John Ross memorial Feb. 26
Friends and fans of John Ross, the poet and hellraiser who died in January, will celebrate his life at a memorial service Feb. 26th. It's at the United Mission Presbyterian Church, 23rd and Capp, from...
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Snap Sounds: Darwin Deez
DARWIN DEEZDarwin Deez(Lucky Number) Phoenix is the most obvious reference for Darwin Deez's crisp, clean, and commercial tunefulness, with occasional traces of El Guincho -- and Beck's hipster...
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The confession app: Have you masturbated?
Oh my fucking god (and there's no other polite way to put it): You can now go to confession on your iPhone. Maureen Dowd at the NYTimes notes that the hot new app Walks you through the Ten...
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Party Radar: Kingdom, Lindstrom, Soft Moon, Part Time Punks, Uproot Andy,...
Kingdom may not be a Mind Reader (as his hit song attests), but I am: his party will be nuts. Besides the voluminous reel around the fountain that constitutes our list of Valentines day events, there...
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The Ed Lee documents
One of the depositions taken in a case involving fraud and corruption in city contracting contains some fascinating detail about how City Hall worked under Mayor Willie Brown -- and the role the...
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Date with Satan? "Mosh Potatoes" to the rescue!
Sure, Julia Child was a badass in her own way — but do you think she ever blasted Seventh Son of a Seventh Son while cooking up beef bourguignon? (Gonna guess ... not. I saw the movie so I'm kind of...
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Twitter tax break could help a well-connected landlord
Owners of SF Mart couldn't reach an agreement with Twitter, but the proposed tax break could seal the deal www.sfmart.com Opposition to the proposal to give millions of dollars in city payroll tax...
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Why payroll tax breaks are stupid
Jeez, the folks at BeyondChron are so enamored of mid-Market payroll tax breaks you'd think they were getting one themselves. (But since nonprofits don't pay the city's business tax, maybe Randy Shaw...
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Jerry Hill grandstands on local hire
Assemblymember Jerry Hill -- who's facing term limits and reapportionment -- has launched a pretty silly attack on San Francisco's local hire law. He wants to make sure that no state money is used on...
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"He will probably drown in his beer hat": the post-punk vegan hits SF
Isa Chandra Moskowitz's DIY vegan adventure Isa Chandra Moskowitz is a believer in the power of baketivism. Emerging from the wilds of Food Not Bombs mass meals and the New York City punk scene,...
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More questions about death drug
The Food and Drug Administration has finally released some more documents about the state's procurement of its death drugs. The Guardian and the ACLU requested the material under the Freedom of...
View ArticleHyatt targetted as labor impasse drags on
Hundreds of Hyatt hotel workers and supporters represented by the UniteHere Local 2 union continued their 18-month long struggle against the Hyatt Corporation yesterday (Thu/10) by protesting outside...
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Free jeans! -- A Q&A with Caleb Nichols of Grand Lake
Caleb Nichols of Grand Lake Hailing from San Luis Obispo, Calif. by way of Oakland, Grand Lake has become an art rock darling among the hip, not only because of its applauded 2010 LP Blood Sea Dream...
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SFBG Radio: Talking to Howie Klein
Today we continue Johnny's interview with local music legends -- he talks to Howie Klein, the co-founder of 415 Records, about his start in the music industry, Harvey Milk, Bill Graham, and more....
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Live Shots: Claudette King, Biscuit and Blues, 02/04/2011
Do you ever watch a performer and find that they exude so much positivity and joy that you find your mouth stuck in a perpetual grin? And then you realize they're singing the blues, rambling away...
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The Performant: Of eggs and robots
Thomas John’s “The Lady on the Wall,” and the Slave Robots of Carl Pisaturo A few years ago, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I saw Dov Weinstein’s imitable Tiny Ninja Theatre enact “Macbeth” on a...
View ArticleDick Meister: Scapegoating Public Empoyees
Dick Meister, formerly labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor, politics and other matters for a half-century. Let's pause for a moment to recognize some of our most...
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We are worse than Egypt
The revolution in Egypt was about a demand for democracy and resistance to repression -- but it was also spurred in part by legions of angry young people who have no economic opportunity. And since...
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Obama's going to screw California
The giant cuts proposed by the Obama Administration (and worse ones suggested by the GOP) will hurt the economic recovery, hurt the poor, hurt the nation's future -- and hurt California. Let's...
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Adachi and Ballard's pension reform gloves come off
Nathan Ballard (left) compared Jeff Adachi (right) to Sarah Palin in context of city's pension reform challenge Yesterday, I talked to Public Defender Jeff Adachi about the latest efforts to address...
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