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  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Joyless Comic Strip's NYT Parody Falls Flat

    There seems to be a wide and growing divide between people who appreciate healthy portions of meaty journalism and those who prefer a media diet of bite-sized snark snacks full of empty calories. In this context, "old media" outlets like The New York Times can never win, no matter what they do. Even ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    R.I.P. Steve Jobs, an Insanely Great Capitalist

    ​As I write this, many of my Facebook friends are expressing their profound sadness, and actually issuing "thanks" to Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday. I'm feeling the same way. It is astonishing that such sentiments can be felt, at this moment in history, about the CEO of any American corporat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Providers Go to Prison. Will President Obama Intervene?

    This pretty much sums it up​Dr. Mollie Fry and her husband, Dale Schafer, are ill. Fry is a breast-cancer survivor with severe mental-health issues, and Schafer's hemophilia means he is frequently bedridden. So he will have to be in a prison hospital beginning May 2, when the couple will begin fiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    President Obama Douses S.F. Crowd with Brooks & Dunn's "Only in America" -- a Republican Favorite

    iPhone photo of President Obama in S.F., taken from outer space.​It was all pretty Blue State in San Francisco last night: President Obama flew to the fundraiser from a gathering at Facebook. He got a ride in Marine 1, the presidential helicopter, and commented to the assembled masses at Nob Hill ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    D.A. Candidate David Onek Backed by Investigative Journalist Sy Hersh

    iPhone photo of President Obama in S.F., taken from outer space.​It was all pretty Blue State in San Francisco last night: President Obama flew to the fundraiser from a gathering at Facebook. He got a ride in Marine 1, the presidential helicopter, and commented to the assembled masses at Nob Hill ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 16, 2011

    Muslim Photographer Surveils His Own Life in a Post-9/11 World

    iPhone photo of President Obama in S.F., taken from outer space.​It was all pretty Blue State in San Francisco last night: President Obama flew to the fundraiser from a gathering at Facebook. He got a ride in Marine 1, the presidential helicopter, and commented to the assembled masses at Nob Hill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Police Beating Victims May Be Prosecuted a Fourth Time

    YSFPD's use-of-force trainer says this is the result of proper law enforcement technique​olo County prosecutors are weighing wether to opt for a fourth trial of two West Sacramento brothers after separate juries failed to convict them three prior times on charges of resisting arrest and fighting a ... More >>

  • Music

    May 5, 2010

    High-Fivin' anthems from Fang Island

    YSFPD's use-of-force trainer says this is the result of proper law enforcement technique​olo County prosecutors are weighing wether to opt for a fourth trial of two West Sacramento brothers after separate juries failed to convict them three prior times on charges of resisting arrest and fighting a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    KQED Bolts Bay Area News Project; Employees Wonder What the Hell Just Happened

    KQED, for reasons unknown, has bailed out...​Earlier this month, we wrote about how the birth of the nonprofit, Warren Hellman-funded Bay Area News Project was coming along more slowly and sloppily than anticipated. Now, to stretch the gestation analogy, there have been complications -- and one of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report Confirms: SF Weekly Found Bin Laden in October 2001

    He's on the right...​For shoppers wishing to give America the gift of national security, consider sending your favorite Pentagon staffer an SF Weekly. No offense to Jane's Defence Weekly, but a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report released Monday suggests the publication you're now reading pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    What a Predicament: City Attorney Defends Crappy S.F. Law Against Ultimate Corporate Force of Evil

    I am the law!​ Like a duel to the death with the prize to the victor being death, it seems there are no winners in this morning's legal showdown between San Francisco and Philip Morris at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Well, the winner may be "your lungs," but, at best, the loser would be "your ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2009

    Outside the bedroom, BDSM practitioners can't take punishment

    I am the law!​ Like a duel to the death with the prize to the victor being death, it seems there are no winners in this morning's legal showdown between San Francisco and Philip Morris at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Well, the winner may be "your lungs," but, at best, the loser would be "your ... More >>

  • News

    February 25, 2009

    Guantánamo's Last Days

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Political Consultants Give Obama Speech High Marks -- But Wonder if You Can Be Memorable When No One Remembers Anything You Said

    It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. And a handful of San Francisco's top political consultants are now pondering if it's possible for President Barack Obama to have delivered a "memorable" address when they had trouble recalling its specific lines even 15 minutes after he utt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Klamath Deal is Cold Comfort for SF Bay Salmon Fishermen

