As pets, pullovers or pronkers, alpacas from the Andes seem to bewitch everyone who meets them.
News: Nüz
Local residents support the proposed Metrobase in theory but want Bargain Barn left intact.
Bruce Bratton: The new Rittenhouse building proposal; Alan Jean Cummings park opens; Watsonville and Santa Cruz city councils hold historic joint meeting.
Work: Yahoo's secret war.
Desert Storm: Landscape is metaphor in the desert ephemera of Judy Tuwaletstiwa's mixed-media artworks.
Jett Propulsion: Joan Jett jets into the Rio Theatre.
Miles Smiles: It's news to Ken Burns, but a stack of new CDs and books proves that Miles Davis contributed as much to jazz as Coltrane and Monk.
The Sounds of Silence: New Music Works worked wonders with its smart new scores for classic films at Reel Time concert last weekend.
Sights & Sounds: Catching up on what went down at last week's Battle of the Bands.
No Dozer: Tormented by insomnia, author Bill Hayes turned his problem into prose in his new book 'Sleep Demons.'
Food Freedom: The tyranny of tofu and other PC culinary trends has dulled our taste buds for too long.
Weekly World Web: Oh no! Fluffy retyped my thesis!