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The Best of the Bay
Our annual tribute to all things local and glorious, now in its 31st year.


In This Issue

Face off at the Brazilian corral
A new twist in the AIDS drug dispute
By Tim Kingston

State of emergency
Internal report rips SF Fire Department for lax medical care
By A.C. Thompson

Obituary: Manuel Coello, 1957–2005
In a senseless and tragic murder, Manuel Coello, who had been a Bay Guardian delivery person for more than a decade, was shot and killed by an armed robber July 20 in East Palo Alto.

Neighborhood Business: Check these out
Bay Area tool-lending libraries help you make home improvements.

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

Editorial: No Home Depot

Opinion: Picket the evictors
By Ted Gullicksen

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.

 

 

Music: Another woman called Moses
Keep your thin-voiced hotties and reinvented rockers — fire-starter and hot mama Chaka Khan still inspires uplift and earthy passion.

Music: On the offensive
Did onetime Bay Area–based musical subversives the Zip Code Rapists truly make "the worst record of all time"?

Film: Navy gazing
Stealth: so pretty, so shiny, so stupid.

Film: Critic's Choice - ‘The Warrior’
A history of violence

Art: Community drift
Looking for a focus at "Bay Area Now 4."

Theater: I am my own cast
Marga Gomez fashions a funny love letter in Los Big Names.

Stage: Critic's Choice - West Wave Dance Festival

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
The sun king
Cheap eats
A beautiful mind

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

 


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