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Nonprofit workers shout down Board of Supervisors meeting, 11 arrested
Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezNearly 100 nonprofit workers and their allies, hungry for a raise, marched through the corridors of City Hall today and shouted down the Board of Supervisors at its...
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Live Shots: Nick Cave hypnotizes the Warfield two nights in a row
Nick Cave at the Warfield July 7.ALL PHOTOS BY CHARLES RUSSOIt took Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds all of two songs to whip the audience into a mighty frenzy at the Warfield Theater on Monday night...
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The Best of Burger Boogaloo
ALL PHOTOS BY AMANDA RHOADESThis weekend Oakland’s Mosswood Park was transformed into a mini music festival of adorable proportions. After two days of PBR, sunburns, and a heap of eclectic and...
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San Jose cracks down on pot clubs after eschewing SF's regulatory approach
San Francisco's regulated, civilized medical marijuana dispensaries are a sharp contrast to San Jose's laissez faire approach.Mike Koozmin/SF Print Media Co.San Jose’s current (and harsh) crackdown on...
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Gimme 5: Must-see shows this week
Waterstrider perform at Slim's this Sat/12.Hello friends and festival-goers! Did you just get back from High Sierra? Does your hair still smell of patchouli? Are you sad that you actually have to be in...
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Elder care facility under pressure not to move forward with evictions
University Mound board member John Sedlander is questioned by Sup. David Campos.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEA group of senior citizens, mostly in their 80s and 90s, faces eviction from the University...
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Treasure Island development plans moving forward after lawsuit rejected
Treasure Island could include up to 8,000 homes and high-rise hotels.Construction on the first 1,000 of up to 8,000 new homes planned for Treasure Island could begin as soon as next year after the...
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Mac DeMarco underwhelms at Amoeba — until he busts out the covers
Mac DeMarco, who did not stick his thumb up his ass at Amoeba yesterday.Mac DeMarco has one of the most charismatic, clearly defined personas of anyone in indie rock. He chain-smokes, cross-dresses,...
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SF to consider joining Richmond in fighting banks over underwater mortgages
Activists rallied in favor of the city using eminent domain to help those with underwater mortgages last September.Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezPlans to ease San Francisco’s often overlooked home...
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Party Radar: Basement Jaxx, Outpost, Clockwork, Bardot A Go Go, more
Dancer of the year! (So far.)From the wild, wild, wide world of British clubbing: People are calling the video below "the worst club promo ever," but I kinda want to go. It's not often you find so much...
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Angry building owners threaten lawsuit over anti-speculation tax
Supporters of the measure are playing up its origins.Opponents of the anti-speculator tax that will appear on the November ballot blasted the proposal in a City Hall hearing yesterday [Thu/10] —...
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City will turn Francisco Reservoir into a park, with no affordable housing
A features plan for Francisco Park.San Francisco is getting a new park – but the deal has left some wondering why a small portion of the new parkland couldn’t have been set aside to build housing for...
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More funding promised to Central American child refugees, Lee warns of new...
Immigrants who have been detained while crossing the border, thousands of which who are often unaccompanied. AP photo by Rick LoomisThousands of Central American children fleeing drug wars and poverty...
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Security officers target Apple over contractor's unfair labor practices
Next time you head to your neighborhood Apple store to get that smooth and harmonious feel that can only comes with the gentle touch of an iPad air, you might be greeted by an unhappy security officer...
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Purr-suit of happiness: SF SPCA aims to save more lives with its new adoption...
Last year, the SF SPCA assisted with 5,084 cat and dog adoptions. With its new adoption center near Bryant and 16th Streets, which opened June 13, it aims to increase capacity by 20 percent — saving...
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#TBT: That time we called for California's break-up
Our cover story, May 27, 2009DESIGN BY BEN HOPFERSo another scheme -- in a long and rich history of such schemes -- is attempting to break California into more digestible parts, and gaining national...
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SF bankers now exporting tenant-displacing TIC loans
Banker and mayoral appointee Stephen Adams is now exporting fractional TIC home loans to communities outside San Francisco.You Tube/AREAA-SFFractional mortgage loans used to convert apartments into...
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San Franciscans could make death penalty ruling stick
The lethal injunction chamber at San Quentin Prison is rarely used, and it could be abolished forever.In the wake of yesterday’s [Wed/16] judicial ruling that California’s death penalty system is...
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Housing supply and demand theory on trial at City Hall
Advocates outside City Hall yesterday shout for fair wages and affordable housing, but will they get both? Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezThe November ballot is shaping into a housing supply theory...
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Everything is terrible, let's go hear some live music
The Hold Steady hit the Great American Music Hall Mon/21.PHOTO BY DANNY CLINCHDear readers! In case none of your coworkers has made any kind of Dilbert-ready joke by the water cooler yet today, let us...
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