Laszlo Toth/laughingsquid.comSFist has kindly alerted us to a rather unsavory conspiracy theory brewing on Nob Hill. In a guest post at Laughing Squid, author Laszlo Toth reports on a note posted to the door of 1519 Polk Street, a former retail location of See's Candies."Your favorite candy store is gone," begins the note, presumably authored by landlord John Jenkel. "This property owner will not do business with people like [See's owner] Warren Buffett who maintain uncon
Excusez-moi?The old saying notes that the upside of living in the past is that it's cheaper there. And it would be a hoot to chain smoke Old Golds and pound back Schaefers -- the one beer to have when you're having more than one -- at Ebbets Field. But the notion of nostalgia evaporates when dealing with modern-day entities such as a "widget" meant to provide one's Web site users with up-to-the-second sports scores. So it was more than a bit odd to see nostalgia and widgets combined -- uninte
An e-mail promoting a festival of 9/11 Truther conspiracy theory films was sent today to perhaps hundreds of members of the Bay Area media by one of the city's most respected cinematic promoters, Karen Larsen of Larsen Associates. On the e-missive, a surprising number of respected Bay Area institutions were listed as "supporters" of the 9/11 Film Festival -- and SF Weekly's calls to several of these institutions revealed that they, too, were surprised to be listed as supporters.
An evening at the 9/11 Film Festival -- sponsored by, among others, the San Francisco Bay Guardian -- which commenced last night at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland.
The vibe here is mild, friendly, and decidedly Baby Boomerish. The guy who takes my ticket jovially announces that there's "free popcorn! " I wonder if the vibe is too mellow for people who sincerely believe that Republicans murdered 3,000 of their fellow Americans.
As I settle into my seat, the familiar whine of acous
Natural born AmericanThis summer, anti-Obama protesters have showed up at the president's town-hall addresses on health-care reform with signs pushing the "birther" conspiracy theory, which asserts that Obama's presidency is illegitimate since he was born abroad.
Last weekend, White House "green-jobs czar" and veteran Bay Area activist Van Jones was forced out of the Obama Administration after conservatives raised questions about his signing a 2004 letter suggesting that Bush knew about and
But we've still got plenty hereNotwithstanding a barrage of intemperate comments on our recent post discussing the comparative claims to insanity of the "birther" and "truther" movements, we here at The Snitch had thought that adherents of these conspiracy theories were comfortably removed from the Bay Area. In backwater patches of states like Arizona or New Hampshire, both home to birther outbursts this summer, it seems plausible that anti-Obama paranoia would gain a foothold.But the shadows
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