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2005 Stories by John Mecklin

• Not on the List

  published August 31, 2005

  Last Friday, Thomas Allen Green walked into a federal building in downtown San Francisco wearing a makeshift cardboard sign around his neck with... More >>

• The A's Have It

  published August 17, 2005

  If you're an Oakland A's fan, this is a game you're probably going to remember for the rest of your life. -- Robert Buan, host,... More >>

• For Love of Boonville

  published August 3, 2005

  When we first heard about the literary festival Litquake, we were suspect of it, mainly because of the name. "Litquake" has that... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published July 20, 2005

  Dining at the White House For some reason, Dog Bites has been consumed of late by food, drink, and the... More >>

• What's in a Name

  published July 6, 2005

  Dog Bites felt bad for the San Francisco Bay Guardian last week. No, not the nauseated-bad that can result from reading the publication,... More >>

• The Dog Bites Audition: Les Misérables

  published June 22, 2005

  We could run, but we couldn't hide. There it was, right there on our computer screen: "THE BROADWAY NATIONAL TOUR OF LES MISÉRABLES TO HOLD... More >>

• Altered Mindstates

  published June 15, 2005

  It's Sunday evening -- day three of Mindstates VI: Technology and Transcendence. I'm exhausted; my wallet is totally tapped, and I'm curled up... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published June 8, 2005

  Getting Into Focus The firing of S.F. International Film Festival Executive Director Roxanne... More >>

• Valley of All the Pretty Horses

  published May 25, 2005

  It's opening day at Golden Gate Fields, and we're faced with our first gamble: Are we going to pay $7 for valet parking and be a big shot? Or are... More >>

• A Star Isn't Born. Still.

  published April 20, 2005

  So we called in sick to our Saturday day job from hell last week, spent gas and bridge-toll money, and trekked back down to Beach Blanket Babylon... More >>

• Getting Over

  published April 13, 2005

  Reality television comes off best when it's peeled down to its core of fun-to-watch hysteria and emotional self-indulgence. Remove the immunity... More >>

• Cardinal Opportunity

  published April 6, 2005

  During a visit to Houston last spring, I sat down to a full Central American breakfast -- eggs, several meats, refried beans sprinkled with white... More >>

• The Karmic Kitchen

  published April 6, 2005

  Imagine walking into an upscale Indian restaurant, its menu filled with delectable-sounding choices like Malabar avocado and coconut soup (made... More >>

• Vanishing Act

  published March 30, 2005

  He's been called, on various occasions, "preening, arrogant, sinister"; "a raving tyrant, enthusiastically cruel and as self-convinced as one of... More >>

• Game On

  published March 16, 2005

  "Can you show penetration?" We're in Room 3020 at the Game Developers Conference, the weeklong gaming fest held in the cavernous halls of... More >>

• We'd Like to Buy the Coach a Coke

  published March 9, 2005

  In a recent conference call between local press and Warriors Executive Vice President Chris Mullin, the first question about the trade that... More >>

• Drawn and Quartered

  published March 2, 2005

  Our state quarter entered circulation a few weeks ago, but already we're certain the image -- Yosemite Valley, John Muir, a condor flying into... More >>

• The Duke of San Francisco

  published February 23, 2005

  Dog Bites is far too young to have gotten wasted or shot guns with Hunter Thompson, so we asked friends to remember him. Because today, during a... More >>

• Naked Ambition

  published February 9, 2005

  Our housemate was nude on the Channel 7 news. Let us explain. It all starts the day Harvey calls. He's been tooling down 101, fresh from... More >>

• Reason to Question

  published February 2, 2005

  It was October, I was in New York City on business, and I was trying to respond to phone messages asking for comment about a lawsuit that the... More >>

• The Witness

  published January 26, 2005

  On Jan. 18 I went with my father to the protest against convicted murderer Donald Beardslee's execution at San Quentin. Because the roads leading... More >>

• iSex

  published January 19, 2005

  Maybe it was the glassed-over stares and the crooked grins of the techies stumbling from the Moscone Center. Or the nymphet in the white lab coat... More >>

• Rail Out of Town

  published January 12, 2005

  The Golden Gate Railroad Museum, the eclectic railcar depot stationed at the Hunters Point Shipyard since 1991, has probably come to the end of... More >>

• How Scientists Party

  published January 5, 2005

  Every year around finals time, scientists from San Francisco State University gather at the house I was raised in for the Holiday Physics and... More >>