    The feds’ good news: ‘Peace in our time’ By Peter Jamison For California’s commercial salmon fishery, which repeatedly finds itself pummeled by bad breaks, the past week has brought an unusual flurry of decent news. Last Friday, federal and state officials announced an “agreement in prin ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2008

    Marin Republicans love them some Sarah Palin

    The feds’ good news: ‘Peace in our time’ By Peter Jamison For California’s commercial salmon fishery, which repeatedly finds itself pummeled by bad breaks, the past week has brought an unusual flurry of decent news. Last Friday, federal and state officials announced an “agreement in prin ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 8, 2008

    Julio Cesar Morales re-enacts the birth of California

    The feds’ good news: ‘Peace in our time’ By Peter Jamison For California’s commercial salmon fishery, which repeatedly finds itself pummeled by bad breaks, the past week has brought an unusual flurry of decent news. Last Friday, federal and state officials announced an “agreement in prin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    Scott McClellan Tells Us Who To Blame

    The feds’ good news: ‘Peace in our time’ By Peter Jamison For California’s commercial salmon fishery, which repeatedly finds itself pummeled by bad breaks, the past week has brought an unusual flurry of decent news. Last Friday, federal and state officials announced an “agreement in prin ... More >>

  • Film

    February 6, 2008

    Patterns of Abuse

    A methodical look at how and why we torture in Taxi to the Dark Side

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

    New Editor, New Media, New Emphasis: Is the Chronicle So Over San Francisco?

    A methodical look at how and why we torture in Taxi to the Dark Side

  • Culture

    January 9, 2008

    Election, Stage Left

    Political theater may preach to the converted, but it can still teach us something about the world

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2007

    Condi Rice was Boring, Judith Miller was the NYT's "WMD" — Brinkley Reports

    Political theater may preach to the converted, but it can still teach us something about the world

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    Get Your “Fuck” On at the Swearing Festival

    Political theater may preach to the converted, but it can still teach us something about the world

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2007

    Better Late than Never

    Political theater may preach to the converted, but it can still teach us something about the world

  • News

    May 23, 2007

    Sealed With a Dis

    A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

  • Culture

    September 6, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

  • Culture

    August 23, 2006

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    August 16, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    August 2, 2006

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    July 19, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    June 28, 2006

    Picture This

    The surprising history of Pablo Picasso, book illustrator, and the artists he inspired

  • Culture

    June 14, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    The surprising history of Pablo Picasso, book illustrator, and the artists he inspired

  • Culture

    June 7, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    The surprising history of Pablo Picasso, book illustrator, and the artists he inspired

  • Culture

    May 24, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    The surprising history of Pablo Picasso, book illustrator, and the artists he inspired

  • Culture

    May 10, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    The surprising history of Pablo Picasso, book illustrator, and the artists he inspired

  • Film

    April 19, 2006

    Tube Boobs

    American Dreamz' nation of idiots lands a little close to home

  • Culture

    April 5, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    American Dreamz' nation of idiots lands a little close to home

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    Split Decision

    Republicans want to break up "the 9th Circus," the San Francisco-based liberal federal appeals court. Whose side are you on?

  • News

    September 21, 2005

    FEMA -- a Four-Letter Word?

    The only quiz in the world that will tell you if you're an apologist for the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina response

  • News

    July 20, 2005

    Dog Bites

    Making a meal out of journalistic and political news, spell-checking the Guardian, and wrapping up the Castro race skirmish.

  • Culture

    December 22, 2004

    Taking the Bait

    Chris Finley's art dives below the surface

  • News

    December 3, 2003

    Capital Rap

    From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

  • Culture

    July 2, 2003

    When Pigs Fly

    The whole thing is fun for exactly one act. Unfortunately, there are two.

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of June 25, 2003

  • Film

    April 2, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    Week of June 25, 2003

  • News

    January 2, 2002

    Chump Changes

    Journalists are playing into the hands of George Bush when they unthinkingly insist that everything is different since Sept. 11

  • News

    January 31, 2001

    Asking, Telling

    The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

  • News

    November 15, 2000

    What's Green and Black and Blue All Over?

    Maybe Nader voters should be slapped around a bit; their leftist purity will likely bring us four very squalid years

  • News

    September 20, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Mercury News redesign; Chronicle rumors; Gavin Newsom

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Paper Trails

    Mercury News redesign; Chronicle rumors; Gavin Newsom

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