AltWeeklies Wire
This Oil Spill -- and the Nextnew
There's a lot that can be done to make shipping in the San Francisco Bay safer.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Editorial |
11-14-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
A Major Polluter Could Cash Innew
Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to give Mirant Corp. $2 million to shut down its power plant.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
11-07-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Carbon Indulgencesnew
Carbon offset fees may be new, but the underlying notion goes back to the Middle Ages, when the Catholic Church sold wealthy people indulgences to offset the spiritual cost of their sins and assure a place for them in heaven. And yet at least the kids in 1380 knew that indulgences were bullshit.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
11-07-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Rent Control Under Attack in San Francisconew
Eminent domain reform measure on June ballot could kill the city's rent-control and affordable-housing laws.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones and Sarah Phelan |
11-07-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Bay-Delta Connectionnew
Scientists predict that rising sea levels and levee failures could have profound consequences for both ecosystems.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
11-07-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
San Fran Hosts a Halloween Suitable for the 'Burbsnew
The mayor's plan worked: two decades of fun in the Castro on Halloween died in 2007.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G.W. Schulz |
11-07-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Feinstein's Torture Cave-Innew
If Dianne Feinstein can't stand up to this administration, she shouldn't be on the Judiciary Committee.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Editorial |
11-07-2007 |
Commentary
The Heavy Evangelism of Jesu's Justin Broadricknew
Jesu's second full-length is a bleakly epic knight's tale where melodies spiral upward into ominous gray clouds of static to create ingenious, thundering shoegaze.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kate Izquierdo |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Money and Politics in San Francisconew
Corporations buy influence using big donations and sneaky tactics.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
10-31-2007 |
Politics
'American Gangster' Shows Crime Doesn't Paynew
The film is quite a high-caliber affair, with a star-studded cast and close attention to period details -- but it's overlong, a little too morally precise, and spends too much time on Russell Crowe's character, who is hardly as interesting as Denzel Washington's smooth, sinister schemer.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
A Conversation With the Godfather of Gorenew
Between 1960 and 1972, Herschell Gordon Lewis ruled the drive-in with a steady stream of exploitation movies, made on the cheap for crowds unafraid to experience the kind of special effects that earned him the nickname "the Godfather of Gore."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
10-31-2007 |
Movies
'King Corn' Examines What Health is Worthnew
This documentary follows the directors as they arrange to farm an acre of corn in Iowa, then follow the harvest as best they can as it flows into the whitewater river of agrocommerce.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
The Consumer Biotech Revolution is On the Horizonnew
Predicting the future of the home-tech phenomenon.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
10-31-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
'Terror's Advocate' Creates a Visceral Ethical Disquietnew
Barbet Schroeder adds to his library of alluring evil with this documentary.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Stephen Beachy |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
'The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps' Packs the Big Gunsnew
No false advertising here -- The Big Book is big, roughly the size of the San Francisco yellow pages, and it offers up nothing but the purest in pulp mystery fiction.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
John Marr |
10-31-2007 |
Fiction
