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How Tim Westergren built the world's smartest jukebox.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sam Devine |
01-09-2008 |
Music
'The Violin': Angels With Dirty Facesnew
Folksy lyricism makes Francisco Vargas's film a quiet beauty.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Francisco Vargas, The Violin
Rebel Women in Chiapasnew
A report from the Zapatista Women's Encounter.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
John Ross |
01-09-2008 |
International
Tags: international
SF Zoo Tiger Fiasco Was a Tragedy Waiting to Happennew
When I look at this story through the lens of a behaviorist, I think about the traits of various human subspecies -- politicians, bureaucrats, managers, spin doctors, journalists, self-proclaimed experts, and supposed guardians of health and safety. Frankly, I am not impressed.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Craig McLaughlin |
01-09-2008 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Godzilla vs. Mothranew
How monumental estimates of a tiny invasive moth's economic and environmental impacts are threatening San Francisco with aerial spraying.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
01-03-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
More Media Consolidation on the Waynew
Single corporations can now dominate media in the top 20 markets.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amy Hough |
01-03-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Michael Pollan Returns With 'In Defense of Food'new
If The Omnivore's Dilemma was a large conceit, Defense is a potent essay whose subject is, finally, the ways in which food science has misled us into various foolish wars: against fat, against carbs, and on behalf of supplements, to name just a few.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
01-03-2008 |
Food+Drink
Parsing the Homophobia of 'UR So Gay'new
It's hard to know what to think or feel or which cheek to plunge one's tongue into while listening to Katy Perry's "UR So Gay" -- amazement or repulsion?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
01-03-2008 |
Music
Tags: Katy Perry
Can Burning Man Leave a Legacy of Renewable Energy?new
Last month, a 90-kilowatt solar array -- some of which was used to power the eponymous Man at last year's event -- was placed in the town of Gerlach, Nev., as a donation to the Washoe County School District. It will give the school free, clean power for the next 25 years, saving the district about $20,000 annually.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
01-03-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Technology in Wartimenew
In a time of war you can't enjoy a party game without thinking about your game console being used to kill people.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
01-03-2008 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
The Year in Film: Cartooning the Warnew
Transformers and 300 turn the conflict into comic book blockbusters.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
12-28-2007 |
Movies
Politics as Cryptographynew
Thom Hartmann cracks the code of what wins over Americans.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
J.B. Powell |
12-28-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bay Area Journalists are Switching Sidesnew
Newspaper shake-ups are leading former journos to the dark side of media relations.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G.W. Schulz |
12-28-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
The Ron Paul Phenomenonnew
How a Republican presidential campaign caught fire in San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sara Knight |
12-28-2007 |
Politics
Humans Are Dogs & Even Monkeys Can Do Mathnew
Two new studies of animal intelligence caught my attention last week because they prove that humans are no better than dogs and monkeys. This is something I've always felt to be true on an anecdotal level, and now cognitive science backs me up.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
12-19-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
