Email Author Ron Russell

Awards

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published February 28, 2008

  "Benched"

• 2007 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published July 19, 2006

  "Inside the Savage Nation"

• 2006 - Association of Food Journalists Awards

  Food News

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2006 Stories by Ron Russell

• Slush Daddy

  published December 6, 2006

  Although former California Sen. John Burton has filed papers to run for state schools superintendent in 2010, politicians here and in Sacramento... More >>

• Fall Gal

  published November 22, 2006

  In the autumn of 2000, the more than 600 people crammed into Chinatown's cavernous Meriwa Restaurant for a dinner hosted by the venerable San... More >>

• Feeling Crabby

  published October 18, 2006

  You might think that the state health department's new warning against eating raw Sawagani crabs imported from Japan would constitute good news... More >>

• Last Voyage of the Relentless

  published October 11, 2006

  The marine forecast for the weekend that Rowdy Pennisi's fishing vessel set out to sea in June of 2004 was for choppy conditions with... More >>

• Troubled Order

  published October 4, 2006

  The Rev. Stephen Whelan is no longer dispensing spiritual advice over the Internet under the auspices of San Francisco's landmark Saints Peter and... More >>

• Clamor Shots

  published September 13, 2006

  What happens when an edgy, lefty quarterly magazine of culture and politics takes aim at one of America's hottest, hippest, most socially... More >>

• Looted

  published August 30, 2006

  When the renovated de Young Museum reopened amid much fanfare over its architecture last October, a new gallery devoted entirely to its collection... More >>

• Ship of Fools

  published July 26, 2006

  The S.S. Jeremiah OBrien, the floating museum moored at Pier 45, is a San Francisco icon, but apparently the bacchanalian crowd that rented... More >>

• Inside the Savage Nation

  published July 19, 2006

  Michael Savage is angry. He's angry at the President of the United States. He's angry at Time magazine. He's angry at CNN. And he's... More >>

• Toxic Acres

  published May 24, 2006

  The sun is disappearing behind the Golden Gate Bridge, the lights of San Francisco's skyline are shimmering in the early-evening twilight, and... More >>

• Lifestyle Check

  published May 3, 2006

  Ken Cantamout is an 18-year San Francisco Police Department veteran turned private investigator who retired from police work in 2003 so that he... More >>

• But Can He Predict the Weather?

  published May 3, 2006

  If you think there's something different about the address above the entrance of KRON television headquarters, the fortresslike building at 1001... More >>

• KRON's Last Gasp

  published April 12, 2006

  Time was when KRON (Channel 4) was at the top of the television news heap. Its newscasts were among the most watched in the Bay Area. Its anchors... More >>

• The Fault, Dear Berkeley.

  published March 29, 2006

  Heads up, Cal football fans. We know you know the lore about the Hayward Fault running "goalpost to goalpost" inside Memorial Stadium. Well, now,... More >>

• Moonstruck

  published February 22, 2006

  Although largely ignored by the news media, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's visit to San Francisco last September to speak to 2,000 enraptured followers... More >>

• Is Anybody Watching?

  published February 8, 2006

  Six months into Al Gore's experiment to turn twentysomethings into TV news junkies, the former vice president's San Francisco-based cable channel... More >>

• Subpoenaed -- Again

  published January 18, 2006

  Former San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada's visit to the city last week created the kind of media stir that the powerful Roman Catholic... More >>

• House of the Accused

  published January 4, 2006

  The Salesians of St. John Bosco is a Roman Catholic order of priests and lay brothers that prides itself on being "an international organization... More >>

• Levada's Secret

  published January 4, 2006

  In April 2004, when questioned under oath by lawyers for victims sexually abused by priests, San Francisco's former archbishop, William J. Levada,... More >>