Dan White

But, the Children: Save California Denounces Harvey Milk Day

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Feelings Are True

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

White Lies

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

A Tale of Two Movies

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

Proposition Hate

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

On the Waterfront

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

Films on Location

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

Reader Says SF Weekly Serves Self, Homophobe's Agenda

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

Harvey Milk Killing Story Draws Fact-Checkers, Old Campaigners

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

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

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

Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

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

15 Ways Gavin Could Have Lost the Election

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

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.

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

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

Chris Daly's Twinkie Defense

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

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.

A Schoolteacher Darkly

Old-school indie turns the inspirational classroom drama inside out

The Body Politic

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

Sound Effects

Hide your harmonicas and tampons -- Sxip is back

Wild Women

The Bacchae

Reel World

Eyes Wide Shut and Stonewall

Punks at War

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

Cothran

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

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

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

Final Deadline

David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

Night+Day

David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

Dog Bites

David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

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

Night+Day

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

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