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Sept. 3 - Sept. 9, 2003 • Vol 37, No. 49


Innocent!

After 13 years in prison, John J. Tennison's life sentence is overturned. But will the people who framed him ever pay for it?
By A.C. Thompson

Chronology of a frame-up
By A.C. Thompson

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• news & culture


In this issue

Editorial: The Tennison legacy

Opinion: Fixing the Rent Board
By Ted Gullicksen

Campaign Watch
News from the races for governor, mayor, district attorney and other fall ballot contests

The peakers are coming
Needed: a real public hearing, an open process, an EIR, and binding assurances for closure of the PG&E and Mirant plants
By Bruce B. Brugmann

On the bus
Will antiglobalization activists be under surveillance at the world trade forum in Cancún?
By Sharon Luk

Iraqi oil enters S.F. Bay
Six months after it was an antiwar epicenter, the San Francisco Bay Area is developing a closer relationship with occupied Iraq.
By George Schulz

Title tracking
New technology will help the library find its books, but privacy advocates fear devices that could 'identify any object anywhere, automatically'.
By Matthew Hirsch

Labor dazed
Oakland cracks down on those who shun its new Day Labor Center, sparking bitter divisions over workers' rights.
By Reet Rana

Neighborhood Business:

Traffic circles visit the Haight

By Rebecca Sills

Biztips
Openings, closings, and other life changes on the small-business scene

being there
Travel on the west coast and beyond

alt.sex.column By Andrea Nemerson

Double Team Psychic Dream By Michelle Tea and Jessica Lanyadoo

Techsploitation By Annalee Newitz

Hall monitor

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Dine
Wilde at heart

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
The story of Z

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Fear of flying

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
Summer sweet

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Another (wine) country

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Quorn-fed?

By Miriam Wolf

Take That
Injera report

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
Rice dreams

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
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Music: 8 women
I know what you heard this summer.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: XX eye
Student nurses aid the MadCat fest's strong lineup
By Cheryl Eddy

Film: Critic's choice - 'Herod's Law'
Political savvy
By David Fear

Stage: Dumbed down
The Graduate, stripped of its seditious intelligence and humor, trips and falls onstage.
By Rob Avila

Dance: Critic's Choice - Mark Morris Dance Group
By Lindsey Westbrook

Art: Critic's Choice - 'The Art of Machines'
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

Plus One By Vivian Host

Script Doctor

Grooves

Local Grooves

2nd time around

The Void

Local Live

Full Circle

The Mix



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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.