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sfbg cover Over troubled waters
Jenni Olson's meditative The Joy of Life plunges the S.F. International Film Festival into a heated bridge debate.
By Susan Gerhard

San Francisco International Film Festival
Week one of SFIFF, under the microscope

Fleurs de Malaysia
Peninsular pleasures (and problems) from Southeast Asian cinema’s hottest new zone

Argentine waves
A new Argentinian cinema rises from political upheaval and economic wreckage

Mommie, peerless
Joan Allen, master of the maternal portrayal

 

Idol worship
Director Taylor Hackford's bid for pop cult fame

Won't get fooled again?
Docs expose pranksters, politicians, and corporations who punk the masses

In This Issue

Obituary: Marla Ruzicka, 1976-2005

Warm heart, iron will
"She fought hard, but she also laughed and knew how to let her hair down."
By Matt Gonzalez

Fighting through cynicism
Remembering Marla Ruzicka as someone who didn't let the warmongers impede her quest for justice
By Camille Taiara

Serving the urban tribe
Native Americans will walk the "red road to recovery" in S.F.'s new Friendship House.
By R.M. Arrieta

Death is no equalizer
Everyone wants to help the families of crime victims ... some crime victims
By A.C. Thompson

It's back!
A pair of reports place public power — or at least its close relative, community-choice aggregation — back on S.F.'s agenda
By Matthew Hirsch

Campus battlegrounds
Desperate military recruiters and a growing opposition square off in local schools
By Abigail Kramer

Neighborhood Business: Stranger in a Badland
The battle over discrimination in the Castro continues.

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

Editorial: The next assessor

Editorial: Vote Kakishiba in Oakland

Opinion: Health care reform, at home
By Tim Paulson

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.

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.

 

 

Music: ‘Hex’ appeal
Indie rock's good witch Mary Timony puts a spell on you.

Theater: Let's go crazy
Blue/Orange takes a look at madness and reason.

Spoken word: It takes guts
Brave new voice Ishle Yi Park journeys from rage to love.
By Momo Chang

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘The Interpreter’
Eavesdrop kick

Stage: Critic's Choice - ‘Bay Area Celebrates National Dance Week'

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
Slow ahead
Cheap eats
The world in the evening

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

 


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