AltWeeklies Wire
My Kingdom for a Legume!new
The American heartland doesn't know beans.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
09-20-2007 |
Food+Drink
A Three-Point Plan to Save San Francisconew
A radical new approach to affordable housing isn't just an option anymore -- it's imperative.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan and Tim Redmon |
09-20-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
In Immigration Battle, Letters as Leveragenew
Bay Area activists are leading the fight against a new Bush administration crackdown on undocumented workers.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joseph Plaster |
09-20-2007 |
Immigration
Are Little Boxes Really the Next Wave of Eco-Housing?new
Prefabricated housing is all the rage these days -- who can beat the price and the prospect of actually having a finished home within months of approving a design?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Deborah Giattina |
09-20-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Nelson Peery Surveys His Tenure in the Communist Partynew
While he is forthright about his ethical struggles and political development, there is a staginess to much of the dialogue that transforms plot turns into vehicles for Peery's soul-searching.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Is 'The Iran Agenda' a Theocratic Democracy?new
Reese Erlich's book discusses moronic policy, complicated politics, and hopes for the future in Iran.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tim Redmond |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Green Satellites are Dyingnew
Downsizing the climate sensor networks could be bad news for all of us.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
09-20-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Viggo Mortenson is Complicatednew
Mortensen's comfort level with director David Cronenberg has freed him to do things he might normally be hesitant to do -- for instance, fend off an attack from two mobsters in a bathhouse while wearing nothing but tattoos.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michelle Devereaux |
09-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises
Somewhere Over the White Rainbownew
Adam Forkner's creativity is now almost entirely unfettered. Performing and recording as White Rainbow, the onetime Yume Bitsu member is flat-out improvised.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michael Harkin |
09-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hyphy's Pan-Latin Rosternew
Only a year old, Thizz Latin is the brainchild of Julio "Gold Toes" Sanchez, a Chicano MC and hip-hop impresario hell-bent on highlighting the diversity of the hyphy movement.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Maria Morrison |
09-12-2007 |
Music
Franz Ferdinand Hearts the Fire Enginesnew
Together for a brief 18 months, the Fire Engines released a handful of EPs, many on Bob Last's fantastic Fast Product–Pop Aural imprint. Hungry Beat collects these long-out-of-print EPs.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Alexis Georgopoulos |
09-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Hungry Beat, The Fire Engines
'Tearing Down the Gates' Examines School Inequitiesnew
Peter Sacks, a former community college teacher and longtime independent critic of American education, reminds readers that school decline as the class divide increases.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tom Gallagher |
09-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Poe Ballantine's Second Book is Full of Whoasnew
The personal essays in 501 Minutes to Christ demonstrate Ballantine's ability to examine his own life harshly but reserve such judgment when looking with kind and interested eyes into the lives of others, no matter how downtrodden, crazy, or corrupt.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
09-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Great Man' Explores Advanced Agenew
Kate Christensen presents vital characters who challenge typical depictions of the elderly as staid and conservative. These women are complicated, smart, witty, and sexy — even Internet savvy!
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Glen Helfand |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction
Peter Kuper Has Self-Aware Flashbacksnew
With his unnervingly honest new graphic novel, Stop Forgetting to Remember, New York–based master illustrator Kuper turns in a devastating rendering of his city as it passes the turn of the century — and of a Cheshire cartoonist and his past adolescent meanderings.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction
