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sfbg cover Shorts and sandals
One intrepid adventurer explores San Francisco's summer fashion taboos.
By Ben Bush (Cover photo by Mirissa Neff)

Leave the driving to us
You don't need four wheels to experience the great outdoors.
By Jackson West

You want butter on that?
Aliens, animation, superheroes, and superstars: yep, must be summer at the movies.
By Cheryl Eddy

Wet hot American summer
Our annual guide to summer fairs and festivals.
By Keith Axline, Sarah Han, Elisa Jacobs, and Maya Melenchuk

 

Wild beaches
Our guide to helping you locate the uncharted terrain where sand meets surf.
By Adam Martin

Sports for the nonsportive
Even if you can't hit a ball, here are four excuses to enjoy the great outdoors.
By Matthew Shechmeister

Suds spritzers
Summer cocktails begin with beer
By Paul Reidinger

In This Issue

Housing for whom?
Looming plans to reshape the eastern half of the city could alter the city's socioeconomic balance
By Rachel Brahinsky

Raw deal
Ammiano moves to challenge PG&E franchise fee
By Matthew Hirsch

Weeding out pot clubs
In the face of a city crackdown, medical marijuana dispensary owners fight to remain open for business
By Ann Harrison

‘Bay Guardian’ suit moves forward
By Tim Redmond

Web Exclusive: The forgotten
Speech by Juan Prada, interim director, Coalition on Homelessness, May 3, 2005

The progressive challenge
Can disparate groups on the left finally coalesce into a unified front?
By Steven T. Jones and Tim Redmond

Neighborhood Business: Butch fashion bonanza
Men's clothing for women — that fits.

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

Editorial: Real tax reform

Editorial: Undo the PG&E franchise

Opinion: From Saigon to Baghdad
By Marshal Windmiller


Dine review
Kitsch and caboodle
Cheap eats
And the band played on

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

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.

 

 

Art: Tags are it
Atari's Getting Up: Contents under Pressure has graffiti artists pissed and S.F. do-gooders braced for trouble.

Music: Fault-line transmissions
Various artists, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — Official Soundtrack (Interscope)

Gamer: Choppers, chores, and antisocial behavior
You scored — welcome to the maiden installment of our new video game review column.

Film: Magnificent obsessions
Deep focus rules at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival.

Film: Another mean world
Save the Green Planet — if you dare!

Film: Divine filmmaking
All hail Lucrecia Martel and The Holy Girl

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘Lipstick and Dynamite’
Ladies of pain

Music: The Ex-philes
Bay Area romantics the Ex-Boyfriends have no regrets — about showing off their love for pure pop.

Theater: Pieces of a dream
ACT's production of A Moon for the Misbegotten settles family scores.

Dance: Ocean motion
Pacific Dances highlights Smuin Ballet's uneven program.

Art: Critic's Choice - 'The Tormentors'

Stage: Critic's Choice - Motion Lab

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

 


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