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sfbg cover Strangers in the night
Bars, cheap sex, and boozy anthropology.

Where locals fear to tread
A lesson in bar-crawling – served up one shot glass at a time.

Introducing ... the avenues
Lift a pint (or two) to the art galleries, sports bars, brew pubs, music clubs, tiki joints, and old-time taprooms of the Sunset and Richmond Districts.

On the waterfront
Trolling the piers on a bicycle built for booze.

 

Bad reputation
Or, how to shut down nightlife and why we shouldn't.

In This Issue

POA gambles and loses
Recent events and polling data show once-powerful police union has lost political clout.

Sole-source sunshine
No-bid city contracts are finally being opened to scrutiny.

Welfare to exploitation
City cheats workers out of minimum wage in order to balance its budget.

Censorship on campus
The Academy of Art University compounds its student-expulsion controversy by shutting down the student newspaper.

Follow That Story

Neighborhood Business: Baby clothes beyond pink and blue
Local designers craft onesies, baby tees, and playwear with attitude.

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

Alerts - Political Events

Talkback - Letters to the Editor

Life During Wartime
Arrested developments.

Editorial: Saving public health

Editorial: Fixing taxi permits

Opinion: Reagan: silence equaled death


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.

Journalists under fire
Digests from the frontlines of the free press around the globe

PG&E
PG&E and the California energy crisis

First amendment alerts

 

Film: A new queer century
Finding reasons to believe in the newer queer cinema of the '00s.

Film: Happier ever after
Coming out – of the coming-of-age fairy tale.

Film: Long story short
Hits and misses of Frameline 28.

Film: Bad trip
Twentynine Palms takes a permanent vacation.

Film: Critic's Choice - 'The Terminal'
So-so Spielberg.

Music: Goodfellas
The large family of musicians have joined forces to push the limits of jazz.

Music: Critic's Choice - Howard Tate

Dance: 'Faith' full
Mary Carbonara takes a big step as a choreographer.

Stage: Critic's Choice - Mark Foehringer Dance Project

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Selections from "Evidence" '

See Hear

Wandering Eye

Script Doctor

Local Live - show reviews

Grooves - record reviews

Local Grooves - record reviews

2nd Time Around - record reviews

The Mix


Dine review
Rules of engorgement

The Food Snoop

Well Done

The Blender

 


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