Retrospective of Silicon Valley 1996

The big mouths of 1996

The media obsessions of 1996

Pop culture in 1996

Hawaiian culture in Santa Cruz

Swing music revival

Guru donates to Clinton

Promoting underground art

Japan's massacre of Chinese during World War II

Pet ID implants

California's marijuana medical law

Is blues music dying or evolving?

Faith as we see it

High-tech gift guide

Art museums online

Life among the homeless

DARE anti-drug program

Bee stings helping MS sufferers

Star Trek First Contact, plus Borg jewelry and a Trek therapist

Canceled TV show cults

Rap poet Amiri Baraka

Choice for Men movement

Real detectives vs. pop-culture myths

Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air

Neal Connerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz

Dictionarys and thesauri

Funeral home work

Cartoon Tick is gayer than Ellen

Live-action vampire gaming

Jack in the Box for president

California's ticking population bomb

Jerry Brown

Developers vs. environmentalists for Bair Island

The ghosts of Stanford tombs

Unscrupulous property owners

Open-mic performances and live poetry

Live-action vampire gaming

Multilevel marketing companies

The real roots of Last Man Standing

Teen Court peer sentencing

Conservation con-job

Java Jive writing contest

The Franklin Mint

Santa Cruz Student Survival Issue, featuring coffeehouses, bicycle sanity and student shopping

Christian men's movement

Alcohol at Mexican heritage festivals

Hyemeyohsts Storm

Democratic National Convention

Murder in Sunnyvale

Carnies at the county fair

A nation of workaholics

An interview with Lili Taylor from Girls Town

San Jose's gay bathhouse

An interview with astrologist Rob Brezsny

Methamphetamine in the 90's

Working the night shift

Computer-assisted typography

Erotic art in SF galleries

Middle-aged pop stars

Vampires in games and for real

Kids learning arts and crafts

An obituary for South Bay musician Kevin Gilbert

An Olympic adventure

San Jose's gaming clubs

UFOs, a leading UFO researcher and debunking the moon landing

X-File meanings, Orson Welles on Independence Day and Jay McInerney on The Arrival

An interview with Supercop's Michelle Khan

Harley-Davidson courts oldies

Did Shakespeare really write those plays?

Repetitive stress injuries

Animal collectors

Utopian communities in Sonoma

Asian eyelid surgery

Divining rods

California fishermen vs. sea lions

Ghosts in Sonoma County

Drive-in theaters

An African American woman's mixed heritage

NASA spending

Evangelicals vs. gay domestic partnerships

Cycling around the Pacific Rim

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Tibet and the Dali Lama

Supreme Master Suma Ching Hai

Waiting on tables isn't easy

Children of hippies

Penile enlargement surgery

Santa Cruz's best public spots for sex

The ultimate blind date

Corporate ad campaigns

Bargain hunting in Santa Cruz

Pot-smoking professionals

An interview with Ian McKellen on his film of Richard III

Satanist turns Christian