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Health and Fitness Special
Alternative solutions for the sleepless in Santa Cruz, a visit to Jack Macdonald's "clean well-vite'd place," and inside the movement called NIA.

News & Views: Crime City USA?
Santa Cruz community leaders seek a cure for the uncommon crime wave.

Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Nūz Goes to Prison: All the world's a stage and, for the moment at least, so is San Quentin.

Movie Review: 'Scoop'
Woody Allen gets clever with Scarlett Johansson in this time-traveling murder yarn.

Movie Review: 'Who Killed the Electric Car?'
Hint: It wasn't Al Gore.

Cult Leader
On the importance of being Gary Busey.

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Music and Nightlife Calendar Picks
Our critics pick this week's most interesting gigs: Zachary Patten and the Broads, Brightblack Morning Light, Afrofunk Music Festival, Social Distortion, Reek Daddy, English Beat, Dezarie, Gearoid o'hAllmhurain, Gerald Wilson Orchestra with Kenny Burrell, and On The Spot with Karmetic.

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Dining: Hog Heaven
An organic pig roast reminds us where dinner came from.

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Arts Feature: Fleshies
Part-time punk elves get ready to take back the Jury Room.

Arts Review: 'Guys And Dolls'
Cabrillo's 25th anniversary tour de force is a hit.

Arts Preview: Dao Strom
The writer-musician brings her Polaroid flashbacks to Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Letters to the Editor
July 26-August 2, 2006.