My own private Noise Pop
By Lynn Rapoport

Noise Pop 2003

Sweet on Noise Pop
By Kimberly Chun

Free kitten
Cat Power channeled the spirit of Good Will Hunting – go figure – corralled a herd of demons, and then made a superb new album.
By Jimmy Draper

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In this issue

Editorial: Stop PG&E's next bailout

Editorial: A bad PG&E 'partnership'

Opinion: Time to sell your car
By Dave Snyder

On the march
In San Francisco, hundreds of thousands hit the streets.
By Camille T. Taiara

And the race is on ...
Can any of the leading candidates really win? Seven key questions in the S.F. mayoral campaign.
By Savannah Blackwell

Life after the live-work
Fourth and Freelon project raises troubling community planning issues for supes.
By Sarah Faulkner

PG&E's sneak attack
The private utility wants to make you pay for its sleazy campaigns against public power.
By Rachel Brahinsky

Sweeping the debt away
By Josh Harkinson

Hall monitor

Life during wartime

Alerts

Film: Cop out
Dark Blue gets pretty black and white.
By Cheryl Eddy

Music: Illbient communication
S.F. collective Entartete Kunst surface in the Tenderloin.
By Josh Wilson

Dance: Jimmy's blues
Robert Moses premieres a Baldwin-inspired work.
By Rita Felciano

Stage: Vanishing act
Nothing still adds up to something in The Chairs.
By Robert Avila

Stage: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
By Rita Felciano

Art: 'Pre-View'
By Lindsey Westbrook

Correct techniques By Mosi Reeves

Last Exit By Derk Richardson

The Litterbox By John O'Neill

Liner notes By Lynn Rapoport

Extreme Measures By J.H. Tompkins

Sonic Reducer By Kimberly Chun

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Script Doctor

Grooves

Local Grooves

2nd time around

Local Live

The Mix

alt.sex.column
Hey, Slick!
By Andrea Nemerson

techsploitation
You are fat
By Annalee Newitz

culture shocked
Ribbit
By katharine mieszkowski

Dine
Warrin' buffets
By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Wag the tongue
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
The bad luck club
By Dan Leone

Moon Signs
By Sally Cragin

The Blender

In the Public Interest
Credit scam: Why is Congress so intent on helping lenders – and hurting millions of consumers?
By Ralph Nader

Focus on the Corporation
Hide and seek: How the Justice Department keeps white-collar criminal deals secret.
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Media Beat
Prizes for the stinkiest press coverage of the past year.
By Norman Solomon