![[Metroactive Features]](gifs/feat468.gif)
![[Metroactive]](../gifs/mabar78.gif){kind=small}
![[whitespace]](../gifs/whiteline2.gif){kind=small}
![[Movies]](../gifs/moviebar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Music]](../gifs/musicbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Art]](../gifs/artbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Events]](../gifs/eventsbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Stage]](../gifs/stagebar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Dining]](../gifs/diningbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Books]](../gifs/bookbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Cyber]](../gifs/cyberbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Archive]](../gifs/archivebar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Features]](../gifs/featbar78y.gif){kind=small}
![[Silicon Valley]](../gifs/sjbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Santa Cruz]](../gifs/cruzbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[Sonoma]](../gifs/sonomabar78.gif){kind=small}
![[San Francisco]](../gifs/sanfranbar78.gif){kind=small}
![[East Bay]](../gifs/eastbaybar78.gif){kind=small}
The end of hip
Return of the Spanish Flu Virus
1997 news retrospective: Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz
San Jose's ex-Mayor Tom McEnery
Faith, hope and charity photo essay
California's statutory rape laws
Bartering among low-paid workers
Sierra Club president Adam Werbach
Skeptic debunks the paranormal
Rock stars at the Phoenix Hotel
Janet Reno and the White House tapes
Sun Microsystems vs. Agnews Developmental Center
Alan Chadwick's Garden at UCSC
Sonoma's Jive 3 writing contest
Santa Cruz student survival issue, including coffeehouses and students discounts
Politicians naming buildings after themselves
Best of the Santa Clara Valley 1997
Revival of Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt
Twenty four hours with the police
Ecosystem report on the Russian River
Neal Cassady's house is demolished
Santa Cruz locals versus "the Valleys"
Professional women's baseball in San Jose
Colonics and internal cleansing
Surviving the lows of junior high
Congress suggests commemorative coins
All about grumpiness, plus, grumps on film and in Santa Clara County and Santa Cruz
The 5th World Congress of Orisa
Professional women's basketball
Who's running the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary?
The killing of a misidentified goat-herder
Who really shot Martin Luther King, Jr.?
San Francisco defies fashion trends
Sonoma County's hi-tech invasion
A Metroactive special report on welfare reform, including California's new reform law, and how Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties are effected; immigrants and food stamps; a photo essay; and inside views from a reluctant welfare mother, a lifelong welfare recipient and a welfare adult without kids.
Homeless living in county campgrounds
Roller derby queen, Ann Calvello
Progressives versus fringe artists
Contract with America mistakes
Dealing with depression, on and off Prozac
Climbing Santa Rosa's urban structures
Censorship in the county library system
Behind the nickname of a Martian rock
Dumpster diving for fun and profit
Historic buildings of the South Bay, past and present and threatened
Hollister's famous biker rally
Organic beer, wine and spirits
Organ donation and organ-harvesting
Girl fights anorexia with punk rock
Milpitas: the city of the future
College grads working behind the counter
African-American mystery writer Walter Mosley
Walks on the wild side Santa Cruz
San Jose International Airport expansion
Zaire's Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
Gay moms raising happy families
Mediterranean odyssey to Crete
The character of Napa wine country
NOW president Patricia Ireland
PBS' Earth Day documentary on nuclear power
Foreign plants species invade the ecosystem
Radio talk-show host and author Shann Nix
An ex-Clintonite on welfare reform
Agnews Developmental Center closes
An interview with Lynne Stopkewich, director of Kissed
Allen Ginsberg tribute, past articles and appreciations by the Metro's editor, a writer and the publisher, plus web links
San Jose politicians' expense accounts
An interview with Fred Willard from Waiting for Guffman
Upset scientists and global warming
Excerpt from The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest by Po Bronson, plus web links
Remembering Earth First!'s Judi Bari
San Francisco's most romantic hotels
African-Americans' academic performance
An interview with Hamlet's Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi
The Sex Issue, featuring a dominatrix, a gay Christian fundamentalist, sexy music, sexy food and a new Kama Sutra
An interview with Sergei Bodrov, director of Prisoner of the Mountains
San Francisco's 50 most annoying people
Corporate influence on the news
Corporations and livestock breeds
H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard
Deep Space Nine writer Robert Wolfe