you hissy fits because: "The truth?" (Chuckles) "I've got skinny legs." Richard Simmons come to mind? If so, you're out of the Pokemon loop.

Pokemon, pronounced POH-kay-mohn, is short for pocket monsters, the hot little Japanese imports that have captured the imagination of kids particularly boys age Thermos will roll out a collection of Pokemon and up. hard- and soft-side lunch boxes just in time for back to school. barrage of crunchy chords, and the song starts to sound like Pearl Jam backing Neil Young. From there, the song alter-; nates nakedly emotional verses love me. I'm not so bad, and I love you with the defiant chorus, "I got a room at the top of the world tonight and I ain't (pause) comin' (pause) down." i.

"Counting On You" moves to the sort of simmering strut that's a Heart-i! breakers trademark. "Free Girl Now," the disc's debut single, goes back to fhe garage, with a reckless, three-chord riff that rocks harder than any Heartbreakers record since the early Deep country mode Then the disc takes a hard left, veering into deep country mode with "Lonesome Sundown," complete with sweet harmonies and twangy guitar. "Accused of Love" sounds like early Petty, a bouncy bit of Brit-inspired pop-" rock driven by cheesy new wave organ and a 12-string guitar solo that channels A Hard Day's Night-era George Harrison. The title track is a lyrical, Dylan-esque ballad of resignation and long strategies will be stamped on more than 50 million packages of Oscar Mayer Lunch-ables starting this month. A full-length animated feature thing shoved down their throats by adults.

They've already developed a relationship with the characters, so all the merchandise available will rive them more options to 1 Do you know someone with extend their play experience. film is due in theaters later this Brian Wolter, 8, ot Alexandria, has no trou I i ble getting out of Poke-mania is here: Pokemon, the top-rated syndicated TV program shown in this area at 6:30 a.m Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. Sunday on Channel 64, will begin airing 11 times a week this fall. Nintendo has sold 1.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges since the cartridge was introduced in the United States last September. The Wizards of the Coast report that 400,000 packs of its Pokemon trading cards were snapped up in less than six weeks.

Hasbro's Pokemon action figures have been flying off the shelves faster than the company can ship them. a distinctive style? Or are you the one making the statement? Send nominations to Real Style, Cincinnati Enquirer, Tempo, 312 Elm Cincinnati 45202; fax 768-8330. Include your name and daytime phone, and this information about the nominee: name, age, daytime phone and why he or she should bed on school days. He has to be in front 'of the televi year. Soon parents will have to dig deeper in their pocketbooks for Pokemon key chains, underwear, gloves, hats, towels, bed linens, clocks, watches, temporary tattoos, school supplies, sion by 6:30 for his dose of Poke-power.

be featured. His Game Boy Children's Pokemon sneakers ($12.99) by S. Goldberg Co. Inc. will be available at major retailers in June.

keeps him going between ing for people and relationships mat don't survive, leaving a "sad echo" episodes. Pokemon creatures, game play tips and sneakers, socks, comic books, lunch boxes and backpacks. Early-morning dose "Kids found Pokemon for themselves," says Chris Byrne, editor of Playthings Market Watch, a toy industry newsletter. "It wasn't some- "It's fun because I can watch Ash (a character from the show) catch his Pokemon, then I can try to catch some myself," Brian says. "I play with my Game Boy all the time.

It's not boring yet" Others say Pokemon has caught on because it combines the hightech aspects of the Tamagotchi virtual pet, the adventure of role-playing card games such as Magic, the Gathering and fhe collectible appeal of Beanie Babies. Hasbro plans to "retire" some of its action figures as new ones are introduced, a la Beanie Babies, says Elizabeth Gross, vice president of marketing for (Please see POKEMON, Page C2) Betty Stegall is wearing a coral suit by Chad Stevens and a matching coral straw hat by Michael B. for Mysha. )Y Blastoise is one of Basic Fun's five Pokemon key chains ($4.99) that will be available in stores next week. behind.

But Echo is most of all an album of survival, a testament that at 46, after a lifetime fronting bands, Mr. Pettys not ready to abandon rock 'n' roll. He "Echo" with "Won't Last Long," a 'mid-tempo rocker with the resilient chorus, "I'm down, but it won't last long." That's the theme of Echo "beat-fup but not beaten." Boxing references run through the disc, "I went down hard, but I got up again," he sings in "Billy the in "Swingin'," it's Vent down swingin'." Production helps When Bob Seger started feeling his birthdays, the results were often maudlin exercises in empty nostalgia. But Mr. Petty's music retains its youthful bite, thanks in part to Mr.

Rubin's modern production. Echo closes with the slow and soulful "One More Day, One More Night" "One more night, God I've had to fight, to keep my line of sight on what's real." But that's the only way to do it, he acknowledges with the chorus, "So hold on one more night, hold out one more day." With its songs of experience burnished with a rebellious edge, Echo is one of the best mainstream rock albums in years. Don't miss it The Cincinnati Enquirer Joseph Fuqua II. 'Daddy Don't' takes tough look at sex abuse heads. Youth Opportunities iii'u 'J? emerges from the experience.

April 21-23, the book will be transformed to a one-woman theatrical monologue on the stage of Memorial Hall, a collaboration among friends who have been touched by the powerful story. The play debuts during National Child Abuse Awareness Month, and its opening night performance is a fundraiser for the non-profit youth During counseling in her 30s to come to grips with the sexual abuse, Ms. Sowels wrote a series of letters to her now-deceased father. In 1993, she self-published the letters as a book, Daddy Don (Kehori Publishers; $7). It's a simple, poignant, powerful and touching look at abuse through the eyes of a fearful child and the woman who something entirely different Ms.

Davis is the actress who portrays a Holly she never knew the little girl who was sexually assaulted and abused by her father from ages 5-12, the young woman who struggled for years with the painful scars of that abuse and the woman who finally managed to tell her story to others so that she and they could begin healing. BY SUE MacDONALD The Cincinnati Enquirer Holly Sowels of Clifton and Glenda Davis of Bond Hill have been friends for 11 years. They attend church together. They've watched their respective sets of twins Holly's girls, Glenda's boys grow up together. But their latest endeavor is Excellent Good Fair Poor (No Stars) Bomb While the book was a series of letters to an abusive father, the play is a monologue in a therapist's office, with the audience sitting in as universal therapist "1 didn't think it would be (Please see DADDY, Page C2) Jim Knippenberg's Psst! column will return on Thursday Holly Sowels.