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Jan. 21- Jan. 27, 2004 Vol 38, No. 17
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Color
lines
Playwright
Dael Orlandersmith cuts through life's bullshit to get down to
cases.
By
J.H. Tompkins
Straight
talk
Dael
Orlandersmith talks about storytelling, shooting craps, and a
theater world too delicate to discuss colorism. Call her angry
or call her stubborn, but don't call her a role model, OK?
By
Karen Amano
In
this issue
Editorial:
The sleaze continues
Editorial:
Safeway's recycling mess
Opinion:
The health care war
by
david bacon
Which
way to the hospital?
Patients, staffers, and neighbors wrangle over the fate of S.F.
General Hospital
By
Tali Woodward
The
price of change
Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinics management style and
transition to sliding scale trigger staff exodus
By
Nicolas Gattig
Whistle-blower
fired
Kevin Williams, whose lawsuit against the city is just getting
under way, gets canned on Mayor Brown's last day in office
By
A.C. Thompson
Trashing
local recyclers
Safeway evicts the San Francisco Community Recyclers and
perhaps the jobs, revenue, waste reduction, and other community
benefits it provides.
By
Matthew Hirsch
The
survivor's guide to restaurant food
How to eat out without wrecking yourself or your planet.
By
Masha
Gutkin
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Neighborhood
Business:
Personal
training
Pumping iron at Valencia Street Muscle and Fitness, your
friendly neighborhood gym.
By
Jennifer Gilomen
Biztips
Openings, closings, and other life changes on the small-business
scene.
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Being
There
Island music
By Sven Eberlein
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
Dine
Smokin'
By
Paul Reidinger
Without
Reservations
The American paradox
By
Paul Reidinger
Cheap
Eats
Up on the rooftop
By
Dan Leone
Table
Ready
Seitan takes a holiday
By
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Bottle
Rockets
Agog over glogg
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
DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more...
The
Blender
Film:
The looking Glass
Robert
McNamara and Philip Glass give Errol Morris's Fog of War the sounds
of apocalypse.
By Susan Gerhard
Film:
War crimes and misdemeanors
On Errol Morris's missed opportunity.
By Tim Redmond
Film:
Critic's Choice - The Same River Twice
Still
rolling
By Dennis Harvey
Music:
Sparks fly
Rennie Sparks and Brett Sparks of the Handsome Family are more
at home dancing in the moonlight than walking on sunshine.
By Jimmy Draper
Music:
Critic's Choice - 'Crawling out from under Rock'
By Will York
Stage:
Critic's Choice - Limón Dance Company
Unconvincing
By
Rita Felciano
Art:
Critic's Choice - Nuit Blanche (Lost in Translation)
By Lindsey Westbrook
Sonic
Reducer
By Kimberly Chun
Tiger
on beat By
Patrick Macias
Plus
One By
Vivian Host
See
Hear
Script
Doctor
Grooves
Local
Grooves
2nd
time around
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Void
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