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1999 Stories by George Cothran

• Cothran

  published September 1, 1999

  After eight years and nine months as a staff writer and columnist at SF Weekly, I have decided to move on, to pursue, as they say, other... More >>

• Cothran

  published August 25, 1999

  Here's a stomach-turning little tale about how corrupt San Francisco has become under the auspices of Mayor Willie Brown: A young man is tackled,... More >>

• Cothran

  published August 18, 1999

  Off the Preservation About a year ago, some folks in North Beach, including the city's poet laureate, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and one of the... More >>

• Cothran

  published August 11, 1999

  Go, Team, Go Last week, I marveled at the moxie of longtime mayoral pal Jacqueline Besser, telling a little story about what seemed to be... More >>

• Cothran

  published August 4, 1999

  The Sacred and the Profane It seems that you need goat entrails, tea leaves, the blood from roosters slaughtered at the stroke of midnight... More >>

• Cothran

  published July 21, 1999

  What You Get When You Cross Night of the Living Dead With Being There So I read in the papers that people are really going to run Frank... More >>

• Cothran

  published July 14, 1999

  The Existential Bus-Based Karma Test On July 24, at Pier 93 in San Francisco, more than 100 Muni bus drivers will gather and, in a series... More >>

• Cothran

  published July 7, 1999

  Is This Really a Hate Crime? If Edgar Mora had any intents and purposes on March 12 of last year as he went on his violent odyssey through... More >>

• Cothran

  published June 30, 1999

  Mainstreaming the Panthers A group of earnest young twentysomethings from the East Bay Conservation Corps gathers this early, sunny June... More >>

• Cothran

  published June 23, 1999

  Rescue Muni to the Rescue The Rescue Muni city charter amendment heading for the November ballot would, if passed, accomplish some modestly... More >>

• Cothran

  published June 16, 1999

  Cases of Incompetence Neither Matt Gonzalez nor Steven Castleman has the slightest experience in electoral politics. Neither is the... More >>

• Cothran

  published June 9, 1999

  So, UCSF Stanford Health Care, the offspring of an illegal merger between UCSF and Stanford hospitals in 1997, is bleeding to death. ... More >>

• Cothran

  published May 12, 1999

  Judge McBride's "Special" Treatment So when does a small marital scuffle -- one in which both parties seem to be culpable for the ensuing... More >>

• Cothran

  published May 5, 1999

  Meet the New Reform, Same as the Old Reform Under Willie Brown, we have become a city of convenient virtues. Our highest acts of probity... More >>

• Cothran

  published April 28, 1999

  The Problem With Grampa Politics The desperate search for candidates to challenge District Attorney Terence Hallinan this November... More >>

• Cothran

  published April 21, 1999

  Questions of Faith For more than three years, John E. McInerney III has been battered by a constant barrage of charges regarding his... More >>

• Cothran

  published April 14, 1999

  Community Development The one-story building at the corner of Diamond and Wilder in Glen Park has always been homely. Since it was damaged... More >>

• Cothran

  published April 7, 1999

  Sisters of Perpetual Conspiracy Satire relies for its effectiveness on context and delivery. An otherwise-hilarious joke can fall flat, or... More >>

• Cothran

  published March 31, 1999

  Cort of Last Resort Debbie Cort is an intense and difficult woman. The 35-year-old San Francisco real estate developer doesn't have... More >>

• Cothran

  published March 24, 1999

  Prosecutorial Impunity By any reasonable standard, District Attorney Terence Hallinan should be facing a healthy field of challengers as he... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published March 24, 1999

  End of an Era Next week, Peter Pastreich will relinquish his post as executive director of the San Francisco Symphony. After 40 years as an... More >>

• Cothran

  published March 17, 1999

  Toxic Rats I have to confess: It was fun to watch. Last week, the very sweet arrangement (not a conspiracy) among the San Francisco... More >>

• Cothran

  published March 10, 1999

  The Dirt on the Giants' Dirt Forget most of what you've read in the papers, seen on television, and heard on the radio about the San... More >>

• Cothran

  published March 3, 1999

  Speechless in San Francisco One of the chief representatives of small-f fascism in San Francisco is sitting across from me at a Starbucks... More >>

• Hear This

  published February 24, 1999

  A History of Jazz Piano on Film The film clips in A History of Jazz Piano on Film are arranged into four categories: swing, bop, modern,... More >>