Cover: Huffing and Buffing
Modern males now feel the way many women have felt for years: highly imperfect and desperate for improvement.

Mythter California: One baby boomer gym convert confesses to feeling good about feeling fit.

News: Nüz
Struggling city department heads claim they can't make it on their $103,000-a-year average salaries.

Bruce Bratton: Flubs and blunders; this week's movies; the SCAN Good Government Forum.

Work: Don't be fooled for a nanosecond by promises of personalization.

Space Race: The Pajaro Valley Gallery has big plans for expansion and the will to carry them out.

Sights & Sounds: Subtle Oak Complexity checks out, Slow Gherkin checks new keyboard players and the Choptops check their heads.

New Age Italian: I Gatti in Los Gatos is worth the drive over Highway 17.

A La Carte: Ask not for whom the dough spins, it spins for thee at Engfer Pizza Works.

Seventies High: 'Jesus' Son' floats lightly through an addict's haze thanks to a star-making performance by Billy Crudup.

Weekly World Web: Planet DotCom.

Comic Urges: Dangerous Neighbors delivers a dose of the absurd in latest production.