Know Your Tenant Rights
If you've ever felt powerless when dealing with your landlord, cut it out. Sunny Andersen explains your tenant rights, including: illegal landlord entry, rental increases, getting repairs made, and eviction 101. Fight the power! Published January 5, 1998.

Relocation: Plan Your Move Before Following Your Heart
Moving shouldn't leave a sour taste in your mouth, and Spike Gillespie, who's made eight moves between five cities, warns that you gotta start with a plan. Published July 28, 1997.

Find the Right Apartment:
To launch the Tripod Moving Guide, the Furman sisters explain the rules and resources for finding the right apartment. To broker or not to broker? What should you ask a potential landlord? And how can the Web make the whole process less hellish? Published March 6, 1997.

What Makes a City Liveable?
Thomas Frank ponders Chicago's aesthetic of decay, and the results of our City Criteria Survey are in — find out just how slackers and road rage converge. Published October 6, 1997.

Literatour: Cultured Travel
If you've ever put down a book or walked away from a movie with the travel bug, then you know what a Literatour is. It's following a hero (or a sleazebag) through a city, or a country; visiting the same bars, fishing in the same streams, and chasing the same dream (or escaped convict). Published September-October, 1996.

The Velveeta Revolution, or Pearl Jam Comes to Prague
Ron Deutsch heads for Prague and discovers Pearl Jam, Michael Jackson, and thousands of other Americans who have descended on Prague to consult, philosophize, sing, and whatever else it is that Americans do. But Deutsch finds the people of Prague pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. Published December 19, 1996.

Verbier, Switzerland: Rich Man, Poor Man
Steve Mencher visits a town in Switzerland that has nothing to offer the middle class. It's for the rich man or poor man, a town best experienced in the extreme. Welcome to Verbier, where they've been dreaming of winter since July. Published October 31, 1996.

How Our Fear of Crime is Killing Us
City crime isn't as bad as you think. Published February 26, 1997.