AltWeeklies Wire
Building Green in San Francisconew
The city considers rival plans to implement mandatory green design standards for new residential and commercial buildings.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
David Carini |
02-28-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Tooth and Consequencesnew
Some Americans can't afford dental care, so they're fleeing to risky clinics across the border.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Justin Juul |
02-27-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The Real FISA Problemnew
The entire premise of secret electronic surveillance seems shaky, judge or no.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Editorial |
02-20-2008 |
Commentary
Tags: domestic spying, FISA
You Cannot Afford Marsnew
Sure, we know it's not packed with cool aliens, but we haven't realized that hunkering down on another planet isn't going to solve our basic problems as humans
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
02-20-2008 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Citizens vs. Spiesnew
San Francisco is at the center of a national debate over government and corporate surveillance of U.S. residents.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michael Leonard |
02-20-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties, FISA
Get Ecoerotic With Green Sex Toysnew
Your vibrator could be the reason for someone else's unnaturally tiny penis. Really.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Molly Freedenberg |
02-13-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Shelter Shufflenew
Inside San Francisco's confounding system of housing the homeless.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
02-13-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
To Be, or To Be Autonautsnew
Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop parody the travel book and reinvent the road story.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Nicole Gluckstern |
02-13-2008 |
Fiction
The Backstage Passes and Musings of Dean & Brittanew
Indie-rock gossip hounds might be interested to know that Wareham and Phillips didn't become a couple immediately after they met -- and they kept it on the down low even after they hooked up. Wareham promises to tell all in his new memoir, Black Postcards, which will be published by Penguin in March.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marcus Crowder |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dean & Britta
Super Tuesday Lessonsnew
Barack Obama wins San Francisco with a late surge of diverse supporters, but can he prevent the superdelegates from tapping Hillary Clinton?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones, G.W. Schulz and Sarah Phelan |
02-13-2008 |
Politics
The Return of the Return of the DJnew
Ex-X-ecutioners form Ill Insanity and begin their crusade for the next DJ renaissance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Billy Jam |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ill Insanity
'Tre' Shows a Quietly Devastating Relationship Meltdownnew
This cunning, sardonic psychological study pays off in grim affirmation.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
02-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Eric Byler, Tre
Three Reasons to Hate Facebooknew
Poking is just the beginning.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
02-13-2008 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Dengue Fever: Adept at Twisting Genresnew
Ever the intrepid globe-trotters, the septet are equally adept at twisting Ethiopian jazz, Bollywood soundtracks, and Middle Eastern pop into their sweltering garage rock tribute to pre–Pol Pot–era Cambodia.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Todd Lavoie |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Dengue Fever, Venus on Earth
Oregone's Funky 'Floor' is Beckoningnew
The band's tightly executed debut, The Killion Floor -- named after their teeming recording studio -- bursts with soulful enthusiasm and the scene's signature expert musicianship.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tomas Palermo |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Orgone, The Killion Floor
