Cover Story: Succumb Here Often?:
Pickup artists are using Neuro-Linguistic Programming to drop lines scientifically designed to work every time. Is any barfly safe?

News: Beyond Alito:
The abortion debate—and feminist politics—needs a shake-up.

The Fly: Déjà vu for SJPD chief Davis.

Silicon Alleys: Dennis Erectus: A Monument.

Techsploits: Son of Dotcom.

Rev: Though surveillance can be frustrating for paranoid people like me—I mean, what's next, tickets for jaywalking using facial-recognition patterns to identify us?—technology goes both ways.

Naked Cities: Tracey Snelling and Michael McMillen fashion miniature worlds at de Saisset show.

Computer Lust: At last, Harrison Ford's 'Firewall' gives IT guys the movie they've been dying for.

Bombs Away: 'Why We Fight' documentary looks at 50 years of murderous defense spending.

Listless: The new documentary '24 Hours on Craigslist' is an infomercial for an online swap meet.

All of Me: A singer/songwriter isn't all that Anya Marina is.

Hyphy Nation: I'm in the building and I'm feeling like yeeee!

Book Box: 'The Best of the Spirit,' 'Myself & the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson' and 'Lincoln's Melancholy.'

Can You Believe That Jerk?: Back A Yard brings Jamaica to the peninsula.

Silicon Veggie: Why Veganism?

5 Things: Restaurants Guaranteed To Impress.

Live Feed: Hooters of a Different Kind.

Inheriting The Past: The science vs. creationism controversy won't die in San Jose Stage Company's production of 'Inherit the Wind.'

Quintet: Five women look for a way out of Purgatory in RTE's 'Waiting to Dance.'

New Worlders: SJ Rep's 'Immigrant' tells a familiar tale of arrival.