AltWeeklies Wire
Highlights and Lowlightsnew
Here are 20 more reasons to race to -- or from -- the multiplexes and art houses this fall.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Huston and Cheryl Eddy |
08-25-2004 |
Reviews
Urban Portrait Transcends Space and Timenew
The loveliest film of this young century is also one of the loneliest, a present-day urban portrait steeped in images of near ancient architecture and eternal nature.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Prison Abuse Is Closer to Home Than Abu Ghraibnew
Many Americans who have found themselves on the wrong side of a cop's baton or a jailer's cell door recognize the cruelty and dehumanization depicted in those infamous images from Abu Ghraib prison.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
08-07-2004 |
Politics
Private Contractors Played Key Role in Abuse of Iraqi Prisonersnew
Among those involved in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib were private contractors - who may never be accountable for their acts.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A.C. Thompson and Pratap Chatterjee |
08-07-2004 |
War
Bukowski Film is "Write On"new
The new Bukowski film isn't just another slumming poet pic.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
"Troy" Suffers From Achilles' Heelnew
The heavy machinery of spectacle and actual plot move their impressive bulk around without too many gears squeaking. Three hours pass like two.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
How Construction Giant Bechtel Manipulates the Pressnew
Bechtel, the company that's won lucrative contracts for reconstruction in Iraq, has a long list of P.R. disasters, like the Big Dig in Boston, that might have sunk another company. But a sophisticated press strategy keeps Bechtel out of trouble.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A. C. Thompson |
08-07-2004 |
Business & Labor
Prophet of Indian Music and Global Fusion Plays with Mastersnew
One of the world's most accomplished percussionists, Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain, weaves a spell when he plays. Percussionists from southern India and drummers from northeastern India join him in a masters performance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Peter Nicholson |
08-07-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Moore's Armynew
With house party screenings of Fahrenheit 9/11, MoveOn.org galvanized neighborhood networks across the country.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
08-05-2004 |
Politics
Florida and Beyondnew
In the wake of the Florida debacle, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which provided $3.86 billion to replace ossified punch-card systems with silicon-based voting machines and improve voter education. Now gadflies and activists say the new machines, most notably touch-screen voting terminals, could prove as problematic as their analog predecessors.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A. C. Thompson |
08-05-2004 |
Politics
Road Trip for Changenew
Voter registration groups, including Stand Up! Florida and DrivingVotes.org, have sprouted up in the last year, sending dozens of Bay Area denizens on swing state registration drives.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Megan Cahn |
08-05-2004 |
Politics
Tags: Florida, fraud, states, Up, vote, Moveon.org, voter, swing, count, drivingvotes.org, registration, stand, standupflorida.com
Regime Changenew
Here are 10 things you can do to defeat Bush and save this country.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Bay Guardian Staff |
08-05-2004 |
Politics
Packaging Democracy: How Clear Channel Shut Out Candidatesnew
Radio stations were not required to sell ads to any of the candidates in the California governor recall election, only to treat each candidate equally. Clear Channel satisfied this requirement by setting the bar so high that only the richest four candidates could afford to purchase ad time.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Matthew Hirsch |
07-15-2004 |
Media
Invasion of the Media Snatchersnew
Any independent new media outlet that begins to garner a reasonable audience will almost certainly get overtaken by traditional media conglomerates.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Camille T. Taiara |
07-15-2004 |
Media
Art School Shuts Down Student Papernew
At San Francisco's Academy of Art, the biggest art school in the country, the administration has expelled two students for edgy writing, let go two professors who complained, and shut down the school paper that tried to cover the controversy.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rachel Brahinsky |
06-16-2004 |
Civil Liberties
