Edison

SF Weekly Letters

VIDEO: San Francisco's Most Controversial Charter School Enters New Era

​Edison Charter Academy has a storied history in San Francisco. It was the woefully under-performing Noe Valley elementary school throughout the '90s. Then-Superintendent Bill Rojas stirred controversy when he handed over the school to Edison Schools, Inc., a for-profit company that pledged to tak ... More >>

Schoolhouse Rocked: S.F.'s Most Controversial Charter School Throws Off For-Profit Masters

​Edison Charter Academy has a storied history in San Francisco. It was the woefully under-performing Noe Valley elementary school throughout the '90s. Then-Superintendent Bill Rojas stirred controversy when he handed over the school to Edison Schools, Inc., a for-profit company that pledged to tak ... More >>

Om, Lichens, Barn Owl Share Trancey Stories in the Dark of the Independent

Om​ OmLichensBarn OwlDecember 16, 2010@ The IndependentBetter than: Any other situation involving lichens, barn owls, and sacred syllables.It was dark at the Independent last night. The performers sent forth their communal hypnoses in low light, the audience swayed along in relative blackness, and ... More >>

Grab A Bat-Ass Beat Tape From SF Producer Edison at 900Bats

What's new in the Bat Area -- excuse me, the Bay Area -- right now? Enclosed find some new sounds for the weekend courtesy of Frisco beatsmith Edison, who peddles grimy skip-hop jams made from a monome done up like a lunchbox. Here he/it is in action: Not that Edison needs any particular reason t ... More >>

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Arthouse movie listings for February 4-10, 2009

Wavvves (Fat Possum)

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/20

Wavvves (Fat Possum)

Filling the Civic Gap

Meet Donald Fisher, the private billionaire with unprecedented sway over ordinary San Franciscans' lives

Reps Etc.

Meet Donald Fisher, the private billionaire with unprecedented sway over ordinary San Franciscans' lives

Plushy

And now we present a boring interview with a big-time rock star: Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver

Voilà – the Magic Castle

Where only magicians – and their special friends – are allowed

Reps Etc.

Where only magicians – and their special friends – are allowed

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Where only magicians – and their special friends – are allowed

Attack of the Self-Serving Pol!

A deft film in which a southland legislator and lazy journalists rewrite history, blame Enron for the energy crisis, and leave Sacramento corruption untouched

Reps List

Film Reps List for 1-23-2002

Bringing Back Bongo Bongo

Trader Vic's comes to Palo Alto

Contract Killings

How the state's contracts with crucial electric power providers actually encourage them to gouge us

Dim Bulbs

Greedy out-of-state profiteers make easy targets, but the real villains of California's energy debacle are the ones under the state capitol dome.

Dead Head

Mr. Death

The Unsinkable Ralph Henke

A rolling battleship is the next project for the man who brought us the world's largest motor home. Even after 60 years and a heart transplant, the ideas just keep coming.

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

A rolling battleship is the next project for the man who brought us the world's largest motor home. Even after 60 years and a heart transplant, the ideas just keep coming.

Recordings

A rolling battleship is the next project for the man who brought us the world's largest motor home. Even after 60 years and a heart transplant, the ideas just keep coming.

Suck Amok

A rolling battleship is the next project for the man who brought us the world's largest motor home. Even after 60 years and a heart transplant, the ideas just keep coming.

Cyperpornocopia

Milpitas residents Carleen and Robert Thomas found a lucrative way to sell the hardest of hardcorepornography to smut fans all over the country: by computer bulletin board. Then their little Silicon Valley startup attracted the interest of a U.S. Postal S