Cover: Kids & Guns
How the NRA and gun manufacturers are targeting your kid.

Understanding Gun Violence: Join Together Online, a project of the Boston University of Public Health, provides community resources for those trying to make sense out school shootings.

Up to the Task?: See how your kids' school did in the state Standardized Testing and Reporting program.

Field of Dreams: Acre offers a blossoming menu.

Visionary Engineer: Iron Horse winemaker on a vision quest.

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

Pigs in Space: High-flying author Randy Blume brings Kermit & Co. down to Earth.

Feeling 'Blue': City slickers learn lesson in 'Desert Blue.'

Back to School: 'Detention' offers a dark look at education.

Steel Breeze: Carlos Santana returns with an incendiary new CD.

Hicksville, USA: New Gram Parsons tribute tops alt-country hayride.

Limping Along: Limp Bizkit prospers by keeping it simple--too simple.

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.

'Buffalo' Girls: Frothy fun at Actors' Theatre opener 'Moon over Buffalo.'

Funny Lady: Paula Poundstone keeps the offbeat humor coming.

Radio, Radio: The KPFA/Pacifica legacy is the subject of a new book.

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