Check out Boulevards' Guide to San Francisco

Cover: Spring Fashion
Medicating yourself for the new millennium.

House of Cards: What's in the cards for Critical Mass.

Tara's Advice: Tara helps keep the blues to stay.

1:15: Gossip columnist C. Silo.

Frisco Utopia: Hank Hyena promotes literacy.

Job Interview: A model subject.

Beaucoup Beats: Underground unleashes beats fit for Ecstasy-filled evenings.

Music Picks: Reviews of the latest CDs by Blur, Trance Mission and Friends of Dean Martinez.

Club Guide: Disco divas, hip-hop connoisseurs and salsa suaves to flannel-clad pinball players, jazz luminaries and more.

Cannabis Cosmetics: The Body Shop waxes elegant on the wonder of weed.

Miss Pinkie Shears: The debonair miss gives her fashion advice.

Concrete Runway: Gary Burns at Bay & Stockton.

Good and Good For You!: Metropolitan's top picks for the San Francisco International Film Fest.

'Go' Figure!: A teensploitation flick that's finally worthwhile.

Film Picks: Reviews of Storefront Hitchcock, San Francisco Sex Workers Film and Video Festival and SLC Punk!.

Naughty Habits: For fun, there's nun better than the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Love at First Bite: First Crush's vinocentric menu is an equal blend of the complex and the clever.

Dark Carnival: A new book and CD expose thrill seekers to the shocks and shivers of the new millennium.

Book Picks: Reviews of the latest books by Sister Souljah, Thomas Wiseman and Janice Deaner.

Please don't forget to write! The Metropolitan welcomes letters. Like any great work of art, they should be originals--not copies of letters sent elsewhere. Include address and daytime phone (for verification purposes only). Letters may be edited for length and clarity or to correct factual inaccuracies known to us. Postal: Metropolitan Letters, 1776-A 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94107. Fax: 415/487-9094. Email: [email protected]. Emailers, please include name, city of residence and phone number. Letters printed will list email address unless otherwise specified. Letters to the editor are not currently published in the online version of this paper.