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Cover Story

Our 2010 Small Business Awards

Break the chains! From a spunky salon to a 100-year-old speakeasy, our annual salute to small business highlights local entrepeneurs who blow away the competition

Guardian Staff Writers
Cover Story

News

Editor's Notes

The Arizona policy is awfully close to what Newsom has implemented in his own city

Tim Redmond
Editors Notes
A bit of fairness for Prop. 13

Amending the measure could save the state's basic services and prevent the once-vaunted California education system from falling into irreparable collapse

Guardian Staff Writers
Editorial
Pension reform: don't blame workers

It's all the rage these days to blame the economy's woes on public workers, whatever the facts are, no matter who the culprit really is

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Opinion
Crossing over

Arizona law changing the political dynamics on immigration, in SF and across the country

Rebecca Bowe, Sarah Phelan
News
The voice of fun

The new California Music and Culture Association contests the crackdown on nightlife

Steven T. Jones
News
Dude, where's my car share?

New legislation could make it easier for people to share their cars

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Green City

Arts & Culture

A roar from underground

The Missing Link unites nomads to forge metal connections beyond scenes

Ben Richardson
Music Features
All the young Turks

Welcome to Hairy Eyeball, a bimonthly rundown of visual art

Matt Sussman
Visual Art
Human, nature

Deborah Slater Dance Theater marks 20th anniversary with world premiere

Rita Felciano
Dance
Slightly off-key

No sniffing, baby — it's all snazzy

Marke B.
Super Ego
Seasonal, effective

October Country brings something new to film-as-family-portrait

Johnny Ray Huston
Film Review
New York story

Do the right thing? Please Give examines the everyday agonies of liberal guilt

Lynn Rapoport
Film Review
Space is the place

Another Science Fiction is brought to the page and screen by Megan Prelinger

Johnny Ray Huston
Film Review
"Cell" out

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction hews to dogma -- and limps to a conclusion

Ben Richardson
Gamer
Pigs in Oakland

Novella Carpenter creates an urban homestead in Farm City

Juliette Tang
Literature
"Chronic" 2010

D.A. Powell brings love, longing, and lyricism back to poetic life

Juliette Tang
Literature

Food & Drink

Wiped clean

Waiting for love at the Wipeout Bar and Grill with a pulled-pork sandwich

L.E. Leone
Cheap Eats
Little Chihuahua

No quiero Taco Bell! This Divisadero hot spot offers a breezy vibe with truly tasty takes on Mexican staples

Paul Reidinger
Restaurant Review