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Mar. 31 - Apr. 6, 2004• Vol 38, No. 27

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That shining hour
Dollar drinks and free pool – S.F.'s happiest happy hours.
By Mitchell Anderson and Daniel Rodriguez

Free samples
Music stores with vinyl listening stations.
By Dave Kim

House style
San Francisco clothing retailers that sell their own designs.
By Tali Woodward

In stitches
Classes for the design-inclined.
By Heather Smith

Boxing by the bay
A guide for Rocky wannabes.
By Liam O'Donoghue

The art of bicycle maintenance
S.F. bike shops show you how to keep your ride in good shape.
By Julie Johnson

Clean and green
Environmentally friendly dry cleaners.
By Christy Harrison

Afternoon delight
Where to make a meal out of teatime.
By Laura Paskell-Brown

DIY comedy
Open mics for the truly brave at heart.
By Daniel Engber

Drinks at 6 (in the morning)
Nine third-shift bars in the Bay Area.

The history of your beer
Twelve tours of Bay Area food and drink manufacturers.

The free box
Seven ways to say "nobody else wanted it".

Body shop
Three places to buy a mannequin.

Leave your cart at home
Eight Bay Area disc golf courses.

Room to shred
Four legendary S.F. skate spots past and present.

The right stuff
Seven Bay Area burrito joints that use sustainably farmed meat.

Spamtastic
Six restaurants that serve the luncheon-meat delight.

Direct marketing
Six S.F. farmers markets.

When animals disappear
Five places in the Bay Area to see endangered species.

When Spot swallowed his chew toy ...
Five Bay Area emergency vets.

Where the wild things are
Seven volunteer opportunities to work with undomesticated animals.

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: Newsom's bad economics

Editorial: Beyond the MHDC crisis

Opinion: The Sierra Club's future
By Sanjay Ranchod

Write-in rejection
Elections director bars Green candidate from fall ballot
By Sitara Nieves

Arresting journalists
Was the cops’ rough takedown of a videographer a mistake or “street justice”?
By Camille T. Taiara

Testing Oakland's cops
A year after the rubber bullets flew, dock protesters return to see whether police tactics have changed
By Liam O'Donoghue

Follow that story

After Matt
The District Five race fills up quickly — and some fear division on the left
By Steven T. Jones and 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
The right path
by karen solomon

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
Streetwise

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Roasting Goliath

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Ham I am

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
Menus, maps, and more
...

The Blender

• a & e

 

Film: A walk in the clouds
A Mexican love poem lights up the cinematic sky.
By B. Ruby Rich

Film: Heart, darkness
Shunichi Nagasaki goes from art house to grind house in Yerba Buena series.
By David Fear

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Undiscovered Gems’
By David Fear

Film: Critic's Choice - 'The Return'
Father's day
By Johnny Ray Huston

Music: New haunts
No tears for the survivors and town criers of San Francisco rock band evening.
By Kimberly Chun

Stage: Moving on
Footloose's Women's Work series says good-bye to Venue 9.
By Rita Felciano

Stage: Critic's Choice - 'SkyDancers ... Women Who Fly Through the Air!'
By Rita Felciano

Art: Critic's Choice - ‘100 Artists See God’
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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See Hear

Script Doctor

Grooves

Local Grooves

2nd time around

The Void

Local Live

Full Circle

The Mix


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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
The media politics of 9/11: Bush's public relations scam runs into trouble. 03.31.04
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.