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Holiday Listings
Seasonal music concerts, Kwanzaa festivities, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, craft shows, and festive ways to spend Christmas Eve

’05 alive
Comedy shows, hip-hop and rock concerts, deep-fried Mars Bars, vampires, drag queens, and parties galore: our annual guide to New Year's Eve events around the Bay.
By Cheryl Eddy

Second-guessing Prop. 71
Promoters of California's stem-cell plan are now acknowledging that the measure contains great potential for abuse
By Tali Woodward and Laura M. Allen

Leaks in the plug
Developer lobbying effort wins exemptions from Potrero Hill building moratorium
By Rachel Brahinsky

Follow That Story

Calluses for Christ
The prophets and preachers of old still stalk the streets of San Francisco.
By Jan Sturmann

Neighborhood Business: Solar power to the people
A local power company is giving low-cost energy to those who need it most.
By Mike Nowak

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

Editorial: Care Not Cash fails

Editorial: The RBA Potrero sellout

Opinion: Gary Webb's gift
By Robert Parry

Dine review
Aromatherapy
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap eats
Slacker
By Dan Leone

The Food Snoop, By Masha Gutkin

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

**Visual & performing arts '04**
Art 2004: Patriot acts Waiving the red and blue (states), recalling lefty poster boys and rocked-out iRaq street art, and assessing the year in visual art. By Glen Helfand Theater 2004 : Coup de grâce Bay Area theater served up fighting words, evil deeds, a charming pinhead, and the pub as a microcosm for life. By Robert Avila Dance 2004 : Fancy, not free Cash cows, dancing for minimum wage, and a year of work worth remembering. By Rita Felciano

Film: Head of the class
In praise of Almodóvar's lurid, lovely Bad Education.
By Dennis Harvey

Film: Life unguarded
Time to rally round The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson's accursed comedy and the film of the year.
By Edward E. Crouse

Film: Critic's Choice - 'The Woodsman'
Crime and punishment
By Dennis Harvey

Music: Can't touch this
Before the Summer of Love and psychedelia, jazz bandleader Art Hickman ruled the Bay Area roost.
By Lee Hildebrand

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Meat Show'
By Clark Buckner

See Hear - music DVD reviews

Script Doctor - film news

Local Live - show reviews

Grooves - record reviews

Local Grooves - record reviews

2nd Time Around - record reviews

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