Cover: Pick and Choose
From the presidential race to the local issues--election coverage 2000 just won't end.

News: Nüz
Club Dakota reopens; agencies and boards line up to sue Cisco over mammoth new campus.

Bruce Bratton: Local election news; this week's movies.

Work: Schizoid man's famous diary holds true today.

Bamboleo's Big Beat: One of Cuba's top Timba groups storms into the Cocoanut Grove this week.

Sights & Sounds: The crowd was more into Halloween than the performers were at Palookaville's holiday rhyming concert.

All Stuffed Up: Maybe if overeager holiday consumers knew the true story of Thanksgiving, they might pass on that second helping of tasteless turkey.

A La Carte: Gyros and other unusual dining treats beckon at the Falafel House.

Look Back at Anger: Helen Garvy's documentary 'Rebels With a Cause' retrieves the history of '60s radicalism.

Spiking Stereotypes: Media treatment of blacks gets sharp sendup in Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled.'

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