See ya, SAD: Post-Car Travel Agency pops-up with mid"summer" vacay inspiration
Post-car tour agents Kristin Saunders and Kelly Gregory field questions about navigating Highway 1 on bike in their pop-up space GUARDIAN PHOTO BY CAITLIN DONOHUE It wasn't until I was lying on an...
View ArticleGood evening, good eating: Shots from the Street Food Festival Night Market
Photos by Bowerbird Photography It wasn't too long ago that shopping locally meant hitting up your neighborhood Safeway. But seemingly overnight (in retrospect), farmers markets sprung up like healthy...
View ArticleAppetite: Highlights and bites from SF Chefs
Here are a few highlights in photos of another SF Chefs, San Francisco’s food, wine, spirits “classic” (aka week-long festival in tented Union Square), a whirlwind of excellent bites, drinks, wine,...
View ArticleCountry Country Club workers plan picket after step towards victory
Castlewood workers protest on the one-year anniversary of the lockout PHOTO BY BROOKE ROBERTSON Workers at Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton, represented by UNITE HERE Local 2850, received a...
View ArticleWhat will Jerry do?
Jerry and Tom A few good bills have emerged from the madness of the end of the Legislative session in Sacramento -- including measures by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano and Sen. Leland Yee -- and now we...
View ArticleLee appoints Santos, a staunch development advocate, to CCSF board
Mayor Ed Lee announces the appointment of Rodrigo Santos (left) to the CCSF Board of Trustees. Steven T. Jones Rodrigo Santos, a structural engineer who heads the pro-development advocacy group San...
View Article"My shoe is bigger than this car!" New (and new-ish) movies
Jean-Claude Van Damme camps it up as the villainous (ahem) Vilain in 'The Expendables 2.' Photo by Frank Masi Of the several films I looked at this week, two must be mentioned up top: The Master and...
View ArticleYou reached a website that is broken, hell yes
Moldovan joy. Never before has a 404 "website missing" page been endowed with such joy. Thank you, Moldovan freelance designer Anatoly Sivachenko.
View ArticleDeltron 3030 is back
Deltron 3030 in LA. PHOTO BY GALEN DRIVER After releasing their self-titled debut LP to cultish acclaim in 2000, Bay Area hip-hop supergroup Deltron 3030 mysteriously dropped off the radar for over a...
View ArticleThis weekend will be filled with relationship drama -- and you're going to...
The push and pull of relationships is a great basis for a dance piece. Not only are relationships intimate, beautiful, and at times frustrating, but they also create magnetic moments, and sometimes...
View ArticleCity College board takes first step toward scaling back its mission
The first step was taken in changing City College of San Francisco’s educational mission at last night’s Board of Trustees meeting, a decision that would drastically alter what programs the college...
View ArticleMore 'Work MORE!' with Mica Sigourney/Vivvyanne Forevermore
If Friday means Some Thing — the popular late night drag performance showcase at the Stud — then tonight means something More: opening night of "Work MORE! #5," the hybrid performance installation...
View ArticleBarry McGee, you tricked me
McGee clusters his works to recall the community of voices that have contributed to his artistic output. GUARDIAN PHOTO BY CAITLIN DONOHUE Granted I'm not out in Berkeley a ton, but I found it strange...
View ArticleMarch for women's rights this Sunday
Women protest for reproductive rights in a 1992 Guardian archive image. Keep up the tradition Sunday PHOTO BY JANE PHILOMEN CLELAND As the war on women rages on, Defend Women's Rights marches will...
View ArticleAre free Golden Gate Park events fading away?
Metallica and other bands rocked Outside Lands, and the fans who paid $220 for a three-day pass. Tim Daw San Francisco's countercultural community was built at least partly through free concerts and...
View ArticleFiona Ma's vampire garbage bill
State Assembly Member Fiona Ma, who wants to keep 15-year-olds in prison for life, has been trying for a while now to help the big garbage outfits, Recology and Waste Management Inc., avoid running...
View ArticleLouis Dunn: Summing up Christie's keynote speech
Louis Dunn, longtime Guardian cartoonist, sums up the keynote speech of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the Republican convention. Click on the graphic to get a fuller poster effect.
View ArticleLive Shots: Desaparecidos at the Regency Ballroom
A wave of nostalgia rolled fierce last night through the Regency Ballroom. It was everywhere – on stage with the Desaparecidos, a reformed group of five accomplished Omaha musicians, who seemed to...
View ArticleNite Trax: Body High are your bass mechanics
LOL Boys are LOLling. In this week's Super Ego column, I wrote of my deep, abiding love of bass music (and revealed my secret source of UK bass knowledge). As low-low luck would have it, 222 Hyde will...
View ArticleKing Khan shares his spiritual side, hosts tarot reading contest
King Khan wants to read your cards. After talking to Arish “King” Khan over the phone last Friday, I got a sense of a more spiritual and sympathetic side as opposed to the notorious showman he’s...
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