Dick Meister: A Halloween invasion from Mars!
By Dick Meister Dick Meister is a longtime San Francisco-based journalist and writer. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com “2X2L calling CQ … 2X2L calling CQ, New York…. Isn’t there...
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Hurricane Sandy and climate change
I guess it's no surprise that most of the news media coverage of Hurricane Sandy was focused on the immediate -- when you have six million people without power and transit systems paralyzed and at...
View ArticleHalloween 1951: Fast times in Rock Rapids, Iowa
The tale of what really happened on Halloween Eve in 1951 in Rock Rapids, Iowa. (Reprinted by popular demand.) As I was preparing to update my annual Halloween blog, I checked Tuesday’s San Francisco...
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Support the Roxie's Kickstarter campaign!
COURTESY THE ROXIE'S FACEBOOK PAGE Yeah, I know — at this point, you have your email set up to funnel any messages with the word "Kickstarter" in them to go directly to spam. But for every CD you...
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Localized Appreesh: The Parmesans
Localized Appreesh is our thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com. That’ll teach me to judge a book by its cover; or better yet, to judge a...
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Listen to the comic! Save CCSF, vote yes on Prop A
San Franciscans were bummed when, this summer, it looked for a second like we'd lose our only community college. And we weren't the only ones who would have been affected -- City College of San...
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Why free Muni for kids makes sense
For a moment this morning, Mission Street looked the way it might in a world where the city actually got beyond cars. About a million people were a block away, on Market, and everyone with an ounce of...
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Now Disney gets a nice tax break
There's an element of Disney buying Lucasfilm that hasn't made the news yet: The giant SoCal outfit is now inheriting Lucas's nifty annual tax break, cheating San Francisco out of property taxes worth...
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Olague attacks led by billionaires and a consultant/commissioner with...
Andrea Shorter appears on the sfwomenforaccountability.com, but she won't disclosure who pays her for political consulting. Understanding how political activists are being paid is important to...
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Orange and black forever: The city greets its champions in a Halloween World...
Photographer Charles Russo walked 12 miles to snap these shots of our San Francisco Giants celebrating their World Series victory yesterday -- on Halloween no less! Could it have been the most orange...
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Romney has lost. Unless ....
Polls aren't perfect, but a lot of polls that come to the same conclusion are rarely wrong, at least not by much, and all the polling data suggests that in the critical swing states, Mitt Romney is...
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Giants' revelers who crossed the line face charges
The defendants Yesterday's parade celebrating the Giants' World Series sweep almost went down without a hitch, no thanks to a handful of inebriated miscreants. Among the estimated one million revelers...
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Appetite: Latest in New Orleans dining
Returning to my beloved New Orleans, a city I’ve explored extensively via a path laden with jazz, Dixieland, Zydeco, Ramos Gin Fizzes, Sazeracs, Cajun and Creole food, there were ever more finds, both...
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Calaveras and chysanthemums: Where to celebrate Dia de los Muertos
"Fluorescent Virgins" offers one of the Bay's many fresh spins on altar art this year. I don't know about you, San Francisco, but after the orange-and-black, champagne-and-candy-corn geyser that the...
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Moche memorium: Dia de los Muertos altars at "Fluorescent Virgins"
It was a mix of pre-Incan Moche, Tumblr-ready Pikachu, Satanic Barbie, and Catholic imagery -- in other words, the essential Bay Arean celebration of Dia de los Muertos (check our complete listings...
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Record-breaking spending floods District 1 with political propaganda
Political hit pieces have filled the mailboxes of Richmond District voters. Steven T. Jones District 1 supervisorial candidate David Lee and independent expenditure campaigns supporting him have spent...
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The billionaire attack on D5
Billionare mailer tries to sink Olague over her vote on the sheriff The attack on Sup. Christina Olague, funded by a couple of right-wing billionaires, is in full swing in District 5, with mailers,...
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True facts: there are at least 15 movies opening this week
An archival shot of the filmmaker's grandparents in 'The Flat.' PHOTOS COURTESY SUNDANCE SELECTS Pack up the leftover Halloween candy and head to the movies this weekend — what better way to escape...
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Live Shots: another Nobunny Halloween
Walking to the Brick and Mortar Music Hall on Halloween night for the Nobunny show, I was disappointed by how few costumed people were roaming the streets of San Francisco. Doesn’t anyone have time...
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So-called DV group doing PG&E's dirty work
Any pretense that the group called San Francisco Women for for Responsibility and an Accountable Supervisor is anything more than a downtown sham vanished with the arrival in District 5 mailboxes Nov....
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