Cover: The Housing Crunch
Does Sonoma County have the political will to meet affordable housing needs?

News: Usual Suspects
Highway 101 expansion plan spawns strange bedfellows.

Inscrutable Fruit: Punch up the fruit bowl with these exotic offerings.

Brat Pack: The Wine Brats publish an unsnooty wine guide.

Heard It Through the Grapevine: Get to the root of all things wine.

Boogie Bored: Paul Thomas Anderson pays homage to Robert Altman's 'Short Cuts' in episodic 'Magnolia.'

Lakeside Chat: New business partners set to open Santa Rosa art film house.

Kiss of the Spider: 'Pizzicata' kicks off new series at the Sonoma Film Institute.

Missed by a Hair: Talking Pix host ruminates on the ones that got away.

Ghost Dance: Dead folkie Nick Drake's brilliant return.

Aural Sex: One man's search for the perfect romantic LP.

Audiofile: Reviews of the latest CDs by 100 Watt Smile, Medeski, Martin and Wood and Lee Hazlewood.

SF Club Guide: Disco divas, hip-hop connoisseurs and salsa suaves to flannel-clad pinball players, jazz luminaries and more from the City by the Bay.

Flower Power: Author Susan Orlean's talent blossoms in her new novel 'The Orchid Thief.'

Batman in the 'Hood: Caped Crusader's latest adventure looks too much like real-life war on crime.

Bedtimes: Linn Ullman chronicles the joy and luck of three generations of Norwegians in 'Before You Sleep.'