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Sanctioned for sound violations, club owner fires ethics charge back at...
Brick & Mortar, located at Mission and Duboce, has a problem with some of its neighbors on Woodward.The San Francisco Entertainment Commission last night voted to restrict the hours, sound limits,...
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Björk plays the part of stunning mad scientist at the Craneway Pavilion
With purple lightning bolts of electricity jagging toward one another in a steel cage center-stage, powerful pipes that reverberated through the pavilion and rippled out onto the sea, and a fuzzy Snow...
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Weiner Rises!
we're a happy family....weinerwedding.jpegMidnight Wednesday, Anthony Weiner--who resigned from Congress two years ago because of a "sexting" scandal--has announced he will run for mayor of New York...
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Airbnb is still snubbing SF, even after a NY judge rules it illegal there
Airbnb features 36 SF neighborhoods on its website but can't figure out how to pay its local taxes.Now that a judge in New York has ruled that Airbnb is illegal there, a model that violates city tenant...
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Enough already
Flowers at the site of the attackGuardianUK.comThe gruesome and sordid attack in Woolwich, UK has alarmed and horrified that nation and a fair amount of the world. An unprovoked beheading by cleaver of...
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Da Mayor, local hire advocate
Da MayorGUARDIAN FILE PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEEven as Sup. John Avalos continues to be raked over the coals by San Francisco Examiner columnist Melissa Griffin for his so-called “peacocking, disrespectful...
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Democrats reject 8 Washington
Ummm, maybe notThe San Francisco Democratic Party has voted to oppose the 8 Washington project and to endorse the ballot measure that would halt it.By a 15-4 margin, the Democratic County Central...
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New-movie tip: skip the fury and the hangover, and go see 'Frances Ha'
Haven't I seen you on HBO? Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in 'Frances Ha'Photo copyright Pine District, LLCThis week's must-see is Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's very cute, very charming, very French...
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Phobic Phatheads
Kaitlyn HuntfreekaitlynfacebookNo issue in America has had as abrupt a public opinion turn as gay rights. Once a third rail that could never be touched by politicians lest the juggernaut of America's...
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Mind Boggling
Today on the 101 headed home from gym, I saw a 2010 GMC SUV with the bumper stickers "Who Is John Galt?" and "I Love Capitalism" on the back.If memory serves, said vehicle was made after the US...
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Hot sexy events: Annie Sprinkle wants you in ecosexual boot camp
Yes, of course Annie Sprinkle (left) and Beth Stephens are ecosex-nutty -- you'd be too if your home was under attack? (It is.)You could be mistaken, in certain moments of Annie Sprinkle and Beth...
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Talk Radio's Funny Secret
Radio On!radiotower.jpeg Most folks do one thing for a living and are happy that way. I'm not. I need a lot of challenges that change all the time. I have a lot of different occupations, acting,...
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Pot, domestic worker bills win approval
Two bills that we've been following, one to regulate medical marijuana and the other to give domestic workers some basic rights, won approval from a key state Assembly committee and are headed for the...
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Pride reverses course, schedules public meeting May 31
Bradley MannineIn a surprising but welcome change of course -- after it locked out Bradley Manning supporters and press at a meeting last month, and its statement that it would not hold any more public...
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Because they're assholes
Tea Party Members Covering the Village People's "YMCA"APYesterday, Business Insider, the bastion of leftist socialism, reported that the Republican Party's negatives are polling at an all time high....
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Solomon: Obama in Plunderland: Down the corporate rabbit hole
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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This Ain't The Summer Of Love
46 years ago in San FranciscoHuffington PostRecently, I came across this great series from 1995 on YouTube, "Dancing In The Streets--the History of Rock and Roll". Ten episodes from the R/B meets...
View ArticleMemorial Day: Remembering the good old days in Rock Rapids, Iowa, circa 1940s...
Bruce B. Brugmann (Reprinted and updated by popular demand)When I was growing up in my hometown of Rock Rapids, Iowa, a farming community of 2,800 in the northwest corner of the state, Memorial Day...
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The Big Riddle
Sittin' Prettyrbr.comWhy is it that if you hoard everything but cash, you're a weirdo and the subject of a TV show that demeans you, but if you hoard money (and offshore at that), you're an astute...
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Very Strange Bedfellows
Gay Pride, NYCnypictures.comIf you stop and think about it for a moment, Memorial Day Weekend and Gay Pride weekends have a lot in common.Both came about to commemorate serious and life-changing events...
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