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Subject: Ashley Harrell

  • SF Weekly Proudly Announces Ashley Harrell, Newest Member of the SF Weekly Action Force 5 (ish)

    December 11, 2007
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela Concert Review: Fast Fingers Seduce Sold-Out Warfield Saturday

    February 11, 2008
  • Last Night: Tift Merritt at the Great American Music Hall

    April 16, 2008
  • Junk on the Pier: Princess Taiping Docks in San Francisco

    October 15, 2008
  • Last Night: Margaret Cho Assails Prop 8, Proposes to "Fingerfuck" Sense into Sarah Palin

    October 16, 2008
  • Last Night: The Notwist at Bimbo's

    October 28, 2008
  • Still No Gay Couples in No on 8 Ads?

    October 30, 2008
  • Top 10 Protest Signs at No on 8 March

    November 9, 2008
  • Friday Night: Of Montreal at the Regency Center

    Of MontrealThe Regency Center (1290 Sutter St.)November 21, 2008Review by Ashley HarrellPhotos by Rachel Hubbard Of Montreal front man Kevin Barnes and his band of psychedelic indie poppers, who seemingly support an eternal Halloween, overheated San Francisco's Regency Grand Ballroom Friday night with yet another histrionic, sparkle-happy, and downright absurd performance. The overheating part was no joke. This show was so frenetic, the conditions so sweltering, that some audience members b

    November 24, 2008
  • YouTube Live, No Pants Party and Of Montreal: Your Monday Morning Hangover

    Weekend recap by Janine KahnThe bad news is, it's Monday. The good news? This is bound to be one short week! All Shook Down will likely be mostly crickets and echoes this Thursday and Friday as our crew heads out to spend time with their respective clans, so we overdid it this past weekend to make it up to you in advance. Here's what went down...On Friday, our Ashley Harrell witnessed the second coming of Jesus watched as Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes leaped out of a silver box hauled onto t

    November 24, 2008
  • Who Made the First Obama Joke?

    This guy. Yep, San Francisco's very own comedian, writer, director, and frequent maker of race jokes, W. Kamau Bell. Or at least that's what researchers at Comedy Central concluded today after extensive archival probing. The jab in question took place on Premium Blend in 2005, when W. Kamau Bell talked about how Obama would never be president, because his name is too black. (Hey, nobody ever said the first joke had to be funny). Click here for the video containing Bell's

    December 10, 2008
  • RAT Trap Ensnares Innocent, Says Jury

    By Ashley Harrell Four months ago, the SF Weekly published a news story questioning the tactics of the San Francisco Police Department's Robbery Abatement Team (RAT), a sting operation involving a cop disguised as a drunken homeless man with cash hanging out of a pocket, ripe for the taking. Apparently, the story didn't make much of an impact. The public defender's office -- which has long argued that the operation is an inhumane w

    December 12, 2008
  • Recession Vacation

    By Ashley Harrell This morning at the Montgomery BART/MUNI station, the Snitch was bombarded with fake Palm Trees wearing signs that said "Non-stop San Francisco to Dubai." They were apparently ads for Emirates, a fancy-pants, government-owned, Dubai-based airline that makes its young, attractive, mostly female flight attendants step on the scale before they're hired. But that's not even the point.   There were other ads posted on the walls that paired serene

    December 12, 2008
  • Worst Place in San Francisco to Have Spent New Years?

    By Ashley Harrell A. Anywhere in the Marina. B. Passed out on 6th and Market in a pool of your own vomit. C. Passed out on 6th and Market in a pool of someone else's vomit. D. Standing in a line outside Sea of Dreams, $70 tickets in hand.  We're going with D.

    January 7, 2009
  • Pants-less Subway Ride, Jonas Reinhardt and the 30th Annual Norton Day: Your Monday Morning Hangover

    The weekend was wonderfully whimsical for us here at All Shook Down. On Saturday, reporter Ashley Harrell met a crowd of 50 outside Dalva's in the Mission and followed them on their pants-less trek through the streets, BART and MUNI. Much gawking ensued. Read Ashley's dispatch and see her fun photos here.

