news briefs about punk culture; show and record reviews; interview with Patrick Miller; article on breakup of Flipper; comics; profile of Toiling Midgets; an account of the third annual Eastern Front Day on the Dirt Punk Extravaganza in Berkeley's Aquatic Park; account of the murder and legacy of Jamaican dub poet Michael Smith; Puncture magazine reader survey results; review of book by rock writer Philip Norman; review of Richard Farina's reissued novel "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me"