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May 5- May 12, 2004• Vol 38, No. 32

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No restraint
Cowboy cops are still running the SFPD. Can the new commission control them? Don’t count on it.
By Steven T. Jones and Sitara Nieves

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: Controlling cowboy cops

Opinion: Kerry and the war
by tom gallagher

Inside Bechtel's spin machine
How the controversial construction giant manipulates media
By A.C. Thompson

All about housing
Newsom’s homelessness programs and promises to the neighborhoods could put the squeeze on the city’s poor
By Rachel Brahinsky

Obituary: Allen Cohen, 1940–2004
By Dennis McNally

The Iraq death toll

Garage offensive
To hell with the courts — developers smash park tunnels before judge can rule on lawsuit
By Savannah Blackwell

Sunset for Mr. Sunshine
Brugmann leaves task force he helped create as a new package of open-government reforms moves forward
By Matthew Hirsch

Neighborhood Business:

No-flyer zone
S.F.'s sign ordinance makes it hard to get the word out.
By Camille T. Taiara

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

Being There
Night stalkers
by Katharine Mieszkowski

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
Au bon parc

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Pork: a reverie

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
The thin man

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
Brainiac
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

 


This month in Noise:

Sweet singers
by teenagers take on first love, family life, and the painful facts about supernatural powers
By Johnny Ray Huston

Sippin’ ain’t easy
Screw: a fast survey of a slowed-down sound.
By David Larsen

Radio Free Islam
The label Sublime Frequencies collages times and zones.
By Ken Taylor

Anti-reunion blues
All hail Frosty, a band too great and too freaky to be revived.
By Mike McGuirk

Sonic Reducer By Kimberly Chun


Art: Valley view

Larry Sultan expands the frame with his suburban porn-set shots.
By Glen Helfand

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Firebird'
By Clark Buckner

Film: Disaster control
Michael Almereyda's behind-the-scenes take on The Late Henry Moss fascinates.
By Dennis Harvey

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Godzilla’
Royally restored
By Dennis Harvey

Stage: Mixed Magic
13 Hallucinations looks for meaning somewhere over a graffiti rainbow, while Uncle Jacques’ Symphony plays human truths like a jazz virtuoso.
By Robert Avila

Dance: Unerring Eros
Mark Morris brings Sylvia up to date, brilliantly.
By Rita Felciano

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Plus One By Vivian Host

Wandering eye By Glen Helfand

Full Circle: Post-deadline
By Kimberly Chun

Full Circle: Know-it-all
By Derk Richardson

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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
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.