Cover: Blue Genes
Common livestock breeds are vanishing at a rapid rate. The few strains the world depends upon for food and clothing belong to a few corporations.

Talking Pictures: Monologist Josh Kornbluth sizes up Kenneth Branagh's enthusiastically wordy adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.'

No Slack of Paradise: Smack in the middle of the wettest Santa Cruz winter in decades, slack key legends George Kuo and Rev. Dennis Kamakahi bring the real spirit of Hawaii to Palookaville's door.

Notes From the Underground: Gherkin, Ghoulies enthusiastically rock the masses.

Prophet Motive: You may disagree with James Redfield, but it's no sweat off his paperback.

Bad Body Hair Day: Actor Paul Henri turns a one-man show into a revelation.

A Moon in Saturn: As old as the planets, as new as a sunrise, Westside SC's Saturn Cafe aims its telescope on another delicious voyage of discovery.