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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

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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 Clinic’s 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

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.

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

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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

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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

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The Void

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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 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.