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Against all enemies
Ackerman's aversion to debate is making it harder for the school district to grapple with serious issues.
By Tali Woodward and Steven T. Jones

The $400,000 spin machine
We've never found the folks on Ackerman's PR team helpful, but we didn't expect them to assert that SFUSD students are stupid.
By Tali Woodward

Fourth of July 2005
Stuff to do in San Francisco and around the Bay area

In This Issue

City punts on cable contract
SF would get millions from Comcast but give up on increasing access
By Tim Kingston

‘SF Weekly’ cuts deal with Clear Channel
Two anticompetitive chains seek to dominate concert ads
By Tim Redmond and Kimberly Chun

No warning
The city's police watchdog takes a nap
By A.C. Thompson

Obituary: Chet Helms, rebel with a cause
1942-2005
By Bruce B. Brugmann

Web Exclusive: Feds raid SF pot clubs
SFPD helps DEA seize more than 9,000 marijuana plants and shutter three dispensaries
By Ann Harrison

Web Exclusive: Good riddance
The controversial promotion of Justice Janice Rogers Brown could have a silver lining for California
By Brigid Gaffikin

Neighborhood Business: Rare birds
In a shrinking market, SF's antiquarian booksellers stay eccentric.

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

Editorial: Reject the Comcast deal

Editorial: Good and bad ethics plans

Editorial: Vicious politics

Opinion: Ackerman stifles dissent
By Alan Wong

Community Internet: Broadband as a Public Utility
From Freepress.net: Hundreds of cities and towns are launching Community Internet systems that promise universal, affordable access to high-speed broadband services.
Now telecom and cable lobbyists are pushing a federal bill that would outlaw Community Internet and municipal broadband everywhere.
Stop this disastrous bill. Send a letter to Congress now.

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: The Jacko Exception to the First Amendment - For persons who care about public access to trials, the Michael Jackson case has been a nightmare.

 

 

Film: Tura! Tura! Tura!
The goddess has spoken: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'s Tura Satana.

Film: Dakota territory
Decoding Hollywood's pint-size star du jour.

Film: Crazy, fantastic world
Miranda July crosses over with Me and You and Everyone We Know.

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘March of the Penguins’
Birds of a feather suffer together

Music: Norwegian would
Oh, the places we'll go and the fun we'll have imagining a battle Pop kisses, heartbreak, and a din of buzz around "Heartbeat" — Annie lands in SF.

Music: Soul mates
Oakland's Sunny and Jamie Hawkins are a match made in R&B heaven.

Music: Earth magic
Seeking spirit guides with Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice.

Stage: Critic's Choice - 'Pilot 46: Over/Lapse'

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Tournesol Award Exhibition'

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
Proust's kitchen
Cheap eats
Bully for buffalo

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

 


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