Censored! The 10 big stories the national news media ignore. By Camille T. Taiara
The runners-up
Local censored stories: our picks
Project Censored's judges
Cover illustration by Becky Cloonan
In This Issue
Dollars and sentences Did Juvenile Probation bosses swindle their employees? By A.C. Thompson and Matthew Hirsch
Gangs of New York Motley crowds crash George W. Bush's party By Camille T. Taiara
Extortion! State agency holds Hunters Point hostage to Mirant plant upgrade By Matthew Hirsch
Swift Boat smears Press corps keeps anti-Kerry distortions alive: a statement by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Neighborhood Business: An even start A BayviewHunters Point literacy program educates the entire family. By Martin Ricard
Neighborhood Business: Biztips Openings, closings, and other life changes on the small-business scene.
Trail Mix Inside news and insight on the fall campaigns
Alerts - Political Events By Deborah Giattina
Talkback - Letters to the Editor
Editorial: News that isn't news
Editorial: The ISOs extortion
Opinion: The Prop. 62 scam By Richard Winger
Dine review The Gerald Show By Paul Reidinger
Cheap eats Cover your bass By Dan Leone
The Food Snoop By Masha Gutkin
Well Done By Evelyn Grosvenor-Smythe
The Blender
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: Unmitigated Gallo Six angles on The Brown Bunny's vanishing points.
Film: Echo of the bunnyman Give Donnie Darko one more chance. By Susan Gerhard
Film: Donnie Darko's paradise is lost By Andrew Repasky McElhinney
Film: Critic's Choice - Vanity Fair Ladder of excess By Dennis Harvey
Theater: Royal pain Domestic drama escalates to regicide and revenge in Darvag's production of Iranian playwright Bahram Beyzaies The Death of Yazdgerd. By Robert Avila
Art: Critic's Choice - 'Photographs, Drawings, and Cheatings' Glamour disguises unrest in the seasons visual arts programming. By Clark Buckner
See Hear
Wandering Eye By Glen Helfand
Script Doctor
Local Live - show reviews
Grooves - record reviews
Local Grooves - record reviews
2nd Time Around - record reviews
The Mix
Noise: Two cool San Francisco punk-folk duo Two Gallants ground their roots in reality. By Jonathan Zwickel
Noise: Alley cats Behind the pop hooks, kitty masks, and intimations of disaster: Bay Area duo Nedelle and Thom. By Kimberly Chun
Noise: Alone together Marr-less but sometimes marvelous, Morrissey still courts an other half. By Johnny Ray Huston
Noise: Onward and Upwards Mercury Prizenominated British rapper Ty gets the nod. By Peter Nicholson
Noise: The wrath of Khanate Musical neg heads, Sunn O))), and Dave Grohl's metal supergroup get down on the Southern Lord label. By Will York
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