Editorial: The Mirkarimi case is an abomination
Editor's note: And so the man who became interim mayor on a false pretext and then lied his way through an election for a full term amid a sleazy mass of campaign irregularities and violations, has...
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Fresh Cuts: Blur singer belts an opera, a new spin on Afrobeat
Look back to Fela. This week in new music sees an "English Opera" through the eyes of a Britpop prince, Afrobeat kings, and Adam Bainbridge's kind change of mind. Damon Albarn: Dr Dee (Virgin) Dr....
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A brief transgender punk heroes primer
The legendary Jayne County with Handsome Dick Manitoba The web is all abuzz -- rightly -- about the bravery of Against Me! singer Tom Gabel "coming out" to Rolling Stone as transgender and beginning...
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Localized Appreesh: Glitter Wizard
Glitter Wizard in dragon-slaying stance. PHOTO BY ANDREW MORAN Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com....
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Housing for the rich moves forward -- fast
A proposal to build the most expensive condos in San Francisco history will come before the Board of Supervisors May 15 -- and then before the Port Commission May 16, and then before the Board's...
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Upcoming movies: noir and more (moir?)
Vampires are so 2010. What to watch? Johnny Depp going goth (agaaaain) for director Tim Burton? Indeed, the camp-stalgia Dark Shadows is the big-ticket opening this week (i.e., has the most billboards...
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Mayor Lee signs watered-down limits on SFPD spying
Flanked by members of Coalition for a Safe San Francisco, Police Chief Greg Suhr, and Sup. Jane Kim, Mayor Ed Lee today signed legislation that calls for San Francisco Police officers working with the...
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SFIFF 2012: gone but not forgotten
Python not pictured: "The Queen of Versailles." Photo by Lauren Greenfield It’s been a week since the San Francisco International Film Festival ended, but after 15 days largely spent sitting in the...
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Bank's offer to fund vandalism repairs draws activist backlash
Thousands of protesters demonstrated outside Wells Fargo's April 26 annual shareholders' meeting. Yael Chanoff After young anarchists vandalized cars and businesses during a brief but destructive...
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SEIU reps pleased with tentative contract
SEIU workers march April 18, demanding a contract much like the one they got PHOTO BY ANNA BAKALIS After heated negotiations, the city has come to a tentative two-year contract agreement with SEIU...
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What the preservation vote says about the 2012 supervisors
What does it mean that a historic preservation law favored by developers and promoted by Sup. Scott Wiener passed the Board of Supervisors 8-3? Maybe nothing. Historic preservation is a strange...
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The Performant: Tender is the 'Loin
Cutting Ball Theater's "Tenderloin" hits a sensitive zone. Against a towering backdrop of junked furniture, which looks as if someone had collapsed the “Defenestration” building on itself and dragged...
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Lindsey Buckingham sows his own seeds
No joke, the Buck and his guitar. For nearly 45 years, Lindsey Buckingham has been writing and performing songs with an indelible impact on rock'n'roll; and several of those tracks are nearly...
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The Beat: dirtybird's Justin Martin gets rough, tough, and tender
Justin Martin, in fragranti Like many 4 year olds, Justin Martin abhorred piano lessons. Unlike most adults however, he's now grateful for those tedious moments in practice and memorization. "Now that...
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Toward the fun: The return of Wavy Gravy
And so Wavy Gravy, a cultural icon of the 1960s and ever after, returns to the Bay Area and the Freight & Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley on May 22 for a benefit concert to fund his Camp...
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Sketching Sixth Street: In new show, Joel Phillips renders the unseen
A detail from one of Joel Phillip's "No Regrets in Life" images “I’m really interested in the idea of anonymity within a dense urban environment and how the denser an urban population is, the easier...
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What are "old-fashioned" SF values?
Michael Breyer, who has never held elective office in San Francisco and is running for state Assembly, is getting a fair amount of press -- and although he has nowhere near the visibility of...
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Claymation! Fashion! Digital Sound! An afterschool arts revival
If you believe the children are our future, then you may soon agree -- contrary to rumors of its ongoing extiction -- that the future arts scene of San Francisco is actually looking bright. While arts...
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Dos Pueblos Robotics Team ranked Number l in the world
Well, my addiction to robotics continues as the fabled Dos Pueblos Robotics Team 1717, led by my grandson Nicholas Perez as the ace driver, has been ranked number one in the world out of 2,332...
View ArticleA fair deal for the city's nurses
For San Francisco’s public-sector registered nurses, this year’s Nurse’s Week was a paradox. On May 10, nurses from throughout the city gathered in the cafeteria of San Francisco General Hospital to...
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