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The always amazing John Burton
John Burton, former member of Congress, the state Assembly and the state Senate and now the chair of the state Democratic Party, has represented PG&E and real-estate developers and helped build a...
View ArticleGuardian editorial: The problem with the tax initiatives
The Occupy movement — despite police abuse, official hostility and dismissive media — is changing the mainstream of discussion in American politics. For the first time in years, it's actually...
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Burning Man attendees anxious over new ticketing system
The new ticketing system is a response to overwhelming demand for Burning Man tickets this year. Burning Man attendees are feeling anxious over a new lottery-based ticketing system set up this year to...
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Skew your perceptions: Lomography's new gallery store opens Thursday
Now you can pick up the tools you need for your own Lomographic wonders right here in SF. PHOTO VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Almost as cryptic as some of their warped, blurred, color-drenched photos is the...
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Garage, rocked: Pacific Brewing Laboratories moves beyond nanobrewing with...
Pac Brew Labs' suds have graduated from garage rock. PHOTO VIA PACIFIC BREWING LABORATORIES The owners of Pacific Brewery Laboratories are taking the first step from nanobrewery to brewpub by moving...
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Homeless families still waiting for a meeting ... and housing
Not a good situation for kids, or anyone for that matter, to be in. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee still has not met with homeless parents organized by the Coalition on Homelessness to discuss their...
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Bank of America frets about Occupy
An internal Bank of America email has surfaced, making it clear that the megabank is concerned about the national day of action against evictions and foreclosures being carried out today, Dec. 6, by...
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Cass McCombs greets the Great American Music Hall crowd warmly
Cass McCombs, in the flesh. PHOTO BY LUCAS PETERS There’s been a lot of talk about how Cass McCombs is an impenetrable character, so much so that it’s become tiring. We’ve heard about his elusiveness...
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A new name in District 5
The senator has a candidate. You may not have heard of him. There's a new name popping up in the cattle call that is the District Five supervisorial appointment. He's not terribly well known in city...
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CPMC provides little charity care despite huge profits
CPMC's proposed Cathedral Hill project, up for approval next year, was the subject of our Nov. 23, 2010 cover story. John Ueland A new study has found that the California Pacific Medical Center...
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Occupy SF plans rallies in response to police raid
Occupy San Francisco protesters are calling for emergency rallies at noon outside 101 Market Street and 6 p.m. at Justin Herman Plaza in response to an early morning police raid carried out today,...
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Style Paige: Does this go together?
Don’t you wish there was a how-to-guide on how to mix and match patterns properly? How do you really know if that leopard and that floral look good together? There should some kind of chart online you...
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Lit shorts: 'Beck' by the book
BeckBy Autumn de WildeChronicle Books176 pp., hardcover, $35 For more than a decade and half, pop culture photographer (and video director) Autumn de Wilde has chronicled Beck, the iconic songwriter...
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Lit shorts: Cocker, on paper
Mother, Brother, LoverBy Jarvis CockerFaber and Faber208 pp., hardcover, $17 Books of lyrics — words uprooted from the music and set down naked on the page — are traditionally published with either...
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Just gimme the nudes: Art Basel's pervy side
I dare you to lay your fingers on a city that's sexier than Miami. The whole urban area is one big infinity pool -- Cuban dancing, too-much-is-not-enough cleavage, shiny shirts, flirting in traffic...
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Occupy movement targets foreclosed homes
Throughout the Bay Area on Tuesday (Dec. 6), Occupy activists and housing advocates launched what they said will be an ongoing effort to place families back into their foreclosed homes, seizing...
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The Performant: Cheap thrills
Bargain Basement Mondays and Amoebapalooza The upside to living in a city as notoriously pricey as San Francisco is that despite the myriad opportunities to blow too much cash on a mediocre time out,...
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Should Occupy pull back and reinvent itself?
After Justin Herman Plaza was wiped clean of OccupySF, what's the next step? Brian Smith Maybe it's time for the Occupy movement to simply take a bow, step off the national stage for now, and start...
View ArticleDick Meister: Unemployment is slamming public employees
By Dick Meister Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website,...
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Police arrest 55 in early morning raid at Occupy SF
Photo by Yael Chanoff After more than two months, police have successfully cleared out all of the Occupy SF encampment on Market Street between Main Street and the Embarcadero. In an early morning...
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