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Friday, November 8

Before the Centerfold

November 5, 2002: Election Night Fever

November 8, 2002: Post-Election Fever

Second Half

Friday, November 1

Before the Centerfold

Second Half

Friday, October 25

Before the Centerfold

October 18, 2002: the political run-around
October 22, 2002: PG&E party

Second Half

Monday, October 14

Before the Centerfold

October 9, 2002: HOPE, Hinckle & Hall

Second Half

Monday, October 7

Before the Centerfold

October 2, 2002: Throwing things

October 4, 2002: No on Matt Smith, Yes on (certain) candidates

Second Half

Monday, September 30

Before the Centerfold

September 23, 2002: fleas, fleas, and the Bay Guardian
September 30, 2002: campaign songs & legislative dances

Second Half

Monday, September 23

Before the Centerfold

Second Half

Monday, September 13

Before the Centerfold

September 12, 2002: Intruders, columnists, and cats

Second Half

Friday, September 6

Before the Centerfold

September 3, 2002: Campaigns, cats & computers
September 6, 2002: The battles of KPOO & Marina Green

Second Half

Friday, August 30

Before the Centerfold

August 26, 2002: Questions, questions, questions
August 29, 2002: Suggestions, suggestions, suggestions

Second Half

 

Friday, August 23

Before the Centerfold

August 21, 2002: h. brown meets Gavin Newsom, Robert Haaland & Luna
August 23, 2002: stoning Nigerians & calling case workers

Second Half

Friday, August 16

Before the Centerfold

Karen Charman,  Recasting the Web: Information Commons to Cash Cow

Carol Harvey, A Fig for Newsom: Haight Ashbury Free Clinic Doesn't Support Care Not Cash

Alexa Llewellyn, From the Outside Looking In: Powerless Power Plays

h. brown, Watching City Hall

August 12, 2002: What if you gave a party & everybody came?

August 16, 2002: What if... ?

Second Half

Red Dixon, A Pizza Man – Part 3

Scott Harrison, If People Were Made of Paper, This Just Might Work: Some Chemotherapy Just in Case – Part 3

B. C. Stangl, Friendly Skies: Getting from Here to There After September 11 – Part 2

God & Grass: An internet tale

Friday, August 9

Before the Centerfold

Alexa Llewellyn, From the Outside Looking In: Gonzalez's Game & Gilligan's Island

Jim Dorenkott, Building a Movement: Episode 4, My Generation

Craig Wilson, Prop 52, Prop D & Partisan Politics

h. brown, Watching City Hall

August 5, 2002: A video career, a guinea pig & a name for the stadium

Second Half

John Hutchison, Island in the Stream

Scott Harrison, If People Were Made of Paper, This Just Might Work: Some Chemotherapy Just in Case, Part 2

B. C. Stangl, Friendly Skies: Getting from Here to There After September 11

Oliver Chin, The State of Our Affairs

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: Signs

Don Paul, This War Wants You Back Again

Friday, August 2

Before the Centerfold

Alexa Llewellyn, From the Outside Looking In: A female look at the world of politics

 

A Source at City Hall

August 1, 2002: Counting to 4: The mayor, the supes & the November election

h. brown, Watching City Hall

July 30, 2002: Leno's pot, Gonzalez's names & h. brown's party

August 2, 2002: Maxwell & Haygood; brown & Corkery; Neska and Lessicks

Second Half

Red Dixon, A Pizza: part 2

Scott Harrison, If people were made of paper, this just might work: Some Chemotherapy Just in Case, Part 1

Larry-bob, I wanna be a gay wingnut

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: Star Wars Episode I – Ju Ju Bee and the Menacing Phantom

Friday, July 26

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, Westward the course of empire takes its way... and arrives in Union Square

Jim Dorenkott, Building a Movement, Episode 3: George

A Source at City Hall

July 16, 2002: on public power, labor & politics

July 20, 2002: on the Elections Commission, Tammy Haygood & the November election

July 26, 2002: on Plan C, District 6 & District 8

h. brown, Watching City Hall

July 22, 2002: Tammy Haygood goes to federal court and h. brown goes in search of Amanda Nowinski

July 24, 2002: after 18 months of the new board, h. brown offers submits report card

July 26, 2002: h. brown meets Samson Wong and vice versa

Second Half

Scott Harrison, If people were made of paper, this just might work: Ocean Blue

B. C. Stangl, A Conversation with Caen

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: The Road to Perdition

Friday, July 19

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, The Play's the Thing: Care-Not-Cash meets the Coalition on Homelessness and no one wins

Doing What Comes Naturally: The fight over Rec & Park's Natural Areas Program

Jim Dorenkott, Building a Movement, Episode 2: Leary

h. brown, Watching City Hall (July 15, July 17)

Second Half

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: Men in Black 2

Poetry: E. RL. Barna, World Supply

Fiction:  Red Dixon, A Pizza Man – Part 1

Friday, July 19

Before the Centerfold

Jim Dorenkott, Building a Movement: Disneyland (Part 1 of a new series)

