Issue #301 has an article on masterpiece performances, which give different kinds of bonuses when you use them. For example, The Blackworm Wiggle is a comedic dance that works like the bardic fascinate ability, but causes a -8 penalty to Spot and Listen checks, and The Blood Tears of Corellon grant a +15 competance bonus to Perform skill checks, but only when playing to elven and half-elven audiences.
There's also rules for creating masterpieces.
Issue #292 doesn't have a lot of ranger information in it per se, but it contains a few ranger-oriented prestige classes, and one article detailing a few of these also touches on how dwarves, halflings, and half-orcs view the ranger class.
Hope that helps.