Dan White

Chris Daly's Twinkie Defense

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

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

Dog Bites

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 >>

Night+Day

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 >>

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The Units punked the system, played JC Penney

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

List: Signs you are a bad cop

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 >>

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

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 >>

Re-Deconstructing Tragedy

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 >>

Arthouse Movie Listings November 16-22

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 >>

Still Getting Over It

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 >>

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

Chuck Prophet as newsman.​ 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 th ... More >>