Their rubber pliers clamp the valley: Supervisor Matt Gonzalez interviewed by artist Felix Macnee (Part 2 of a series)

h. brown, Watching City Hall (July 8, July 10, July 12)

Second Half

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: Scooby-Doo

Poetry: Bill Costley, Specula reSpeculans / Mirror, reMirroring

Cartoon:  Oliver Chin, Dogtown USA

Summer Break: Friday, May 31 - Friday July 5

July 5, 2002 – Just a Taste of July

h. brown, Watching City Hall – In which h. brown traverses the treacherous terrain of General Assistance (June 27, June 28, July 3)

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: Minority Report – In which Keith Keener reports that minorities are still missing in action

June 21, 2002 – Smiles of a Summer Solstice

h. brown, Watching City Hall (June 13, 17, 19)

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: The Bourne Identity

Oliver Chin, Lesser Known Terrorist Alert Codes

June 14, 2002 – Summer Reading

Matt Gonzalez interviews h. brown

h. brown, Watching City Hall (June 14 and 10)

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: Y Tu Mama Tambien

May 31, 2002 – Current Issue

Betsey Culp,  SCREEEEEECH!!! Stop the Presses! We're hibernating till July

Betsey Culp, What Did We Know and When Did We Know It? – Deciphering some of the other chatter surrounding 9/11

Watching City Hall

Howard Williams, Rhythms Set Not by Any Clock: Review of Tamim Ansary's West of Kabul, East of New York

Tom Mayer, MovieTone News: The 26th Annual SF International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and other sizzling cinema stuff

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Reviews: The Sum of All Fears

Friday, May 24

Betsey Culp, The Quality of Mercy: Wally Shore evades eviction

This is Jack Hirschman

Fifteen Poems by Jack Hirschman

Let's Bellyache! Matt Gonzalez reviews Suicide Circus: Selected Poems by Alexei Kruchenykh

Jack Hirschman: A bibliography, by Jack Hirschman & Matt Gonzalez

CHOROSHO! An Auto/Biographical Sketch of Jack Hirschman, by Jack Hirschman & Matt Gonzalez

POEM: Claire Braz-Valentine, An Open Letter to John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

h. brown, Watching City Hall

May 17, 2002

I Was a Female Cockette: Betsey Culp interviews Jean Dierkes-Carlisle

Two Poems by Mark Schwartz

h. brown, Watching City Hall

Howard Williams, Wheels Within Wheels: A review of "Nerves of Steel," by Rebecca "Lambchop" Reilly

Oliver Chin, Bicycling's 11 Deadly Sinners

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Review – Star Wars Episode II: Menace of the Clones

May 10, 2002

Betsey Culp, Going to the Dogs: Rec & Park finally responds to dog owners

h. brown, Watching City Hall

Dennis Francis Lawlor, Court of Ill Repute: A tale of litter and litigation

Richard Knee, Let the Sun Shine In: An argument for open meetings of the School Board ... and elsewhere

May 3, 2002

Betsey Culp, Watch Where You're Going: A visual guide to the changing San Francisco

h. brown, Watching City Hall

David Rasnick, How the San Francisco Department of Public Health turns a 30 percent decline in HIV infections among gay men into a two-fold increase

Dog & Cat Jottings: Move over, Jon Carroll – We'll give you the real lowdown

April 26, 2002

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, Another North Beach Artist Faces Eviction: Betsey Culp interviews Redo

Howard Williams, Transnational Corporatism and the Rest of Us

h. brown, Watching City Hall

Jenny Brown, The Trials of H. Rap Brown and Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (Part 2)

Second Half

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Review: The Scorpion King

The Angola 3 and TRUTH: Don Paul, Poem for Robert King and Rigo '02's T-R-U-T-H

April 19, 2002

Betsey Culp, Do You Take This Contract: The prospect of a 20-year marriage with Clear Channel Adshel

Betsey Culp, On the Rack: San Francisco's proposed newsrack ordinance strikes fear in the heart of a little gray newsrack

Ron Henggeler, Earthquake! April 18, 1906

Jenny Brown, The Trials of H. Rap Brown and Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin

h. brown, Watching City Hall

April 12, 2002

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, Poor > Homeless > Helpless: Gavin Newsom takes on homelessness in San Francisco

Jennifer Friedenbach, Images of Poverty: "The media must hear these voices"

h. brown, Watching City Hall

Second Half

Keith Keener's Positive Movie Review: Panic Room

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Earth Daze 2002

April 5, 2002

Betsey Culp, Speak Softly and Carry a Big Umbrella: Opening up the War on Terrorism

Rebecca Lambchop Reilly, Bike Messengers at the WTC: "Total chaos - a condition we're used to" (3)

h. brown, Watching City Hall

John Hutchison, Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning: A new look at William Saroyan

March 29, 2002

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, splurch.com: Bill Allard brings Tales of the City to SOMA 

Rebecca Lambchop Reilly, Bike Messengers at the WTC: "Total chaos - a condition we're used to" (2)

h. brown, Watching City Hall

Second Half

Keith Keener, Positive Movie Review: The 74th Oscars

POETRY: Carol Borzyskowski. Another Birth Day

March 22, 2002

Betsey Culp, Quo Vadis? The Call at a crossroads - flight or fight?

