Stand with Ross at a major rally Thursday noon at City Hall
The Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi forces put out a call to action Wednesday to mobilize their supporters for a show of force at a noon rally at City Hall on Thursday. The rally is scheduled to be across Polk...
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The Performant: Howard's End
Joe Landini of the Garage: moving out and up While the Performant is off hugging trees in Oregon, please enjoy this series of interviews with the curators of three innovative performance spaces. After...
View ArticleStop the presses: Elaina is back and stands with Ross at a noon rally today...
Here is the latest advisory from the Stand With Ross forces. Note below in particular the op ed piece in today's Examiner by Geoff Brown, former San Francisco public defender. He argues persuasively...
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Ethics to decide on sheriff's case
The Ethics Commission is expected to rule by the end of the day Aug. 16 on whether to recommend Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi be removed from office. The final legal arguments are over, and much of the...
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As classes begin again, CCSF reconsiders its mission
GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF Fall classes at City College of San Francisco began yesterday. Students streamed through all nine campuses, navigating their schedules. But they are coming back to a...
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Too $hort signs on for Cow Palace sex soirée
Too $hort: at times, in need of a partner who acts in adult films. Too $hort luvs porn stars. In fact, sometimes he needs them. The Oakland rapper performed with a passel of them onstage at this...
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Appetite: Delicious new cuisine and cocktail reads
Fermentation and distillation, hot plats and sugar cones, sweet creams and brokeasses ... These eight books were released this spring, and are among the best of what has landed on my desk this...
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The Performant: Left Coasters
Right Brain Performancelab stakes a claim Out West. (Ed Note: While the Performant is off hugging trees in Oregon, please enjoy a series of interviews with the curators of three innovative performance...
View ArticleDick Meister: The billionaire's bill of rights
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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Commission narrows Mirkarimi charges to one but recommends removal
Ross Mirkarimi with Eliana Lopez, attorney David Waggoner, and his mother, Nancy Kolman Ventrone (right), after the ruling. Steven T. Jones The Ethics Commission today unanimously rejected most of...
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Pussy Riot found guilty, local and global protests today
We're all Pussy Riot now. PHOTO BY IGOR MUKHIN Today, three members of the Russian activist punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for “hooliganism” stemming from an incident in...
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Late-summer new movies: whole lotta eh (but T minus one month 'till 'The...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is among the museum-quality cast of 'The Expendables 2.' Photo by Frank Masi A pair of new Asian films about demons, real and figural, open today: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai...
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Nite Trax: Five magickal MK moments
Hey, boo! MK actually has not aged one day since 1990. Swear. Eighty-year-olds like myself keep finding new Wonders of the Internet: despite basically living at record stores in Detroit in the early...
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Eliana steals the show at Thursday's dueling City Hall rallies
Eliana Lopez once again stole the show as the Ethics Commission Thursday debated the “ethical fate” of her husband Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi inside City Hall while the Stand With Ross forces and their...
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Live Shots: KISS and Mötley Crüe at Sleep Train Pavilion
By Dillon Donovan Reunited after having first toured together 30 years ago, KISS and Mötley Crüe having joined forces once again unleashing their mighty sound last night at the Sleep Train Pavillion....
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A week after police crack down, People's Library still operating in East Oakland
Reading in the Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez before it was re-shuttered by police Monday PHOTO BY ANDREW KENOWER The building where activists, some from Occupy Oakland, created a free library and...
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Benefit screening of 'The Master' (in 70mm!) tomorrow at the Castro!
This is not a drill, film fans: Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated new film, The Master, will be screening at the Castro tomorrow night. In 70mm. Not gonna lie: as soon as word of similar...
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Remembering Remy Charlip
Photo by Paul Chinn Remy Charlip was born on January 10, 1929 in Brooklyn, NY. He died on August 14, 2012 in San Francisco. The following windy Sunday afternoon, he was lowered into the bone-dry...
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Is Todd Akin the dumbest Congressman ever?
There have been a lot of really stupid members of the esteemed House of Representatives and the United States Senate. I'm talking real morons here -- not just people who are dumb because they disagree...
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Your hover bike is almost ready
It's true. (And just in time for my birthday, hint.) Could it finally eliminate the risk of this?
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