Cover: Eros' Menu
Isabel Allende tastes the pleasures of feast and flesh.

Male Fridge Oddity: The anthropology of bachelor culinary traditions.

News: Jailhouse Blues
New allegations of abuse surface at Sonoma County Jail.

Bitter Pill: How the Christian right is keeping you from using RU486.

Climbing Up on Capitol Hill: Check up on the your Congressional Representatives and U.S. Senators--where they stand, how they voted.

Suddenly Summer: Our guide to all of the season's hottest events.

Squashed Hopes: The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore CD doesn't make the cut for Gina Arnold; Jeff Buckley's posthumous release includes more unfinished songs than he would have wanted anyone to hear.

Audiofile: Reviews of the latest CDs by Trumystic Sound System, Black Eyed Peas and Randy Travis.

Talking Pictures: David Templeton has an online discussion--with author Patricia Lynn Reilly--about Disney's wonderful new animated adventure, Mulan.

Disastrous Flick: Armegeddon lands like a speeding comet. Can the end be far away?

Hair Today: Michael Fontaine revives a classic '60s musical.

Mountain High: Hello Dolly! is a hit in Glen Ellen production.

I.D. Ideas: Walter Anderson scouts the many manifestations of modern selfhood in The Future of the Self: Inventing the Post-Modern Person.

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