Cover: Catch the New Wave
Star Brigitte Bardot and director Jean-Luc Godard forged an uneasy alliance in the classic 1963 French anti-film, Contempt, now back on screens in a restored print.

News: You Stole My Heart
How unfounded fears about organ donation keep the supply of organs for transplanting scarce. And no, checking the box on your driver's license won't help.

Do-Gooder Love: Mending furniture at the love shack.

Public Eye: Nuevo Mundo vs. local Hispanic press.

Polis Report: How rich is Santa Clara County?

Pecker Parade: Stripping for action in The Full Monty.

Cold Fish: Australian Love Serenade is all wet.

Demi Toss: Author Linda Bird Francke on G.I. Jane and how women in the military represent the front lines in the last Cold War.

Gendered Rock: The Sundays and the Bottle Rockets appeal to polar opposites with new albums.

Wild Things: Power Chords samples the best of guitar rock from the Kinks to Lynryd Skynyrd.

Rhythmic Pulse: Mark Murphy hunts for new audiences.

Audiofile: Reviews of the latest CDs by Manhattan Transfer, Dan Hicks and Bud Ct.

Beat Street: Mr. T. Experience battles Earth, Wind & Fire.

Arbre Day: Restaurateurs send their culinary postcards from L'Arbre de la Vie.

Bargain Bites: Andrew Pham harvests meal deals from the Green Mango.

His Last Duchess: Victorian thief Adam Worth stole a famous Gainsborough portrait and found himself in the pages of Sherlock Holmes.

Walking Tall Tales: Urban legends get the cartoon treatment in the 'Big Book' series.

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