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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.

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Burned out
A fire severely damaged the Blair family's Sunset District home in 1999. It still isn't habitable. They're not the only San Franciscans who say they weren't in good hands with Allstate.
By A.C. Thompson

Last week's issue

• news & culture


In this issue

Editorial: A new insurance scam

Editorial: Stop SFSU spying

Editorial: Never trust PG&E

Opinion: The fear of fat
By Tish Parmeley

Students under surveillance?
Secrecy surrounding SFSU's routine use of undercover cops to videotape political events raises concerns
By Camille T. Taiara

WTO showdown in Sacto
Closed-door conference will push U.S. vision of agribusiness, and that's exactly what troubles protesters.
By Ron Curran

Power struggle
City and PG&E battle over who will provide electricity to new Ferry Building businesses
By Matthew Hirsch

Bright lights, big city
A young poet reflects on the not-so-little bookstore that could – and, for the last half century, has.

By Matthue Roth

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
Oh là là Ola!

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Thai'd up

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Rudy!

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
Paper or plastic?

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Q ratings

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Tofu, two ways

By Miriam Wolf

Take That
American Indian

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
Mayo clinic

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more
...

The Blender

• a & e


Film: Hulk by bulk
Superheroes muscle their way into another summer.
By Charles Russo

Film: Hero hour
And now for some of the more mature offerings of the comic book world.
By Charles Russo

Film: Punch-drunk love
The Four Star goes mad for martial arts.
By Patrick Macias

Film: 'Love the Hard Way'
Brody oldie
By David Fear

Film: 'Science in Action! A Craig Baldwin Retrospective'
By Patrick Macias

Obituary: Matthew Sperry, Nov. 6, 1968-June 5, 2003:
Matthew Sperry Memorial Concert takes place Thurs/19, 8 p.m., 21 Grand, 449 B 23rd St., Oakl. (510) 444-7263, www.21Grand@21Grand.org. For more information about making donations to the family and to share reminiscences about Matthew Sperry, go to www.matthewsperry.org.
By John Shiurba

Music: Exclamation emancipation
Dance punk bands !!! and Out Hud make the indie kids get down.
By Vivian Host

Music: Songs in the key
Oakland MC and playwright Hanifah Walidah gives a guided tour of her world.
By Kimberly Chun

Stage: 'The Marsh Mitzvah'
By J.H. Tompkins

Art: 'EG: (r)Evolution of Gender'
By Lindsey Westbrook

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

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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