Email Author Tommy Craggs

Awards

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Remembering Our Camelot"

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2005 Stories by Tommy Craggs

• Offensive Line

  published December 28, 2005

  Down on the turf of Monster Park, the supposed face of everything wrong with the San Francisco 49ers is hidden behind a pair of Ray-Bans,... More >>

• Season's Gratings

  published December 21, 2005

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• Here Comes the Fog

  published October 26, 2005

  I have seen Lost in the Fog hats and Lost in the Fog shirts and Lost in the Fog oil paintings being sold alongside Lost in the Fog tote bags. I... More >>

• Volunteers

  published September 28, 2005

  The San Francisco Chronicle's labor accord with the Northern California Media Workers Guild was ratified by the union's sullen and defeated... More >>

• Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

  published September 28, 2005

  By Robert M. Sapolsky Scribner (2005), $24 "An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart," Sapolsky writes at the end... More >>

• Ballpark of a Future Past

  published September 14, 2005

  Few American structures have been invested with as much mystical juju as the baseball stadium. It is a kind of civic talisman, if for no other... More >>

• Brugmannalysis

  published August 24, 2005

  A few weeks ago, our music editor, Garrett Kamps, received the following letter from Bay Guardian Publisher and regular SF Weekly... More >>

• Remembering Our Camelot

  published August 10, 2005

  Sometime soon, the divorce of Mayor Gavin Newsom and Kimberly Guilfoyle -- postponed recently due to unspecified "legal issues" -- will at last be... More >>

• Say-It-Ain't-So Joe

  published July 6, 2005

  The earth beneath Joe Morgan's feet is impossibly flat, every bump smoothed over, every blemish manicured into oblivion, all so that a white... More >>

• Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life

  published May 25, 2005

  By Michael Lewis W.W. Norton (2005), $12.95 Coach is Michael Lewis' ode to his high school baseball coach, Billy... More >>

• Darth Vega to the Rescue

  published May 4, 2005

  The party was about to end, but for now everyone was in the foyer, standing three or four deep, some perched on tiptoes and some hanging over the... More >>

• Labor's Pain

  published May 4, 2005

  Michael Cabanatuan is the Chronicle's transportation writer and local president of the Media Workers Guild, and today, a bright day in... More >>

• The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood

  published March 30, 2005

  By David Thomson Knopf (2004), $27.95 Let's be clear: This book is not a history, per se, any more than Thomson's... More >>

• Fantasy Debasedball

  published March 23, 2005

  Somewhere, we're sure, the baseball season approaches with its usual promise of vernal rebirth and renewal, all that lacy stuff the bards of the... More >>

• Song Sung Blue

  published March 16, 2005

  It's late, and the sequined shirt has just been peeled off, and in the corner of the dressing room on the upper level of Bimbo's, one of the best... More >>

• Ethnic Warfare

  published January 26, 2005

  The story of San Francisco State's College of Ethnic Studies, the first and still the only program of its kind, is a sort of shadow history of... More >>