Cover: Holiday Arts
Deck the halls, 'cause here comes our selective guide to the season's happenings.

Cinfully Delicious: Calistoga's Cin Cin is devilishly good.

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

Past Imperfect: Rewriting history is just as bad as glorifying it in pop culture.

Cherry Blossoms: On sex and temperament in performative society of the virgin 'Drag Queen.'

Holiday Films: A jaded film critic fails to find a gift under his Christmas tree.

Toys Will Be Toys: Sonoma filmmaker John Lasseter unwraps 'Toy Story 2.'

8MM: Talking Pix takes mystery writer Walter Mosely to the Zapruder film.

'Sleepy' Time: Yawning through director Tim Burton's 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'

Swing of Things: Though the dance craze is mostly done, swing bands keep jumpin'.

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.

Winged Victory: Actors' Theatre hits a new high with 'Angels in America.'

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