Cover story: Cover stories: What if she's a mermaid?: Talking with Calendar Artist Lee Moyer. By Liz Garlinge "I found a piece of concert footage, thanks to YouTube, and I froze a frame, which was blurry, but it was an upshot, and it was in profile, and no-one had used this before. Mostly when you paint a human being, you're painting a portrait, so you don't choose that perspective. So, thank God for modern research techniques, and hopefully it looks enough like her that people will get that." The Queen of All Media Meets a Favorite Diva: Blogger Perez Hilton Talks to LBW About Interviewing Tori for VH1 Special. By Renee Roberson "I... mentioned that I'd always wanted her to do "Part of Your World" from the Little Mermaid. She said she was inspired to write SATY after she took her niece to see the movie and heard that song." Exploring the Dark Side of "The Waitress": An Interview with Comic Book Tattoo Contributor Ming Doyle. By Renee Roberson "I probably finally realized who Tori Amos was when From the Choirgirl Hotel was released in '98. I knew all the words to "Silent All These Years" from hearing it on near constant radio rotation through elementary and middle school, but "Spark" was a huge hit just as I was heading off to high school. It had a crazily distinctive music video. Of course I can't remember all that much about it now, but the image of Tori Amos stalking bound and blindfolded through a creepy damp forest like the last, captured gasp of a particularly surreal slasher flick fairy tale stuck with me." Feature articles: Covered Girls: Tori and the Art of Reinterpretation. By Alex Ramon Tori's choice of covers has seldom seemed random or indiscriminate, and never like an easy cash-in. In contrast to the American Idol ethos of mimicking the original version of the song as closely as possible, Tori has emphasized that she will only record a cover if she feels that she can contribute something new to it. Lighter Fare: A Musical Adaptation of an Airy Fairy Tale. By Lynne Stahl The Light Princess begins much in the style of Sleeping Beauty, with a well-intentioned but bumblingly incompetent king forgetting to invite his dangerously bitter black sheep of a sister to his newborn daughter's christening. Like a Rolling Stone: Tori's Cover of Angie. By Maureen Paley Of all the songs Tori has covered, there are only a few that made the repertoire when Tori began to see commercial success in the early 90s that she still plays today. Among these is the Rolling Stones' "Angie." She first released it on the Crucify single CD and continues to cover it in concert. This allows long-time fans of Tori's perhaps one of our greatest pleasures: watching her older songs evolve into newer versions of themselves. Her covers are no exception. Raspberry Swirl: My favorite hooker of the whole bunch. Tori's resistance to genre. By Lauren Razavi The relationship between women and music is a baffling matter in itself. In today's popular music world, there are a variety of genres where women can build their careers. The problem is that all of them seem to be based ultimately on a woman being saleable as a sex icon, with their music as a sideline. Twenty Years Ago Today: A look at the artists on YKTR. By Angela Reid [W]hile Tori tends to get the glory for the album which introduced her name to the world, she didn't go it alone. We thought it a fitting birthday tribute to this debut to take a look at its other musical contributors. Who were they, and what happened to them after YKTR? Y Kant Tori Be Tori? By Missy Smith [YKTR] was her first attempt at commercial success. But "the girl and her piano" was nowhere to be found in these early days. Tori was channeling female pop-rock groups like Heart and Vixen because that's what record companies were looking for. Multimedia: Indie: This is the sound of Fall of Snow. by John Higdon Fall of Snow is Stephanie Casey, a film school grad who, after working for several years as an assistant editor on movies such as The Wedding Planner, grew frustrated with the lack of true creative outlet she had in Hollywood. So during her off time, she taught herself to play acoustic guitar, and found that she had a voice for singing. She eventually abandoned her career and took off to continue her education and find her musical voice in the creative scene of Portland, Oregon. Rape, Repression, Resistance and Resilience: A Deep-Sea Dive into Pandora's Aquarium. By Lynne Stahl At a basic level, the title suggests a woman submerged in a container that she can't leave without dying. More deeply, however, it recognizes the abuse of women as eternal and universal scapegoats and victims. PLUS: All the news that's fit to print by Woj.