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Apr. 14 - Apr. 20, 2004• Vol 38, No. 29

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Can this pastime be saved?
Taking swings at Mel Gibson, timid investors, and the shrinking screen, a distinguished panel ponders whether film festivals are really our last, best hope for the cinema

Take one
Surveying the first week of the S.F. International Film Festival

Our man Forman
Where the bird soarsl

By David Fear

Borderlines
Getting past roadblocks in the Middle East

By Johnny Ray Huston

Sized up, and down
Morgan Spurlock speaks about the Mac attack of Super Size Me

By David Fear

Talks with the animals?
Meeting Telegraph Hill's Dr. Dolittle

By David Kim

San Francisco International Film Festival

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: Who shares the pain?

Opinion: To public school
By Linda Schiff

Last call
Bill would let San Francisco bars stay open until 4 a.m.
By Camille T. Taiara

Expelling edgy writers
S.F. art school boots second author of controversial fiction; second teacher on verge of losing job
By Rachel Brahinsky

Follow That Story
Newsom administration moves to cut assessor's budget; IRV moves forward
By Lisa Wong Macabasco

Life during wartime: Thank you, Paul Bremer
By David Martinez

PUEBLO's problems
Progressive Oakland nonprofit torn apart by dueling factions and accusations of misused funds
By Matthew Hirsch

Neighborhood Business:

Delfina eats Quality Junk
An old-time Mission thrift shop makes way for ... pizza.
By Karen Solomon

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

Being There
Alpine hike
by masha gutkin

Careers and Education:

Schoolhouse harassment
We all know kids can be oversexed. But what happens when they become aggressive and other kids get hurt? San Francisco students search for solutions.
By Tali Woodward

Paid to take a pounding
Tiffany Schaefer is one of female wrestling's rising stars.
By Jeremy Russell

Queer women in color
Madeleine Lim's media arts class inspires young filmmakers.
By Laurie Koh


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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Alerts

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Dine
Blue bayou

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
The red and the white

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Blade runner

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
I feel your pain
By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Bare, with beer

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

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Music: Three of me
Tracy and the Plastics, Wynne Greenwood's video-music trio, is actually a high-concept solo project — but the band still fights behind the scenes.
By Jimmy Draper

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Mundane Journeys'
By Clark Buckner

Stage: Critic's Choice - Lori Belilove and Company
By Rita Felciano

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 2’
So kill him, already
By Rita Felciano

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Plus One By Vivian Host

Wandering eye By Glen Helfand

Sonic Reducer By Kimberly Chun

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Script Doctor

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The Void

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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.