Cover story: Stuff is Still the Issue, Part 2: A Q&A with Tori's Archivist by Lynne Stahl "[O]ne summer evening, my wife and I took Tori and her sister Marie to the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts. We had lawn seats that evening at the Filene Center to see Roberta Flack perform. I told Tori that night that one day we would be back to see her up on that stage. August 16, 1998, Tori fulfilled my prognostication." Stardust in Our Hands, Part 2: Talking to Neil Gaiman by Liz Garlinge "I just sent Tash some Paul Frank Velvet Underground banana trousers. It's really cool being a fairy godfather because then you can wander into a Paul Frank shop and go, "Those are actual Andy Warhol bananas with bites taken out of them" and I thought "that, that is what she needs!" I felt like I was doing some weird fairy godfatherly duty."

Feature articles: She's a Beauty Queen by Yvette Perez "As Tori herself says in Piece by Piece (pp. 297): "Every person has a public face. The woman who works on Wall Street, the soccer mom, the student at NYU." Carefully crafted or haphazard, we each have a look that bespeaks who we are—or who we hope to be." Sympathy for the Devil by Maureen Paley "So, who is Lucifer? A fallen angel? The devil? Satan? The incarnation of all that is evil? Some suppose that he is all of the above, but Lucifer--literally meaning "light bearer"--is much more than our cultural concepts." Zero Point? It's a Cipher! by Liz Garlinge "This article was going to explain exactly what "Zero Point" was all about and give you some hints so when you listen to it next, you'll understand. That seemed like a great idea until I started researching."

Ask the Expert: Ask the Expert by Nadyne Mielke Collectibles, rarities & Trent Reznor.

Multimedia: Reviews: A Review of A Piano: The Collection by Renee Roberson "During the next few weeks I listened to each disc and tried to absorb the selection of music and what it meant to me as a fan. It was while listening to Disc D that I had an epiphany. As a collector of Tori's music and attendee of many of her live shows, listening to A Piano — and particularly the track "A Sorta Fairytale" — felt to me like taking a road trip with an old friend." The Tori Amos Songbook Buyer's Guide: Scarlet's Walk by Lydia Simon "'I Can't See New York' is a complex arrangement, though not the most technically challenging. Once mastered, the emotional devastation conveyed in the song comes through making it, in this reviewer's opinion, one of the more satisfying arrangements to play in any of the Tori songbooks released to date." When It Finally Clicks by John Higdon "I've almost reviewed Regina twice, the first time going so far as to purchase the album. At the time, though, I didn't know what to think of her, was completely befuddled by her. There were things—about her songs, the way she sang—that frankly annoyed me. It took too much work for me to enter her world."

Ears with Feet: Focus on Brian Weidemann by Beth Nelsen "For a couple years I'd randomly come across one or another of her albums, and I'd check the back to see if that was the one with "Teen Spirit." It wasn't until I found the Crucify single and, because it was a reasonable price, bought the disc that I actually heard it for the first time. She'd found beauty in the melody that just killed me. "Crucify" itself and "Winter" made large impressions as well--which was surprising for me as a hard-rock, guitar-based music fan--and I soon owned every studio album she'd put out."