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Wartime profiteers of the digital age
Are computer-security companies cashing in on fears of terrorism?
By Annalee Newitz

In this issue
By Tim Redmond

Hall Monitor
By Savannah Blackwell

First, the Bad News
By Cassi Feldman

Wartime profiteers of the digital age
Are computer-security companies cashing in on fears of terrorism?
By Annalee Newitz

The long March
S.F.'s progressive reformers helped win the city attorney's race. But the big test will come in the March elections.
By Savannah Blackwell

Is growth inevitable?
Regional planners predict continuous Bay Area expansion
By Rachel Brahinsky

Out of the furnace but ...
IES incinerator shut down, new owners plagued by environmental woes
By A.C. Thompson

Directing traffic
A look at the FBI's computer surveillance scheme.
By A.C. Thompson

He's no flake
One San Francisco man takes on the makers of dandruff shampoo
By Cassi Feldman

Life during Wartime
Destroying Afghanistan to save it
By Rachel Brahinsky

BART's reefer madness
By Tim Redmond

Newsom's fingerprint folly
By Tim Redmond

Take back the Presidio!

Opinion
The enduring war
By john rodgers and christopher d. cook

Après 9/11
Notes on a Paris falling out of love with Amélie.
By B. Ruby Rich

Holiday Guide

Royal ties
Wes Anderson scores a holiday Fila la la.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Sex and the single hobbit
Peter Jackson commits the spectacular sin of literalism with the first installment of The Lord of the Rings.
By Paul Reidinger

Tomes change
By Patrick Macias

In the mood
Shotgun Players offer a timely There Will Be No Trojan War.
By Brad Rosenstein

Broke at Tiffany's
Doing patriotic duty – window-shopping with William Marshall of Octavius.
By Amanda Nowinski

Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
Dec. 15, Cafe du Nord

liner notes
Forever young
By Lynn Rapoport

Grab it while you can
By Amanda Nowinski

'Ali'
Give it a fighting chance

'Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now!'
Through Jan. 19, Babilonia 1808

Grooves

2nd time

The Mix

Featured review
Big-flavor country
By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Wine spotting
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Bye-bye birdie
By Dan Leone