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The future of music 2005

More competition, more MP3s, more gigs and more gigabytes, more free-agent artists, more great sounds — expect 2005 to be a hell of a year for music.
By Kimberly Chun

Look out for 2005 releases by these artists

Calls of the wild
Bay Area players and observers place their bets on the exciting new releases, weirdest phenomena, and funniest trends in music 2005.

 

Share and share alike
File sharing gets artistic license.
By Ren Bucholz

In This Issue

Helping women oppose choice
Abortion foes are putting a moderate face on their first San Francisco march in memory
By Tali Woodward and Rachel Brahinsky

Ballpark figures
Think the Giants are asking the city for a huge tax break? Take a look at Mirant
By Matthew Hirsch

Reform school
New school board leaders want more openness and community input, but will the power shift lead Ackerman to leave S.F.?
By Tali Woodward

‘They can't fool me’
Delegation that includes family members of soldiers killed in Iraq reaches out to the occupied country.
By Camille T. Taiara

Not my children's section
Library officials tell Bernal Heights residents renovations won't include neighborhood preschool.
By Matthew Hirsch

Credit rejected
Board denies developer's bid to slash the Chronicle Building's property tax bill
By Steven T. Jones

Neighborhood Business: Sweating it outside
City dwellers are taking their workouts to the streets.

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

Editorial: Ackerman's future

Editorial: Mirant's tax scam

Opinion: The marriage knot
By Robert Haaland


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: Dead by dawn
Duck low for the remake of Assault on Precinct 13.

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Beautiful Boxer’
One-two punch

Music: Traveler's tales
Cosmopolitan singer Lhasa brings The Living Road home.

Art: Critic's Choice - ‘Adrift’

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
The mother of all paradoxes
Cheap eats
Click and point

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

 


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