Off the map
This month in Noise: Where do you find rock, pop, punk, indie, dance,
garage, noise, experimental, and electronic music, as well as literary
readings, video, and comedy? Welcome to the Mission Creek Music
and Arts Festival. By George Chen
Noise: Chemistry set
Josh Churchill, Jim Haynes, and irr.app. (ext.) mix it up at the
Lab. By George Chen
Cover Photo by Zackary Canepari
Noise: Magnificent obsession
Wild game playing and Byzantine mythmaking with Zeek Sheck, the
lady tyrant on the edge of the edge of San Francisco music. By Gabriel Mindel
Noise: Virgin air
Quadruple threat Dame Darcy's Death by Doll ring our bell. By Ian S. Port
Noise: Bad company
Eman Laerton thinks You Have Have Bad Taste in Music. By Johnny Ray Huston
Noise: No phone-y
Another brown reason to live: post-multiculti S.F. comedian Brent
Weinbach. By Kimberly Chun
Noise: All this and hell
too
Country, cinema, Ian Curtis, and the hazy funk of a whiskey-soaked
bender — Jeffrey Luck Lucas shouts at the devil. By Kurt Wolff
Noise: Dark matters
Schaffer the Darklord rattles the comedy-rap crib. By Mike Alexis
A river — nay, a veritable flood — of rock, pop, punk,
indie, dance, garage, noise, experimental, and electronic music
shows, as well as literary readings, video screenings, and comedy
offerings runs through San Francisco's underground when the ninth
annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival busts its banks from
June 5 through 12. For more information, and a complete list of
performances, go to www.mcmf.org.
Alternative visions
Five Bay Area conservationists are thinking globally — but
outside the mainstream consensus — about sustainability By Matthew Hirsch
Rice-a-ruckus
Protesters give Condi a San Francisco treat By Steven T. Jones
Claiming his home A Berkeley squatter tests the boundaries of property rights
in an age of mounting inequality By Camille T. Taira
Kids against candy
With lead-tainted candy from Mexico still for sale in the Mission,
health officials and educators — and even some candy-loving
kids — are working to warn the community about its perils. By Tali Woodward
Ninos en contra de los dulces
Con dulces de Mexico contaminados por el plomo todavia a la venta en la Mision, funcionarios de sanidad y educadores de salud - e incluso algunos ninos amantes de los dulces - trabajan para alertar a la comunidad sobre sus peligros. Por Tali Woodward
Neighborhood Business: A bitter brew
Japantown residents and business owners are waking up to smell
the Starbucks. Sign the petition opposing Starbucks here. By Chellis Ying
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.
