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Community questions Chevron in wake of refinery fire
The Chevron refinery fire spread a cloud of toxic smoke around the Bay Area. SF Newspaper Co. This post has been updated to correct information concerning the Ecuadorian lawsuit against Chevron. In...
View ArticleImpertinent question for Sup. Malia Cohen
As attentive readers know, I get most annoyed when a "neighborhood" supervisor, who ran as a "neighborhood" candidate, gets to City Hall and then votes the Chamber of Commerce/big development line...
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On 67th anniversary of bombs in Japan, nuclear energy challenged
GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF An hour before the Chevron refinery in Richmond started to burn, Bay Area residents were demonstrating against a different type of energy that posed different...
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Forum tonight cancelled after Mayor's 'no stop and frisk' announcement
Ed Lee: “We will not be implementing the stop and frisk program, or variations of that, in San Francisco” A community forum to discuss stop and frisk tonight has been cancelled, in the wake of Mayor...
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Olague faces her challengers during first D5 debate
Sup. Christine Olague is seeking election to the D5 seat Mayor Lee appointed her to in January. SF Newspaper Co. Tonight's inaugural District 5 supervisorial debate will be a key test for Sup....
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Worship long-haired handsome at cult-museum on first Thursdays
H.H. Tathagata Dorje Chang Buddha III: handsome devil I am used to vegetarian restaurants and churches being cults, but this is something new. I'm loathe to spoil the surprise for you, nonetheless:...
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City College students, in their own words
CCSF student Rosa Morales, 18, says, "If I were not able to go to community college, I wouldn't go to school." Andy Sweet City College of San Francisco (CCSF) students and freelance journalists Joe...
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Inspired pairing: Woods and Peaking Lights at Great American Music Hall
Indra Dunis supplies Peaking Lights' mantric vocals. “Man, their songs just went on forever,” a fellow in a Velvet Underground shirt exclaimed with mild frustration, as electronic-dub outfit Peaking...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: Mitt Romney's tax returns
Mitt Romney's tax returns Demands come from left and right. Mitt Romney, though, says he'll sit tight. We've given you people enough, Says Ann, sounding suddenly tough. Conspiracy theories abound....
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Live Shots: Neil Diamond at the HP Pavilion
At some point during the massive “Sweet Caroline” sing-a-long deep into Neil Diamond’s concert at HP Pavilion, a rowdy female fan vaulted into my aisle, loudly proclaimed her love to Neil, skulked...
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Appetite: Under the stars in Guerneville
Summer magic out behind the Rio Nido Roadhouse GUARDIAN PHOTO BY VIRGINIA MILLER Amid towering redwoods, summer heat, and parties along the Russian River is the small town of Guerneville, one of...
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Local porn stars in Pussy Riot benefit show
Bianca Stone PHOTO BY COURTNEY TROUBLE Change the world one-handed! Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of the band Pussy Riot have been jailed in Russia for months and...
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In Richmond, is it safe to eat your garden fruits and veggies?
Panelists at town hall meeting on platform strewn with wilted plants from local gardens GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF Questions remain about the safety of eating homegrown fruits and vegetables from...
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14 excellent establishments for Olympic watching
Don't let the fact you haven't owned a TV since high school keep you from missing this year's Olympic specimens. The Olympics might have originated as an an ancient Roman display of physical beauty...
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"Bourne" again and other new movies!
Game on! "Battle Royale" (2000) is among the final films to screen at SF Film Society Cinema. Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society Big news this week out of the San Francisco Film Society: the...
View ArticleDick Meister: Obama needs labor--again!
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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Milton Marks, City College defender, dies at 52
Milton Marks III, the son of a state senator who for 12 years tried, often against long odds and strong opposition, to clean up the San Francisco Community College District, died Aug. 9 of...
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Davis snags a trio of top progressive endorsements
Julian Davis outside a recent campaign event at Milk on Haight Street. Steven T. Jones District 5 supervisorial candidate Julian Davis is emerging as the progressive standard-bearer in that...
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Creating activist scholars: extended interview with Andrej Grubacic
GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF For this week's paper, we talked with with Andrej Grubacic, the new head of the anthropology department at the California Institute for Integral Studies. Here's the...
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Big week ahead as City College classes start
William Walker, front, and other City College students and families tell the Board of Supervisors about it's importance July 31 GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF Classes at City College of San Francisco...
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