Cover: Crime Time
Twenty-four hours on the street with the Santa Cruz Police Department.

Out on a Limb: Rockers rally to save the Headwaters redwoods.

Notes From the Underground: Gorehounds and comrades distort their hearts out.

Night Howl: Henna tattooing makes its way from the haunts of Hollywood to the streets of Surf City.

The Feds Dummy Up: Former National Security Council member Philip Corso charges the U.S. military with covering up extraterrestrial encounters and 'seeding' alien technology to unwitting defense contractors.

Blowing the Id Off the Big Top: Montreal's Cirque du Soleil injects existential angst into the '90s circus ring.

Snap, Crackle and Popa's: Softening some of its culinary edges, the bistro that is Popa's fine-tunes its menu, its style and its sense of the delicious.

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