Cover: Easy Livin'
Our guide to hot fun in the summertime.

News: Square Deal?
A plan to reunify Courthouse Square draws a mixed response.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Indeed: Disney and McDonald's make a deal with the devil.

The Scoop: Notes from sovereign state of Bob.

Talking Pictures: Agnostic Yale professor Dr. Sherwin Nuland looks at the offbeat biblical comedy Commandments.

Dance Globally: It's a world-music kind of world.

Carny Time: New CDs by Wyclef Jean, Sinéad O'Connor, Prodigy.

Great Whites: Three chardonnays open the season.

Case of the Willies: The grass is always greener when the Bard plays the park.

On the Borderline: Author Joel Simon's Endangered Mexico makes a wake-up call.

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