Clik here to view.
Live Shots: Unknown Mortal Orchestra at Rickshaw Stop
We all know the story: Some dude records an album in a basement, garners considerable Internet attention, tries to perform live, and totally blows it. Fortunately for the audience at the Rickshaw Stop...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New 'Romance': Wild Flag stole our hearts at Great American Music Hall
Despite the awesome spectacle (high kicks, guitar humping) and the resumes (Sleater-Kinney, Helium, the Minders) Wild Flag's music stands on its own. The indie rock foursome (don't call it a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Going veg at the wing shop: Wing Wings' deep-fried oyster mushrooms
Deep fried, animal-free: the $5 oyster mushrooms at Wing Wings. ALL PHOTOS BY CAITLIN DONOHUE Owner Christian Ciscle's been trying to get me to come into his Lower Haight wings shop for a minute. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Black Bloc is always with us
I learned about how a handful of people could screw up a major demonstration back in 1984, when the Democratic National Convention was in San Francisco and a fairly large number of peace activists had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will all those mailers really work?
Political consultants love direct mail. It's a perfect way to target your message. You buy an ad in the Chronicle, you have to pay to reach all of the readers -- the ones outside of San Francisco, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Hangover: Nov. 3-5
Das Racist (inset) and Unknown Mortal Orchestra basked in cracked pop glory all over SF this weekend. GUARDIAN IMAGE BY CAITLIN DONOHUE Jounce with us, if you will, through the Guardian staff's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman get intimate at the Palace of Fine Arts
There’s no real way of knowing how much crossover there was between the fans of Dresden Dolls singer/solo artist Amanda Palmer and fiction writer/poet Neil Gaiman before the two married last year. Now...
View ArticleClik here to view.
British pop star V V Brown returns, brings candy and politics
V V Brown, just lounging casually. PHOTO BY PAUL KALIRAI While her earlier image and sound were more pointed toward the retro, with new album Lollipops and Politics, V V Brown is hopping towards the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Chron's Willie Brown problem
I'm glad someone else has noticed the problem with giving a political fixer his own newspaper column. I've been talking about this for years now, and the Chron doesn't care. Brown is a walking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Localized Appreesh: TurbonegrA
Their hearts are in San Francisco, but their sound is Oslo-bred. 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Election night coverage and parties
As always, the Guardian will have a team of reporters in the field tonight covering the election parties and doing regular posts here on the Politics blog, where Executive Editor Tim Redmond will also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Occupy? Here's why
The Chron buried the story below an item about Chevron cutting its grants to PBS, but if you want to see the case for the Occupy movement, it's laid out perfectly in a powerful new report by the...
View ArticleWhat the early numbers show
For starters, they show that turnout is going to be low. Some people predict that the absentees will represent almnost half the votes cast; if that's the case, then total turnout will be around 30...
View ArticleThe race for sheriff
This one's going to be interesting. In my hasty first post I wrote that Chris Cunnie was trailing Mirkarimi, but in fact, the second-place candidate is Paul Miyamoto. That's interesting because I...
View ArticleThe word from Leland Yee
Leland Yee arrived at his campaign party defiantly hopeful despite being in fifth place. “The night is still young, and we continue to wait for the results,” he told reporters outside. Then he went...
View ArticleNew mumbers: Mirkarimi, Avalos surge
The next round of numbers are in, and the first clear trend is the Ross Mirkarimi is surging. Mirkarimi is 36 percent, to 28 percent for Miyamoto -- but when you back out the absentee vote, he's...
View ArticleThe latest numbers: The initiatives
Well, we can call the election on most of the initiatives.The two bond measures, A and B, are going to win handily. Prop. C and Prop. D are both going to win, but Prop. C is going to have more votes...
View ArticleChris Cunnie draws big supporters
Chris Cunnie's event at the Delancey Street Foundation was packed early with top pub safety officials -- San Francisco police chief Greg Suhr, San Francisco Firefighters Union president John Hanley,...
View ArticleHerrera and ranked-choice voting
Dennis Herrera remains hopeful. “I want to see how the next round of votes goes,” he said. But there was one thing that he was clear about: he does not like ranked choice voting. “I love the runoff...
View Article93 percent of the votes are in
And it doesn't look good for anyone except Ed Lee. John Avalos has done really well -- he's in solid second place, almost 10,000 votes ahead of Dennis Herrera, who is in third. But he's also 15,000...
View Article