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Confronting a Pregnant Woman's Worst Nightmarenew
"There is great risk here that the baby will be born with some deformity or with mental deficiency," the doctor said, his voice measured, the gaze that had failed to meet us when we first sat down, now fixed as we stared back in silence.
New York Press |
Juli Steadman Charkes |
09-13-2007 |
Sex
Selective Recounts Saved State Leaders Don Perata & Fabian Nuneznew
East Bay lawyer Robin Johansen earns Perata and Nunez a chance to stay in power -- by the hair of their chinny-chin-chins.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
09-13-2007 |
Politics
Democrats Lie to Prolong Iraq; Reporters Go Along
Congressional Democrats don't need a vetoproof majority to end the war in Iraq -- so why is the media perpetuating a lie?
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
09-12-2007 |
Commentary
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
Are Rappers the New Cat Ladies?new
DMX's dogs were seized and the rapper is devastated -- is he an animal hoarder?
Dig Boston |
David Thorpe |
09-12-2007 |
Music
Tags: DMX
Dan Deacon Uses His Imaginationnew
A member of the Wham City art collective and part of the "Future Shock" movement, Deacon creates a vibe that isn't ironic so much as he strives to manifest the fantastic and surreal in reality.
Dig Boston |
Barry Thompson |
09-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon, Spiderman of the Rings
An Astroturf Initiative Sees the Light in Californianew
The "Presidential Elector's Initiative" is a little gift to the Republican Party from itself that was approved for circulation last week by the state attorney general -- if 434,000 people sign it within 144 days, the blatant power grab will be on the ballot.
San Diego CityBeat |
D.A. Kolodenko |
09-12-2007 |
Politics
Chicken John Rinaldi Emerges as Force in Mayoral Racenew
His impressive fund raising thus far could transform the marginalized, improbable candidate into one of the leading challengers, despite his enigmatic persona, maddeningly elusive platform, and admission that he can't possibly win.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
09-12-2007 |
Politics
