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  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Phil Anschutz to Sell the San Francisco Examiner

    Does this mean they will stop endorsing Tea Party Republicans?​Clarity Media Group announced today that it will sell the San Francisco Examiner -- the city's daily free tabloid. Phil Anschutz, the evangelical media mogul, announced that his Denver-based company has agreed to sell the Ex to Black P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Should San Francisco Ease Restrictions on Pot Clubs Near Schools?

    The titty bars are fine; it's the pot club that a-fears us.​San Francisco's notorious land-use restrictions and zoning laws send neighbors to court over the construction of a porch, and they also mean that the city known as the birthplace of medical marijuana is tougher on pot clubs than most of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Bryan Stow Family's Attorney: Lawsuit Will Not Be Affected by Dodgers Bankruptcy

    The Dodgers may be bankrupt, but the Stow lawsuit is safe. ​Bryan Stow's family's lawsuit against  Dodger Stadium will likely go forward without any major hiccups even after the team filed for bankruptcy this week, an attorney for the family told SF Weekly. Thomas Girardi, a Los Angeles-based ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    S.F. MusicTech Summit: How Do Listeners Want to Discover New Music?

    Flickr/aquababe​Designed to be a business-to-business convergence of the worlds of music and technology, the S.F. MusicTech Summit, which took over the Hotel Kabuki yesterday, is really many events rolled into one. The top three: A trade show, a forum for new ideas, and a place to make connect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    San Francisco's Credit Rating Takes a Hit

    ​In our recent cover story on San Francisco's burgeoning, billion-dollar health care and pension obligations, we included the following hilarious assessment from Moody's Investor Services: "Our Aa1 rating on the city's [general obligation] bonds assumes that the city will prepare a long-term solu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    First Kremlin Tweet Sent from Twitter's San Francisco Headquarters

    Hello everyone, I'm now on Twitter and this is my first message​The history of Twitter is strewn with specialness -- celebrity tweets, happy birthday tweets, tweets advertising that the tweeter had just taken a nice dump -- but the company today enjoyed one of its most special days ever with the d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    DOJ Approves Live Nation-Ticketmaster Merger

    ​On Monday, the David and Goliath of concert ticket promotion and sales -- Live Nation and Ticketmaster -- joined forces to become Live Nation Entertainment, a music industry behemoth that promises to force other music labels and promoters to rejigger their business plans to accommodate. The U.S. ... More >>

  • Music

    January 20, 2010

    Icee Hot

    ​On Monday, the David and Goliath of concert ticket promotion and sales -- Live Nation and Ticketmaster -- joined forces to become Live Nation Entertainment, a music industry behemoth that promises to force other music labels and promoters to rejigger their business plans to accommodate. The U.S. ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2009

    Amidst a budget crisis, the city is losing its shirt in the antiques business

    ​On Monday, the David and Goliath of concert ticket promotion and sales -- Live Nation and Ticketmaster -- joined forces to become Live Nation Entertainment, a music industry behemoth that promises to force other music labels and promoters to rejigger their business plans to accommodate. The U.S. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    State Bar Takes Over 'Son of Super Swindler' Law Firm -- 2,000 Con Jobs Too Late

    The State Bar of California has taken over the law firm of Mitchell Roth, who had, in partnership with convicted felon Paul Noe II, convinced more than 2,000 troubled homeowners to fall for an apparent "foreclosure assistance" scam.The apparent swindle, fist described in the September, 2008 SF Weekl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    So Long, and Thanks for All the Fishwrap: Today's the Last Day for Many Chronicle Vets; 80 Staff Buyouts Confirmed and 100 Or More Anticipated

    Today at 4 p.m., San Francisco Chronicle staffers will cut a cake and lift a glass to the abrupt end of many of their careers. At least 80 union employees have accepted the paper's buyout offer and guild rep Carl T. Hall anticipates that number will easily grow to 100 or perhaps even 150 by the buyo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: The Supes are Dead! Long Live the Supes! Plus: Why It Doesn't Matter Who the New Board President Is

    By Benjamin Wachs I cannot imagine a board without Aaron Peskin, Jake McGoldrick and Gerardo Sandoval - let alone Tom Ammiano. As the old board reaches its end and transitions to the new this week, I find myself hoping that - like a bad sitcom - our departing cast members will come back as guest ... More >>

