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Stop the AT&T boxes!
By the League of Pissed Off Voters More than 60 people showed up on the steps of City Hall May 21 to demand that AT&T engage in the same old basic planning process that even small-scale businesses...
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The Performant 45: Oh Rapture, up yours!
Gearing up for the end times with Hoodslam Well another Armageddon scare has come and gone and we’re all still here, as is my dirty laundry which I was letting pile up on the off chance that I...
View ArticleEditorial: Lee needs to make a decision
The moment Ed Lee accepted the job as interim mayor — with the strong support of former Mayor Willie Brown and Chinatown powerbroker Rose Pak — we knew that the word "interim" would soon be in...
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Arizona to kill prisoner with illegal drugs
The state of Arizona is preparing to execute a prisoner with drugs that were obtained illegally, records obtained by the Bay Guardian and the ACLU of Northern California show. Donald Edward Beaty is...
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Chevron's critics gather before annual shareholder meeting
One of a series of new ads created by the True Cost of Chevron campaign. Chevron destroys everything, except profits. And by everything, we mean everything. The Amazon rainforest and its indigenous...
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SEIU 1021 withholds support for newly unveiled pension proposal
San Francisco’s largest labor union, Service Employees International Union 1021, is not on board with a proposed charter amendment that would reform the city’s pension system for public employees. The...
View ArticleSFBG Radio: The hopeless GOP hopefuls
Is there anyone in the Republican presidential field who can actually win both the primaries and the general election? Could we be facing another Texas governor trying for the White House? Check out...
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15-M utopia: Protests in Spain grow into massive popular movement
"Yes We Camp," "Toma la Plaza!," and "I can haz democracy … for realz now?" signs blanketed Madrid's enormous Puerta del Sol plaza, as what started as a demonstration by a politically disenchanted few...
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Appetite: Island bites, part five
View from Grand Hyatt hotel room -- got your tickets booked yet? ALL PHOTOS BY VIRGINIA MILLER Kauai: dreamy island respite, painfully beautiful, truly relaxing (other than east side traffic!) Last...
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Last train to Fuck Town: Rutger Hauer rides again in "Hobo With a Shotgun"
The course of an acting career can vividly illustrate the randomness of fate. Rutger Hauer spent some years in Dutch experimental theater of the 1960s — after pulling off that best way to terminate...
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American Idol: Mom, God and Lauren
I think it's all over. Scotty did the best he could with three weak, uninteresting songs, proving that he'll have a fine career as a country singer once he's out from under the iron grip of the Idol...
View ArticleDick Meister: A Memorial Day Massacre
It’s a dramatic, shocking and violent film. Some 200 uniformed policemen armed with billy clubs, revolvers and tear gas angrily charge an unarmed crowd of several hundred striking steelworkers and...
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American Idol: Whoa, Scotty!
Before we finish off this season of surprises, I would like everyone to give it up for my stunning record of predictions -- I was wrong nearly every single week. And very wrong about the finale. I was...
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Sit-lie isn't working. Imagine that.
Sit-lie supporter Arthur Evans isn't getting his way. Photo by Rebecca Bowe Guess what? The much-hyped sit-lie law ins't working. That's what the Bay Citizen reports today in a story that should...
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Activists speak out at Chevron's shareholder meeting
One of a series of new ads created by the True Cost of Chevron campaign. Police and security guards were out in full force in San Ramon yesterday, (Wed/25) where activists and shareholders of...
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David Chiu helps Leland Yee
It's nice, sometimes, to be in Sacramento. You can run for local office without having to vote on local issues. Witness State Sen. Leland Yee, who didn't have to take a formal position on the Park...
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Beating a fourth horse
Beat poet and Buddhist Allen Ginsberg inspires "The Worst Horse," a Fri/27 program of multidisciplinary work at the San Francisco Zen Center curated by acclaimed SF author and RADAR founder Michelle...
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Snap Sounds: Richie Cunning
Listening to local SF rapper Richie Cunning's new song Pure Imagination has proven to be terribly infectious, as I haven't been able to get it out of my head. <!--break--> A quote from A Bronx...
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Ammiano’s TRUST Act passes the Assembly
Tom Ammiano’s TRUST Act (AB 1081) passed the California Assembly in a 47-26 vote. It now heads to the Senate for approval. Ammiano says his bill "seeks to repair the damaging impacts of the...
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Masturbation inspiration at The Magazine
Your wrist is tired, the lube is running low and you've exhausted all your favorite porn; it's been a wonderfully fulfilling four weeks but the last weekend of Masturbation Month has come (pun...
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