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Cover: The Morning After
Eating away at the Sunday-morning hangover.

House of Cards: House of Cards offers advice on finding a new roommate.

Tara's Advice: Tara's readers recline on the couch.

1:15: Gossip columnist C. Silo.

Frisco Utopia: Hank Hyena has a simple scheme for ruining racism forever.

Mind Your Manners: Syndi Seid, founder of Advanced Etiquette, offers the lowdown on acting high-class.

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

Concrete Runway: Erin Pope on New Montgomery & Minna.

Visual Arts Picks: Reviews of 'Francis Bacon: A Retrospective Exhibition,' 'Through a Liquid Mirror' and 'Jim Pomeroy: A Retrospective.'

Celluloid Dreams: Foreign Cinema bistro will offer a feast for the eyes as well as the taste buds.

Life After 'After Life': 'After Life' explores the possibility of a heaven that has run out of funding.

'Witch' Doctors: Metropolitan sits a spell with the directors of 'The Blair Witch Project.'

Film Picks: Reviews of 'South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut,' 'Young and Dangerous: Asian American Cinema on the Edge 1.0' and 'Late August, Early September.'

Somewhere From 'Nowhere': Offbeat Orbital's 'Middle of Nowhere' breaks new territory.

Music Picks: Reviews of the latest CDs by Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Flaming Lips and Echo and the Bunnymen.

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

Home Cookin': Canning 'comfort food' at Blue and Butter.

Neurotica: This summer's new flow of feminine fiction.

Book Picks: Reviews of 'The Bearded Lady' and 'Hot Off the Net: Erotica and Other Sex Writings From the Internet.'

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