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Dec. 10 - Dec. 16, 2003 • Vol 38, No. 11

Click here to read our continually updated election blog.


The high-tech black market
Copyright infringement is a criminal offense. Meet the new generation of geek outlaws and heroes.
By Annalee Newitz

• news & culture


In this issue

Editorial: Scrap the PG&E

Editorial: Save the UC three!

Opinion: The DMCA, five years later
by fred von lohmann and gwen hinze

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

Ethical culture
New commissioner wants ethics panel to crack down on campaign cash violations
By Rachel Brahinsky


Brown out
Task force to discuss securing departing mayor's records
By Matthew Hirsch

SFSU’s cash crunch
Alleged embezzlement and fiscal mismanagement add to the school's money problems
By A.C. Thompson

Life during wartime
Berkeley's new stance on student activism
By Helen Christophi

 

Neighborhood Business:

Drink and be merry
Indie wine store Friendly Spirits has something for everybody.
By Metagrrrl

Biztips
Openings, closings, and other life changes on the small-business scene. Featured this week: do some laundry, sip some soup, and get in a game or two of pinball all in one place.


The best buys
Our annual guide to gifts for good causes.
By Jody Levin

Being There
Hoes down
By Sven Eberlin

alt.sex.column By Andrea Nemerson

Double Team Psychic Dream By Michelle Tea and Jessica Lanyadoo

Flat Earth By Lynn Rapoport

Techsploitation By Annalee Newitz

Hall monitor

Alerts

food & drink


Dine
House of ribs

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Origins

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Romancing the Lock

By Dan Leone

Fond of you
Brioche turkeys, duck for three, tamales and rum for all.

By Masha Gutkin

Free turkey
Where to get a square meal on Thanksgiving.

By Laura Paskell-Brown

Table Ready
Fruitcakes and ale

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Proles on ice

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Some like it raw
By Miriam Wolf

Take That
Don't let me down

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
On the Q.T.

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more
...

The Blender

• a & e


Stage: Python on the loose
Eric Idle breaks away from the pack and passes the collection bucket.
By Nate Denver

Stage: Divided we stand
David Edgar’s two-part look at American politics takes a long time to go a short way.
By Robert Avila

Stage: Continental drift
By J.H. Thompkins

Stage: Critic's Choice - 'The Hard Nut'
David Edgar’s two-part look at American politics takes a long time to go a short way.
By Rita Felciano

Film: Behind the lines
Yossi and Jagger looks at love in war.
By Dennis Harvey

Film: Critic's Choice -‘I Vitelloni’
Arrested development
By David Fear

Music: Bring home the baking
Would you like a slice of Pop-O-Pies with that cuppa Joe?
By Will York

Music: Get lit
Contemplating punk performance and the short sets and tempers of the Fuse!
By Duncan Scott Davidson

Music: Hallelujah
Where to hear (and sing) Handel's Messiah.
By Laura Paskell-Brown

Art: Things change
‘The Way Things Are’ surveys David Ireland's rich lifetime of art.
By Glen Helfand

Art: Critic's Choice - ‘Animal Crossdressing, Uninvited Collaborations with Nature, and One Small Act of Endurance’
By Lindsey Westbrook

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

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•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
Instrument of propaganda: Linking the occupation of Iraq with the "war on terrorism." 11.26.03
By Norman Solomon

In the Public Interest
The car-dealer rip-off: Consumers don't know that they're losing the right to challenge sleazy dealers in court. 12.10.03
By Ralph Nader


Focus on the Corporation

Corporations and their proxies defeated in Miami -- but they refuse to give up
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
Handel's 'Messiah': Bay Area performances and sing-alongs.