Best of the Bay

8 Days a Week

Political events

 Nude Beaches

Restaurants

Classifieds


Extra

Andrea Nemerson's
alt.sex.column

Norman Solomon's
MediaBeat

Tom Tomorrow's
This Modern World

Jerry Dolezal
Cartoon

It's funny in Kansas
Joke of the day


News

PG&E and the California energy crisis

FCC and media consolidation

Letters

Arts and Entertainment

Venue Guide

Frequencies
By Josh Kun

Extreme Measures
By J.H. Tompkins


Calendar

Music Listings

Event Listings

Art Listings

Stage Listings

Film Listings

 

Submit your listing

Culture

Techsploitation
By Annalee Newitz

Without Reservations
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
By Dan Leone

Special Supplements

Lit

Noise

Bars & Clubs

 

Our Masthead

Editorial Staff

Business Staff

Jobs & Internships

 


PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD | PERSONALS | MOVIE CLOCK | REP CLOCK | SEARCH


Mar. 17 - Mar. 23, 2004• Vol 38, No. 25

Click here to read our continually updated politics blog.

Looking for St. Patrick's day hijinks? Check out our guide.


Same-sex and the city
San Francisco's gay marriages have quickened the pace of political and social change throughout the country.
By Tali woodward

Law of desire
The U.S. Supreme Court's precedents suggest that banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
By Paul Reidinger

Civic disobedience
Newsom, gay marriage, and the politics of the revolutionary gesture.
By Tim Redmond

Onward, Christian soldiers
The real agenda of the same-sex marriage opponents, in their own words.
By A.C. Thompson

Outside the marriage machine
With queers now entering into the bonds of matrimony, the ranks of proud outcasts are shrinking.
By Annalee Newitz

The big day
Why Victor and Troy got married
By Troy Gaspard and Victor Krummenacher

Cold feet
Why I almost got married (and why it's probably better that I didn't).
By Lynn Rapoport

Bliss and bias
Chron bars wedded lesbian staffers from covering same-sex marriage.
By Rachel Brahinsky

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: One year after

Editorial: To the courts

Editorial: Barnes for DCCC chairs

Opinion: Lessons of No on J
by calvin welch

Garage stopped ... for now
Proponents of controversial park project broke ground before lawsuits were decided
By Rachel Brahinsky

Newsom's $300,000 problem
Mayor's inaugural fundraising may have been illegal
By Steven T. Jones

Station liberation
Democracy comes to KPFA and Pacifica, for better or worse
By Mitchell Anderson

Connecting the dots
The antiwar movement of 2004 is about much more than the war
By Camille T. Taiara

Neighborhood Business:

Hayes changes
A neighborhood on the path of urban renewal.
By Tali Woodward

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

Being There
In the raw
by adam martin

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
Grills of Brazil

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
The demand economy

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
A spring in his step

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
Black cherry

By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Why rye?

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Mac friendly
By Miriam Wolf

Take That
By Giorgio

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

 

Film: ‘Animal’ instinct
All hearts are turned to Stone in a memoir by Joe Eszterhas.
By Susan Gerhard

Film: Mind fields
Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind explodes romantic comedy.
By Susan Gerhard

Film: Critic's Choice - 'Another Hole in the Head: 7 Nights of Unrelenting Terror'
By Cheryl Eddy

Film: Critic's Choice - 'The Reckoning'
Medieval Times.
By David Fear

Stage: Glengarry Glen Park
Mamet's Dr. Faustus slumbers at the Magic Theatre.
By Robert Avila

Stage: Critic's Choice - San Francisco Ballet
A pair of plays examine going home, racism, and the ties that bind.
By Rita Felciano

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Portraits of a Family'
By Clark Buckner

Sonic Reducer By Kimberly Chun

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
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.