The San Francisco Bay Guardian is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a hell-raising, establishment-fighting alternative weekly. Bruce Brugmann, who founded the Guardian with wife Jean Dibble, has written a 3,822-word history of the paper and its many battles over the years. Brugmann (pictured) concludes by saying, “I am happy to report on our 40th anniversary that the Guardian is aware of the challenge and is gearing up in the paper and online to compete and endure till the end of time, printing the news and raising hell and forcing the daily papers to scotch the rumors coming from our power structure exposés and our watchdog reporting. The future is still with us and with our special community and critical mission, in print and online.”