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Jellyfish, oxtail, and more from the Street Food Festival
The annual Street Food Festival enlivens blocks of the Mission every year with many of our great food trucks, booths manned by the kitchen staff of our favorite SF restaurants, and a few visiting...
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The Performant: A late summer night’s dream
'Henry V' takes the spotlight at Ashland's famed Elizabethan Stage PHOTO BY T. CHARLES ERICKSON All Ashland’s a stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival It’s 100 degrees in Ashland, Oregon, which...
View ArticleDick Meister: Labor Day began in San Francisco in 1886
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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KPFA shows us how to do convention coverage
I watched and I listened as the Republicans alienated much of America and the TV announcers made fools of themselves and the big newspapers reported what happened without much perspective or...
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The Vaselines move beyond 'Kurt Cobain’s favorite band'
Back together again. PHOTO BY WATTIE CHEUNG Hailing from Scotland in the late 1980s, The Vaselines released just a couple of EPs and one full album before originally calling it quits after two short...
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Chauvinism: Not a good tool for fighting chauvinism
We're all liberals here, huh? Let's keep the focus off the family. ORIGINAL GUARDIAN ARTWORK BY CAITLIN DONOHUE I know we're all feeling a little queasy from all the Tampa tidings, but let's remember...
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Louis Dunn: A woman's place
Louis Dunn puts Ann Romney in her place. Click on the art to see the full size poster.
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The SFPUC's cool new building
I finallly got a tour of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's cool new building at 525 Golden Gate. It's about as green as an urban building can be, with solar panels, wind turbines, a...
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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week
Big Business, in what shall henceforth be known as the Greatest Promo Shot of All Time. PHOTO BY SCOTT MARTIN. Your prime concert options this week – Lightning Bolt, Les Sins, Roach Gigz, Doe Eye –...
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Is it hot in here, or is that just Maru? Uniqlo brings techy wonderclothes,...
The future of pants + Maru = Japanese brand Uniqlo does SF ORIGINAL GUARDIAN ARTWORK BY CAITLIN DONOHUE It was a foggy, sloppy evening in Golden Gate Park, and I was activating my gloom-whine during...
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Is the era of the mega-cult over?
Now that Sun Myung Moon is dead, and his following (certainly in the US) in precipitous decline, I have to ask: Has the era of the Internet and social media done in the old mega-cults? There used to...
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Yes on Prop. A rally urges support for City College parcel tax measure
Alex Tom leads a chant as a diverse crowd chants, "I am City College" in four languages GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF Those who work at, attend and support City College of San Francisco have a lot of...
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Spiritual bump and grind at Purity Ring
The luminous, blinking cocoons that have been rumored to grace the stages of Purity Ring’s live shows — as boasted by the lucky ones who have been able to get tickets to these consistently sold out...
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The Dems open with a contrast
You couldn't have scripted it better (and that's what it was, carefully scripted). The contrast between the mayor of San Antonio, Julian Castro, grandson of immigrants, child of a working-class...
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Snap Sounds: Midnite Snaxxx
Hot dogs and ice cream sundaes make the best late-night treats. Midnite Snaxxxs/t(Red Lounge Records) Midnite Snaxxx are like the quintessential cool girls of high school, in an alternate garage-punk...
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Warren, Clinton, and the Demo divide
Talk about a contrast. Tonight was all about the two sides of the Democratic Party, the two visions of how the party should approach policy, two utterly divergent approaches to the world that can...
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The real issue for the Dems in November
Lots of fun with convention democracy on Day Two, when the chair of the event, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, got caught up in the scam that happens almost every year, when the party rank-and-file...
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Pro-life Bernal billboard corrected by feminist vandals
PHOTO BY NEIGHBOR JOHN [H/t Bernalwood] Those in favor of a women's right to choose need no longer avert their eyes from that squalling pro-life billboard on the corner of Cortland and Andover -- some...
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Localized Appreesh: The Mallard
Candy for brains. PHOTO BY LEMURNELLE Localized Appreesh is our thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com. The Mallard seems to be everywhere...
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Hoping for change in Obama's acceptance speech
Four years ago, when I watched Barack Obama accept the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in Denver's Mile High Stadium, I was hopeful about the prospects for change, but disappointed by his...
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