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Al Gore

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2013

    San Francisco's Current TV Sold to Al-Jazeera

    The San Francisco-based Current TV that chose to unleash Gavin Newsom on innocent viewers has taken a surprising turn. Al Gore officially sold his not-so-popular cable channel to the Emir of Qatar-funded Arab news channel Al-Jazeera.According to press reports, Gore will pocket $100 million with a 20 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2012

    Current TV Considering Sale

    Another one bites the dust.Al Gore's San Francisco-based liberal media outlet, Current TV, may soon be up for sale.The network, which started life by catering to young liberals and crusading against global warming before filling its airwaves full of talking heads, may be ready to call it quits; or a ... More >>

  • Film

    April 18, 2012

    "4:44 Last Days on Earth": How We Lived at the End

    Another one bites the dust.Al Gore's San Francisco-based liberal media outlet, Current TV, may soon be up for sale.The network, which started life by catering to young liberals and crusading against global warming before filling its airwaves full of talking heads, may be ready to call it quits; or a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Wednesday: On Beer and Flowers

    pacbrewlab.blogspot.comThe paraphernalia is for brewing. Seriously.​Jungle Love Where: Conservatory of Flowers, 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park, 831-2090 When: Wed., Feb. 9, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $5 The rundown: Bryan Hermannsson and Patrick M. Horn, the smiley beardos behind Pacific Brewing Labo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2011

    Warning: Contents May Be Subject to Litigation

    pacbrewlab.blogspot.comThe paraphernalia is for brewing. Seriously.​Jungle Love Where: Conservatory of Flowers, 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park, 831-2090 When: Wed., Feb. 9, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $5 The rundown: Bryan Hermannsson and Patrick M. Horn, the smiley beardos behind Pacific Brewing Labo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Monday's Pick: Punk Rock Sideshow

    ​Punk Rock SideshowHemlock Tavern10 p.m., freeYou can blame Al Gore for the dearth of quality punk rock in the jukeboxes of America. Not because of his li'l censor-happy P.M.R.C. wife (who's done plenty of damage, no doubt), but because Al had to go and invent the internet. What a bum! Even dives ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    S.F. Nightlife and Club Crackdown: Current TV Weighs in with a Video

    The story of Larry Bertrand, Arash Ghanadan, and the SFPD/ABC crackdown on clubs and nightlife in San Francisco has been told many times in print. But recently, our friendly local Al Gore-owned broadcast network, Current TV, posted this clip, entitled "The Tables Have Turned," to its website. While ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    'Truth' Takes Back Seat in Health Care Debate

    Yes, Virginia, she's infected -- with socialism! ​Health care, undoubtedly, is the subject du jour. We are in the midst of a crescendo of health care coverage so overpowering and unrelenting -- well, it could make you sick. But are we learning anything via the nonstop written and televised coverag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Top 10 Onstage Gaffes of 2009

    We'll admit there's more than a little schadenfreude going on in this list of the best onstage gaffes of 2009. But why else would Al Gore have invented YouTube if not to feed our obsessive need to see celebrities get taken down a peg? Here with, our favorite of the year's music-related missteps, cau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    What To Do? Tonight's Pick: Punk Rock Sideshow

    ​Punk Rock Slideshow at the Hemlock "You can blame Al Gore for the dearth of quality punk rock in the jukeboxes of America:he had to go and invent the internet. What a bum! Even dives with great jukes are phasing out their custom mixes in favor of those hateful touch-screen Toxic Boxes. The solu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Tree-Huggers, Meet Your Redwoods! Fledgling San Francisco Football Team Signs 31 Guys ... You Likely Never Heard Of.

    Joe EskenaziWho is man enough to wear this jersey?​Jerry Seinfeld once noted that, due to rampant player turnover, sports fans are "basically rooting for clothing." If so, that's bad news for any would-be fans of the fledgling United Football League's California Redwoods (I christen them "Tree-Hug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Current TV, Al Gore's 'Media Outlet,' Adopts State Department Policy of Giving No Information Whatsoever on Detained Journalists

    Current TV hired this guy to keep the media out.When Jill Carroll was kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq in 2006, the editor of the Christian Science Monitor quickly released a statement: "Jill's' ability to help others understand the issues facing all groups in Iraq has been invaluabl ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 3, 2008

    Pocketbook Environmentalism

    Activist Van Jones shows that being green can appeal to your pocketbook as well as your conscience.

