editor's introduction; newsletter insert; letters; interviews with 97A, Rob Pennington of By the Grace of God, editor of the email zine Creation In Entropy, Better Than A Thousand, Dave Smalley of Down By Law; label Youngblood Records, Culture, Project Kate, Lifeforce, Dwid of Integrity; record, CD, and zine reviews; review of Proof/Turmoil/Earth Crisis show in Sneek, Holland on 5/30/1997; profile of the band Intrude; account of attending the Radhadesh Hare Krishna Summer Festival; commentary on the meaning of straight edge; newsletter insert