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Transjobless
Imagine trying to find a job without a shred of work history. Welcome to the transgender job hunt.
By Tali Woodward

Life in hell
In California prisons, an unconventional gender identity can be like an added sentence
By Tali Woodward

SXSW live! and much more
Noise, our new music blog features Kimberly Chun's daily reports from the scene

The Scumlords: Part Two of a Three-Part Series
Toxic lead, bedbugs, broken elevators ... the complaints against Skyline Realty are piling up.
By G.W. Schulz

Obituary
Garrett Scott, filmmaker, 1968–2006

On Guard!
Website of the week, and Politics over policy in Newsom veto.

Editorial: Override the parking veto

Editorial: Ending trans panic

Alerts
A selective guide to political events

Opinion: Free Internet — for whom?
By Sydney Levy

Talkback - letters to the editor

Techsploitation - Roomba cockfight
By Annalee Newitz

2006 Society of Professional Journalists Freedom-of-Information Awards

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.

Music: The Stoned soul rebel
Tracing the outlines of Lewis Taylor's radical craft .
By Kandia Crazy Horse

Music: Brute farce
Londoners Art Brut satirize their Britpop pack
By Ian Port

Music Pick: Good for Cows
By Eliana Fiore

Film: The Peter principle, revisited
My life as a Citizen Dog .
By Chuck Stephens

Film: Home dark home
SF Asian American Film Fest docs trace some troubled travels.
By Cheryl Eddy

Film: SFIAAFF: Take five

Film: Helping herself
Kieu director Vu T. Thu Ha recasts a Vietnamese epic as a day in the life of a Tenderloin massage parlor worker .
By Kimberly Chun

Film Pick: "Summer Storm"
By Dennis Harvey

Stage: Yesterday is today
Denis Johnson digs up Purvis and Hoovers the past .
By Robert Avila

Stage Pick: The Imprint of Partnering
By Rita Felciano

Art Pick: "Partially Told Stories"
By Katie Kurtz

Event Pick: Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
By Chris Sabbath

Sonic Reducer
No free launch
By Kimberly Chun

Grooves - music reviews

Local Grooves - music reviews

Micro Grooves - Music Reviews

Full Circle
Prisoners of the past
By J.H. Tompkins

Trash: Tunney business

Dine review
Be my Valentina
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Big Jim's PA
By L.E. Leone

Without Reservations
Snail call
By Paul Reidinger

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