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

• cover feature


The myth of the Great American Novel
A reflection on the literary republic of Anglophonia, and America's citizenship therein
By Paul Reidinger

Last week's issue

• news & culture


In this issue

Editorial: New attack on IRV

Editorial: Reject Newsom's plan

Opinion: Beyond Prop. N
By Supervisor Tom Ammiano, District Nine

Rents rise in lower haight
Longtime local businesses like Café International could be forced out by gentrification.
By Michael Stoll

All bias considered
Bizarre attack on NPR as "anti-Israel" shows how fringe groups are pushing Mideast debate.
By Camille T. Taiara

Which deaths matter?
Study shows Chronicle downplays Palestinian fatalities.
By Camille T. Taiara

Making their stand
A dispute between Lurie Co. and its neighborhood flower vendor grows into a burdensome bureaucratic push.
By Matthew Hirsch

Is PG&E lying about Hunters Point plant?
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has made a move suggesting it has no intention of shutting down the Hunters Point power plant.
By Savannah Blackwell

LAFCO suspension tabled
By Matthew Hirsch

The machine attacks IRV
A legal filing by allies of Mayor Brown takes aim at an already embattled instant-runoff voting system.
By Steven T. Jones

Protecting Iraqi culture
By Krystina Sibley

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
Roads to Rome

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Mod squad

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Modern maturity

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
One-hit wonders

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Repo, man

Matt Markovich

Meatless
McBellKing

By Miriam Wolf

Take That
The frying game

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
Shell Shock

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more

The Blender

• a & e


Film: Music lessons
Family melodrama and melodic pathos, Together again.
By David Fear

Film: Something different
Ready to spend a few weekends with wacky Czech director Vera Chytilová?
By Dennis Harvey

Film: 'A Decade under the Influence'
Real genius
By Dennis Harvey

Music: Phair or foul
An Alternative Nation's onetime sweetheart takes her whacks.
By Jimmy Draper

Music: Reserved player
Tussle and Vetiver member Andy Cabic fluidly moves between chamber folk and dance punk without missing a beat.
By Vivian Host

Art: Another time
Asian art travels time zones at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the UC Berkeley Art Museum.
By Glen Helfand

Art: 'Toying with Human Nature'
By Lindsey Westbrook

Stage: Now and then
The journey from post-9/11 New York to Berkeley 2003 took a toll on The Guys.
By Robert Avila

Stage: 'Julius Caesar'
By J.H. Tompkins

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

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The Void

Local Live

Full Circle

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Media Beat
National insecurity: Decoding the media fixation on terrorism
By Norman Solomon

In the Public Interest
Tech doesn't help: The government won't use available technology to promote democracy.
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