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Jan. 14 - Jan. 21, 2004• Vol 38, No. 16

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Get poor quick!
A slick salesman with a troubling history has a new scheme: convincing Bay Area folks they can make a fortune trading foreign currency.
By A.C. Thompson

• news & culture


In this issue

Web Exclusive: Follow that Story

Editorial: Newsom must raise taxes

Editorial: Bush's immigrant scam

Opinion: Pelosi's bridge too far
by norman solomon

A subtle, steady shift
Newsom-backed policies are keeping homeless away from services
By Rachel Brahinsky

And he's off
Newsom’s inaugural speech leaves progressives waiting and wondering where the ‘common ground’ really lies
By Steven T. Jones

Strength in numbers
Unified behind Gonzalez, the Board of Supervisors' majority prepares for the treacherous political road ahead
By Steven T. Jones

Learning on the side
Discover nonacademic reasons to take community college classes.
By Camper English

Jazz ed
Bay Area jazz workshops offer a chance to hit the big time.
By Daniel King

The volunteer teaching corps
Bay Area community members bail out ailing school programs.
By Laura Paskell-Brown

Neighborhood Business:

Sex Wax and lychee nuts
Kona Shores offers surfer gear, ice cream, and coffee.
By Charlie Anders

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

Being There
New Year's walk
By MetaGrrrl

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

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Dine
The color orange

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Koyaanisqatsi

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
The Godfather

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
Seitan takes a holiday

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Santa's mug shots

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Ode to (chocolate) joy
By Miriam Wolf

Take That
Pork politics

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
Down on the shrimp farm

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

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Art: New frameworks
Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar bring a trio of pioneering motion-capture works to the Bay Area.
By Dan Engber

Art: Better homes and galleries
The Big Ballyhoo brings together 70 women artists to transform the Lab.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Art: Critic's Choice - ‘Fictional Realities’
By Lindsey Westbrook

Film: A dancer's life
Altman choreographs a naturalistic vision of the realities of company life.
By Lynn Rapoport

Film: Stockholm syndrome
A PFA retrospective rescues the work of Swedish director Victor Sjöström from his Hollywood years.
By Dennis Harvey

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘The Statement’
Unconvincing
By David Fear

Music: Critic's Choice - Yellow Swans
By George Chen

Sonic Reducer By Kimberly Chun

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Plus One By Vivian Host

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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 unpardonable Lenny Bruce: Four-letter words aren't the comic's enduring legacy. 12.31.03
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.