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Jan. 28- Feb. 3, 2004• Vol 38, No. 18

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Hookers unite!
an Francisco sex workers are on a mission to decriminalize prostitution here and across the country.
By Ann Harrison

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: Don't abolish LAFCo

Editorial: Decriminalize sex work

Opinion: War crimes in Iraq
by paul rockwell

Hot lunch
Will S.F. schools feed your children radiation-zapped beef?
By Rachel Brahinsky

No place to go
The city’s only group home for teen moms and their babies is shutting down because it can't pay the bills
By Tali Woodward

Saving KPFA?
Almost five years after the lockout of 1999, Pacifica has launched an important experiment in media democracy
By Camille T. Taiara

Neighborhood Business:

Open for BIDness
Merchants push for more business improvement districts.
By Matthew Hirsch

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

 

Lit:

Flapdoodle
Noble savage.
By Paul Reidinger

The art of artifice, or the artifice of art
A weighing of evidence in the long-running case of Voice v. Style.
By Brian Bouldrey

Ware's wares
A graphic novelist perfects a rarified language.
By Gabriel Roth

Kitschy kitschy coo
By MICHELLE TEA

Reviews

Being There
German oasis
By Diane Goldberg

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
Grecian formula

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Sell by

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Tongues of fire

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
Seitan takes a holiday

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Agog over glogg

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Mad about you
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
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...

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• a & e


Film: The murder biz
Hell is America in Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: Father figures
To Be and to Have and My Architect: two dads and two docs.
By Chuck Stephens

Film: Sundance
San Francisco plays itself
By Susan Gerhard

Film: Sundance
Dystopia chic
By David Fear

Film: Critic's Choice -'Global Lens'
By Melissa McCartney


Music: Family ties
The bond between brother-and-sister duo the Fiery Furnaces was forged in a bitter teen rivalry.
By Ken Taylor

Art: Missed connections
Mark Lombardi's "Global Networks" charts the hidden details of scandals.
By Glen Helfand

Art: Wandering eye
By Glen Helfand

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Meat, Donuts, and Guns' and 'Cultural Quarantine (Part Two)'
By Lindsey Westbrook

Stage: End of the line
The Last Schwartz laughs at familial dysfunction — and looks nervously at the future of humankind.
By Glen Helfand

Stage: Critic's Choice - ‘Psychos Never Dream’
By J.H. Tompkins

Dance: One step beyond
Oakland Ballet’s S.F. visit is a hit-and-miss affair.
By Rita Felciano

Sonic Reducer By Kimberly Chun

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Plus One By Vivian Host

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Script Doctor

Grooves

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The Void

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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
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.