Cover: Secrets & Survival
Marcia Taylor directs a powerful new play, 'Kindertransport,' about the need to remember.

News: Water to Whine
If last month's water crisis was a test run--we failed.

Bruce Bratton: Save the farm house, build a skate park and meet the mimes.

Winning by Losing: Blink 182 hawks attitude on the Net.

Let Sleeping Novels Lie: Ralph Ellison's 'Juneteenth' is too incomplete for publication.

Embracing Freshness: A plea to consume no food before (or after) its time.

Big and Easy: The dining--from po' boys to beignets--is divine in New Orleans.

Anointed by Fed Ex: Pulp novelist and screenwriter John Ridley hates Hollywood but likes Steve Martin's satirical 'Bowfinger.'

Round of Change: Arctic lovers spiral into coincidence.

Dry but Sweet: Veteran director Eric Rohmer's 'Autumn Tale' springs to life.

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