Rebecca Lambchop Reilly, Bike Messengers at the WTC: "Total chaos - a condition we're used to" (1)

h. brown, Watching City Hall

CityBeats: Citywide news from the neighborhoods

March 11, 2002

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, Iconoclastically Speaking: Musings on a No-Show Election

h. brown, Watching City Hall: Fighting Against Gavin Newsom & Nuclear War

Second Half

POETRY: Philip Hackett, St. Patrick to the T

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a Zoo

Monday, March 4, 2002

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, Make Your Vote Count; Or, Make Them Count Your Vote

Steven Hill,  Proposition A -The Progressive Choice (with an analysis by Rich DeLeon)

Richard Knee, Freedom of Information Under Attack

George B. Sanchez, When the Music Had to Stop: The Closing of Flat Plastic Sound

h. brown, Watching City Hall: Election San Francisco-Style - A Family Affair

Second Half

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a Zoo

CARTOON:

Oliver Chin,

A Profile in Due Process

 

Monday, February 25, 2002

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, A Bad Hare Day - A Fable: How Paul McConnell Challenged Nancy Pelosi for the Democratic Nomination

Marc Salomon, Charlatan Charrette: A Dead-End for SOMA Planning

h. brown, Watching City Hall - Watching the Watchers

Second Half

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a Zoo

Monday, February 18, 2002

Before the Centerfold

Marc Salomon, On Men and Their Machines: A Response to Betsey Culp's "Deus ex Machina"

h. brown, Watching City Hall - Little Dogs, Big Cats & a Car Named "Jesus"

Second Half

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a Zoo

DRAMA: Eleanor Brook, Going Up

Monday, February 12, 2002

Before the Centerfold

Betsey Culp, Politics 2002 - Deux ex Machina, Or How I Learned to Love the Machine

Jessica Scheiner, Marriage Presidential Style - W's Plan to Marry Welfare Moms

David H., The Loneliness of the Streets - Observations of an Employed Homeless Heroin Addict Living in San Francisco

h. brown, Watching City Hall - Willie Brown's Battle Plan & Other Words of Wisdom

Second Half

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a Zoo

February 4, 2002

Before the Centerfold

h. brown, Watching City Hall - A Hetch Hetchy Kvetch

Second Half

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a Zoo

January 28, 2002

before the centerfold

Betsey Culp, Pausing to refresh - Off the streets and onto the web

Candidate interview: Supervisor Chris Daly interviews Assembly candidate Harry Britt

Howard Williams: Afghanistan & the United States - one destiny?

Watching the school board: Supervisor Matt Gonzalez interviews commissioner Mark Sanchez

h. brown, Watching City Hall: A challenge to Gavin Newsom

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Journey to the bottom of the e-conomy

second half

POETRY: Philip Hackett, A love poem

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a zoo

January 21, 2002

before the centerfold

Betsey Culp, Dreams... deferred... redefined... and distorted: Thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday

Betsey Culp, What do you mean, "Mean"? San Francisco and the National Coalition for the Homeless

Cybervoices: Karen Charman, Collateral damage in the pesticide wars - The troubling story of Dr. Omar Shafey 

h. brown, Watching City Hall: A Hobbesian cure for homelessness

second half

POETRY: Molly Lori, White ghosts

POETRY: Carol Borzyskowski, Foreplay

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a zoo

January 14, 2002

before the centerfold

Betsey Culp: One paycheck away- 21st-century homeless programs

Assessing Hongisto - Supervisor Matt Gonzalez interviews assessor candidate Dick Hongisto

h. brown: Watching City Hall -  Flying glass, blood, and 911

Cybervoices: Michael Ruppert, A war in the planning for four years - Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR put war plans in a 1997 book

second half

POETRY: Hector Q. Mooney & Susannah Martin, Deconstructive dialogue

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a zoo

January 7, 2002

before the centerfold

Betsey Culp: playing the ponies - a fleck of froth for the new year

Howard Williams, Driving bin Laden to the bank - oil, autos, and Al Qaeda

David H.: Welcome to my world - on the streets

h. brown: Watching City Hall - looking back at last year

CARTOON: Leviathan

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Journey to the bottom of the e-conomy

second half

REVIEW: Sarah Lidgus, Hate the player - "Playerhaters" at Upper Playground

POETRY: Mike Dyar, it seems that all of my adult life...

CARTOON: Oliver Chin, Room with a zoo