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The chaotic, unsuccessful, and utterly charming first year of the San Francisco Tsunami of the Women's American Football League

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The chaotic, unsuccessful, and utterly charming first year of the San Francisco Tsunami of the Women's American Football League

San Francisco's Cease-and-Desist Queen: Trannyshack's Heklina Defends Her Trademarked Drag Show Name Across the Realm

Heklina as Liza​Heklina, one of the top queens of San Francisco's drag scene, doesn't take well to people imitating her. She says she stopped her weekly Trannyshack drag show last year partly because the punk-flavored underground cabaret she started in the 1990s had morphed into the city's top dr ... More >>

San Francisco to Vote on Boycott of State of Arizona

If Supervisor David Campos has his way, Arizona and San Francisco won't be on speaking terms​Supervisor David Campos this morning confirmed that he will tomorrow introduce emergency legislation calling for a San Francisco boycott of Arizona in response to that state's controversial new immigration ... More >>

City Attorney Defends Potential Challenge To Arizona Immigration Law

​ San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera committed this morning to suss out and terminate city contracts with Arizona companies in protest of the state's harsh new immigration law.  Herrera also said he would offer his staff's assistance in any legal challenges to the law. While no progre ... More >>

Supes to Vote on Arizona Boycott Today. But That's Not All...

Doug DoldeSan Francisco to Arizona: Stick it in your Grand Canyon...​As we reported yesterday, Supervisor David Campos will today introduce emergency legislation calling for a citywide boycott of Arizona due to that state's recently enacted, draconian immigration policy. Text of Campos' resolution ... More >>

Stars Boycotting Arizona

​Looks like San Francisco citizens are not the only budding boycotters of Arizona's new immigration law. Montreal band Stars has publicly voiced their disapproval on Twitter saying: "We love AZ but until its racist new immigration law is repealed, stars (and many others) will boycott this state... ... More >>

Calling for Arizona Boycott Now the Politically Hip Thing to Do

Back on Monday morning, SF Weekly was the first to confirm that David Campos would introduce an Arizona boycott measure at the Board of Supervisors meeting due to that state's draconian new immigration policy. Since that time, however, Campos has been trampled by a cavalcade of other city and state ... More >>

Here it Is: San Francisco's Arizona Boycott Resolution

H.I. McDunnough and the rest of Arizona can look forward to a boycott from the city of San Francisco. Unless, you know, it's costly and a pain in the ass. ​Supervisor David Campos' resolution to boycott the state of Arizona due to its harsh new immigration law, SB 1070, keeps it short and sweet. T ... More >>

Bookie Site Lays Odds on Controversial Arizona Immigration Law

Can I get some action here? ​If the 9-11 tragedy didn't prove Americans' indomitable will and heroic ability -- to make a buck off anything, this will. The bookmaking site youwager.com has commenced laying odds and taking bets related to the controversial Arizona immigration law that inspired San ... More >>

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson NOT Joining Arizona Boycott

Kevin Johnson reveals he's always loathed AZ bigotryHere Gavin: Fake!Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, a former point guard for the Phoenix Suns, announced Wednesday he'd join Gavin Newsom's boycott of Arizona. That turned out to be a political pump-fake: Johnson changed his mind hours later.In a mid ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Anti-Immigration Laws Bad, Anti-Gay Laws Good

Your future drinking accomodations. ​ I'm just going to say this once - up front - and then I'm going to move on: The furor raised over the Arizona illegal immigrant law is interesting to watch from my queer perch. I understand the outrage. The nerve of one state threatening to restrict the ... More >>

San Francisco Paid Arizona Companies $16M in Fiscal 2010 -- So Far

​The results are in: According to documents requested by SF Weekly and sent by city purchaser Naomi Kelly, San Francisco has paid $16 million so far to Arizona-based companies in the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. This is relevant because Supervisor David Campos last week introduced a re ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

​The results are in: According to documents requested by SF Weekly and sent by city purchaser Naomi Kelly, San Francisco has paid $16 million so far to Arizona-based companies in the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. This is relevant because Supervisor David Campos last week introduced a re ... More >>

List: How will the Arizona boycott work?

