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Feb. 25 - Mar. 2, 2004• Vol 38, No. 22

Click here to read our continually updated politics blog.

Click here for the Clean Slate - our guide to the March 2 election.


The last days of Gary Murphy
He was a felonious biker — and a doting dad. He'd done prison time, then cleaned up his life. Why can't the cops find his murderer?
By A.C Thompson

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: A civil rights landmark

Editorial: Nader's foolish campaign

Editorial: SFUSD's missing kids

Opinion: Ten for Kucinich
tommy alvicolli mecca

SFUSD's secret?
San Francisco schools are improving in many areas, but quietly rising dropout numbers are a cause for concern
By Tali Woodward

Fangs unload the ‘Ex’
Exactly what its conservative new owner will do with the paper remains unclear
By Tali Woodward

Whose mission?
Two visions for housing split nonprofit
By Rachel Brahinsky

Broken pledge
Library votes to fund tracking system before promised hearing
By Matthew Hirsch

Neighborhood Business:

Safe, clean, mean?
Neighborhood groups try to keep homeless out of Dolores Park.
By George Schulz

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

Being There
Bars of the Mother Lode
by danny palmerlee

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
The art of the pizza

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
The names project

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
A general theory of love

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
Black cherry

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Why rye?

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Mad about you
By Miriam Wolf

Take That
The razor's edge

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
The tongue, by a nose

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more
...

The Blender

• a & e


This week in Lit:

Flapdoodle
Read only
By Paul Reidinger

Some rights reserved
How alternative copyright licensing could revolutionize indie publishing
By Annalee Newitz

Chronicle of a boom untold
Hunting for the great dot-com novel
By Helena Echlin

Location, location, location
A new book reveals the art of maps
By Sharon Mizota

Book reviews:

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
By Paul Reidinger

Headless
By Charlie Anders

A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture
By Joel Schalit

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
By Cheryl Eddy


Film: Around the block
Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad takes to the road – twice.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: Hell on Earth
Mel Gibson does penance with the slo-mo suffering of The Passion of the Christ.
By Dennis Harvey

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Blind Shaft’
Mine your own business
By David Fear

Film: Critic's Choice -‘Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights’
Two words: guilty pleasure
By Lynn Rapoport

Music: Roar of the crowd
A quiet band and a restless audience prove there's more to music than what's played by the band.
By Ken Taylor

Music: Beyond control
Actionslacks or British Sea Power? A minor booking conflict affords the writer an opportunity to go autobiographical.
By Duncan Scott Davidson

Music: Noise Pop - Where to go

Stage: Wilson world
The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre stages a top-notch production of August Wilson’s King Hedley II.
By Robert Avila

Stage: Critic's Choice - Fellow Travelers Performance Group
By Glen Helfand

Dance: Downtown and up
ODC/San Francisco returns with style and power.
By Rita Felciano

Sonic Reducer By Kimberly Chun

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Plus One By Vivian Host

Wandering eye By Glen Helfand

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2nd time around

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 deadly lies of reliable sources: The news media didn't examine the truth of Bush administration claims. 02.11.04
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.