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The right wing and armed revolution
Man, I'm getting old. When I was growing up, in the 1960s, and even when I was in college in the 1970s, and when I was first in San Francisco in the early 1980s, the only ones talking about "armed...
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The warriors arena: How are you going to get there?
The aliens have finally landedThe Warriors and the all-star lineup of nearly every political consultant in town launched a new public relations offensive this week with the release of a new, spiffy set...
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Jinkx Monsoon is Little Edie is "Schizophrenic"
Ms. Monsoon.I don't know who any of those RuPaul Drag Race queens are, goddess love 'em. And I sure as hell don't need anymore invites to local parties where one or more of them are appearing...
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Hospital union targets UC executive pensions [VIDEO]
UCSF Medical Center CEO Mark Laret to AFSCME 3299 union reps: "You don't know what I think."An update to this story has been posted below.An ongoing labor rift is intensifying between frontline...
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Condo bypass legislation now before the full board
Controversial condominium lottery bypass legislation -- sponsored by Sups. Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener but substantially modified by tenant group that strongly opposed the original legislation, with...
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Get festy: Burger Boogaloo, BottleRock, and nachos
Flop, flop, flop. Can you hear that? It could be a burger flipping. Or maybe that’s the sound of your tanned, bloated belly landing between crisp white sheets after long stretches of outdoor...
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The 8 Washington-Monterey connection
That doesn't look like Golden Gate FieldsThe guy who wants to build the most expensive condos in San Francisco history on the waterfront is facing a ballot measure that could derail his dreams -- so...
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Why the PG&E settlement is lame
The victims didn't get to "safely absorb" the PG&E blastOne of the factors that the state regulators took into account when they decided how much PG&E should be fined for the San Bruno blast...
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The performant: The dame, the dick, and the dismembered torso
Madeline H.D. Brown, Ryan O'Donnell, and Robert Parsons in "A Killer Story" at the MarshExtreme adventures in storytelling In noir, it’s the clichés that play best: the hardboiled Private Eyes with...
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T-Third passengers unhappy about train service disruptions
Bayview residents who rely on the T-Third for transportation joined POWER in asking SFMTA to improve transit service.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEAround 20 residents from San Francisco’s Bayview...
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Pride Board statement: Manning "not local," controversy "not our mission"
Bradley Manning: the Internet's not localGUARDIAN.CO.UKHere's the official statement just issued by the Pride SF Board about the Bradley Manning grand marshal fiasco, "clarifying" its bizarre rules...
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Pride Board locks out press, protesters at public comment meeting
Protestor Nakh outside the Pride Board meeting at the Golden Gate Business Association office"Let the press in! Let the press in!" the crowd of about 50-60 Bradley Manning for Grand Marshal supporters...
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Dirty dialect in a small town: A trip to the Boonville Beer Fest
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing serves up stout at the Boonville Beer Fest.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY CAITLIN DONOHUEI thought that the booming voice yelling across the backyard of Anderson Valley Brewing Company,...
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How SF politics (and journalism) really works
Don't bother me, I'm at a luncheonThe internal report on SF Housing Authority management berates ousted director Henry Alvarez as a jerk and a bully, somone who made racist and homophobic comments and...
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Nice to know our tech friends aren't paying taxes
Since Mayor Ed Lee has decided that tech companies are the future of San Francisco, it's nice to note that these outfits are often no better than the cheating robber barons of old -- or the modern...
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Will SF's new broadband infrastructure be controlled by the city or Google?
Board President David Chiu is calling for San Francisco to add to its broadband fiber network every time a contractor or utility tears up a street, joining other cities in expanding high-speed Internet...
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Girls-only hackerspace teaches critical thinking through crafts
Fine, we have no idea what this is -- but admit if a little girl made it in an all-female hackerspace, it'd be darling.Get out your glue sticks girls, it’s time to get crafty. Turns out, all the...
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The Pulitzer Prize Board surrender – and how the New York Times blew the Ed...
Edward Kennedy, the AP correspondent who broke the century's biggest story but was still not up to the standards of the PulitzerIn the May 19, 1945 edition of the New Yorker magazine, the legendary...
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More SF restaurants settle with the city over fraudulent employee health...
Restaurants invented this surcharge but often leave the impression that the city requires it or that they're being generous.City Attorney Dennis Herrera today announced another batch of settlements...
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Coastal Commission to rule on Beach Chalet soccer project
Opponents and commission staff say artificial turf and stadium lights don't belong in the coastal zone.The California Coastal Commission will decide tomorrow (Thu/9) whether San Francisco and its...
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