Cover: Westside Horror Story
For two decades, Tobey's Rasp Service on Mission Street flooded the neighborhood with toxic waste and threatened the lives and health of workers like Marcus Banuelos, Mark Cummings and Frank Medina.

Night Howl: Performance artist Bruce Lee travels through space and time for a surreal evening of experimental theater.

Return of the Story: From the Catskills to the Monterey Bay area, storytelling is enjoying a renaissance, thanks to the tales of Donald Davis.

Me and Moby Dog: Stalking an unflinching beast and his indiscriminately loyal companion.

Mystic Without a Monastery: Caroline Myss, energy medicine healer and author of the book Anatomy of the Spirit, offers an alternative to conventional and many New Agey methods of healing.

Toast of the Coast: Creative Mexican seafoods stay zesty at Palapas in Aptos, where the views alone justify lingering at the edge of heaven.

Scales of Justice: Director Finn Taylor' skewed buddy film resurrects Berkeley in the early '70s.

Face the Music: Evaluating John Woo's latest on the eve of 'the handing over.'