Volume 42 Number 45
Best of the Bay 2008
More than 300 winners in our annual celebration of Bay Area excellence, innovation, and independence!
Oh snap!
The Photography Issue: Not just like us! The pre-stalkerazzi celeb shots of Gary Lee Boas
Shoot from the hip
The Photography Issue: Local rock photogs give good bulb. Plus: Son Ambulance, Hall and Oates, C.L.A.W.S, and more
Enviro-metalists
Wolves in the Throne Room's loud love of the land
We be clubbin’? Just barely
Why the Bay has a hard time harboring hip-hop venues
The Gysin file
FlicKeR looks through the dreamachine in search of Brion Gysin
Under the skin
Cactus Taqueria
Don’t be a hatah
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SFPUC shuffle
Powerful commission lies dormant until the mayor can find picks acceptable to the board
Cleaner power, cleaner money
The choice facing us is between being smart about our energy policy or handing over that policy to a corporate boardroom in Atlanta
PG&E’s first big lies
It's not too early to start evaluating the campaign rhetoric and exposing the most ridiculous untruths
Editor’s Notes
Am I the only person who thinks this is insane?
Charitable cash cow
Private companies make big profits raising money for nonprofits
Cash from cabbies
Yellow Cab pushes driver prepayment plan that city officials say is illegal
Optic nerve
The Photography Issue: family albums, prom portraits, street shots, spy satellites -- a portfolio of the exceptional local scene
Volume 42 Number 45 Flip-through Edition
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B Star
Burma Superstar opens an upscale cousin up the street
Aerobiqueen
Adorable "That Girl" Edie shimmies, sings, and spices up the drag genre
New wave reunion
Human League and ABC back-to-back
2008 Cuervo Black US Air Guitar Championships
Craft, sass, and brash fearlessness
Predictably good
Bottle Shock's themes may not be new, but the flick's charming
“Summer Reading”
Visual art inspired by literary classics