    January 12, 2009
  • San Francisco Snuggie Pub Crawl This Friday

    SF Weekly editorial assistant Andy Wright and staff writer Ashley Harrell know a lame trend when they see one.As predicted on this blog back in January, the Snuggie -- an astoundingly unnecessary blanket with sleeves -- has become all the ironic rage. Millions of people have purchased the shitty, sleeved blankets in red, blue, and green, and dozens of media outlets have taken their chance to appear hip and whimsical by donning the Snuggie.The cast and crews of Good

    March 17, 2009
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    May 13, 2009
  • Pat on the Back: SF Weekly Cleans Up at Peninsula Press Club Awards

    It's awards season yet again, and the SF Weekly took home a grand total of eleven at this weekend's ceremony for the Peninsula Press Club Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards. (All awards were granted in the Non-Daily Newspaper category.) Want to peruse our award winning stories? The whole list is below with links to the full pieces. Congrats to all our talented writers. They like us, they really like us! Joe Eskenazi, First Place Specialty Story (Consumerism), "Voodoo on the Vine"John Geluardi, F

    June 8, 2009
  • Supes' Proposed $82M Cuts to Cops, Firefighters are 'Symbolic' -- But Portend Bare-Knuckle Budget Battle

    The budget battle is under way...A shot across the bow. A brushback pitch. A dropping of the gauntlet. Call it what you will, but when the Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee yesterday approved $82 million in cuts from San Francisco's police, fire, and sheriffs' departments it was a statement. In essence, the Supes are putting it this way to Mayor Gavin Newsom: "You wanna cut social programs and health services and give the police, sheriffs, and firefighters more? Not without gett

    June 11, 2009
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    June 17, 2009
  • Shameless Self-Promotion Department: SF Weekly Writers Take Home Awards Over Weekend

    Two of our writers took home first place awards from two different competitions over the weekend. Our columnist Katy St. Clair, who pens Bouncer was awarded first place in the category of humor columns by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and reporter Ashley Harrell received a first place award in the category of Long Form News Story from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies for her story Snitch.Check out St. Clair's  insightful columns here and read Harrell's moving piece

    June 29, 2009
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    July 29, 2009
  • Inspiring Letter Arrives at SF Weekly

    ​Just when you think you've had a tough week, something like this shows up. And you realize it's all worthwhile. * To: The Editor, Editorial Board & Ashley Harrell From: Grateful Citizen Subject: Thank You! Your Sept. 9 - 15, 2009 issue: "Gavin Newsom: The Wrong Stuff" ["United We Stand" Sticker affixed] Thank you to have the credible critics together to expose GN & his god father, Willy the Witch, destroyuctive acts. Thank you for speaking up for all the good citizens,

    September 18, 2009
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    October 14, 2009
  • Going, Going, Gavin: What's Next For Newsom, City, State?

    ​ It's unlikely anyone has ever publicly announced he's taking a job so he can spend less time with his family. But countless folks turning in their resignation letters have chalked up the decision to jump ship to a desire to spend more time with the fam. Gavin Newsom joined that lengthy list today. And with his dead gubernatorial dreams still warm, the politicos on SF Weekly's speed dial speculated about what comes next for Newsom, San Francisco, and the governor's race. One of the "wild

    October 30, 2009
  • Chris Daly May Know a Lot about a Lot -- But He Doesn't Know Jack About SF Weekly

    Chris Daly​I want to thank Supervisor Chris Daly. I want to thank the man for forcing me to read through his turgid, 2,500-word polemic about supervisorial candidate Theresa Sparks and how "big money" has supposedly been showered upon this newspaper in return for a cover story. Now we know what it's like to be trapped in an office cubicle with Leon Trotsky on speakerphone. And if it takes this sort of inspiration to lead us to live more virtuous lives to avoid such a fate in the great beyond -

    November 4, 2009
  • Bay Links: Grills, Heart-Throbs, & Pony Kegs

    Ashley HarrellMuni on a better, more pantsless, day.​Muni is fuh-reaking out today. [N Judah]There's no parking on the dance floor, and sometimes there's no parking in S.F. But here are some tips to help you out. [SFAppeal]This is the bag you always wished you owned when you needed to take a pony keg somewhere on your bike. [SF Citizen]Cupcake truck pwned by the city of Berkeley. [Daily Clog]Price of gold takes a bite out of the grill business. [Oakland North]There is nothing cuter (or creepie

    November 17, 2009