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Features: There's Something About Matt
San Francisco shooting star Matt Leutwyler flies high on the strength of his first two films, Road Kill and The Space Between Us.

Tara's Advice: Tara deconstructs the language of HOT.

SFupernatural: Everything's coming up roses.

1:15: Gossip columnist C. Silo.

Left Coast Girl: Mandatory eating.

Frisco Utopia: Hank Hyena has big plans for San Francisco's feathered rats.

Absolutely Flabulous: Marilyn Wann says it loud--she's fat and she's proud.

Mega Beats: The Internet bytes the future of electronic music.

Deep Six: Pete Glikstern, creator of the Liquid club, hits another winning number with Six.

Music Picks: Reviews of the latest CDs by Plastikman and various artists.

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

Beauty 411: A lipstick road test.

Visual Merchandising: Propaganda's products create a store's atmosphere.

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

Concrete Runway: Amy Olson at Polk Street.

Modern Gothic: Lynn Hershman Leeson's Conceiving Ada.

How the West Was Wayne: The Hi-Lo Country redeems the Western myth in all its troubling complexity.

Film Picks: Reviews of Another Day in Paradise, Une Air de Famille, Strike and Metropolis.

Ma Vie en Rose: Piaf's creates the perfect setting in which to serenade that special Valentine.

Deconstructing the Tube: Matthew Sharpe's pointed short stories needle the medium of television.

Book Picks: Reviews of the latest books by David Ehrenstein, Irini Spandou and Ellen Hawley.

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