July 16, 2003

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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


This life of salvage
Rise of the rat bikers.
By Duncan Scott Davidson

Last week's issue

• news & culture


In this issue

Editorial: Beyond boom and bust

Editorial: After Mirant's meltdown

Opinion: Cruel, usual punishment
By Van Jones

Campaign Watch
By Savannah Blackwell

Mirant goes bankrupt
Financial free fall and city opposition aren't deterring the company from pushing a controversial power plant expansion.
By Matthew Hirsch

Creep alert
With drug-facilitated rape on the rise, Inspector Ron Reynolds hunts a new breed of sexual predator.
By A.C. Thompson

Equalization for queers
S.F.-born tax reform takes root on newly Democratic state board.
By Tali Woodward

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
Up with pappadam

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Quick time

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
This, that, the other

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
'C' is for cookie

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Green day

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Millennial

By Miriam Wolf

Take That
Off the sauce

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
Buckhead

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more
...

The Blender

• a & e


Art: Anecdotal
Listening in on the Porch Light series.
By Susan Gerhard

Extreme Measures
My way
By J.H. Tompkins

Film: Blunt feast
Viva la Cinemuerte International Fantastic Film Festival!
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: Eye and thou
The S.F. Jewish Film Festival fills a few of the holes in headline news.
By B. Ruby Rich

Film: Long story, short
Quick takes on S.F. Jewish Film Festival movies.
By Adele Pham

Critic's Choice - Film: 'Northfork'
Dam beautiful
By Dennis Harvey

Dance: Take two
Summerfest paired choreographers and composers with good results.
By Rita Felciano

Music: Happy talk
Getting down with this charming man, Jamie Stewart, of Xiu Xiu.
By George Chen

Critic's Choice - Art: 'Pastiche, an Exhibition of Cacophony'
By Lindsey Westbrook

Last Exit By Derk Richardson

The Litterbox By John O'Neill

Liner notes By Lynn Rapoport

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


•extra

 

Media Beat
The politics of money: Media coverage magnifies the power of campaign cash
By Norman Solomon

In the Public Interest
Exporting high-tech jobs: It's not just blue-collar manufacturing work that's getting sent overseas
By Ralph Nader


Focus on the Corporation

The two faces of George Bush in Africa: He wants to fight AIDS – but only if it doesn't hurt the drug companies.
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
All the world's a cinema: Outdoor film, celluloid and supper, bar movies, and more.