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Live Shots: 7th Annual Black Choreographers Festival, ODC Theater, 02/16/2011
I believe it's almost everyone's dream to be able to fly and for some, it is a reality. I stopped by ODC Theater this week to check out a final rehearsal of a dance piece choreographed by Raissa...
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Lion dancer takes off his mask
A Chinese American pride: lion dancers stalk the New Year parade PHOTO BY KNIGHT LIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY Another year and another ferocious super-natural lion symbolically rips and spits out heads of...
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The Performant: Enter the Platypus
French “Art” and Fringe wins at the EXIT Theatre Of all the theatre companies in the Bay Area currently operating, the most specifically focused may well be our premiere (or rather only) amateur...
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Warren Hellman: The rich are undertaxed
I couldn't reach financier Warren Hellman before I wrote my column in this week's paper talking about the employee pension discussions. But he called me yesterday (Feb. 16) after he'd seen it, and I...
View ArticleNo more San Brunos!
For decades, the Guardian has done story after story on PG&E's deteriorating service, terrible maintenance record, continuous stonewalling and coverups, emphasis -- not on safety -- but on jacking...
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When radical protest works
It's easy to get turned off by protests, to say that direct action, sit-ins, arrests are counterprodcutive and don't make any difference. But then you read something like this and you realize that,...
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Planned Parenthood calls for support against GOP attack
The Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act would eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood. As the struggle to keep the doors open at the legendary women's clinic, Lyon-Martin Health...
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Hot sexy events: February 16-22
Julian Cash's People of Burning Man gets sexy and silly Thurs/17 PHOTOS BY JULIAN CASH 'Tis the weekly sex events of playa-sized proportions! In addition to our city editor Steve Jones' reading at...
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Onek to SFPD Chief turned D.A. Gascon: release records of officers cleared in...
Candidates who have filed in D.A.'s race so far:clockwise from top left: Paul Henderson, David Onek, George Gascon, Sharmin Bock Ben Hopfer Calitics has a revealing letter from David Onek, a senior...
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Herrera's crackpipe crackdown
I lived at Hayes and Fillmore in the 1980s, at the height of the crack epidemic, and a spectacularly unsuccessful dealer hung out on my corner. He was so bad at selling the stuff (or else was smoking...
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Noise Pop Film Festival: the new new age?
"The Family Jams:" this is not a pic of Charles Manson. The Family Jams, a documentary by Kevin Barker (the man behind Currituck Co. and and on-again-off-again accompanist of Vetiver), captures the...
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“My girlfriend is a hacker”: Inside the EFF party
On our way to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 21st Birthday party, my programmer friend explained to me why, if it weren’t for the work of the good folks over at EFF, neither eBay nor WikiLeaks...
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Owning it: Kyle Abraham in fast and slow motion
Steven Schreiber Dance artist and choreographer Kyle Abraham isn’t going on vacation anytime soon and he admits his next day off will be in August. “I try to work really really hard, I never take days...
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SFBG Radio: The message of Wisconsin
Today Johnny talks to Johnny Venom from Chicago about the story behind what's happening in Wisconsin. Listen after the jump.<!--break--> Wisconsin by endorsements2010
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Mirkarimi running for sheriff
Sup. Ross Mirkarimi is going to file papers today (Feb 22) to begin his campaign for sheriff. Mirkarimi told us he wants to continue the progressive legacy of Mike Hennessey and to work to reduce...
View ArticleDick Meister: Shades of the Thirties
Dick Meister, formerly labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor, politics and other matters for a half-century. By now, there's can be no doubting it: What's happening...
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SFBG Radio: People power, from Libya to Wisconsin
In today's episode, we talk about that remarkable moment when people realize that they aren't alone -- and that tends of thousands or maybe millions of their neighbors are willing to go out in the...
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Wisconsin, unions, and defunding the left
Mother Jones mag this month has a GREAT story about the battle in Wisconsin, the history of unions and the Democratic Party, and the real aim of the move to bust public-sector unions. Writer Kevin...
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The cushy life of a public-sector worker
You want to see how easy life is in those lucrative, unionized public-sector jobs that the governor of Wisconsin is going after? Isthmus, the alternative weekly in Madison, has a brilliant piece by a...
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L.A. confidential: Patrick Warburton on "The Woman Chaser" — and "Dragonard"
Patrick Warburton in "The Woman Chaser." Patrick Warburton occupies his own special niche. He is a big (6 feet, 3 inches), hirsute, square-jawed kinda white guy — the kind who saved screaming ingénues...
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