Life During Wartime
The Bay Guardian's regularly updated section dedicated to war-related news and perspectives from San Francisco and around the world, protest and event information, and web links.

An unwinnable war
Is Iraq the new Vietnam? The comparisons look closer every day.
By Rupert Cornwell

Remarkable achievements
What has this war really accomplished?
By Robert Fisk

Bikes not bombs
Antiwar movement achieves critical mass on the streets of San Francisco every weekday.
By Steven T. Jones

When speech isn't free
Chronicle writer gets punished for antiwar political activity.
By Steven T. Jones

Who's watching the cops?
At a moment of unprecedented crisis, the Police Commission buries its collective head in the sand.
By A.C. Thompson

Last week's issue

• news

Editorial: More police secrecy

Editorial: The new Vietnam

Opinion: Pelosi doesn't represent us
By Tom Gallagher

Power plant row?
A new state report shows S.F.'s electricity grid may not be strong enough to allow the promised shutdown of the dirty Hunters Point plant.
By Rachel Brahinsky

Punch drunk?
Fajitagate cops were blotto, sources say.
By Savannah Blackwell

Monopolies no more
Antitrust bust leads to renewed competition for SF Weekly parent company New Times and Village Voice Media.
By Camille T. Taiara

Shelter shuffle
Sup. Gavin Newsom's Care Not Cash program, packaged as an expansion of services for the homeless, is kicking into gear, and it just might bump thousands of people out of the city shelter system.
By Rachel Brahinsky

Church and campus
University of San Francisco's Catholicism clashes with the reproductive rights of its students.
By Michael Stoll

Elizabeth Walker, 1963-2003
By Tim Redmond

Hall monitor

Alerts

Music: Noise
Tracking the elusive Deerhoof, charting the cool of Ice Cube, and feeling apocalyptic with Future Bible Heroes.

Film: Partners in crime
By Hook or by Crook reinvents the buddy system.
By Lynn Rapoport

Film: 'Phone Booth'
Off the hook.
By David Fear

Art: 'Sewn Together: Graphic Uses of Thread'
By Lindsey Westbrook

Stage: Halfway home
Legacy Codes hits the racist core of the Wen Ho Lee case but misses the mark on doomsday machines.
By Robert Avila

Stage: Randee Paufve and Paufve Dance
By Rita Felciano

Dance: War memorials
Two current dance performances confront troubled times.
By Rita Felciano

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

Full Circle

The Mix

techsploitation
Nuclear trip
By Annalee Newitz

culture shocked
Street theater
By katharine mieszkowski

Dine
The scents of the past
By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Over here
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Chow, Maine
By Dan Leone

Moon Signs
By Sally Cragin

The Blender

Media Beat
Censored: The big U.S. spy story: White House spies on U.N. delegates; U.S. media ducks story.
By Norman Solomon