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SFBG Radio: Beyond the Wall Street protests
Today we talk about the protests on Wall Street -- and Johnny offers a more effective approach. Hint: It has to do with blaring out-of-tune techno music at rich people. You'll have to listen after the...
View ArticleEditorial: SF's foreclosure crisis--the city shouldn't put another penny in...
Here's a great issue for the San Francisco mayor's race: The big banks that the city uses to hold nearly half a billion in cash deposits are part of a group of financial institutions that are...
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The mud flies
Dennis Herrera is out with an ad attacking Ed Lee -- and it's just the beginning of what we're going to see as the top-tier candidates try to knock the front-runner down. All the credible polls show...
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Localized Appreesh: The 21st Century
The 21st Century takes to the streets. PHOTO BY JULIE BULLOCK Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the bay. Each week a band/music-maker with a show, album...
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Endorsement Interviews: David Chiu
Board President and mayoral candidate David Chiu could well be the person most directly hurt by Mayor Ed Lee's decision to run for a full term. It's ironic, since Chiu supported Lee -- on the basis...
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Portland scene clocked by Time Based Arts Festival
Yoko Higashino, Offsite Dance Project Photo by Yuta Hinohara Just up the coast, the contemporary art binge that is Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s (PICA) eighth Time Based Art Festival (TBA)...
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Eclectic al fresco: Video picks from this weekend's Bay Vibes Fest
Bay Vibes performer Gabby La La recorded her 2011 album on a Nintendo DS Lite -- a pink one, according to Wikipedia. Judging from the gentleman blowing washing machine-sized bubbles at Dolo yesterday,...
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Free Farm Stand faces an uncertain fall harvest after call from Rec and Parks...
Free Farm Stand founder Tree Rub's neighborhood food line may be the victim of its own success. PHOTO BY ARIEL SOTO-SUVER Every Sunday at the Parque Niños Unidos in the Mission, an eager group of...
View ArticleOn the eve of our 45th anniversary--a new progressive agenda
(The new progressive agenda is at the bottom of this blog.) In our second issue of Nov. 1, 1966, the Guardian endorsed then Gov. Pat Brown over Ronald Reagan in what we called "the most important...
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Moving the planet: San Francisco speaks
A Saudi Arabian 350.org rally. On Saturday, the world will follow suit. PHOTO COURTESY OF 350.ORG As far as the planet is concerned, it's probably a good thing that Morgan Fitzgibbons is adept at...
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Moving the planet: The beat quickens in Buenos Aires
"Un dia para alejarse de comustibles fosibles" ARTWORK BY MATIAS KALWILL In Day Two of our series on Moving Planet Day organizers and events around the world (check out yesterday's chat with San...
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Live Shots: Hightower, Walken, and Black Cobra at YBCA
It was all head banging and high-flying guitar yesterday evening in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' outdoor sculpture garden. With the wailing thrash of Hightower, the electric doom of Walken,...
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Fear not Folsom first-timers: advice through the lens of local photographers
Folsom weekend has arrived and if you're new to the game, you've got all kinds of decisions to contemplate before running out onto the leather field. Those who trot through the gates minus preparation...
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Foreplay: Two pre-Folsom scenes
UK synthpoppers Monarchy model designer Andrew Wedge (center)'s Folsom Street designs. PHOTO BY RICH TROVE As Folsom Street Fair (Sat/24) looms over us like a leather daddy with an itchy whip paw, the...
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Defy the business community's shameless ultimatum
One Market was among many SF restaurants that a WSJ investigation found was scamming customers and screwing employees. On the same day that a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that many San...
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Dare to bare this weekend? We've got something for that ass
Grab your silkscreened Butt Guardian at the Castro Nude-In and Folsom Street Fair. Supervisor Scott Wiener recently introduced legislation that would encourage all of SF's legally protected nudists to...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: So Why Be So Hard on Vermont?
Michele Bachman says Hurricane Irene was God's warning to curb excessive government spending. --News reports We know that God's an all-powerful God God's actions are not nonchalant. We know he...
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BART seeks power to ban targeted individuals
Legislation currently before California Governor Jerry Brown would allow Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to ban passengers who have been convicted of a crime committed while on BART property. Written...
View ArticleSBG radio: Demanding full employment
Today Johnny talks about marching on Wall Street -- to demand full employment or else. Check out the discussion after the jump.<!--break--> FullEmploymentOrElse by endorsements2011
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SFBG Radio: Why California needs a state bank
Today we talk about why California should follow North Dakota and create a state bank -- and why San Francisco needs a public bank, too. Listen after the jump.<!--break--> BankOfCalifornia by...
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