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Our annual guide to everything!

THE SCUMLORDS: PART THREE OF A THREE-PART SERIES
The taxpayers bailed out Frank Lembi's S&L, but he emerged to build a huge real estate empire
By G.W. Schulz

Editor's Notes

On Guard!
Website of the week, Catholic conflict, Christian soldiers throw down in SF, Postscript.

Editorial: Don't deregulate cabs

Editorial: SF's private police force

Alerts
A selective guide to political events

Opinion: The lessons of East Timor
By Tom Gallagher

Talkback - letters to the editor

Techsploitation - Octavia
By Annalee Newitz

Laugh lines
By Ben Bush

Unexpected guests
Two political bloggers crash - and trash - the Democratic Party.
By Tim Redmond

Un-seeing and believing
Writer-activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reflects on American imperialisms past and present.
By Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore

The afterlife
Simon Reynolds's post-punk foray Rip It Up retrieves San Francisco from the graveyard of punk.
By Deborah Giattina

MARGINALIA: It can happen here
The ups and downs of opening your own watering hole.
By Paul Reidinger

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: It takes the world to tango
You've got male-male, cinematic musical duos Electric President and Terrestrial Tones - and a pair of Metal Hearts
By Ari Messer

Music Pick: Barbarossa
By Stephanie Laemoa

Film: C'mon pilgrims
Carlos Reygadas and Claire Denis keep film mastery alive
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: It takes 3 - or 50
Beastie Boys share an Awesome collabo with fans
By Kimberly Chun

Film: Getting to know T.I.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film Pick: Evil
By Dennis Harvey

Stage: Latter daze
Juan Gelion faces the US's ever scary Christ complex.
By Rita Felciano

Stage Pick: Paul Taylor Dance Company
By Rita Felciano

Art: Reverse rapture
By Katie Kurtz

Art Pick: "You Build It, We Burn It"
By Katie Kurtz

Event Pick: "An Evening of a Thousand Scowls: 826 Valencia's Fourth Annual Comedy Night"
By Jenny Miyasaki

Sonic Reducer
So Sic
By Kimberly Chun

Second Time Around
Billie Holiday: The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes
By Lee Hildebrand

Grooves - music reviews

Local Grooves - music reviews

Super Ego - Vainglorious
By Marke B.

Trash

The Mix

Dine review
Heart of glass
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Regis lives
By L.E. Leone

Without Reservations
Shooting a pig
By Paul Reidinger

The Blender

 


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