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Dan White

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2013

    Supervisor David Campos Wants to Name SFO After Harvey Milk

    Harvey Milk is to San Franciscans what George Bush is to Texans -- a friggin' hero. That's probably why Supervisor David Campos has decided our international airport should be named after the gay civil rights guru, an honor that's typically reserved for former presidents. According to KTVU, Campos ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 14, 2012

    Slouching Toward San Francisco

    Harvey Milk is to San Franciscans what George Bush is to Texans -- a friggin' hero. That's probably why Supervisor David Campos has decided our international airport should be named after the gay civil rights guru, an honor that's typically reserved for former presidents. According to KTVU, Campos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2012

    San Francisco Has Some of the Gayest Buildings in America

    Recently, California Home Design decided to honor gay and lesbian history by creating a gallery of the "Gayest Buildings in America." No, the buildings themselves aren't gay, but they do hold special meaning for our LGBT community.  Inspired by the panel "If These "Walls Could Talk," the gal ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 13, 2012

    "Portrait of George (Moscone)": Finally on Display at SFMOMA

    Recently, California Home Design decided to honor gay and lesbian history by creating a gallery of the "Gayest Buildings in America." No, the buildings themselves aren't gay, but they do hold special meaning for our LGBT community.  Inspired by the panel "If These "Walls Could Talk," the gal ... More >>

  • News

    May 23, 2012

    But, the Children: Save California Denounces Harvey Milk Day

    Recently, California Home Design decided to honor gay and lesbian history by creating a gallery of the "Gayest Buildings in America." No, the buildings themselves aren't gay, but they do hold special meaning for our LGBT community.  Inspired by the panel "If These "Walls Could Talk," the gal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Save California, Pro-Family Group, Demands Kids Skip School on Harvey Milk Day

    The right-wing pro-family group Save California has made the daunting request that probably won't go over well in San Francisco. Those hatemongers demand parents take their kids out of school on May 22 -- Harvey Milk Day -- so youngsters aren't subjected to curriculum, lessons, or positive informati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    San Diego Claims Harvey Milk as One of Its Own

    Aside from being located in the same state, there's very little San Francisco and San Diego have in common, except perhaps our affinity for men in sailor suits.In any event, we came across a more important thread that links these two disparate communities: our love for Harvey Milk.As the Bay Area Re ... More >>

  • Music

    March 28, 2012

    Chuck Prophet's S.F. Album Gets the Facts Wrong, But the Feelings Right

    Aside from being located in the same state, there's very little San Francisco and San Diego have in common, except perhaps our affinity for men in sailor suits.In any event, we came across a more important thread that links these two disparate communities: our love for Harvey Milk.As the Bay Area Re ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 21, 2012

    The Feelings Are True

    Chuck Prophet's album about S.F. may have gotten a few facts wrong, but it gets everything else right

  • Calendar

    February 22, 2012

    Portrait(s) of the Artist

    Chuck Prophet's album about S.F. may have gotten a few facts wrong, but it gets everything else right

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Watch Chuck Prophet's Rockin' Tribute to Harvey Milk and George Moscone, "White Night, Big City"

    Temple Beautiful, the latest album from local rock songwriter Chuck Prophet, is basically a tribute to San Francisco: Different songs deal with notable parts of the city's history. A few months ago we premiered the song "Castro Halloween," which tells the story of the grisly murders that ended the n ... More >>

  • Film

    November 16, 2011

    Arthouse Movie Listings November 16-22

    Temple Beautiful, the latest album from local rock songwriter Chuck Prophet, is basically a tribute to San Francisco: Different songs deal with notable parts of the city's history. A few months ago we premiered the song "Castro Halloween," which tells the story of the grisly murders that ended the n ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 16, 2011

    Still Getting Over It

    Temple Beautiful, the latest album from local rock songwriter Chuck Prophet, is basically a tribute to San Francisco: Different songs deal with notable parts of the city's history. A few months ago we premiered the song "Castro Halloween," which tells the story of the grisly murders that ended the n ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2010

    Re-Deconstructing Tragedy

    Temple Beautiful, the latest album from local rock songwriter Chuck Prophet, is basically a tribute to San Francisco: Different songs deal with notable parts of the city's history. A few months ago we premiered the song "Castro Halloween," which tells the story of the grisly murders that ended the n ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 15, 2010

    David Buckingham: "Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful"

    Temple Beautiful, the latest album from local rock songwriter Chuck Prophet, is basically a tribute to San Francisco: Different songs deal with notable parts of the city's history. A few months ago we premiered the song "Castro Halloween," which tells the story of the grisly murders that ended the n ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    List: Signs you are a bad cop

    Temple Beautiful, the latest album from local rock songwriter Chuck Prophet, is basically a tribute to San Francisco: Different songs deal with notable parts of the city's history. A few months ago we premiered the song "Castro Halloween," which tells the story of the grisly murders that ended the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    SFPD Spokesman Albie Esparza *Not* the Victim of Road Rage

    Albie is that you?​We couldn't help but notice a Web report earlier today that 52-year-old Albie Esparza was nearly hit with a car, then beaten with a bat and knocked to the ground last night in an apparent road rage incident. Esparza, it was reported, suffered life-threatening injuries. There's o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Feds Probing Dan White, Harvey Milk, George Moscone When White Killed Milk, Moscone

    All in the Feds' dossier...​At the time Dan White unloaded his pistol into Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, all three were under the FBI's microscope in political corruption probes. Documents obtained by San Francisco gay rights blogger Michael Petrelis and reported on by The Raw Story reveal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Who's Your Amy Bishop?

