In one of the most memorable events ever at an AAN convention, Dan Savage electrified the seventh annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards affair with a high-voltage performance that included nearly naked waiters and publishers shedding trousers. One attendee called it "the best hour of comedy I've ever seen." Savage's fatwah: every first-place winner had to drink a shot and shed an article of clothing. Two-thirds of the way in, he admitted, "I can't believe you are all playing along. The power of one pushy fag in AAN -- it's amazing."
Did the FBI and the Oakland Police conspire to ruin two environmentalists? In 1990, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were arrested for a car bombing in which they were the only victims. A.C. Thompson of the San Francisco Bay Guardian examines the legal battle that has conspiracy theorists nationwide chomping at the bit.
An estimated 40 million Americans use peer-to-peer networks to share often unauthorized audio and video files. Judith Lewis of LA Weekly reports that the record and film industries, anxious for a solution to their copyright woes, look to "distributed networks" for a new model that will allow users to compensate artists, labels and studios for their downloads.
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