Cover: Rebele With a Cause
Aptos' Rowland Rebele knows free expression is no free ride.

All's Welles: Local Little Shop of Horrors gets original with Mel Welles.

Art & About: Summertime is just around the corner.

Notes From The Underground: At the Aptos Club, Seattle's Zeke wound down a week of hard-rocking shows.

Return to Paradise: Paradise Sushi matches flavor and freshness in Capitola.

Behind the Lines: Local documentary filmmaker Bob Gliner chronicles societies in flux.

All Bottled Up: Ken Loach turns the camera on a dirty and sober life in My Name Is Joe.

Keep on Truckin': Texans vie to touch the truck of their dreams in new documentary Hands on a Hard Body.

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