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Mar. 24 - Mar. 30, 2004• Vol 38, No. 26

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Static change
Despite profound physical and sociopolitical changes in the region, the Fillmore retains the mixed-use multiculturalism of the '50s.
By Steven T. Jones

We will not obey
How San Francisco rebels fought McCarthyism.
By Camille T. Taiara

The great freeway revolt
How political activism took root in the last century's most conservative decade.
By Tim Redmond

San Francisco retro
The city that ate 1950s pop culture.
By Annalee Newitz

Staying power
Born in the '50s and still going strong.
By Matthew Hirsch and Liam O'Donoghue

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: Stopping Bush’s war

Editorial: Chron's marriage problem

Opinion: Marriage hurts
By Mattilda

County official blocks IRV
Alameda's registrar of voters says he won't implement instant-runoff elections in Berkeley
By Sitara Nieves

Obituary: Linda Ehrlich, Offies czar, 1955-2004
By Tim Redmond

 

Neighborhood Business:

Staying power
Born in the ’50s and still going strong.
By Matthew Hirsch and Liam O'Donoghue

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

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Dine
Hey, make me over!

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
One is the hungriest number

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Good-bye to all that

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
Sweet liberty

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
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The Blender

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Music: The great slighted north
Canadian musicians aren't simply panderers or low-rent imitators of American stars - but getting them over the border is another question altogether.
By Ken Taylor

Music: Lifesavers
True confessions by an errant fan of Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys.
By J.H. Tompkins

Music: Critic's Choice - Replicator
By Josh Wilson

Film: Acting out
Colin Farrell's bad-boy image animates a proletarian Irish comedy.
By Dennis Harvey

Film: Critic's Choice - 'Ned Kelly'
Or, Young Guns 3: Down Under
By Dennis Harvey

Stage: What is it good for?
TheatreWorks' production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons finds death, sorrow, and self-deception at the heart of the Good War.
By Robert Avila

Stage: Critic's Choice: Paul Taylor Dance Company
By Rita Felciano

Stage: Critic's Choice - 'California Stories: A Time ... a Place'
By J.H. Tompkins

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Inside/Out'
By Clark Buckner

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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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
Spinning the past, threatening the future:The Bush administration is going all out to cover up its war record.03.24.04
By Norman Solomon

In the Public Interest
The two-income trap: Why so many families are going broke.. 03.24.04
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.