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Chevron meets amid angry shareholders, liability, and environmental disasters
Artist Ruthie Sakheim with her creations, an 180-foot banner and "energy drinks" listing chemicals used in fracking PHOTO BY PETER MENCHINI About 40 gathered outside Chevron’s San Francisco offices...
View ArticleDick Meister: Make it a truly happy graduation day
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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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater: new movies!
Admit it: you've already searched showtimes for Piranha 3DD (I totally did). It wasn't screened for critics (duh). There's plenty more to report on in the world o'cinema, however, including...
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Election turnout expected to be less than 40 percent
Did you? If they held an election and nobody noticed, would it still count? Because that's what this Tuesday's presidential primary election is starting to feel like: the election that everyone...
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Why is a NY real estate developer targeting Prop. 28?
Why is a New York real estate developer putting up more than half a million dollars to try to crush California's term-limits reform initiative? Seriously: Howard Rich and his family and associated...
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Heads Up: 8 must-see concerts this week
Exray's: is this our dystopian future? It really just so happens that a few of this week’s obligatory shows are at club nights (Jel, Friendzone, and Antwon at Future Perfect, Yalls at Push the...
View ArticleTrolls rejoice! Comments are back
We appear to have fixed the comments problem that was bedeviling us and frustrating all the great folks who are part of our blog community (and those trolls who just try to annoy everyone else). So...
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Save Adobe Books?
Have times passed by Adobe Books? Adobe Books owner Andrew McKinley didn't have to think long when I asked him the corniest question of our interview, occasioned by the announcement that his store was...
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The funny money against Prop. B
Credit where it's due: My competitor and sometimes journalistic adversary Joe Eskenazi has a nice little piece on the weird money behind the campaign against Prop. B, a policy statement about the...
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The Performant: All you can eat
Wild Food Walks and Bal Littéraire satisfy imaginative appetites. “First, the bad news,” says our guide and frequent forager Kevin Feinstein. “Foraging in the Bay Area is illegal.” Well, swell, I...
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Key lime hair with a side of porno: the Brande Baugh story
Brande Baugh (left) mugs with Princess Donna, one of her porno makeup muses. “My job is really weird. I think about that all the time.” The Mission is a neighborhood accustomed to eccentric...
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Street Threads: Look of the Day
GUARDIAN PHOTOS BY ARIEL SOTO-SUVER SFBG street fashion photog Ariel Soto-Suver was on the scene at Bayview Opera House's Saturday summer concert series. The al fresco community fete was packed with...
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NYT joins SFBG in questioning the new tech bubble
Fallout from the new tech bubble has only gotten worse since we wrote about it in February. While most of the mainstream media in San Francisco continues to parrot Mayor Ed Lee's belief that that the...
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O, queso! Delectable slices of Spain and Portugal
“Don't. Eat. The. Cheese.” I kept telling myself this as I stared down at my plate during the Cheeses of Spain and Portugal Class at the Cheese School on May 23. Nine slices of sweating, salty,...
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Summer of Peace events kick off in Oakland
This "peace pole" will be hoisted in Oakland to kick off the Summer of Peace. By Natalie Orenstein Oakland has garnered more attention in the last year for police violence than it has for peace, but a...
View ArticleTobacco tax tightens up
Whoa -- with 10 percent of the state reporting, the tobacco tax, Prop. 29, is tightening up. It's now 51.3 yes, 48.7 no. But I've checked the counties that have reported in, and they're mostly the...
View Article40 percent reporting: Not a lot of change
Witrh 40 percent of the precincts reporting, there's been very little change in the results, which is surprising: Typically the absentees don't reflect the election-day turnout. But Prop. A is still...
View Article80 percent reporting: You can take (most of) this to the bank
WIth 80 percent reporting, you can take this much to the bank: Prop A is dead. Prop. B has won. The left will no longer control the local Democratic Party. Phil Ting will have an actual race in...
View ArticleTobacco money showing its power
The tobacco companies spent very, very heavily in Southern California to defeat Prop. 29, and as more results come in, it's clear that the tens of millions of dollars worth of misleading TV ads had an...
View ArticleReading Ed Lee's mind
Political reporters love to believe we can read politician's minds; it makes us feel important. (And Lord knows, these days we need something to make us feel important.) So let me go way out on a limb...
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