The international soap opera that surrounds the crumbling San Francisco landmark that was center stage for the incomparable "King of Torts," Melvin Belli
The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?
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If you actually got food, there was reason to celebrate.(View our full slideshow of the event)We won't sugarcoat it: Saturday's Great American Food and Music Fest was riddled with major problems, from the almost immediate failure of a cashless wristband debit system for purchases to hours of impenetrable lines for food during much of the day. While it would be unfair to call it a universally bad experience, it was an event that roused a huge chorus of disgruntled voices, ran
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Yup, the lights are still on.Hard to believe for some of us, but it's the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Wait a minute, and it'll be the 40th anniversary of Altamont, too (cruel irony of 1969). The Gap just brought out a line of jeans called 1969. And it's the 40th anniversary of Perry's, San Francisco's echt fern bar with burgers and strong drinks served up on blue-and-white-checked tablecloths in the depths of Cow Hollow.
Maybe you haven't even thought about Perry's in ye
Possibly heading to Nevada is one more thing to be grouchy about​San Francisco's current waste management service, Recology -- formerly known as NorCal -- wants to ship the 20,000 tons of garbage we produce per week (not including weekends) on a freight train to a proposed landfill near Winnemucca, Nevada. Apparently San Fran hasn't quite reached that zero-waste goal yet -- and until we do, we will face the problem of where to stash our trash so that we don't have to be anywhere near it. The c