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2008

    Lock, Stock, and Workshop

    Activist Van Jones shows that being green can appeal to your pocketbook as well as your conscience.

  • News

    April 30, 2008

    Party Crashers 08

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Culture

    March 19, 2008

    Your Carbon Footprint at Southern Exposure

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2008

    Guy Who Founded the Weather Channel Kind of Insane

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2008

    $2,500 To Bay Area Artists Available Through SFWeekly's Masterminds Program

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    Victory Over Depressing Hippies Is Imminent

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    15 Ways Gavin Could Have Lost the Election

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Home Entertainment

    November 21, 2007

    New DVDs -- Heart of Darkness, Nosferatu, Unrated Die Hard

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2007

    Global Warming Bites Bender's Shiny Metal Ass With Unreleased Futurama Movie

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • News

    November 7, 2007

    Gavin Newsom Can Help Cure Global Warming's Effects ... with High-Rises

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Culture

    October 24, 2007

    Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2007

    Peace Out: The S.F. Weekly's Top-10 Suggestions of More Noble Nobels Than Our Pal Al

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Calendar

    August 22, 2007

    Eve of Destruction

    Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

  • Music

    July 11, 2007

    The Good Magazine Block Party

    Everybody's a GOOD Samaritan these days: the music trend of worthy causes

  • Music

    May 2, 2007

    Spooner Oldham: hitchhiking Drive By Trickers country rock ride

    Everybody's a GOOD Samaritan these days: the music trend of worthy causes

  • Film

    January 31, 2007

    Sympathy for the Devil

    Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs

  • News

    December 20, 2006

    Global Warning

    Al Gore was in town last week to remind us all that we're ruining the planet. But do you think the concern about climate change is just a bunch of hot air?

  • Home Entertainment

    November 22, 2006

    Bad News With Al

    Al Gore was in town last week to remind us all that we're ruining the planet. But do you think the concern about climate change is just a bunch of hot air?

  • News

    July 5, 2006

    Hard to Be Really Green

    Let's scrap the city's weak, pale-green environmental standards and actually take the total environment into account

  • Film

    May 31, 2006

    Fahrenheit 2050

    Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

  • News

    May 10, 2006

    I Interviewed Al Gore and Shit

    Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

  • News

    February 8, 2006

    Is Anybody Watching?

    In its struggle for cable eyeballs, Al Gore's S.F.-based Current TV is off to a rocky start

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Looking Inside INdTV

    Al Gore and ex-Stanford prof Joel Hyatt say their S.F.-based cable news channel for twentysomethings won't be ideological. But do the Democratic moneymen behind the venture know that?

  • News

    July 25, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Troubled Waters; HOT Topic; Clarification

  • News

    April 25, 2001

    Russian Roulette

    The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is serving as cover for massive oil drilling that could wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

  • News

    January 31, 2001

    Asking, Telling

    The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

  • Culture

    December 27, 2000

    Blow Up the Box

    TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from December 6, 2000

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    Tail of Two Races

    Matt Gonzalez should be backed in District 5 runoff; George W. Bush should be ashamed for considering a coup

  • News

    November 15, 2000

    Revenge of the Wimp

    Why Miami's Democratic mayor abandoned Al Gore and cost him all the votes he needed to be president

  • Culture

    May 24, 2000

    Inside the Soap Box

    Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    See George Educate

    A Texas journalist gives George W. Bush his due

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    This Bud's for John

    John McCain's family

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    Bush vs. McCain

    A shot of Texas Shrub with a Budweiser chaser

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    South to the Future

    Gore to Quit Vice Presidency, Campaign Full Time

  • News

    May 27, 1998

    Dog Bites

    Gore to Quit Vice Presidency, Campaign Full Time

  • News

    January 1, 1997

    La Nueva Fuerza

    With attacks on immigration and affirmative action, the GOP has fueled a new Latino political apparatus. But can the Democrats master the machinery?

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