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Features: Mug Shots
Ten hot solutions to the alcoholic's winter dilemma.

Tara's Advice: Tara talks XY and XX.

SFupernatural: A glowing adolescent.

Left Coast Girl: The end of the world.

1:15: Gossip columnist C. Silo.

Frisco Utopia: Destroy those who defy the pooper-scooper law!.

Unwinding at Japantown Bowl: Life in the slow lane.

A Toss Up: How to do a new hair updo.

Wool Gatherings: Getting crafty at Atelier Yarns.

Miss Pinkie Shears: The debonair miss gives her fashion advice.

Concrete Runway: Kara at Geary and Leavenworth.

Dancing Fool: Joe Goode's hapless antics.

Blow Up Again: The affluent angst of Michelangelo Antonioni.

Film Picks: Reviews of The Boys in the Band, Ultimate Classic Cartoon Show and The Thin Red Line.

Dining Among the Gods: Like a salad fork struck upon a star.

Sonic Sophisticates: Ben Wa's debut CD, Devil Dub, offers classic old-school dub.

Music Picks: Reviews of the latest CDs by Ani DiFranco, Mark Turner and various artists.

Club Guide: Disco divas, hip-hop connoisseurs and salsa suaves to flannel-clad pinball players, jazz luminaries and more.

Caged Heat: Erika Lopez's Pulp Fiction.

A Fan's Notes: Camden Joy's pop obsession.

Book Picks: Reviews of the latest books by Kathe Koja, Toni Graham and Michelle Tea.

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