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Art-o-rama
Affordable gifts for artists, aspiring artists, and appreciators.
By Lori Musicer

Unloading surplus
Suggested recipients for charitable donations.

Naughty and nice
Holiday DVDs for everyone.

All-star casting
How silicone and creativity can lead to some amazing handmade holiday gifts.

Shopping like it's 1999
The bubble has long since burst, but local e-tailers still make shopping in your skivvies a breeze.

 

Toys that don't destroy
A guide to making environmental choices for a green holiday season.

Getting personal
Tailor-made presents are calling your name.

In This Issue

Control issues
Proposed Potrero Hill building moratorium spawns a heated hearing
By Rachel Brahinsky

Unfinished business
Local 2 cooks say a culinary school crossed the line during the hotel lockout
By Tim Redmond and Matthew Hirsch

Last house call
With a little help from a public health nurse, Bill Schruba is able to live a decent, independent life – at least for a few more weeks.
By Tali Woodward

The revolution will be televised
Free Radio Berkeley expands its guerrilla broadcast movement into a new medium
By Camille T. Taiara

The cost of condos
Vulnerable renters are being displaced by the biggest wave of Ellis Act evictions in years

Freeway in the park?l
Dozens protest road-widening plans for Golden Gate Park

Neighborhood Business: Rooms worth checking into
San Francisco offers a bevy of boutique hotels for the downtown visitor.

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

Editorial: The $97 million question

Editorial: The censure nonsense

Opinion: Bush's war on patients
By Rebecca Kaplan

Alerts - Political Events

Talkback - Letters to the Editor

Dine review
The sweet spot

Cheap eats
See me, feel me

The Food Snoop,

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

The FCC
FCC and media consolidation

 

Film: Welcome to the dollhouse
Strung out on poppets, puppets, and Seed of Chucky.

Film: Faith and fate
The second half of the Pacific Film Archive's Cine Mexico series rips into bad religion.

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Alexander’
Sword and Stone

Music: Lose your edge
Eminem botches his Encore.

Music: Dirt of legend
Lost in the awe-inspiring wilderness of Ol' Dirty Bastard.

Music: Back for the attack
Bay Area math metal champions the Fucking Champs return to the party.

Art: In a minute
Erwin Wurm packs a lot into a little.

Theater: Enemy studies
Rush Limbaugh in Night School hits all the right notes.

Dance: Set it off
The San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest starts out strong.

This month in Lit:

Lit: House hunter
Public property

Lit: The Lit interview: Jeff Hawkins
The author of On Intelligence offers some fresh intelligence on the human brain

Lit: Marginalia
Homer nods

Lit: All volumes great and small
Yes, Virginia, there are books petite enough to be stuffed into stockings

Lit: Book Reviews

Lit: Murder most facile
It takes a Canadian to write the story of America's aggressions

See Hear

Script Doctor

Local Live - show reviews

Grooves - record reviews

Local Grooves - record reviews

2nd Time Around - record reviews

The Mix

 


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