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Appetite: Sipping caramel, tasting pastry breadth at Craftsman and Wolves
Media hype has been fierce for pastry chef and owner William Werner’s new Craftsman and Wolves, a unique Mission bakery-cafe-patisserie for creative baked goods and sweets, changing sandwiches and...
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Churches wants you to sing on its LGBT anthem
Stand with Churches. PHOTO BY MARTE SOLBAKKEN Caleb Nichols is impatient. Long part of the Bay Area music scene in bands such as Port O'Brien and his own Grand Lake, he's perhaps forgotten that his...
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Burning Man takes anti-scalper and traffic control measures as tickets arrive
Got yours? Steven T. Jones Most physical tickets to Burning Man were mailed out last week and, as many expected after a controversial ticket lottery with higher-than-expected demand, ticket scalpers...
View ArticleDick Meister: Labor and the media
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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Batman approacheth...but what to see THIS weekend?
William Beudine's "The Canadian" screens at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. You already have your tickets for The Dark Knight Rises (opens July 20) — if not, you might want to get on that —...
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Olague's antics on RCV alarm her progressive supporters
Sup. Christina Olague is handling the pressures of her divided loyalties very well. Steven T. Jones As Sup. Christina Olague was being appointed to the District 5 seat on the Board of Supervisors by...
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Step away from the desk and dance
Turn off your swag. PHOTO BY MATT HAZE What’s your idea of a productive lunch break? Mine involves returning a failed online shopping purchase to FedEx with just enough time to grab a sandwich to...
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Guardian Voices: The case against RCV
“The Cure for the Ills of Democracy is More Democracy” -- old Progressive Party slogan My friends here at the Guardian have elevated support for ranked choice voting to...
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Like an Eric Andre in a china shop
What’s to be anticipated when Adult Swim’s most degenerate program hits the road? On Monday night, a sold-out crowd filled the Rickshaw Stop, ready for just about anything short of a Mitt Romney...
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Live Shots: US Air Guitar SF Regional
The US Air Guitar Championships held their SF Regionals at the Independent Saturday night. As such, a sold-out crowd of air-thusiests and the competitors' family members gathered to see who would be...
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Developer hires crew to block signature gathering
Developer Simon Snellgrove and his hired crew seeks to block petition signing at Fort Mason The developer of 8 Washington has taken an unusual if not unprecedented step to prevent a referendum on his...
View ArticleCallvin Trillin: Sheldon Adelson's Free Speech
"Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is on the brink of reaching $71 million in contributions thus far in this election cycle." --Roll Call Yes, money is speech, so the court has decreed. While Adelson...
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Appetite: Bar talent and rare bourbon barrels on 16th Street
Roses for a Peach: a summer stunner at Elixir made from one of their Four Roses single barrel whiskies GUARDIAN PHOTO BY VIRGINIA MILLER Sixteenth Street between Valencia and Guerrero in SF is packed...
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Noir to nerds: 8 artsy-cultural happenings you could check out this week
Explore the relationship between art and labor at this year's Laborfest book fair Sun/22. Remember the time you lived in one of the most exciting, cultured places in the world? Hold up, that's right...
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Localized Appreesh: Diego's Umbrella
Diego's Umbrella does the proper cowboy stance. PHOTO BY CAMERON INGALLS Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact...
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Herbwise radio: Catch Caitlin Donohue today on Cannabis Cuts
Merry Toppins and Vaperonica Dee interview our culture editor on their radio show today, Tue/17. GUARDIAN PHOTO BY CAITLIN DONOHUE Our culture editor-cannabis columnist Caitlin Donohue interviewed...
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Black Young Democrats rally againt stop and frisk
PHOTO BY THEO ELLINGTON A group organized by the San Francisco Black Young Democrats rallied at City Hall today. Their message: no to stop and frisk. Members of the group, as well as the ACLU and the...
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Feeling the heat, Olague kills RCV repeal for now
Sup. Christina Olague delayed her closely watched vote on repealing ranked choice voting. After reviving a controversial effort to repeal the city's ranked-choice voting (RCV) system and paying a...
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High noon for CPMC
CPMC, the health-care giant owned by Sutter Health, has two weeks to convince some very reluctant city officials that its plan to build a flashy new hospital on Van Ness Avenue is at least marginally...
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A surprisingly sentimental evening with Chuck Palahniuk
Photo by Shauna Keddy "I write so that I don't forget the fascinating and heartwarming things people tell me," explained Chuck Palahniuk. He was at the Castro Theatre Mon/16 to chat about his newest...
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