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Cover:
Shooting San Francisco
How Hollywood maligns Our Fair City.

House of Cards: Y2K fortune telling.

Tara's Advice: Tara takes on Gandhi and Jan Brady.

1:15: Gossip columnist C. Silo.

Frisco Utopia: Parking abundance.

Art Damage: Billboard deconstructionists.

Dreaming Out Loud: Halou synthesizes motherhood and Marin into postmodern lullabies.

Music Picks: Reviews of the latest CDs by OM records, Mumblin Jim and Bowling Green.

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

Muscle Relaxant: Bending over backwards for corporate massage.

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

Concrete Runway: Karen Evans at Sutter & Mason.

Go to Sleep ... It's Just Talk: Relax ... It's Just Sex never comes close to climax.

Film Picks: Reviews of Compulsive Repetitions: An Evening With Martin Arnold and the Lenny Bruce retrospective.

Road Tripping: On the road and online with the Cyberbuss.

Southern Exposure: South of the Equator delicacies North of Market.

Millennial Fever: Andrei Codrescu's Messiah takes on a bevy of would-be saviors.

Book Picks: Reviews of the latest books by Kevin Baker, Meg Wolitzer and Lee Server.

Divine Decadence: The Untamed Stage reclaims '20s Germany's sultrier side.

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