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The nonprofit gold rush

S.F. spends billions on nonprofit contracts without adequate oversight. It's a recipe for disaster.
By Matthew Hirsch

The biggest contracts
The top 25 money recipients since 2002.

The money flow
How nonprofit funding flows through City Hall.

A citizens' guide to fighting secret government

Help wanted
The less-than-stunning success of Goodwill's jobs program.
By A.C. Thompson

Nonprofits gone wild!
A guide to bad behavior, scandals, and shenanigans at local nonprofits.
By A.C. Thompson and Tali Woodward

FOI winners
Presenting the winners of the 20th annual James Madison Freedom of Information Awards

 
Introducing our new online FOI sections

Journalists under fire
Press freedom alerts, journalists in high risk zones, digests from the frontlines of the free press around the globe, and links to national and international organizations working for press freedom

Freedom of information
Alerts, news and commentary on sunshine, open government and first amendment issues.

In This Issue

Bring the static
California broadcasters will get their licenses renewed unless public objects
By Camille T. Taiara

The mayor's perspective
Newsom laments city's bad budget options and fires back at critics
By Steven T. Jones

Twisting Jane Doe
Arrested protesters claim mistreatment in jail, but city denies access to videos that may show what happened
By Camille T. Taiara

Web extra: John Ross - Dateline Mexico
The new Migra: 2004 was a good year for the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration forces - and a bad year for immigrants. Read more from John Ross in our Journalists Under Fire section

Neighborhood Business: Shooting galleries
Mike Nowak probes the burgeoning Mission District art scene

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

Editorial: Ending nonprofit secrecy

Opinion: The real price of TICs
By Tommi Alvicolli Mecca

Food & Drink special: The bicycle vintner
How to make your own wine — and end up with great glutes too.


Dine review
Fire in the wok
Cheap eats
Butter moon

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 alerts, journalists in high risk zones, digests from the frontlines of the free press around the globe, and links to national and international organizations working for press freedom

Freedom of information
Alerts, news and commentary on sunshine, open government and first amendment issues. This week from the California First Amendment Coalition: In an era when anyone with a computer and modem can publish information that reaches thousands, who is a "journalist"? The answer matters like never before.

 

Film: Asian American film, mon amour
The 23rd San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival gets real

Film: Still on the eve of destruction
Two films at this year's SFIAAFF remember the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Film: Reel appeal
Short takes on this year's S.F. International Asian American Film Festival

Film: A brand-new key
Carnegie Hall grands and cheap toy instruments are all child's play for avant-garde performer Margaret Leng Tan, subject of Sorceress of the New Piano

Film: Bonus tracks
Rewinding classic camcorder diary a.k.a. Don Bonus.

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Benning x 2 + 27’

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Downfall’
Reich and wrong

Music: ‘Infanta’ terrible
Why so quixotic, dude? We tarry a while with Picaresque adventurer Colin Meloy of the Decemberists.

Theater: Double trouble
Philip Kan Gotanda expands his breadth with Under the Rainbow.

Stage: Critic's Choice - ‘Sunken Cathedrals: Illusions of Structure’

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Recent Work'

St. Patrick's Day Events

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 Bars & Clubs

Bars & Clubs: Follow the DJ
Ten of San Francisco's hottest underground DJs tell us where they're at, what they love, and what they're looking forward to this spring and beyond.

Bars & Clubs: Mighty fine
He's done Liquid. He's done Club Six. Now clubland vet Pete Glikshtern takes on Mighty. Gather round, listen, and learn.

Bars & Clubs: The new supper club
San Francisco's flux of dining, drinking, and lounging spots offers everything but the big band.

Bars & Clubs: Are you being served?
Supper clubs are growing like superweeds — here are a few that have shot down roots recently

Bars & Clubs: The classics
Here, we salute San Francisco's senior citizens of the supper club scene

Bars & Clubs: Play that song
Discovering the love of a good jukebox.

Bars & Clubs: Everything all the time

Bars & Clubs: Jukebox picks and 86's
Musicians and bartenders tell us what tops their list of favorites and hate-its

Bars & Clubs: Green day
A discerning guide to achieving the St. Paddy's Day buzz.

 


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