Over the weekend, Scott Linehan, the 49ers' preferred choice to coordinate the team's once-proud (read: Not so proud anymore) offense surprised the team by offering the thanks-but-no-thanks. Turning down the job was an eyebrow-raiser -- but not so much as the excuse he offered: "The timing isn't right for me. It's not an easy decision. I do
factor in where I'm going to end up with everyone here at home. ... My family is going to be 2,000 miles away for at least part of the time." Ah, the family.
Some 'school bullies' have allegedly found a novel use for an umbrella, tooWhen I was in school, we had the boy who left a deposit in the broom closet. We had the boy who kissed other boys because he saw Bugs Bunny do it. We had the boys who ate boogers, paste, and other kids' lunches. We didn't have the boy who tried to open an umbrella up another boy's ass. That was the gist of a brief, but eye-catching, story in today's Chronicle. Oddly, however, the Chron refers, repeatedly to "bullies" and
A quintessential San Francisco story, starring charismatic musician/murderer Bobby BeauSoleil*
*with underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, cult leader Charles Manson, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, and the Straight Satans motorcycle gang in suppo
As the movie industry contemplates a new age of computer-generated features, Berkeley's Phil Tippett fights to keep the art of special effects honest, messy, and true
You may yet get your say at a committee meeting, Mr. Beale...Last month, SF Weekly wrote about a measure we feared would lead to, how shall we put it, "loons droning on, endlessly, during committee meetings." Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, the measure's author, assured us that wouldn't happen, however. She may well be right, but no one will find out for quite some time -- if ever. Last week, Alioto-Pier's colleagues on the supes' Rules Committee, Chris Daly and David Campos, voted not
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