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Wheelin' and dealin'

As the borders blur between the street art scene and the museum world, a critic considers the ollies popped and champagne sloshed for skater-artists such as Neck Face and Simon Evans.
By Glen Helfand

Neck Face is not a crackhead
Surviving face skids and ducking fans from NYC to Tokyo, Neck Face becomes the new art-world target
By Lori Spears

 

New sensation
SECA Art Award winner Simon Evans keeps his head.
By Lori Spears

In This Issue

Cheap waterfront property
Mirant's claim of reduced land value could cost the city $8.5 million
By Matthew Hirsch

Hope for tots
Library officials to reconsider evicting Bernal Heights State Preschool
By Matthew Hirsch

Mission adrift
Affordable-housing developer faces scrutiny after fumbling before city panel
By Rachel Brahinsky

News you could lose
Local papers and TV stations continue to emphasize "the weird, the fluffy, and the gruesome"
By Tali Woodward

Smackdown
Nader berates his student supporters for their apathy, but then takes their money
By Duni Heimpel

No free lunch
A showdown over employee breaks comes to San Francisco Feb. 8
By Rachel Brahinsky

Reinventing cable
Media advocates gear up for S.F.'s biggest telecom fight in 40 years.
By Camille T. Taiara

Epilogue
Gary Thompson gets his job back. But the juvenile justice system is still a wreck.
By A.C. Thompson

Neighborhood Business: Offscreen drama
Who will win the fight over the Harding Theater?

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

Editorial: No more handouts

Editorial: SFUSD's bond mess

Editorial: Save the Harding Theater

Opinion: Close the youth prisons
By Allan Feaster


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: Sundowner
Commercialism overtakes creativity at the Sundance Film Festival.

Film: Indie jones
Quirky, paranoid, teeming with diva-rific dysfunction — the San Francisco Independent Film Festival makes its best showing to date.

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Born into Brothels’

Theater: Out of place
Guillermo Verdecchia traces the psychic borders of Latino identity and social reality in TheatreFIRST's Fronteras Americanas.

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Architecture of Density'

Stage: Critic's Choice - Black History Month dance events

This week in Noise:

Noise: Sonic Reducer
Straight outta Fairfield?
By Kimberly Chun

Noise: Wasted youth
Looking back at the subtle strains and quiet angst of Young Marble Giants.
By Ken Taylor

Noise: Pieces of her
When backing tracks are the norm in genres ranging from pop to hip-hop, why hate Ashlee Simpson?
By Jimmy Draper

Noise: Pick of the litter
Give ’em enough axe — bow down to newly relocated Orthrelm, Octis, and now Flying Luttenbachers guitar czar Mick Barr.
By Will York

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
On a first-name basis
Cheap eats
Joy, Luck

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

 


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