Journalism study faults newspaper business model
08.02.99
Rainbow coalition
Besieged foundation goes on the offensive.
07.26.99
meta name="poetry"
High-tech verse on the verge of becoming high art.
07.19.99
Urban cruise control
Proponents of smart car technology dream of a day when public transit is irrelevant
07.12.99
Computing Columbine
"Employee" at Computer Company Goes On Killing Spree: Sun Microsystems tests its defenses against a Columbine-type massacre
07.05.99
Rallying around the flag
Garment makers join opposition to anti-desecration amendment
06.28.99
Being Nowhere
Popular new book on homelessness blurs the line between fact and fiction
06.21.99
Cat Fancy
A birthday celebration for a new breed of domestic partners
06.14.99
Wire roundup
Prison universities, jaded java, and phone booths for cell phones
06.07.99
Manic Memorizing
Software to preserve 20th-century novels
05.31.99
Dancing fool
San Francisco stripper infuriates the left
05.24.99
Parking poachers
Bizarre Auto Theft Crisis in trendy Mission Neighborhood
05.19.99
Gays embrace minority status
Charismatic leader challenges affluent gay men to transform political agenda
05.10.99
Crippling disorder linked to PalmPilot
Researchers at Johns Hopkins make disturbing connections between PDA use and cognitive dysfunction in young, mobile professionals.
05.03.99
Kosovo, Colorado
Colorado Massacre may have
played role in NATO strike on Serbian television headquarters.
04.26.99
PETA protests pet prozac
A petcare worker is arrested for taking custody of animals being fed antianxiety drugs against their will.
04.19.99
The Y2K-IRS scare
E-filing scams, and a candidate for Nevada State Assembly who wants elections held on tax day unsettle America's time-honored institution.
04.12.99
A disposable computer hits
the market.
Elsewhere, Asians protest on behalf of affirmative action, and "In the Navy" takes on a whole new meaning.
04.05.99
Reality drug for teens
A promising new anti-repressant lets the Prozac generation feel their own pain.
03.29.99
Performer turns credit card debt into art
03.22.99
Glow-in-the-dark liquids, and a living diorama in Cuba
03.15.99
Earthquake rocks Internet
Government, private sector confront massive structural damage.
03.09.99
Neighborhood co-op co-opts gentrification
A group of Southside residents forms a coalition to screen wealthy prospective tenants who are forcing them out of the neighborhood.
03.01.99
Organic is as organic does
A campaign to clean up the organic farm.
02.23.99
Underground party scene takes over BART
Raves in San Francisco's subway tunnels go unnoticed by Bay Area officials.
02.17.99
Trapped janitor contacts family on AOL
Locked inside an Internet start-up after hours, a Los Angeles woman posts an exasperated request for help to a Spanish-language chat room.
02.08.99
News from around the world
2 corporations set out on an ambitious expedition to make a cluster of microcomputers on the floor of the Atlantic ocean Y2K compliant. A Los Angeles-based marketing firm broadcasts audio soap operas via voicemail. These stories and more...
02.01.99
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by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Quotations attributed to public
figures who are satirized are often true, but sometimes invented. Some fictional
statements may, in fact, be true. Any other use of real names is accidental
and coincidental. Editorial questions may be sent to John
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