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May 26 - June 1, 2004• Vol 38, No. 35

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The home front
Long before the Iraq prison scandal, mistreatment of inmates and arrestees was already a national shame.
By Steven T. Jones

View From Inside
Ex-con says Iraq prison revelations are nothing new.
By Joe Loya

American payback
The Federal audit finds innocent immigrants abused by guards in U.S. detention centers.
By Camille T. Tiara

Outsourcing torture
Private contractors played a key role at Abu Ghraib – and they may never be held accountable.
By Pratap Chatterjee and A.C. Thompson

• news & culture

 

In this issue

Editorial: From here to Abu Ghraib

Editorial: Sunshine moves forward

Opinion: Dear Mr. Mayor
by Howard Wallace and Eileen Hansen

Cracking down on cops
Harris and Police Commission move – cautiously – toward creating more SFPD oversight.
By Steven T. Jones

A new nuke nightmare
Livermore Lab could be ground zero for expansion of nuclear weapons work.
By Mitchell Anderson

Water under the bridge?
Newsom's search for a Public Utilities Commission manager proves it's who you know, not what you know.
By Matthew Hirsch

online exclusive: Garage decision imminent
Fate of Golden Gate Park hangs in the balance.
By Savannah Blackwell

Neighborhood Business:

Now playing
Are neighborhood movie houses in danger of fading to black? A local group fights to ensure films keep coming to a theater near you
By David Fear

Biztips
Fresh-picked.

Being There
Justice on wheels
By Becky Wildman-Tobriner

alt.sex.column By Andrea Nemerson

Double Team Psychic Dream By Michelle Tea and Jessica Lanyadoo

Techsploitation By Annalee Newitz

Alerts

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Dine
Beef, two ways

By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Pornucopia

By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Toothsome cowboy

By Dan Leone

Table Ready
By Stephanie Rosenbaum

Bottle Rockets
Matt Markovich

Meatless
By Miriam Wolf

Take That
The Irony Burger

By Gabriel Roth

The Food Snoop
By Masha Gutkin

Well Done
By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe

DineOnline
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...

The Blender

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Lit:

Essay: Me, myself and I
By Rachel Brahinsky

Essay: Fear itself
By Chaim Bertman

Review: Orin Starn's 'Ishi's Brain'
By Loiuse Steinman

Shorts

Column: Flapdoodle
By Paul Reidinger

Column: House Hunter
By Michelle Tea

 

Music: J-psyched
Time-traveling with Japanese nouveau psychedelia.
By Kimberly Chun

Film: 'Los Angeles Plays Itself'
Thom Andersen reviews Hollywood.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: 'Bukowski: Born into This'
By Dennis Harvey

Film: 'Saved'
By Lynn Rapoport

Film: Critic's Choice - 'Word Wars'
By David Fear

Dance: Lost Control
Kunst-Stoff's courted chaos.
By Rita Feliciano

Stage: Critic's Choice - Mary Sano and Her Duncan Dancers
By Rita Felciano

Art: Critic's Choice - ‘New Photography’
Clark Buckner

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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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
Don't look away: The gruesome pictures from Iraq need to be published. 05.19.04
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.