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Offies 2004

Presenting our annual Off-Guard Awards for the most stupid, silly, and bizarre acts and events of 2004.

In This Issue

The fall guy
Was Gary Thompson framed — and what does that say about juvenile justice in San Francisco?
By A.C. Thompson

Justice for protester
City faces $835,000 payout for cop who clubbed antiwar demonstrator
By Steven T. Jones

Majority rules
At least six supervisors support fighting to increase PG&E's franchise fee
By Matthew Hirsch

What is preservation?
Developer seeks large tax credit for project that would expand and convert the old Chronicle Building
By Rachel Brahinsky

Boxer's rebellion
How activists and a senator from the Bay Area forced Congress to discuss voting rights
By Rachel Brahinsky

Neighborhood Business: Spreading the green
Berkeley's Ecology Center is on a mission to save the earth.

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

Editorial: Don't reappoint Garcia

Editorial: The juvie justice mess

Editorial: The PG&E lies begin

Opinion: NRA out of S.F.
By Bill Barnes and Burke Strunsky

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

 

Film: Beat a retreat?
While Kanye West looks within and Mos Def styles himself as a quasi-jihadist, a head wonders, what happened to the rage, urgency, and political direction in hip-hop?

Stage: Critic's Choice - San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival auditions
Berlin

Dance: Unrestricted movement
Genderqueer choreographer Sean Dorsey develops a distinct voice.

Film: Y'all naturel
Into the woods with outsider filmmaker Phil Chambliss.

Film: Wake-up call
Don Cheadle shines as a real-life hero in Hotel Rwanda.

Film: Hollywood humbug?
A critical look at critic David Thomson.

Film: Cut!
Talking about The Whole Equation, film criticism, and guilt-free pleasures with David Thomson.

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice’
Bard company

Music: No choice
Early “out of the closet and into the pit” queercore statesmen Limpwrist return to the trenches, and Latino punk vet Martin Sorrondeguy relocates to the Bay Area.

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Motel Cucaracha'

 

Careers and Education: The high cost of fundraising
Local schools find funding from corporate sponsors, but at what price?

Careers and Education: Business for change
One social entrepreneur explains how growing an enterprise doesn't have to involve greed.

Careers and Education: Get out of Dodge
There's never been a better time to work abroad. Lorraine Sanders proposes 50 ways to trade your labor

Film: in
Berlin

Film: in
Berlin

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

The Mix

Dine review
A theory of evolution
Cheap eats
Pho boy

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

 


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