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  • Dining

    January 7, 2009

    Baggage

    The city's politicos made the enviros happy by banning plastic bags, but left us with more pollution and cost

  • News

    December 3, 2008

    Car Alarm

    After saying for decades that treated "shredder waste" from junked cars and old appliances was safe, state regulators now admit it isn't.

  • Film

    April 2, 2008

    Some Country for Old Men

    Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • Film

    February 27, 2008

    Judgment Days

    The circus of the '60s, from the streets to the courtroom, in Chicago 10.

  • Calendar

    February 20, 2008

    Old Wounds

    The circus of the '60s, from the streets to the courtroom, in Chicago 10.

  • News

    May 2, 2007

    Boomtastrophe

    Baby Boomers hoped to die before they got old. They lied. And now they’re dragging the whole country down.

  • Music

    November 22, 2006

    Downtuned Apocalypse

    The Melvins prove getting Senile ain't so bad

  • Music

    July 12, 2006

    Cosmic Wonder

    The Melvins prove getting Senile ain't so bad

  • Music

    November 9, 2005

    Altamont

    The Monkee's Uncle

  • Calendar

    August 10, 2005

    Film Threat

    Form-tweaking docs

  • Film

    January 26, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Form-tweaking docs

  • Film

    July 7, 2004

    Head Trip

    Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

  • Culture

    February 18, 2004

    Fab Film

    Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

  • Film

    November 19, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2002

    Halloween

    Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

  • Calendar

    October 23, 2002

    Scare Tactics

    Where and when to have a hopping Halloween

  • News

    April 12, 2000

    Battle Belli

    The international soap opera that surrounds the crumbling San Francisco landmark that was center stage for the incomparable "King of Torts," Melvin Belli

  • Music

    December 29, 1999

    Apocalypse Then

    Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

  • News

    September 29, 1999

    Night Crawler

    Trend of an Era

  • Calendar

    June 30, 1999

    Night Crawler

    Trend of an Era

  • Calendar

    March 10, 1999

    Cothran

    Trend of an Era

  • Calendar

    November 18, 1998

    Postscript

    Trend of an Era

  • News

    June 17, 1998
  • News

    June 17, 1998

    Has the Church of Satan Gone to Hell?

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • Music

    May 20, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • Calendar

    January 7, 1998

    Night + Day

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • Calendar

    October 15, 1997

    Slap Shots

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • News

    July 30, 1997

    Dog Bites

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • Calendar

    April 30, 1997

    Night+Day

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Letters

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • News

    April 19, 1995

    Letters

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • News

    April 12, 1995

    Letters

    Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

  • News

    March 29, 1995

    Whirly Birds

    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?

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    The Great American Food and Music Fest: The Good, The Bad, and The Hungry

    Marisol Segal 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 purchase ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Forget Woodstock, It's the 40th Anniversary of Cobb Salads in Cow Hollow

    pbo 31/Flickr 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 o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Chron Disses, Praises Outside Lands

    "Richmond then divulges that she herself has used Porta Potties at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass..."

  • Film

    August 26, 2009

    Taking Woodstock does nothing more than recycle the same late-'60s tropes

    "Richmond then divulges that she herself has used Porta Potties at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass..."

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    S.F. Might Start Outsourcing Its Trash to Cheaper States

    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 ... More >>

  • Music

    September 16, 2009

    Woodsuck: Crummy festivals I attended in the late '60s and early '70s

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    'Security Guard' Suspected of Bank Robberies in San Francisco, Alameda

    ​Apparently, he isn't the worst security guard since the Rolling Stones ingeniously opted to hire the Hell's Angels to work Altamont. He's just a crook. It turns out a man who dresses like a security guard is providing anything but at banks in both Alameda and San Francisco. Alameda police say the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Not So Silent Night: Which One Of These Local Bands Should Share a Stage with the Smashing Pumpkins?

    Caleb KuhlThey are IAMEMPIRE.​Live 105 recently announced a shortlist of local bands vying to perform at Not So Silent Night, the radio station's annual holiday concert, alongside the Smashing Pumpkins, the Black Keys, Phoenix, and some other band no one cares about. Ever since the announcement, o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Saturday Night: Old 97's Rile Up a Rowdy Fillmore Crowd

    Old 97's at the Fillmore on Saturday.​Old 97's Langhorne SlimJanuary 22, 2011@ The FillmoreBetter than: Altamont.So maybe it wasn't exactly the 2011 equivalent of a frenzied pack of Hell's Angels playing whack-a-mole on a dreamy assemblage of patchoulied pacifists. But the scuffle that broke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Should City's Garbage Contract Be Trashed?

    City Budget Analyst Says Question Should Be Put to VotersShould the city's garbage contract go here?​Thanks to a 1932 law, for 79 years only one company has been allowed to pick up and transport garbage on San Francisco Streets. In a new report, San Francisco's Budget and Legislative Analyst recom ... More >>

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