  • News

    September 24, 2008

    Facing foreclosure? Con man Paul Noe II has a deal for you

    By Benjamin Wachs I cannot imagine a board without Aaron Peskin, Jake McGoldrick and Gerardo Sandoval - let alone Tom Ammiano. As the old board reaches its end and transitions to the new this week, I find myself hoping that - like a bad sitcom - our departing cast members will come back as guest ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    Shaky bond insurers cost taxpayers money

    By Benjamin Wachs I cannot imagine a board without Aaron Peskin, Jake McGoldrick and Gerardo Sandoval - let alone Tom Ammiano. As the old board reaches its end and transitions to the new this week, I find myself hoping that - like a bad sitcom - our departing cast members will come back as guest ... More >>

  • News

    September 6, 2006

    Falling Tower

    By Benjamin Wachs I cannot imagine a board without Aaron Peskin, Jake McGoldrick and Gerardo Sandoval - let alone Tom Ammiano. As the old board reaches its end and transitions to the new this week, I find myself hoping that - like a bad sitcom - our departing cast members will come back as guest ... More >>

  • News

    June 14, 2006

    The Tide Is High

    By Benjamin Wachs I cannot imagine a board without Aaron Peskin, Jake McGoldrick and Gerardo Sandoval - let alone Tom Ammiano. As the old board reaches its end and transitions to the new this week, I find myself hoping that - like a bad sitcom - our departing cast members will come back as guest ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 26, 2006

    Pecking Order

    Dale gets childish

  • Music

    September 14, 2005

    Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle

    You've Stolen My Heart

  • News

    April 6, 2005

    Requiem for a Pension Fund?

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launches an attack on CalPERS. The giant pension fund's Democratic allies aren't taking it lying down

  • Culture

    December 1, 2004

    Rent Controllers

    Charles Grodin's new satire of the New York City real estate racket rings true but falls flat

  • Music

    October 22, 2003

    Prick

    Don't hate me because I'm corporate

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    Rude Awakening

    Major news organizations need to snap out of 9/11 emotionalism and ask impolite financial questions about Saudi elites and President Bush

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    The Tangled Path to a Response

    As we prepare to retaliate for last week's atrocities, let's take time to be sure of our targets

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    Projected, Not Stirred

    How much does Peter Moody love martinis? He's spent 13 years making a movie about them, if that tells you anything.

  • Culture

    January 10, 2001

    Death Becomes Her

    A dubious agenda and clichéd lines overshadow this otherwise skillful one-woman show

  • News

    January 10, 2001

    Dog Bites

    Board of Supervisors; Population Growth; Dot-com Layoffs

  • News

    September 27, 2000

    How to Kill a Nonprofit

    A federal audit reveals the waste and mismanagement that ruined a once-promising minority aid program

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Mecklin

    Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Indecent Disclosure

    Willie Brown plays hide-and-seek with his tax returns

  • Calendar

    August 11, 1999

    Cothran

    Willie Brown plays hide-and-seek with his tax returns

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    We're Honored

    Willie Brown plays hide-and-seek with his tax returns

  • Calendar

    June 9, 1999

    Cothran

    Willie Brown plays hide-and-seek with his tax returns

  • News

    May 12, 1999

    W.L. Brown: A Public/Private Partnership

    Mayor Willie Brown has made official decisions benefiting business entities that are partners in the mayor's own private business endeavors. Is this intersection of Brown's public decisions and private finances a coincidence - or a conflict of interest?

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    Sex and the Singular Swami

    Since the '60s, the Ananda Church of Self-Realization has grown from a Northern California commune into a worldwide New Age empire. Its leader has grown fond of sex with young believers.

  • News

    January 20, 1999

    Telling Fortunes

    A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

  • News

    December 17, 1997

    Dog Bites

    A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

  • News

    November 19, 1997

    Letters

    A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

  • News

    November 12, 1997

    Let's Make Appeal

    UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

  • News

    September 24, 1997

    Letters

    UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

  • News

    September 24, 1997

    Dog Bites

    UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

  • Calendar

    September 17, 1997

    Daring Daylght Merger

    UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    Giving Away the Hospital

    University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    The Merger's Tangled Web

    University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

  • News

    June 11, 1997

    Times Two

    In the UCSF-Stanford merger, the busiest health care workers are the doctors of spin

  • News

    March 19, 1997

    Temperature Rising

    The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

  • Calendar

    March 5, 1997

    Mulch

    The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

  • News

    January 29, 1997

    Pinstriped Medicine

    How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

  • News

    May 1, 1996

    In Sickness and in Wealth

    It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

  • News

    April 3, 1996

    A Message to Our Customers

    It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Dog Bites

    It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

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