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Burning Man and Mexican tradition mix during this year's Dia de los Muertos
Guardian photos by Jordan WhiteThe scents of burning sage and copal were thick in the Mission on Friday night for the neighborhood's annual procession and Dia de los Muertos festival of altars. Crowds...
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Heads Up: 8 must-see concerts this week
He jams econo: Mike Watt, up close.Kitty Pryde, Maya Jane Coles, Die Antwoord, Tilly and the Wall, La Sera – it's like a pop culture IRL explosion on the streets of the Bay this week. It's the acts...
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Who's really behind the No on Prop. 30 ads?
Come on, guv -- call these guys outThe Fair Political Practices Commission released a bit of information about who just dumped $11 million into the No and 30 and Yes on 32 campaigns, and on the...
View ArticlePreliminary RCV points to Breed, Crowley
How incredibly strange: District Five, the most left-leaning district in the city, just elected a moderate supervisor who supports the sit-lie law and has the backing of the landlords. District 7, the...
View ArticleAt least Prop. 30 is passing
I suspected that when all the votes were in, Prop. 30 might squeak through, and right now it looks like it wll. That's really good news, because I don't know what we'd be doing tomorrow if the results...
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Oh nice, Obama won: What the celebration looked like at El Rio last night
"Some weird, Kool Aid-tasting shot. I don't really know what it was, but it was something." -- was passed around at the League of Pissed-Off Voters' party at El Rio last night right after Obama's...
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D5 race displays key SF political dynamics
London Breed, likey the new D5 supervisor, at the end of a long and hopeful election night.Steven T. JonesThere’s so much to say about the District 5 supervisorial race, whose top five finishers’...
View ArticleProp. 34: We're making progress
It's always easy after a losing campaign to make excuses and play up the positive, but there really is some good news in the Prop. 34 loss. For starters, it put the death penalty back on the agenda in...
View ArticleDemos control Sacramento. Completely.
The sleeper in this election is the apparent supermajority for the Democrats in both houses of the Legislature. This is huge news, if it holds; for the first time since the passage of Prop. 13 in 1978,...
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Election got you all hot and bothered? For you, the week in SF sex
Copped this Lana from Brick and Mortar's Woodshoppe election night party flyer -- cuz democracy is like whoa.Yesterday morning I dug up my Obama mix, the CD that I made at this time four years ago when...
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Kitty Pryde on Riff Raff, candy, and going viral
Pryde is proud.What exactly does it mean to be a pop star these days? Does it mean you have masses of eager (young) fans, breathless feature articles, and a healthy growing buzz on so-called tastemaker...
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D5 candidates and other Election Night photos
Photographer Tim Daw joined me on an Election Night trek through the San Francisco Democratic Party headquarters, five election night parties in the highly contested 5th supervisorial district, and an...
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Election makes the Board of Supervisors tougher to predict
Latterman discusses his Progressive Voter Index, showing D5 and D9 are the most progressive, while D2 and D7 are the least.Steven T. JonesI'm still a bit too bleary-eyed for serious political analysis...
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The comic formally known as 'The Iron Chink'
It's a symbol of the atrocities suffered by Chinese Americans on this continent: a lumbering machine that stripped thousands of their livelihood and was even named for the epithet used against them,...
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What the fuck, Chuck: No, Ed Lee is not God
So who were the big winners in the election? You could argue Ron Conway; you could argue surprise D5 winner London Breed. But to say it was all about Ed Lee? Actually, no.Every one of the initiatives...
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Presidents, secret agents, and true stories galore: new movies!
"Battle for Brooklyn," about neighborhood activists taking on the developers of a huge sports complex, plays DocFest.The election is over and, thank Zeus, good defeated evil. So you can stop making...
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School board incumbent victories could undermine UESF
Incumbent Sandra Fewer got the most school board voters, despite strong opposition from UESF.San Franciscans this week saw the end result of long-running teacher union attacks on the re-election...
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Celebrate National Toy Store Day at some of our fave local shoppes
Your Saturday night date will be so pleased to see you've added to your toy collection!There’s perhaps nothing in your life that will ever get you as excited as when you a youngster with a toy trip...
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Is the tax revolt over?
The most optimistic piece I've read on the results of the November election is on Calitics, where Robert Cruikshank argues that the tax revolt that started with Prop. 13 in 1978 is finally over.And...
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The fallout from Twitter continues
San Francisco has never been able to do big-scale economic redevelopment without displacement of existing residents and businesses, and the "revitalization" of mid-Market is turning out to be another...
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