Cover: Purple Gold
Like the legendary '49ers, wineries have come to northwestern Sonoma County looking for gold--but this time it's small, round, and purple.

News: Art Derails
Cultural Arts Council jumps the tracks.

Critic's Picks: A guide to the week's best arts, theater and music events.

There's Still Hope: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival explores all sides.

Sounds Weird: Is it music, theater, or demented performance art? Whatever it is, the indescribable Towne Dandies are having a lot of fun doing it.

Radical Adults: Crow's feet and all, Sonic Youth still manage to make beautiful noise.

Just Folk: Brit folk box spans 40 years of acoustic music.

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

Pie of My Eye: As easy as what?

Going Down: 'Orpheus Descending' fails in style.