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Mar. 3 - Mar. 9, 2004• Vol 38, No. 23

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


The price of modernity
Will movie legend Anna May Wong, caught between the past and the future, find her moment?
By B. Ruby Rich

A star, reborn
Piccadilly's poisonous peony blossoms anew
By Chuck Stephens

High infidelity
New South Korean cinema strips love and marriage bare.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Scene stealers
Critics' picks for the S.F. International Asian American Film Festival

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: The demolition push

Editorial: The SBC’s future

Editorial: SFUSD's missing kids

Opinion: Chron’s homeless lies
by randy shaw

Starving the watchdogs
Sunshine action and budget deadline put the spotlight on the Ethics Commission and other underfunded regulatory agencies
By Steven T. Jones

Follow That Story
By Matthew Hirsch

Opening the books
City study would finally place a price tag on public power
By Matthew Hirsch

Quid pro quo?
Greenlining Institute drops appeal of PG&E bonuses after utility's funding promise.
By Lisa Weinzimer

They mean business
Why is Newsom keeping four controversial appointees to the Small Business Commission?
By Matthew Hirsch

Neighborhood Business:

The latest buzz
Art takes over at Mama Buzz Café.
By Adam Martin

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

To Hayward with love
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



Special feature: Nights of the Mad Cow
It's what's for dinner ... and dinner ... and dinner again ...

By Dan Engber

Dine
Young Turks

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Over here

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Bowled over

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 Noise:

Finding the funk
Mark Herlihy's simple formula keeps today's Future Primitive Sound in tomorrow's mix.
By Jonathan Zwickel

Love to love her
America's Sweetheart would've been a comeback, but Courtney never went away.
By Jimmy Draper

Prince Arthur
Two new releases shine a light on an obscure innovator.
By Johnny Ray Huston

The sign remains the same
Blue Öyster Cult mugged flower children right and left, loved weirdness, wrote great songs, and are still together - which should stand for something.
By Mike McGuirk

Sonic Reducer
Bang-up job
By Kimberly Chun

Film: Critic's Choice - 'MC5: A True Testimonial'
Still kickin'
By Dennis Harvey

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Plus One By Vivian Host

Wandering eye By Glen Helfand

Press play

See Hear

Script Doctor

Grooves

Local Grooves

2nd time around

The Void

Local Live

Full Circle

The Mix


•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
Keeping it clean: Why we need a National Cleaners Day.02.18.04
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.