​The results are in: According to documents requested by SF Weekly and sent by city purchaser Naomi Kelly, San Francisco has paid $16 million so far to Arizona-based companies in the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. This is relevant because Supervisor David Campos last week introduced a re ... More >>

Oakland Beats S.F. to the Punch on Arizona Boycott

They'll be boycotting cacti across the bay in Oakland. But not here in San Francisco. Yet.​San Francisco's proposed boycott of the state of Arizona drew a national spotlight. But the distinction -- be it positive or negative -- of actually enacting a boycott goes to Oakland, which can add that lau ... More >>

A Report from Juarez, the Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

They'll be boycotting cacti across the bay in Oakland. But not here in San Francisco. Yet.​San Francisco's proposed boycott of the state of Arizona drew a national spotlight. But the distinction -- be it positive or negative -- of actually enacting a boycott goes to Oakland, which can add that lau ... More >>

An Opportunity to Stand Up

They'll be boycotting cacti across the bay in Oakland. But not here in San Francisco. Yet.​San Francisco's proposed boycott of the state of Arizona drew a national spotlight. But the distinction -- be it positive or negative -- of actually enacting a boycott goes to Oakland, which can add that lau ... More >>

Amongst Us

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes Arizona policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

SF Weekly Parent Company to Underwrite Legal Challenge to Arizona Immigration Bill

​Last week, there were some murmurs among local bloggers about whether SF Weekly would suffer as a result of a proposed city boycott of Arizona businesses because of the Grand Canyon State's harsh new immigration law. Editors at SF Appeal and SFist raised the prospect of city officials refusing to ... More >>

San Francisco to Boycott Arizona

​The Board of Supervisors today approved a resolution calling for a boycott of the state of Arizona -- but how sharp the teeth are of said boycott remains to be seen. The resolution that passed today does a lot of "urging." It encourages -- but does not mandate -- cutting ties with Arizona "to the ... More >>

Gavin Newsom: I'll Sign Arizona Boycott

Vis-a-vis the boycott resolution, he'll sign it. Vis-a-vis methods of signing it, he prefers a pen...​Mayor Gavin Newsom, a Giants cap festooned upon his mane, has just told KTVU television he will sign the boycott resolution of the state of Arizona passed by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. H ... More >>

Dear San Francisco: 'I Don't Want My Family to See Your Gays'

Right-wingers will punish San Francisco by skipping the city on their vacations and heading to Arizona instead. In the heart of summer. Good luck with that. ​The best of enraged right-wingers' letters to San Francisco, canceling their vacations here because of the city's Arizona boycottWe reported ... More >>

Gay Realtors Say They've Nixed S.F Conference Due to Arizona Boycott

The purported head of a gay Realtors' group said he'd much rather hold his conference in Arizona than the City by the Bay​A man claiming to be the executive director of a consortium of gay Realtors has told the city he is canceling a planned conference in San Francisco in protest of the city's boy ... More >>

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

The purported head of a gay Realtors' group said he'd much rather hold his conference in Arizona than the City by the Bay​A man claiming to be the executive director of a consortium of gay Realtors has told the city he is canceling a planned conference in San Francisco in protest of the city's boy ... More >>

Cowboy Down: Rob Krentz's Family Talks About the Life and Death of the Murdered Arizona Rancher

The purported head of a gay Realtors' group said he'd much rather hold his conference in Arizona than the City by the Bay​A man claiming to be the executive director of a consortium of gay Realtors has told the city he is canceling a planned conference in San Francisco in protest of the city's boy ... More >>

City Councilwoman Claims Arizona Does Not Border Mexico

Look! A map!​San Francisco garnered a lot of attention when it was early to the bandwagon to boycott Arizona over that state's draconian immigration policies (but not the first; Oakland beat San Francisco to the punch while the City By The Bay dawdled). Say what you will about the city's eventual ... More >>

Alto Means "Cut It Out?"

