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Build your TV!

As the FCC and the entertainment biz get ready to end home recording as we know it, a bunch of radical geeks are working on a solution or two.
By Annalee Newitz

In This Issue

Busted!
Why is a police department that can't solve homicides putting resources into a petty-crime decoy program?
By Duni Heimpel

A tale of two mayors
Newsom and Brown share a stage but not a spotlight
By Matthew Hirsch

Brown moves right toward state office

Dirty laundry
High-profile uniform company Cintas slammed for labor, billing, and environmental problems.
By Rachel Brahinsky

Neighborhood Business: Headlines making fashion
A local T-shirt designer gives political malcontents something to get off their chest.

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

Editorial: Why S.F. needs to save LAFCO
It's time to rev up the public power movement

Opinion: Counted out
By Chance Martin

Dine review
Lacunae
Cheap eats
Stop! In the name of rare

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

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
Press freedom violations, journalists in high risk zones and digests from the frontlines of the free press around the globe

Freedom of information
Stories and links to information having to do with sunshine and open government

 

Art: The Buddha of suburbia
In his latest series on the American middle class, Leisure, photographer Bill Owens looks back at the way we raged.

Film: In the Army now
Digital diary Gunner Palace remixes the war in Iraq.

Film: Time bandit,
What's love got to do with The Jacket?

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Night of Henna’
Wedding-bell blues

Theater: Torture untangled
“Lost” Tennessee Williams social protest play Not about Nightingales finds a young playwright feeling his powers.

Dance: Hot in here
The topic of global warming finds its footing at ODC Dance.

Stage: Critic's Choice - Dandelion Dancetheater

Art: Critic's Choice - ‘Fame’

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

This month in Noise

Noise: This punk's not dead
The continuing saga of Bruce Lose/Loose, survivor of S.F.'s genius, not-quite-generic Flipper.

Noise: Spidey powers
More than a decade since their demise and still growing in reputation, Slint remain dark, pretty, and inaccessible.

Noise: Young god
A brief encounter with Slint's David Pajo.

Noise: Swann's way
Easy does it when it comes to disappearing soul sister Bettye Swann.

Noise: No tears
The next stage for the Bay Area's antiheroes of electronic rock, Tuxedomoon.

Noise: Sonic Reducer
Babes in playland

 


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