    ​Like many of you, I read the Amy Bishop story in this week's Sunday Times while gaping in wonder. Bishop is the bat-shit science professor who went on a shooting rampage, killing three colleagues, after she was denied tenure at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.As it turns out, there were p ... More >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2009

    The Units punked the system, played JC Penney

    ​Like many of you, I read the Amy Bishop story in this week's Sunday Times while gaping in wonder. Bishop is the bat-shit science professor who went on a shooting rampage, killing three colleagues, after she was denied tenure at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.As it turns out, there were p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Ed Jew's Achy Breaky Brain Defense Backfires: Disgraced Ex-Supe Nailed With 64-Month Sentence

    Aaron FarmerIt appears we really won't have Ed Jew to kick around anymore -- which is good, because we could further injure his brain, and then God knows what mischief he'd get himself into. Days after Jew's lawyer seriously claimed that a childhood head injury led to the former D-4 supervisor extor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Just Gators Being Gators: Bonnie Noshes on Claude's Claw

    Would it have been tasteless to name this cold-blooded killer Dan White?Claude, the California Academy of Science's albino alligator, will have a bit of trouble flipping anyone the bird for a while. The pale fella has apparently suffered a bite on the "pinky" from his tank-mate Bonnie (Bonnie and Cl ... More >>

  • News

    December 3, 2008

    White Lies

    What Dan White's gay friend thinks of the Harvey Milk biopic.

  • Film

    December 3, 2008

    A Tale of Two Movies

    After decades in development hell, how Gus Van Sant finally got Milk.

  • Film

    November 26, 2008

    Proposition Hate

    Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

  • News

    October 22, 2008

    On the Waterfront

    Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.

  • News

    September 3, 2008

    Films on Location

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • News

    February 13, 2008

    Reader Says SF Weekly Serves Self, Homophobe's Agenda

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • News

    February 6, 2008

    Harvey Milk Killing Story Draws Fact-Checkers, Old Campaigners

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2008

    SFIndiefest Top Ten Flicks - Including Indiana Jones, Gus Van Sant, and Robbie Conal

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • News

    January 30, 2008

    Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    15 Ways Gavin Could Have Lost the Election

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2007

    Van Sant's 'Milk' Locked, Loaded while 'Mayor of Castro St.' Cock-Blocked By Writer's Strike

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2007

    Milking It: Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn And SFist's Open Casting Call

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    Chris Daly's Twinkie Defense

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • News

    February 21, 2007

    Earl’s Last Laugh

    Exiled in retirement after Fajitagate, ex–Police Chief Earl Sanders has re-emerged with a fresh account of the infamous Zebra murders. And his critics are on the warpath.

  • Film

    August 23, 2006

    A Schoolteacher Darkly

    Old-school indie turns the inspirational classroom drama inside out

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2003

    The Body Politic

    Remembering Moscone, Milk, and the "Twinkie Defense."

  • Calendar

    June 4, 2003

    Sound Effects

    Hide your harmonicas and tampons -- Sxip is back

  • Culture

    December 15, 1999

    Wild Women

    The Bacchae

  • Film

    November 24, 1999

    Reel World

    Eyes Wide Shut and Stonewall

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Punks at War

    Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

  • Calendar

    November 18, 1998

    Cothran

    Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

  • News

    January 28, 1998

    Boondoggle by the Bay

    Why the tacky political giveaway called Pier 39 shouldn't be used as a model for the coming redevelopment of San Francisco's waterfront

  • Calendar

    November 27, 1996

    Night+Day

    Why the tacky political giveaway called Pier 39 shouldn't be used as a model for the coming redevelopment of San Francisco's waterfront

  • Calendar

    April 24, 1996

    Night+Day

    Why the tacky political giveaway called Pier 39 shouldn't be used as a model for the coming redevelopment of San Francisco's waterfront

  • News

    April 17, 1996

    Dog Bites

    Why the tacky political giveaway called Pier 39 shouldn't be used as a model for the coming redevelopment of San Francisco's waterfront

  • News

    February 14, 1996

    Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part I)

    There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

  • Calendar

    November 22, 1995

    Night+Day

    There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

  • News

    November 22, 1995

    C.R.U.S.H. (Part I)

    Five months ago, two black homicide detectives got fed up with the Police Department's inaction on black-on-black murders. Thus was born the Crime Response Unit to Stop Homicide (CRUSH): six cops with the grit and guile to tackle the toughest cases in the

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