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Earthquake safety legislation could hit renters hard
Pending legislation that would require seismic retrofitting of thousands of properties at the building owners' expense could hit renters harder than anyone, causing evictions and increasing rents by up...
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Technical difficulties mar main Burning Man ticket sale
So much for the lack of drama around ticket sales for Burning Man this year. Today at noon was when 40,000 tickets went on sale to the general public, and while some burners got their tickets in less...
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Sundance 2013: love and confusion
Teenage romance blossoms in 'The Spectacular Now'I only got to experience half of this year's US Dramatic Competition films (unfortunately, missing David Lowery's buzzed-about Ain't Them Bodies Saints,...
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Should city employees be commissioners?
SF Examiner file photo of Mayor Ed LeeMayor Ed Lee had to do something radical with the Housing Authority, and I'm glad he did. The commissioners who oversee this mess, particularly the chair, Rev....
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Live Shots: Soundgarden at the Fox Theater
It took Soundgarden a full 10 songs before it began to flex its muscles at the Fox Theater on Tuesday night, before the band dialed in and proved what out-and-out Badmotorfingers the four musicians can...
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Love for women flows through the streets of San Francisco
Can you feel the love, San Francisco? Cuz it's flowing through the streets right now, taking many forms on this unusually busy and politically active Valentine's Day, with a strong theme of protecting...
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Black Choreographers Festival takes flight
This weekend, go watch some dance. Sam Love and I stopped by Dance Mission this week to check out a final rehearsal of a piece choreographed by Gregory Dawson and left feeling elated. Dawson has...
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The Performant: Playing in the Sandbox
In the Sandbox: left to right, Molly Noble, Carlye Pollack, Keith Burkland of "The Inevitable"PHOTO BY LAUREN ENGLISHSF Playhouse’s Sandbox Series puts play back into playwritingIt’s getting harder...
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SFMOMA reveals new look, it is sexy
We were a bag of mixed artfan emotions when SFMOMA sent us a peek at what the museum will look like in early 2016, when the renovations that will shutter its doors in June are complete. The bad: our...
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Supes scramble to find TIC deal
Sup. Norman Yee is in the middle of talks on the TIC billSome San Francisco supervisors are scrambling to find an acceptable compromise that would prevent condo-conversion legislation by Sups. Scott...
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Will it fly? Drones in Alameda County and (almost) San Francisco
ACLU Staff Attorney Linda Lye spoke out against drones before the Public Protection Committee meeting.Photo by Wendy Kenin via FlickrDuring what one official called the “show-and-tell” portion of a...
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Oil pipeline protest coming to San Francisco
Forward on Climate, an event billed as the largest climate rally in history, will have a presence in San Francisco on Feb. 17. With most activity centered in Washington, D.C., organizers of the...
View ArticleSolomon: What Obama said--and what he meant--about climate change, war and...
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
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Live Shots: Tomahawk at the Great American Music Hall
Tomahawk gave two rare live performances this weekend at the Great American Music Hall, the second of which this photographer attended, and — as to be expected from most things involving Mike Patton —...
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Next chapter: Adobe Books hopes to transition into co-op
Adobe Books lives on… we hope. The Mission’s beloved 23-year-old bookshop– which reported it would be going out of business multiple times last year – now has plans to stay open as a collective.Adobe...
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Small space, big ideas: New City Company debuts
Gift Harris and Pam Mangan of 'Hello Out There'Ten years ago, Kim Jiang-Dubaniewicz sat outside the Chinatown gates nursing an existential crisis; she had serious doubts about pursuing her longtime...
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Sundance 2013: a local tragedy, an ongoing romance, and top picks
Here we are again: 'Before Midnight'Ryan Coogler's Bay Area story Fruitvale picked up the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize; it is, of course, based on the life and death of Oakland's Oscar...
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Girl Scouts versus Scott Weiner versus Naked Sword: Here's your week in sexy...
This week in SF sex: Attend a virtual porn convention, help out sex workers, launch your XXX spoken word career.IMAGE VIA AEVCThere are few things that San Franciscans love more than Thin Mints, and...
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Can we have cool new additions without gentrifying the Mission?
Illy McMahan (left) and Kelley Wehman at their recent opening party for Carousel SF.Steven T. JonesDo livability and gentrification go hand-in-hand? In other words, as you improve a neighborhood like...
View ArticleDick Meister: Honor a legendary organizer
x By Dick MeisterDick Meister, former labor editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, is co-author of "A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers (Macmillan) There's still...
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