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Everybody say ‘Yeah’
What is the San Francisco sound?
By Kimberly Chun

Strength in differences
But keep your “Kumbaya”’s to yourself.

Jacob's ladder
Dive into the divine maelstroms of illusive sonic truth.

Welcome to the Yay
Diversity is the key to Bay Area hip-hop.

New maps
The S.F.–versus–N.Y. story.

Porn again
Deep and sexy versus dank and sleazy.

Dusted
The ambiguous pleasures of San Francisco's ’80s and ’90s concept rock.

Unclean living
The San Francisco sound means dirty house round these parts.

 

Kick ass
You're stuck in "Hotel California," but from where you're sitting, you can safely say S.F. still rocks.

Knockout blows
A view of San Francisco music from afar.

Easy to resist?
Struggling to be heard above the city's noise.

That San Francisco sound
Days between stations, and the free-form sounds of a city.

Top 10 lists by writers

Top 10 lists by musicians

In This Issue

Officer 187
How many people has Paul Lozada shot — and why don't his bosses know?
By A.C. Thompson

Class conflict
Was Daly's censure hearing really about civility? Or was it a failed effort to quiet a vocal advocate?
By Steven T. Jones

Cutting care
Newsom puts last-resort homeless programs on the chopping block
By Rachel Brahinsky

Obituary: Leroy F. Aarons
1933-2004
By Bruce B. Brugmann

Irony exhibited
Accessibility clashes with deliberation at sunshine task force meeting

Supremes on pot
High court hears medical marijuana case involving Oakland resident.

Feast's hidden famines
The food we buy isn't as cheap as it seems.

Neighborhood Business: The Outer Sunset's new dawn
Grocery co-op Other Avenues is the center of a food revolution.

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

Editorial: Defeat for civility

Editorial: The wrong cuts

Opinion: Life during wartime
By Jeff Gilmore

Alerts - Political Events

Talkback - Letters to the Editor

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: Terrible discovery
Overnight gives a blowhard filmmaker some unflattering name-face recognition.

Film: Cold season
Mike Nichols doles out punishment in the film version of Closer.

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Who Killed Bambi?’
Caduceus wild

Performance: Street poets
The Collaborative Arts Insurgency takes over one of the toughest corners in the Mission.

Art: Making a mark
Amy Rathbone explores a place between two and three dimensions.

Stage: Critic's Choice - ‘New Media’

Holiday listings

See Hear

Script Doctor

Local Live - show reviews

Grooves - record reviews

Local Grooves - record reviews

2nd Time Around - record reviews

The Mix

Dine review
The Russia house

Cheap eats
Chapter 3

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

 


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