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Crime and impunity

When Ban Tsan was stabbed in a SoMa nightclub, the SF police had a chance to stop a bloody conflict in the city's Asian underworld. Instead, they did nothing.

In Careers and Education

In This Issue

On Guard
Fisher family fortunes, Ammiano's Chamber challenge, and the return of SFPD's controversial filmmaker.
By Steven T. Jones

Editorial: The governor's lie

Editorial: Please – not Dean Macris

Postmortem
Commission investigates California's death penalty just as the pace of executions picks up.
By Matthew Hirsch

Nowhere to run
San Francisco police role in Mission District immigration raids may violate local law
By Camille T. Taiara

Sex vs. death
Will the religious right stymie the first-ever cancer vaccine?
By Tali Woodward

Alerts
A selective guide to political events

Neighborhood Business: Clothes ties
A former exotic dancer launches a clothing label steeped in her Cambodian roots
By Christina Dillmann and Kristina Peterson

Neighborhood Business: Biz Tips

Opinion: School closings: another approach
By Lisa Schiff

Talkback - letters to the editor

Being there - travel
Sonora sledding
By By Susan Gerhard

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: Catch them if you can
Chasing the elusive SF-by-way-of-SD duo Skaters.
By George Chen

Full Circle
Morbid fascinations
By Weasel Walter

Film: That's nasty
The other Verhoeven brings political bite to Berlin and Beyond.
By Dennis Harvey

Film: Later, Haight-er
'Following Sean'
By Cheryl Eddy

Film: Dark was the night
Noir City: San Francisco Film Noir Festival
By Max Goldberg

Film pick: 'Glory Road'
By Cheryl Eddy

Art: Make it with you
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' "Peer Pleasure I" explores the pleasures and pains of artist collectives.
By Katie Kurtz

Stage: Voices in the Ether
W. Allen Taylor finds his father on the radio in Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins
By Robert Avila

Stage Pick: Women on the Way Festival
By Rita Felciano

Trash: Gamer Pick
By Kimberly Chun

Trash: Bo peeps
By Cheryl Eddy

Trash: Sinister voices of true-crime TV
By Johnny Ray Huston

Grooves - music reviews
B-Legit, Aoki Takamasa and Tujiko Noriko, Nelly

Local Grooves - music reviews

Microgrooves
By Kimberly Chun

Sonic Reducer
Expect the unexpected
By Kimberly Chun

Super Ego
Tuesday boomin'
Marke B.

The Mix

Dine review
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
By L.E. Leone

Without Reservations
By Paul Reidinger

Critics Choice: Food
By Paul Reidinger

Food Snoop
Wherefore art thou?
By Masha Gutkin

The Blender

 


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