Cover: Fall Arts
New season offers bounty of art, music, dance, and more.

News: Bad Medicine
Industry ads an Rx for trouble.

Kenneth Cleaver: The Consumer Correspondent offers suggestions for updating an old mascot.

Open Mic: Better Dead.

Geek Girl: Secrets of Ms. Gorf.

Second Wind: Christo's 'Running Fence' runs again.

For Art's Sake: The 4th annual Indy Awards.

Arts, Etc.: The Bohemian announces its annual writing contest.

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

Fall Flicks: New season offers the good, bad, and ridiculously weird.

Trans Mission Trouble: A sex-crazed historian sizes up 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.'

Waiting Game: John Hammond delivers the goods.

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

Bring on the Meat! Politically correct dining has cramped our culinary styles.