Cover: Tis the Season
The Bohemian's annual guide to holiday arts.

News: Ticket to Ride
Santa Rosa considers busing homeless back to families.

Beauty & Truth: Art from tragedy at "9.11" exhibit.

Critic's Picks: A guide to the week's best arts, theater and music events.

Good Wizard: Uneven 'Harry Potter' casts reasonably enjoyable spell.

Hogwarts Wash: Once a creature of the reader's imagination, Harry Potter is poised to be the next corporate marketing coup.

Boy's World: Fantasy author Lemony Snicket says girls deserve better than 'Harry Potter.'

On the Run: 'Without a Trace' is an enchanting but tough road movie.

Dead in a Box: Long, strange trip arrives at new box set.

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

Prosperity Consciousness: Let's be candid about the need to find comfort during stressful times ... like right now.

Long View: Fred Curchack surveys his own eventful life in 'Glimpsings.'

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