Year in review '99: Apocalypse wow

Dec 29, 1999 at 12:00 am

1999, what a year it was... in fact, it's been quite the millennium, dontcha think? Although MT has only been here for a fraction of the past thousand years, our writers stepped up to write about all of it - but ended up mostly covering the more familiar territory of the past 12 months. Oh well. Twenty-first century, here we come...

Happy New Year from Metro Times!

Add it up
Locally, 1999 proved to be a year of big numbers. Here's a look at the startling figures.

Apocalypse, please
It's the list to end all New Year's countdowns. Presenting our 1,000 reasons why we're glad this millennium is finally over.

Reading the cine-meter
MT film writers zoom in on their favorite flicks of the year - and also offer a few choice pans.

Sound memories
Metro Times' musical aficionados try not to forget a year of fantastic moments.

Y2K this!
A nation rocked, rolled, bobbed and weaved, blissfully unaware that the new millennium was already here. Jack Lessenberry explains.