Cover: You've Got Spam
From Internet debris to ads in public restrooms, is no space sacred?

News: The Crush of Progress
County vineyard-planting controls still lacking.

Going Ballistic: More useless missiles. Guess who pays?

Case Study: Tips on buying wine by the case.

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

Nobody's Fool: Talking Pictures guest Rabbi Naomi Levy pans 'Jakob the Liar.'

Midas Touch? George Clooney goes over like a ton of gold bricks in 'Three Kings.'

Boiling Down Sex Boredom is the price to pay for mild titillation in scandalous 'Romance.'

Jubilation! In praise of baritone Jubilant Sykes.

Digital Melancholy: The beats and loops in the songs of Everything but the Girl and Dot Allison create deeply human tales of drifting lives.

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.

Free Form: The Sculpture Jam returns to Sebastopol.

High Faludi: Feminist author Susan Faludi turns her pen on the other sex.

Sex in the City: Newspaper columnist Amy Sohn delivers a sexy new novel.

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