Cover: Teen Terror
Surviving the lows of junior high.

Burn Down the Mission: Pillage, conquer, and decimate -- welcome to the 4th grade.

News: Gimme Shelter
The search for solutions to the county's homeless epidemic.

Drawn and Quartered: Doesn't Congress have anything better to do than create commemorative coins?

Slacker Dog: Is Scooby Doo really an icon of Generation X?

Golden State: Painter Millard Sheets' native California.

Dead Beat: In appreciation of the junk and joys of William S. Burroughs.

Bone Daddies: The Boneshakers rattle the Mystic.

Truth & Consequences: Talking Pix gets paranoid about Conspiracy Theory.

Double Pix: Reformed romance novelist Doris Mortman and husband David take in the thriller Air Force One.

Sonoma Sensation: New film festival has big names and high hopes.

Stove Tops: America's top black chefs get cooking.

Fairy-Tale Ending: River Rep's spellbinding Midsummer Night's Dream.