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Cover: Without Reservation
A guide to SF's most overlooked and underrated restaurants.

House of Cards: A tarot reading on the future of the Mission.

Tara's Advice: Tara turns up the volume on a snorer.

1:15: Gossip columnist C. Silo.

Frisco Utopia: Hank Hyena engages police brutality.

Speaking in 'Tongue': Penelope Houston passes post-punk with her new folk-rock album.

Groundscore: SF DJs represent hard at the '99 Miami winter music conference.

Music Picks: Reviews of the latest CDs by Squarepusher, Soothsayer and various artists.

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

Smash the Past: 'Smashing' relives the century with a retro party decathalon.

Oral Delights: Better loving through powder.

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

Concrete Runway: Fig at Post & Mason.

Waif Until Dark: Élodie Bouchez brings us a taste of heaven in The Dreamlife of Angels.

The Real 'Rent': Director Steven Okazaki discusses the politics of shooting SF's heroin addicts.

Film Picks: Reviews of EDtv, Detroit 9000 and Planet Manson.

Rough and Tumble: Mark Morris' ballet returns to the Bay Area with haute accessories and high energy.

The Chic of the Indochine: We may have lost the war, but Le Colonial resurrects the cuisine of Vietnam.

Dark Carnival: 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.