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Noise Pop Roundup 3: Flaming Lips, Veronica Falls, Matthew Dear, Archers of Loaf
MVP for Noise Pop coverage this year goes to Ryan Prendiville. See below to find out why – Ed. TUESDAY: The Flaming Lips at Bimbo's Time, for the Flaming Lips, is important. Because as a band — one...
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Journalists express doubts about nonprofit media merger
Will the Bay Area's two biggest nonprofit newsrooms -- Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting -- merge and what would that mean for local journalism? While we await votes as soon as...
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In their words: party people from the Guardian's Club Action cover
Last week we got to photograph folks from several different corners of the Bay Area nightlife scene for Marke B's Club Action cover story. Listen to them talk to Guardian art director Mirissa Neff and...
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The right to a civil lawyer
I like Sup. David Chiu's idea of giving indigent plaintiffs in civil cases the right to a lawyer. It's one of those legal and political issues that's been hanging around for decades: Everyone accused...
View ArticleNathaniel Blumberg: Open to change
By Wilbur Wood (Wilbur Wood was a student of Nathaniel Blumberg in the early 1960s at the University of Montana in Missoula. And he was the leader of a contingent of Blumberg students that turned up...
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Maximum Consumption: Overlap at Public Works pairs the audio with the edible
Christopher Willits demonstrating skills. PHOTO BY JOBEZZ/CREATIVE COMMONS So at Public Works this Thursday you can: watch veteran SF DJ Mophono and beat-driven gothsters Water Borders* live, learn...
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Splinter sound: Bayonics' side projects take the stage tonight
Bayonics' very Bernie photoshoot last year on the Guardian roof. PHOTO BY ALLEN DAVID Normally, when the white-hot energy that first surrounds a music project fades, there is drama to be had....
View ArticleNathan Blumberg, a tough but compassionate teacher
By James Oset (James Oset was a classmate of Wilbur Wood in both Roundup High School (Montana) and the School of Journalism at the University of Montana in Missoula. Both were students of Blumberg in...
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The 8 Wasington disaster goes to Planning
condos for the 1 percent The urban planning disaster that is 8 Washington goes before the San Francisco City Planning Commission March 8 amid a long list of questions -- including Mayor Lee's position...
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Cloud somethings
Cloud Nothings get warmed up. It's unsettling how the first track off Cloud Nothings' new LP makes one want to drop everything and flop on the ground in an arrested development expression of...
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Nite Trax: Red Bull Music Academy schools the Bay
We're not usually ones for product placement, but Red Bull has been making some serious roads into quality nightlife. Tonight (Thu/1) the always impressive annual Red Bull Thre3style DJ competition...
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Serra Bowl to close its lanes April 15th
51 years of bowling at Serra Bowl, heading for the gutter in April. Serra Bowl general manager Mike Leong sounded distraught on the phone today. "It's like somebody's great-grandfather died," he said....
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Key redistricting meeting March 7
The Redistricting Task Force, which is drawing new lines for the Board of Supervisors, meets March 7 at City Hall, and supporters of the Community Unity Plan map will be presenting the proposal and...
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Green Film Fest shorts: Blood in the Mobile
How does your iPhone affect the children of the Congo? Blood in the Mobile has the answers. San Francisco is, famously, home to film festivals that wanna make a difference. The Transgender Film...
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Death penalty could go before California voters in November
Judge LaDoris Cordell (at podium) and other SAFE California members present the signatures needed for a vote on ending execution Steven T. Jones It appears that California voters will get a chance to...
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Bayview man who filmed cops convicted
Fly Benzo, aka Debray Carpenter, speaks at a press conference PHOTO BY BILL CARPENTER In a case that has gained notoriety in San Francsico, Debray Carpenter, also known as Fly Benzo, was convicted...
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American Idol: Jeremy Lin and the women
Heejun Han, the Asian American Idol Our story so far: The season has opened with a lot less weeping and drama than last year. The producers focused more on the winners than the losers, the `personal...
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The Performant: The Secret to Life, the Universe, and Nothing in Particular
Hubble Hubble: Cyanobacteria contemplate the cosmos. PHOTO BY NICOLE GLUCKSTERN “Celestial Observatories for Cyanobacteria” illuminate the knowledge gap at the San Francisco Arts Commission “The...
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Mayor Lee praises the importance of nightlife to SF
CMAC Chair Alix Rosenthal introduces Mayor Ed Lee as Entertainment Commissioner Steven Lee (left) looks on. Steven T. Jones Addressing a gathering of nightlife advocates at a California Music and...
View ArticleDick Meister: Apple's unethical innovation
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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