May 21, 2003
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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.

• cover feature


Swept away
The Mission Creek Music Festival swells its banks.
By Kimberly Chun

Creek dipping
A music fan's selective guide to the Mission Creek Music Festival.

Music with a Mission
The late, great subterranean scene is still alive.
By Josh Wilson

Neck-rophilia
For those who have ears to hear, Nate Denver salutes you.
By Mike McGuirk

The good times
Missing out and finding Vetiver.
By Lynn Rapoport

Burning up the bandwidth
All access with Burn My Eye!'s Virgil Porter.
By Kimberly Chun

Last week's issue

• news & culture


In this issue

Editorial: No juicy deal for URS

Editorial: Don't kill LAFCO!

Opinion: Behind the park battles
By David Looman

Familiarity breeds contempt
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission allows engineering firm to be the top bidder on a contract the company helped create.
By Matthew Hirsch

Homeless days
While politicians spar in the headlines, life on the streets just gets tougher.
By Rachel Brahinsky

Union disunion
Alioto and Ammiano vie for labor support as progressives ponder a race with no Labor Council endorsement.
By Savannah Blackwell

On the road
As a mayoral candidate, Ammiano is the local favorite ... at least in Boston.
By Seth McM. Donlin

alt.sex.column By Andrea Nemerson

Double Team Psychic Dream By Michelle Tea and Jessica Lanyadoo

Techsploitation By Annalee Newitz

Culture Shocked By Katharine Mieszkowski

Hall monitor

Alerts

food & drink


Dine
The moon also rises

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
In crust we trust

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
The Chinaburger

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
One-hit wonders

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Suds al sud

Matt Markovich

Meatless
McBellKing

By Miriam Wolf

Take That
The frying game

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
Fast company

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more

The Blender

• a & e


Film: Thigh-high art
Matthew Barney keeps his balls in the air.
By Chuck Stephens

Film: The exorcist
José Luis Rodriguez conjures epiphanies.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: 'Manic'
Boy, interrupted
By Dennis Harvey

Film: San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival
By Michelle Tea

Music: Labor of dub
United under one groove, and with reverb for all.
By Peter Nicholson

Music: Cynthia Dall
United under one groove, and with reverb for all.
By Kimberly Chun

Art: 'Casa Dulce'
By Lindsey Westbrook

Stage: Halfway house
The three sisters in Chekhov's play long for a future that has passed them by.
By Robert Avila

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

The Void

Local Live

Full Circle

The Mix


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

In the Public Interest
State of the union: Snapshots from the front lines of corporate greed and government ignorance
By Ralph Nader


Focus on the Corporation

Grace news:Why is a right-wing Christian production studio handling the new U.S. Arabic-language TV station?
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman


The Nessie Files

Basic freedoms, R.I.P.: Even the serious paranoids didn't see this level of crackdown coming
By Nessie

The shame of Hearst
By Bruce B. Brugmann, 11.14.01

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

It's funny in Kansas
Joke of the day

Superlist
Women mechanics and women-owned garages