Cover: All Your Base Are Belong To Us
The CIA's great cash giveaway.

News: Sex & Spears
The next Pepsi generation is growing up hostage to America's schizophrenic approach to sex.

Kenneth Cleaver: The Consumer Correspondent strives to get ripped off.

Open Mic: Ride Anxiety.

Geek Girl: Yahoo!'s secret war on porn shreds online communities.

Food for Thought: Food-studies scholars pursue truth at the table.

Myth Busters: The truth about wine.

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

Drug Search: Movie-talk authors look for the hidden moral lesson in 'Blow.'

Tragic Magic: Sven Nykvist film both sad and enlightening.

Lend Me Your Ears: Australian criminal Chopper Read sliced way to fame.

Break Beats: Techno meets mariachi on new CD.

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.

SFJAZZ Spring Season: Five weekends of concerts and films showcasing different jazz instruments and styles.

Healdsburg Jazz Festival: Tickets and lineup information for the third annual event.

Russian River Blues Festival: Ticket information and news about the Guerneville celebration.

Health & Harmony Festival: Belly dancing, environmental expo, patchouli oil, and music, music, music--get the jump on the Health & Harmony Festival, the North Bay's biggest counterculture shindig.

Wrap Act: Reflections on a religious icon and the art of dying.

Immortal Images: Sheila Metzner exhibits her early photos in Petaluma.

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