Email Author Will Harper

Awards

• 2007 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published August 23, 2006

  "Cops vs. Cocks"

• 2007 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published April 5, 2006

  "A Sad Ending"

• 2007 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published October 11, 2006

  "See Ya in Court"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 28, 2005

  "A Man Named Sue"

• 2006 - Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, published January 5, 2005

  "The O Word"

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2007 Stories by Will Harper

• Top Prize

  published April 18, 2007

  Ruby. Rippey. Hyphen. Tourk. No doubt, you know the name. She's Mayor Gavin Newsom's ex-mistress and one-time appointments secretary, and... More >>

• Muni-Me

  published April 11, 2007

  In City Hall it's good to be the boss, but it pays better to be Stuart Sunshine. Sunshine, Mayor Gavin Newsom's new deputy chief of staff, is... More >>

• Dark Side of Sunshine

  published March 28, 2007

  Our esteemed rivals over at the Bay Guardian recently ran a story lionizing nettlesome government gadflies — dubbed "The Sunshine... More >>

• Purple Prose

  published March 14, 2007

  As I type this, I am wearing only purple latex gloves and a diaper. I do so in honor of my new literary hero, Han Shin. You might know him better... More >>

• Fight Club

  published March 7, 2007

  Even for people who find local politics as dull as oral sex with a dental dam, the looming state Senate fight between Mark Leno and incumbent... More >>

• Kinky Town

  published February 21, 2007

  As you've no doubt heard by now, activists in the Mission District are freaked out about an S/M porn company moving next door at the historic... More >>

• The Cream and the Cake

  published February 21, 2007

  After the news broke last week that San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada wouldn't be going to jail for... More >>

• The First Step

  published February 14, 2007

  So Gavin Newsom is in rehab. And not just any rehab, but Delancey Street, a tough-love recovery program for hard-core homeless junkies and... More >>

• Stained Rep

  published February 14, 2007

  The upcoming trial of Oakland Post Publisher Paul Cobb in San Francisco Superior Court should be, if nothing else, dramatic legal theater.... More >>

• Face It

  published February 7, 2007

  Now that Nancy Pelosi is the face of the Democratic Party, we couldn't help but wonder about ... her face. The 66-year-old grandmother looks... More >>

• Legal Troopers

  published January 31, 2007

  A long time ago —or maybe last week— in a land far, far away —or a federal court in San Jose— a Marin-based film empire used... More >>