Look! A map!​San Francisco garnered a lot of attention when it was early to the bandwagon to boycott Arizona over that state's draconian immigration policies (but not the first; Oakland beat San Francisco to the punch while the City By The Bay dawdled). Say what you will about the city's eventual ... More >>

Police Chief George Gascon Says Arizona Immigration Law Lets Thugs Run Wild

...Gascon says Arizona law will lead to lawlessness​San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- known for locking horns with anti-immigrant demagogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County while Gascon served as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona -- said the Grand Canyon State's much-maligned immigra ... More >>

List: How the toll to the Bay Bridge is now calculated

...Gascon says Arizona law will lead to lawlessness​San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- known for locking horns with anti-immigrant demagogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County while Gascon served as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona -- said the Grand Canyon State's much-maligned immigra ... More >>

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Arizona and America Join Joe Arpaio in Rushing to Inquire: Are Your Papers in Order?

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ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

Immigration Activists Set to Rally Downtown Tomorrow

Jerry, we have a complaint! ​Buoyed by a federal judge's decision to block the "papers please" components of the Arizona immigration law that goes into effect tomorrow, San Francisco activists and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano are now turning their wrath on California Attorney General Jerry Brown. At a ... More >>

Arizona Immigration Law's Appeal Will Come Through San Francisco

The immigration debate is coming our way...​In the wake of Arizona's passage of the draconian and controversial SB 1070, San Francisco kick-started the boycott bandwagon and Mayor Gavin Newsom forbade city officials to travel to the Grand Canyon State. Now that Arizona law will be traveling to San ... More >>

Held Captive

Coyotes who smuggle immigrants torture and extort their victims, helped by out government's failure to enact immigration reform.

SF Weekly Letters

Coyotes who smuggle immigrants torture and extort their victims, helped by out government's failure to enact immigration reform.

Arizona Immigration Law Has Sucked $141 Million From State Economy, Report Says

​Remember the Board of Supervisors' tepid boycott of Arizona to revolt against that state's strict "papers please" immigration law? Many lambasted our city's boycott as yet another symbolic, feckless meddling in affairs far afield of San Francisco's issues.  But San Francisco was not alone in ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales

​Remember the Board of Supervisors' tepid boycott of Arizona to revolt against that state's strict "papers please" immigration law? Many lambasted our city's boycott as yet another symbolic, feckless meddling in affairs far afield of San Francisco's issues.  But San Francisco was not alone in ... More >>

Arizona More Progressive Than California? When it Comes to Marijuana, Yes.

In Arizona, what he does on his own time is his business. Not so in the Golden State.​Arizona's taken quite the beating from Californians recently, what with the red state's anti-immigrant, anti-civilization stance creating both headlines and policy. But Arizona's not all bad -- in fact, it ca ... More >>

Return to Sender

In Arizona, what he does on his own time is his business. Not so in the Golden State.​Arizona's taken quite the beating from Californians recently, what with the red state's anti-immigrant, anti-civilization stance creating both headlines and policy. But Arizona's not all bad -- in fact, it ca ... More >>

How Would Immigration Reform Look if the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?

In Arizona, what he does on his own time is his business. Not so in the Golden State.​Arizona's taken quite the beating from Californians recently, what with the red state's anti-immigrant, anti-civilization stance creating both headlines and policy. But Arizona's not all bad -- in fact, it ca ... More >>

Will Arizona Boycott Keep Tasers Out of San Francisco?

This Will Stun You​In Police Chief George Gascon's rush to arm cops with Tasers, he seems to have forgotten one important thing: The company that manufactures Taser weapons is squarely located in Arizona. And the Grand Canyon State is a place San Francisco is ostensibly boycotting.Arizona last yea ... More >>

Republicans Propose New State: Southern California

It's like Arizona and San Francisco in one​One Southern California pol is sick and tired of the Democrats up in Sacramento -- tired of the "pillaging" of local governments and worse, the left-wing policies that dominate the blue state. That's why he's dusted off that tired proposal to let Southern ... More >>

Fall Arts: Nato Green Brings S.F. Truth to Red-State America

It's like Arizona and San Francisco in one​One Southern California pol is sick and tired of the Democrats up in Sacramento -- tired of the "pillaging" of local governments and worse, the left-wing policies that dominate the blue state. That's why he's dusted off that tired proposal to let Southern ... More >>

Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana

It's like Arizona and San Francisco in one​One Southern California pol is sick and tired of the Democrats up in Sacramento -- tired of the "pillaging" of local governments and worse, the left-wing policies that dominate the blue state. That's why he's dusted off that tired proposal to let Southern ... More >>