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Democratic National Convention

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Special Guests Announced For Tom Morello's Slim's Show

    EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Everyone's a Critic

    A casual mention by Frank Bruni in today's NY Times concerning a certain Barack Obama's views about dining out, as expressed in 2001 on, as Mr. Bruni coyly said, "a restaurant-related television show in Chicago" (any foodie fool would know that was a reference, however veiled, to Check, Please!, th ... More >>

  • Music

    October 22, 2008

    Death Cab will possess your vote

    A casual mention by Frank Bruni in today's NY Times concerning a certain Barack Obama's views about dining out, as expressed in 2001 on, as Mr. Bruni coyly said, "a restaurant-related television show in Chicago" (any foodie fool would know that was a reference, however veiled, to Check, Please!, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Examiner Swims Against Local Tide

    A casual mention by Frank Bruni in today's NY Times concerning a certain Barack Obama's views about dining out, as expressed in 2001 on, as Mr. Bruni coyly said, "a restaurant-related television show in Chicago" (any foodie fool would know that was a reference, however veiled, to Check, Please!, th ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 10, 2008

    "Garry Winogrand: The Sixties"

    A casual mention by Frank Bruni in today's NY Times concerning a certain Barack Obama's views about dining out, as expressed in 2001 on, as Mr. Bruni coyly said, "a restaurant-related television show in Chicago" (any foodie fool would know that was a reference, however veiled, to Check, Please!, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2008

    Last Night: Sarah Silverman at Nob Hill Masonic Center

    A casual mention by Frank Bruni in today's NY Times concerning a certain Barack Obama's views about dining out, as expressed in 2001 on, as Mr. Bruni coyly said, "a restaurant-related television show in Chicago" (any foodie fool would know that was a reference, however veiled, to Check, Please!, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2008

    Shepard Fairey Gets Busted at DNC Weeks Before SF Solo Show

    A casual mention by Frank Bruni in today's NY Times concerning a certain Barack Obama's views about dining out, as expressed in 2001 on, as Mr. Bruni coyly said, "a restaurant-related television show in Chicago" (any foodie fool would know that was a reference, however veiled, to Check, Please!, th ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2008

    Stealth Bloggers

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2008

    Barack-a-Thon: Obama's Sweating Throngs Jam Delegate Election

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2008

    Waaaaay too much People Power: 71 Candidates vie for 3 spots as San Francisco's Obama Delegates

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2008

    Obama opens SF office: Craig Newmark blesses it, midwest hating hipsters suddenly support crossover appeal

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2007

    Obama in Oakland — Barack's California Epicenter Draws Neophyte Canvassers; "Never go inside the house"

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • News

    May 9, 2007

    All-in or Nothing

    Rene Medina’s Colma casino brought life to a city of cemeteries. It also brought federal agents looking for corruption.

  • Film

    October 25, 2006

    Assassination Tango

    Controversial docudrama imagines a post-Bush scenario

  • News

    July 12, 2006

    No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

    In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

  • News

    July 5, 2006

    The Bayview Battler

    More than ready to take on politicians and redevelopers, Willie Ratcliff is in the most important fight of his life.

  • Calendar

    November 2, 2005

    Film Arts' Finals

    Where the indies rule

  • News

    November 2, 2005

    Welcome to Talkalot

    An Arthurian legend: in which the mayor espouses employment in modern high-tech industries while allowing a return to the industrial age

  • Film

    July 28, 2004

    Summer Camp

    Demme's Candidate overhaul goes for the knowing giggle

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Yes, These Pictures Really Are Republican Propaganda. We're Not Making This Up.

    The Republican Party wants you to know it's left no child behind

  • News

    February 25, 2004

    Dead Man Running

    "Kucinich is, like, The normal laws of physics don't apply to me.'"

  • Music

    June 18, 2003

    House of Tudor

    "Kucinich is, like, The normal laws of physics don't apply to me.'"

  • Culture

    April 2, 2003

    A Grand Guy

    How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

  • Music

    October 10, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    Street closing; not enough coffee, man

  • Culture

    April 25, 2001

    Shearer Delight

    The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

  • Calendar

    July 21, 1999

    Cothran

    The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

  • Calendar

    October 16, 1996

    Unspun

    The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

  • Music

    September 11, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

  • Calendar

    August 28, 1996

    Unspun

    The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

  • News

    February 28, 1996

    Dog Bites

    The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

  • 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

  • News

    January 3, 1996

    Blakk Power

    San Francisco drag queen Joan Jett-Blakk aims for the presidency

  • News

    November 1, 1995

    Shelter Skelter (Part I)

    In 1984, four women living in city housing projects said they wanted to get out. Only one made it.

  • News

    October 18, 1995

    The Last Seduction

    Spurned by term limitations, Willie Brown turns his political affections on San Francisco. But how long will our small-town ways hold his fancy?

  • News

    June 14, 1995

    Cops Watching Cops

    Police watchdog agency the Office of Citizen Complaints braces for its fifth lame director

  • News

    May 24, 1995

    Mal on the Street

    Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Paper Trails

    Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art

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