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  • A frock of memories

    Hundreds of dresses with rich pasts flow into a project to get formal clothes to prom-bound teens.
    By Janelle Brown April 1, 2002

  • Down and out in San Francisco

    The collapse of the travel industry is hammering the Bay Area's working class. But is a reformed welfare system still able to come to the rescue?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 26, 2001

  • Reader feelings run high

    The faithful respond to dewlaps, blind dates and King Kaufman's flight to St. Louis.
    August 10, 2001

  • Bohemia lost

    I turn my back on a city that turned my head and then broke my heart.
    By King Kaufman August 8, 2001

  • The "Joe Camel" ads of AIDS?

    The FDA says ads for drugs to suppress HIV are making false promises, and could be contributing to an epidemic of unsafe sex.
    By Daryl Lindsey May 8, 2001

  • Serf city

    By King Kaufman
    April 30, 2001

  • That's "Mistress Freelancer" to you

    When the market for her articles dried up, this tech hack became a dominatrix.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 13, 2001

  • The Edison debate continues

    A San Francisco schools activist critiques Salon's Edison Charter Academy coverage, and Joan Walsh replies.
    By   April 9, 2001

  • The shame of San Francisco

    An ideological crusade aims to close a school that's worked miracles with poor black and Latino students. Why? It's a for-profit Edison school.
    By Joan Walsh March 29, 2001

  • Hey, wanna smoke some Muggles?

    Whoever came up with the "street" drug names in the White House drug office must have scored some radical Dinkie Dow.
    By Tom McNichol February 15, 2001

  • Let's make a toast to failure

    At a South of Market "unlaunch" party, laid-off dot-com workers celebrate the start-up that could have been.
    By Jodi Mardesich November 22, 2000

  • San Francisco's Proposition L is "too close to call"

    With a margin narrow enough to be called "presidential," the outcome of the anti-development measure remains up in the air.
    By Damien Cave November 11, 2000

  • San Francisco to dot-com developers: No more

    Voters pass anti-growth measure Proposition L by a slim margin.
    By Andrew Leonard November 8, 2000

  • Long live rock!

    Kirk Hammett of Metallica speaks about San Francisco's rapidly evaporating music scene.
    By Dave Johns November 7, 2000

  • Is the Internet a bad, bad boy?

    San Francisco's anti-growth Proposition L is an unnecessarily harsh referendum on the merits of the new economy.
    By Damien Cave November 6, 2000

  • Clamping down on high-tech growth is good for high-tech

    San Francisco's anti-development Prop L will squeeze tech firms into a battle for survival. And nothing could be better for them.
    By Wagner James Au November 6, 2000

  • I miss crack babies

    Complaining about how San Francisco is going to hell in a handbasket just ain't as easy as it used to be.
    By Jade Hays October 17, 2000

  • Ballot measure threatens San Francisco dot-coms

    Sparse attendance at a pro-business rally spreads panic in an industry under siege.
    By Damien Cave September 29, 2000

  • The greatness of Barry Bonds

    Sure, he's totally unlovable, but the San Francisco Giants superstar is still the best player in the National League, and maybe the best in baseball.
    By Allen Barra September 29, 2000

  • The perils of anti-capitalism

    At a San Francisco art exhibit, trashing the new dot-com economy is harder than it should be.
    By Damien Cave September 25, 2000

  • Kissing up to the community

    Once hailed as San Francisco saviors, dot-coms now have to make nice with peeved neighbors.
    By Damien Cave August 29, 2000

  • Red-light fever

    I, too, love a district where anything goes, but William Vollmann's novel of San Francisco's Tenderloin goes too far.
    By Cary Tennis August 28, 2000

  • The Cockettes: Rise and fall of the acid queens

    For a few glittering years, they were the world's most celebrated gender-benders. In his forthcoming film about the legendary performers, David Weissman tells one of the West's wildest stories.
    By Douglas Cruickshank August 23, 2000

  • John Rocker's San Francisco treat

    White hecklers and gay mashers greet the Atlanta Braves bigot on his first trip to the Bay Area -- but is yelling "trailer trash" the best way to fight racism?
    By Joan Walsh August 21, 2000

  • Internet sex infections

    Have you had anal sex with a partner you met online? The inquiring minds at the Centers for Disease Control want to know.
    By Dawn MacKeen June 16, 2000
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