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Federal government sets its sights on 12 more SF dispensaries
Inside the office of delivery-only dispensary Green Cross, one of the 12 cannabis businesses that could be targeted by the DEA. GUARDIAN PHOTO BY CAITLIN DONOHUE Bad news for medical marijuana...
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Calling all Kevin Smith fans (you know you're out there)!
At the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Kevin Smith created one of festival's biggest sensations for audiences and film buyers alike by announcing he was going to auction off his film Red State after its...
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Would Sept. elections be better than RCV?
A proposal by Supervisors Sean Elsbernd and Mark Farrell to end San Francisco's experiment with Ranked Choice Voting will come before the board Feb. 14, and RCV suporters are organizing to fight it....
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How much hot gay tail are the rabid conservative gentlemen of America getting...
The junk for the elephant's trunk Hooray, it's time for our favorite blog post of the year. Every year Wonkette goes to the huge Conservative Political Action Convention in DC, and trolls Craigslist...
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West Oakland's Bikes 4 Life re-opening with rides for all
A mural outside West Oakland's Bikes 4 Life pays homage to Marshall "Major" Taylor, the first great African American cyclist. PHOTO COURTESY OF RED, BIKE AND GREEN "It keeps me occupied, not doing...
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Trash Lit: The Expats (almost) lives up to the hype
There's an awful lot of hype around this first novel by Chris Pavone. John Grisham compares it to the early works of Ken Follett, Frederick Forsyth, and Robert Ludlum. The folks at Crown publishing...
View ArticleDick Meister: The plight of the pregnant worker
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,...
View ArticleDick Meister: The plight of the pregnant worker
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,...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: Adelson, Adelson
ADELSON (Sung by Newt Gingrich supporters, to the tune of "Edelweiss," from the Sound of Music) Adelson, Adelson, Your donations do cheer him. We who root For our Newt Smile whenever you schmeer him....
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Live Shots: Los Campesinos! and Parenthetical Girls at Great American Music...
When I last caught Parenthetical Girls in SF, singer Zac Pennington closed the show in a memorable way: traipsing around the room with a single drum stick, tapping out the solemn beat of “Stolen...
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The Performant: Strangelove
“City of Lost Souls” at ATA, and “Awkward Dinner Party” at the EXIT Theatre, subverted the Valentine spirit. Talk about a hot mess. The florid, fluid, City of Lost Souls (1983), Rosa von Praunheim’s...
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The Obama budget, beyond the politics
Man, the way the president's talking it sounds as if he's appointed the General Assembly of OccupySF to write his budget plans. He's going to make everyone pay a fair share of taxes. He's going to...
View ArticleA sad Valentine's Day message: "Nathaniel died"
A sad Valentine's Day message: "Nathaniel died" The email came from Doug Giebel from his hometown of Big Sandy, Montana. “Nathaniel died shortly after midnight. Valentine's Day. Montana Time. “His...
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Why is this not a structural budget deficit?
The economy's improving. Tax revenue is up. So why is the city still facing a budget deficit of more than $200 million? Easy: San Francisco has, and will continue to have, a structural budget deficit....
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Bike-borne tacos are coming! But not without your help
An artistic rendering of the joy that could be made possible by Hot Bike. Now, Rose “Slam” Johnson's Hot Bike would not be the first taco bike in the Bay Area. That honor, of course, is due to Alfonso...
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Localized Appreesh: Bhi Bhiman
Alone with his acoustic guitar, Bhiman dreams of kimchi. PHOTO BY MATTHEW WASHBURN Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact...
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Before Burning Man's big announcement, some final bits and bytes...
So far this year, scoring a Burning Man ticket feels a bit like finding one of of Willy Wonka's Golden Tickets. Burning Man participants are anxiously awaiting tomorrow's (Wed/15) announcement by...
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Is SF's DA investigating Rose Pak?
Well, Ms. Pak thinks he is. At the Chinese New Year parade, where she wields the mic at the reviewing stand and typically makes nasty comments about local politicians, she was relatively muted this...
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“A way to find your people”: the best of Bawdy Storytelling
Here's Dixie! First hot dog, then slutty stories. Dixie De La Tour wants you to talk about sex, for the sake of San Francisco's reputation. “I am still baffled at how a city as cosmopolitan as SF...
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NATHANIEL BLUMBERG, 1922-2012
Nathan Blumberg, a great journalist who insisted on meeting deadlines, wrote his own obituary so that he would not miss his final deadline, on Valentine's Day, in 2012, when he died of complications...
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