news&comment


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by ElliS E. Conklin | In the 25th District, Melanie Stambaugh unseats an incumbent and startles Dems.

Also: 
how Washington’s fighting ebola.

6 Stolen moments

by Joe Bernstein | A first-person account of how theft makes life on the streets a never-ending battle.

food&drink

15 Support Your
 local library

by Nicole sprinkle | Seed sharing helps farmers and gardeners make an end run around Big Ag.

15 | Food News/The Weekly Dish

17 | The Bar Code

arts&culture

19 In the Market?

by Brian Miller | Three approaches to art at BAM.

19 | The Pick list

22 | Opening Nights | Soviet satire in Fremont and an omnibus at PNB.

24 | Performance

25 | Books

26 | Visual Arts/The Fussy Eye

27 FILM

Opening This Week

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The Jon Stewart movie, the Stephen Hawking biopic, and Kristen Stewart goes to Gitmo.

29 | Film Calendar

32 MUSIC

by Gwendolyn Elliott | Joan Baez
keeps fighting the good fight. Plus: The Postal Service movie and the secrets of Gwar and Smoke.

37 | The Week Ahead

odds&ends

39 | classifieds