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Aug. 13 - 19, 2003 • Vol 37, No. 46


Newsom's money matrix
Who's spending $2 million to elect Gavin Newsom mayor? Hint: City contractors and lobbyists — many with close ties to Willie Brown.
By Tali Woodward and Rachel Brahinsky

• news & culture


In this issue

Editorial: PG&E's new big lie

Editorial: The next police chief

Opinion: S.F., crucible for democracy
By Krist Novoselic

Barely alive
Only the courts can save IRV now that Arntz has declared it dead and the commission prepares to pull the trigger.
By Alex Posorske and Steven T. Jones

Campaign Watch

False front
PG&E-sponsored group claims to champion plant closure, but targeted Bayview-Hunters Point residents aren't hearing the whole story.
By Matthew Hirsch

Deadly fares
Were the shootings of two Sikh cabbies motivated by hate or money?
By A.C. Thompson

The other crisis
Legislative committee will decide the fate of 19 workers' comp. reform bills.
By Brian Elsasser

Being There By Matt Honan

alt.sex.column By Andrea Nemerson

Double Team Psychic Dream By Michelle Tea and Jessica Lanyadoo

Techsploitation By Annalee Newitz

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Alerts

Careers and Education:

Juggling life
Clown school offers community-outreach classes and rubber chickens.
By Charlie Anders

School's out
Studying in the United States has become a red-tape nightmare for international students.
By George Schulz

Why go to law school?
For activists, a legal career might help change the world.
By Lauren Gelman

To preserve and protect
Literacy for Environmental Justice helps youths learn to fight pollution.
By Lori Spears

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Dine
North by North Beach

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Stars' wars

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Baby blues

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
Fruit sweet

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Hangin'

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Millennial

By Miriam Wolf

Take That
Papa don't fish

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
Stick it

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
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Music: Saving your soul
Picking up where we left off, we wonder, Can we find hope in today's "neo-neo-soul" artists?
By Sylvia W. Chan

Music: Book 'em
The Librarians rock the stacks.
By Phil Herrick

Music: Deep thoughts
In the pocket with hip-hop boy band 4Deep.
By Lee Hildebrand

Film: Show times
Teen acts: Camp town versus OT: Our Town.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: Critic's Choice -'The Cuckoo'
Language arts
By David Fear

Art: Critic's Choice - 'To Protect and Serve: The LAPD Archives'
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

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Full Circle

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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.

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.