News Briefs

• by Patricia Lynn Henley

Brush with Greatness

New toothpaste promises weight loss and clean teeth

• by Joy Lanzendorfer

Fight Club

Quick and dirty: Israeli hand-to-hand combat fitness

Scrummed Up

The little-known blood and beer sport of local rugby

Super Men

Just because you're young doesn't mean you're indestructible

Rolling on the River

Don't get the blues, but who will buy all that jazz?

Sound of Things to Come

Peer into our crystal ball and see what 2007 holds in store

• by Sara Bir

Sin-Soaked Boy

Cinnabar delivers a boozing, fighting, fornicating Kurt Weill tribute

• by David Templeton

In a Word

Pop songs still 'Crazy' after all these years

Chain of Command

'A Few Good Men' questions authority

• by David Templeton

First Bite

Sunflower Caffe

• by Michael Shapiro

Pomegranate Childhood

Pomegranates--and their antioxidant-rich juice--are all the rage. For one writer, they contain seeds of love

• by Tara Bahrampour

Morsels

Lemon Love

• by Cheryl Sternman Rule

Go Bots Get Rad

Are you ready for the apocalypse, now?

• by Greg Cahill