Cover: La Vie de Bohème
Why can't Hollywood get avant-garde art right?

News: Wet & Wild
Sonoma County strips Santa Rosans of water rights.

Kenneth Cleaver: The Consumer Correspondent proposes the Granny Gap for the senior fashion market.

Open Mic: Sousa-phobia.

Geek Girl: Old flames and geek-speak thingies.

Comfort Kills: Comfort food--the couch potato of cuisines--reflects the demise of taste, creativity, and culinary adventure.

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

Under the Sea: Novelist Amy Ephron dives into 'Atlantis.'

Robot Oedipus: 'A.I.' is Spielberg at his most conflicted.

Run, Tadai, Run: Iranian teen sprints for freedom in 'The Girl in the Sneakers.'

Rage On: Simon Says play it louder, faster, harder.

Stars and Strikes: A parade of new Americana CDs.

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.

Universe of Walls: Do you see what Nathan Jx sees?

Green 'Grass': Ursula K. Le Guin revives Judy Van der Veer's classic novel.