Web Exclusive: Upton Sinclair's California Bay Guardian editor and publisher Bruce B. Brugmann talks with Lauren Coodley, editor of The Land of Orange Groves and Jails, a collection of Upton Sinclair's writings.
Lit: Assimilation and its discontents A literary tour of gay San Francisco, from bohemian bacchanalias to fascism disguised as matrimony By Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore
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.
Art: McMystery Mansion Jeremy Blake's Winchester Trilogy surveys a Western landscape, a San Jose landmark, and U.S. expansionism through kaleidoscopic filters.
By Glen Helfand
Art: Geek love Porcine mind reading, armless dulcimer playing, and an enormous head crop up in Ricky Jay's collection of handbills.
By Kimberly Chun
