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Noise: Miss understood
The strange trajectory of Linda Perry - from the top of the pop charts with 4 Non Blondes, to pennilessness, back up to the top once again.
By Kimberly Chun

Noise: Echo of the past
A superfan looks back at a life shaped by Echo and the Bunnymen.
By Kelley Stoltz

Noise: Building a better nu-metal
System of a Down nail down a Korn-y genre's finest moment.
By Will York

Noise: Countdown to Mars
By Keith Axline

Noise: Sonic reducer
By Kimberly Chun

Fight for the mike
Hip-hop youth challenge Clear Channel's local radio license renewals
By Camille T. Taiara

The taxman cometh
The sale of the Bank of America building proves downtown wasn't paying its fair share of taxes. What will the next assessor do about it?
By Matthew Hirsch

Comcast wins
Board approves contract without change, but Peskin pursues another avenue to help workers
By Elizabeth Ody

Epilogue as prologue
Has Burning Man finally returned from the desert? And can San Francisco help share it with the world?
By Steven T. Jones

Submerged: An Evacuee's Journal
Toxic Art
By Michael Tisserand

'Bay Guardian' suit advances

In This Issue

Talkback

Editorial: The secret police deal

Editorial: Reject the Mills mall

Neighborhood Business: Biz Tips

Neighborhood Business: Poster child
Artist Favianna Rodriguez makes history with her politically conscious graphics company.
By Momo Chang

And we have a winner ...
The results from the Sex Issue 2005 quiz contest are in

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.

 

 

Art: Z marks the spot
Thus speaks Sara Thustra, who offers a "Free Dinner" at City Hall
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: In colder blood?
Ethical questions rise from the dead in Capote
By Susan Gerhard

Film: Anchor steam
Good Night, and Good Luck prints the Murrow legend.
By Cheryl Eddy

Film: Movie Clock: '24 Hours on Craigslist'
Any time of year, you can find it here
By Dennis Harvey

Art: Critic's Choice: 'General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987-2005'
By Katie Kurtz

Stage: Critic's Choice: Compagnie Jant-Bi
By Cheryl Eddy

Film: Critic's Choice: Mill Valley Film Festival
By Cheryl Eddy

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: Requiem

Without Reservations
Mark me
By Paul Reidinger

The Blender

 


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