July 24 2002

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Without Reservations
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• cover feature



The Best of the Bay 2002

Readers' Poll

Local Heroes

Neighborhoods

Last week's issue

• news



In this issue
By Melissa Houston

Alerts

Power boost
SPUR committee votes favorably on public power measure
By Rachel Brahinsky

Where the girls aren't
Has the Board of Supervisors become a boys' club? Does it matter?
By Cassi Feldman

San Francisco gothic
Residents of tony city neighborhoods reap millions in U.S. farm subsidies
By Julian Foley

For sale: cabbage, potatoes, and deliverance
By Rachel Brahinsky

Hall monitor

Life during wartime

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Mass mayhem
Peaches Christ rocks twelve o'clock with "Midnight Mass."
By Johnny Ray Huston

'Me Without You'
Identity crisis
By Lynn Rapoport

Stop 'Signs'
When symbolism attacks.
By Cheryl Eddy

Carmen carries on
Senegalese Karmen Gei dances past its censors.
By Susan Gerhard

'Pow! The Power of Women in Illustrative and Sequential Arts'
Through Sun/11, Pond
By Lindsey Westbrook

Fish story
Greater Tuna is as on target today as it was 20 years ago.
By Brad Rosenstein

Correct techniques
Voilà!

Grooves
Jenny Scheinman
The Rabbi's Lover (Tzadik)

Last Exit
Songcatchers

Local Live
Burmese
June 24, Kimo's

Local Grooves
Polar
Out of the Blue (Certificate 18/UK)

Liner notes
Dream scene

2nd time around
Freddie Hubbard
Red Clay (CTI/Legacy)

Script Doctor
California dreaming

Frequencies
Global Lima

By Josh Kun

Tiger on beat
Monster mash

By Patrick Macias

The Mix

 

• culture



alt.sex.column
MIP
By Andrea Nemerson

techsploitation
Women and men
By Annalee Newitz

culture shocked
Orange juice
By katharine mieszkowski

Dine
Sur la hill
By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Meals on wheels

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Omensetter's luck

By Dan Leone

Moon Signs
By Sally Cragin

The Blender

 


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Web Exclusive Features

In the Public Interest
Democracy and the Taft-Hartley Act: The 55-year-old act must be repealed in order to restore workers rights and establish a living wage.
By Ralph Nader


Focus on the Corporation

It's business as usual: Corporate giveaways continue despite talk of reform.
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Media Beat
The old spin on the "new economy":
How the media hyped the economic boom of the late 1990s.
By Norman Solomon

SCA 7: The Open Government Sunshine Amendment
SCA 7 is legislation that would place a Constitutional Amendment on the ballot to allow voters to strengthen the public's right of access to government deliberations and records. SCA 7 would have to pass both the Senate and Assembly by a two-thirds majority before being placed on the ballot. A majority of voters would then have to approve the addition to the state constitution.
01.29.02

The shame of Hearst
Editor's Note
By Bruce B. Brugmann, 11.14.01

 

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Superlist
Northern California film festivals

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Miriam Wolf describes a passel of new photo books, comic collections, and coffee-table books are as easy to give as they are on the eyes. PLUS: Middle-earth in the balance, Land of the free ... agent, and more in December Lit.

Anniversary Issue
The case for MUD: A public power agency could cut electric rates by 20 percent – and still make millions of dollars.