Volume 45, Issue 05
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Volume 45, Issue 05
News & Culture
Spotlights, please! Our 22nd annual Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Awards celebrate the best and brightest in Bay Area arts and culture
Guardian Staff Writers
Cover Story
Volume 45, Issue 05
News & Culture
Will the former BART cop who shot Oscar Grant spend time behind bars?
Rebecca Bowe
As long as the nation lacks comprehensive immigration reform, laws similar to Arizona's SB1070 will continue to be introduced across the country.
Laura Sanchez
Supervisors consider requiring contractors to do more local hiring just as the UC hospital breaks ground in Mission Bay
Sarah Phelan
At least the Democrats never tried to make sure that the country collapsed
Tim Redmond
Local workers are more likely to spend their paychecks here in town
Editorial
Where did the state suddenly find the chemical it needs for executions?
Rula Al-Nasrawi
Volume 45, Issue 05
Food & Drink
Bringing an intensity and flair to traditional Thai dishes as well as to innovative ones
Paul Reidinger
Volume 45, Issue 05
Arts & Culture
A home for perfect guitar pop, stronger than ever after 20 years
Johnny Ray Huston
Quite possibly the Bay Area's most original dance thinker, creating a 21st century lingo of the body
Rita Felciano
Basically anyone with a curious, creative mind can lose themselves in the Alexandrian delights of the Prelinger Library
Cheryl Eddy
Arts & Culture
Presenting immediate spectacles that are undeniably seductive in a punk-rock sort of way
Matt Sussman
A deft use of weft and warp to create color forms in which minimalism and materiality intersect
Johnny Ray Huston
Bringing graceful work and alternately intense and quirky looks to the stage
Robert Avila
Devoted to rock and trash pop culture, blending garage and bedroom
Andre Torrez
A creative maven who has been an integral part of the city's cultural fabric for decades
Johnny Ray Huston
Arts & Culture
A unique artist and part of a tight-knit, bold, savvy, young, and mostly queer milieu
Robert Avila
Offering cinematic odes to schlocky gore and bloody camp
Louis Peitzman
