'Bay Guardian' wins five honors

THE BAY GUARDIAN won five awards in the annual Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards contest, it was announced May 30.

"The Apotheosis of Cute," by culture editor Annalee Newitz, won first place in the light feature story category. Newitz's weekly column, Techsploitation, won first place in the column category.

The paper's news staff won an honorable mention in the best news series category for an in-depth report on the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.-Raker Act scandal. Cassi Feldman, a former reporter who recently moved to New York, won an honorable mention for her news story "The Empire Strikes Back," a report on the big-business assault on homeless people.

Cartoonist Jerry Dolezal won second place in the editorial cartoonist category.

All awards were in the nondaily newspaper division.