July 30, 2003

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Best of the Bay 2003

Last week's issue

• news & culture


In this issue

Editorial: No more Green bashing

Editorial: Contracts in the sunshine

Opinion: Greens and the recall
By Jeanne-Marie Rosenmeier

Campaign Watch
By Savannah Blackwell

Reform denied
State panel rejects S.F.'s ranked-choice plan. Now comes the lawsuit.
By Steven T. Jones

Selling security
Tom Ridge says pork and possibly more civil liberties rollbacks are on the way.
By A.C. Thompson

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
In the Public's domain

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Produce to the people

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Look back in anger

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
'C' is for cookie

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
A rum of one's own

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Millennial

By Miriam Wolf

Take That
Off the sauce

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
Fist food

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more
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The Blender

• a & e


Stage: Town without pity
Wigfield unleashes a village of the dammed.
By
Johnny Ray Huston

Stage: American gothic
Bat Boy steals hearts, sucks them dry.
By Robert Avila

Film: Sisters of mercy?
The Magdalene Sisters presents a Catholic sanctuary as a living hell.
By David Fear

Critic's Choice - Film: 'Masked and Anonymous'
No reason to get excited
By Dennis Harvey

Music: Outsider art
Tami Hart alights in San Francisco.
By Jimmy Draper

Critic's Choice - Music: North Beach Jazz Festival
By Kimberly Chun

Critic's Choice - Art: 'In This Instant'
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

 

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.

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

In the Public Interest
Opening up government contracts: The Bush administration is considering putting key federal records on the Web.
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


Journalists under fire
Digests from the frontlines of the free press around the globe

First amendment alerts

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.