Cover: Home & Garden

Repair-Impaired: Confessions of a home improvement-disabled male.

Getting Ready to Garden: Tips on starting a new garden.

Living by Design: Sonoma County designer Randolph Johnson brings classical romanticism to home furnishings.

News: Spring Cleaning
Biggest Earth Day ever demands 'Clean Energy Now!'

Usual Suspects: Supervisors select temporary replacement for county administrator.

Chez Comfort: Forestville's Chez Marie is a welcome find.

Border Crossing: Carneros wine appellation is a tale of two counties.

Heard It Through the Grapevine: Get to the root of all things wine.

Manic Attack: Being bipolar in the Bay Area is only a slight handicap. Some folks even think that running in highs and lows makes for genius.

Black Irish: Blarney-filled 'The Closer You Get' doesn't even come close.

Chamber Music: 'Mr. Death' examines curious case of an execution expert blind to consequences.

Parade Rest: Tom Waits joins local bands for a wild experimental ride.

Pop Life: New CDs by Madonna (sort of), Disturbed, plus Harry Nillson reissued.

Get Jazzed: Complete program notes on the San Francisco Jazz Festival's spring season.

SF Club Guide: Disco divas, hip-hop connoisseurs and salsa suaves to flannel-clad pinball players, jazz luminaries and more from the City by the Bay.

Bad Bard: Santa Rosa Players shortchange Shakespeare.

Beatles--Buy the Book: Fab Three reunite for tell-all tome.

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