By John Geluardi
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to see a special screening of Stephen Soderbergh’s epic movie, Che. Usually my stunted attention span makes it tough to sit through Pee Wee Herman clips on YouTube, but this film was so engaging I was riveted to the screen for the entire four hours.
The movie, which is in Spanish, is a sprawling epic that follows Argentine Marxist, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, played by Benicio del Toro, through the rugged mountains of Cuba and Bolivia
By Benjamin Wachs
Part 1: Health Care
My favorite story about Fidel Castro comes from 1997, when there was considerable speculation that the Old Man was dying. In response, Castro gave a nine-hour address to the Cuban Communist Party, in which he implicitly dared other world leaders to prove that they were healthy enough to stand up for nine hours under hot lights, and shout.
I thought of this when I first learned that Gavin Newsom had given a 7-and-a-half hour State of the City Address,
At Robert Mondavi's new $55 million foodie mecca, you'll find seminars on goat cheese and mustard; surrealist movies; a SPAM exhibit; wine tastings; figurines of pooping Catholics -- everything, in fact, but the answer to that question.
Mission progressives descended on the 24th Street BART plaza this evening to protest for the return of President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras after the military coup on Sunday. Eric Quezada of Dolores Street Community Services and former District 9 supervisor candidate led the crowd of about 200 in a chant of "Se ve, se siente, el pueblo esta presente!" ("You can see it, and feel it, that the people are here!") and of course the old protest standby: "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!" ("The peop
Supervisor David CamposIf an angry Republican writes a letter in San Francisco, and no elected official cares enough to read it, did it ever really exist?San Francisco's local curiosity of a G.O.P. is currently seeking pen-pals in city government with a barrage of letters to Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors decrying Supervisor David Campos' legislation on the treatment of illegal immigrants suspected of crimes. The letters come less than a week after the S.F. G.O.P. passed a re
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