Playboy March 2006

Features 56 What's Going On Here? - Catastrophic hurricanes like Katrina are only harbingers of extreme climate changes to come. The fate of humanity, not to mention the rest of the planet's animal and plant life, is already in desperate peril - as shown by the facts presented in this excerpt from what may be the year's most important book. By Tim Flannery. 70 The Year in Music 2006 - From veterans lighting up the comeback trail to promising new artists from every genre, the winners in our annual music poll prove that 2005 was abundant with aural pleasures. We also check out the rise of Houston hip-hop, ponder the fate of the New Orleans music scene and reveal which songs members of Smash Mouth, Spoon and other bands were listening to when they lost their virginity. 96 Playing For Keeps - Here are the things to play with when playing's the thing. Our ultimate game room has it all: a pool table that would make Minnesota Fats do sit-ups, a selection of classic pinball and arcade games, pinup-girl poker chips, a chess set made from auto parts, a high-end backgammon set (for when Hef comes over), a table hockey game,a Ping-Pong setup, foosball and more. Don't ever tell us you're bored. BY Joel Johnson. 102 Jeremy Bloom Can't Lose - America's best hope for gold in Turin could be Jeremy Bloom, a freestyle skier so competitive that he plans on making his muscular five-foot-nine physique and model's looks from his MTV gig to the NFL. Meet a man who may have the word limit in his vocabulary but hasn't much use for it. By Pat Jordan. Fiction 78 Sogbo's Wife - An international relief worker assigned to an African village tries to go native. He falls in love with a married woman but soon finds his secret affair threatened by racial and cultural clashes - and a bit of jungle witchcraft. By Tony D'Souza.. The Playboy Forum 41 China Syndrome - Don't blame China for outsourcing. The country is adopting the latest developments in technology so quickly that it attracts enormous investments from global corporations. Yet China is losing large numbers of jobs as well, which goes to show that the creation of a fair global labour market amid pervasive offshore out-sourcing is one of the great challenges of our time. By Andrew Ross. 20Q 112 Franz Ferdinand by Tim Mohr. Interview 112 Kanye West by Rob Tannenbaum. Pictorials 62 Willa Ford by Dave Itzkoff, photographs by Stephen Wayda. 82 Playmate of the Month: Monica Leigh - Miss March photographed by Stephen Wayda. 116 Playboy's 25 Sexiest Celebrities - Jessica Alba, Jaime Pressly, Jenny McCarthy, Halle Berry, Mariah Carey, Holly, Bridget and Kendra, Joanna Krupa, Eva Longoria, Angelina Jolie, Pam Anderson, Tyra Banks, Beyoncé, Denise Richards, Jennifer Garner, Kelly Monaco, Jenna Jameson, Ziyi Zhang, Paris Hilton, Shakira, Jennifer Aniston, Tiffany Fallon, Brooke Burke, Carmen Electra, Scarlett Johansson, Vida Guerra (not all nude). Notes and News 13 Hef's House of Horrors 101 Centerfolds on Sex: Courtney Rachel Culkin- Miss April 2005 hunts for the perfect sex toy and admits to having a weakness for well-endowed nerds. 147 Playmate News Departments 3 Playbill 17 Dear Playboy 21 After Hours 33 Mantrack 39 The Playboy Advisor 94 Party Jokes 131 Where and How To Buy 151 On The Scene 152 Grapevine 154 Potpourri Fashion 106 Rock/Rap/Fashion - Different worlds, different threads. By Joseph De Acetis. Reviews 27 Movies 28 DVDs 29 Music 30 Games 31 Books