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Apr. 28 - May 4, 2004• Vol 38, No. 31

Click here to read our continually updated politics blog.


The big 1-0
Cheap Eats celebrates an anniversary, and grease is still the word — or one of them.
By Dan Leone

Dan's top five restaurants here and gone
By Dan Leone

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: Save the Randall Museum

Editorial: Tighten the sunshine law

Opinion: S.F. needs land trusts
By Tommi Avicolli Mecca

The Iraq death toll

Insult to injury
Employer sues day laborers and La Raza Centro Legal after they try to recoup unpaid wages
By Camille T. Taiara

Bus stop
Public outcry delays Muni cuts, but battles still loom over slashed service and new taxes
By Liam O'Donoghue

Follow That Story

Freeway fight
A community joins together to stop a behemoth highway ramp from slicing and endangering its neighborhood.
By Rachel Brahinsky

Neighborhood Business:

In it for the Long Haul
A Berkeley institution turns 25.
By Liam O'Donoghue

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

Being There
A night with Jules et Jim
by gary singh

This month in Lit:

Graphic teen angst
Comics populated by teenagers take on first love, family life, and the painful facts about supernatural powers
By Lynn Rapoport

My brain is so cool
Welcome to the world of neuroscience self-help books
By Dan Engber

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Reviews:

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
By Paul Roberts.
Review by Heather Smith

Pills, Chills, Thrills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
Edited by Michelle Tea and Clint Catalyst.
Review by Heather Smith

The Vatican to Vegas: A History of Special Effects
By Norman M. Klein
Review by Sharon Mizota

The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
By Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman
Review by Tom Gallagher
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Flapdoodle

Exceptional us
By Paul Reidinger

Past perfect
By Michelle Tea

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
Secrets of the middle sea

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
(Un)screwed

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Ice capades

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
I feel your pain
By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Bare, with beer

Matt Markovich

Meatless
Eating tall
By Miriam Wolf

Take That
By Giorgio

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
'M' is for M.F.K.

By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
Menus, maps, and more
...

The Blender

• a & e




Music: Hail to the chief of funk

Artists from around the world pay tribute to Afrobeat superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in “Black President.”
By J.H. Tompkins

Music: Critic's Choice - Kraftwerk
By Deborah Giattina

Film: Space plus time
Distant gazes at two sides of a bruise-tinted Istanbul.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: Tilling the soil
The Agronomist looks at the muckraker behind a Haitian radio revolution.
By David Fear

Film: Critic's Choice - 'Young Adam'
In gloom
By Dennis Harvey

Film: Critic's Choice -‘The Agronomist’
Radio free Haiti
By Dave Kim

Stage: Calling Doctor D
Don DeLillo's Valparaiso explores life as it teeters on the edge of desperation.
By Robert Avila

Stage: Critic's Choice -Stephen Pelton Dance Theater
By Rita Felciano

Dance: New designs
Intersection's Hybrid Project travels through time.
By Rita Felciano

Art: Critic's Choice - ‘Bling Blasian Bling’
By Clark Buckner

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Plus One By Vivian Host

Wandering eye By Glen Helfand

Sonic Reducer By Kimberly Chun

Full Circle: Post-deadline
By Kimberly Chun

Full Circle: Know-it-all
By Derk Richardson

Press play

Script Doctor

Grooves

Local Grooves

2nd time around

The Void

Local Live

See Hear

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•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
From Vietnam to Iraq: Country Joe returns with the same antiwar message. 04.28.04
By Norman Solomon

In the Public Interest
HUD — and beyond: The United States needs a comprehensive new urban agenda. 04.28.04
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.