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sfbg cover Best of the Bay 2004
This year the Bay Guardian celebrates 30 years of its Best of the Bay issue with 424 reasons to be glad you live here. Within these pages you'll find everything from the best cheap wine to the best chocolate-flavored liquid love – as well as the best place to stuff yourself stupid for under $7 or eat seven courses of beef, the best place to gorge on office supplies or buy fancy jewels, and the best weirdo band, bar relocation, free film noir, horny unicorns, and use of 60 bags of concrete by frustrated skaters.

In This Issue

Public interest vs. private access
Powell shuns Monterey hearing on impact of media consolidation
By Camille T. Taiara

Sunset for reform
Open-government package loses support after supervisors make unacceptable amendments
By Matthew Hirsch

The Iraq death toll

Neighborhood Business: Sewing for the soul
Distinctive handcrafted clothing is more accessible than you think.

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

Alerts - Political Events

Talkback - Letters to the Editor

Editorial: Supes attack sunshine

Editorial: Revolt in Monterey

Opinion: Girlie men finish last


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

 

Music: Four days in paradise
A whole new crew presents Ladyfest Bay Area 2004.

Film: Aim and fire
The Manchurian Candidate remake's political sniping is expertly timed.

Film: Midnight in the garden of Eden
Peaches Christ bites into The Apple.

Film: ‘Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle’
Food for thought (not)

Music: Making it from scratch
Mission homeboy–guitarist Luis Monterrosa, a.k.a. the Genie, plugs in and blows up.

Theater: Art and revolution
Chay Yew's Red explores the gray areas of political and cultural life.

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
Where locals sometimes tread

Cheap eats
Safe

The Food Snoop

Well Done

The Blender

 


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