George Moscone

But, the Children: Save California Denounces Harvey Milk Day

Tragedy Made Us Stronger

"Season of the Witch": The Turbulent Growth of S.F. Values

Ross Mirkarimi: Canning Him Is Easier Said than Done

​It never inspires much confidence if questions about one's future employment necessitate an answer of "let's wait until my sentencing." Now that Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has opted to plea to a lesser charge of false imprisonment in his ongoing domestic violence saga, both the Chron and the Examiner ... More >>

Portrait(s) of the Artist

​It never inspires much confidence if questions about one's future employment necessitate an answer of "let's wait until my sentencing." Now that Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has opted to plea to a lesser charge of false imprisonment in his ongoing domestic violence saga, both the Chron and the Examiner ... More >>

Chuck Prophet Takes Fans and Famous Guests on a Musical Bus Tour of San Francisco

Chuck Prophet and Guests Feb. 7, 2012 The Catacombs Better than: Going broke at any nearby Mission District restaurant. To commemorate yesterday's release of his new album, Temple Beautiful, S.F. singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet and Yep Roc Records treated about 40 fans to a guided bus tour of San ... More >>

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

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 the grisly murders that ended the n ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi's Future Unclear. So Are Mayor's Grounds to Suspend Him.

​If the Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi situation is a mess -- and it is -- the question of whether Mayor Ed Lee has the grounds to suspend the sheriff is even muddier. That's because Lee's ability to force Mirkarimi from office is contingent upon the sheriff having committed "official misconduct." While M ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings November 16-22

​If the Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi situation is a mess -- and it is -- the question of whether Mayor Ed Lee has the grounds to suspend the sheriff is even muddier. That's because Lee's ability to force Mirkarimi from office is contingent upon the sheriff having committed "official misconduct." While M ... More >>

Still Getting Over It

​If the Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi situation is a mess -- and it is -- the question of whether Mayor Ed Lee has the grounds to suspend the sheriff is even muddier. That's because Lee's ability to force Mirkarimi from office is contingent upon the sheriff having committed "official misconduct." While M ... More >>

Re-Deconstructing Tragedy

​If the Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi situation is a mess -- and it is -- the question of whether Mayor Ed Lee has the grounds to suspend the sheriff is even muddier. That's because Lee's ability to force Mirkarimi from office is contingent upon the sheriff having committed "official misconduct." While M ... 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 >>

Terrifying Revelations About Hauntings in City Hall

Feature: Arson Our guide in the spookiest room in City Hall-- the Board of Supervisors main chamber!​City Hall is haunted. Not just by measures that have died within its chambers, but by actual spooks -- or so claimed our robed tour guide last night. The guy with the Snuggie shepherded a large g ... More >>

The Units punked the system, played JC Penney

Feature: Arson Our guide in the spookiest room in City Hall-- the Board of Supervisors main chamber!​City Hall is haunted. Not just by measures that have died within its chambers, but by actual spooks -- or so claimed our robed tour guide last night. The guy with the Snuggie shepherded a large g ... 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 >>

(Also) Separated at Birth

So yesterday Joe pointed out that disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich looks like U.C. Berkley astronomy professor Alex Filippenko. Well this morning, it was brought to our attention that he resembles another disgraced politician:Dan White, former San Francisco supervisor who assassinated fellow ... More >>

White Lies

What Dan White's gay friend thinks of the Harvey Milk biopic.

Proposition Hate

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

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

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

Harvey Milk Biopic to be filmed in SF, Mayor's Office Announces

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

Chris Daly's Twinkie Defense

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

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.

Rev. Death

A new documentary about populist preacher Jim Jones is a fascinating portrait of folly and power

Documentary American Style

A new documentary about populist preacher Jim Jones is a fascinating portrait of folly and power

Letters to the Editor

Week of November 19, 2003

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of November 19, 2003

The Body Politic

Remembering Moscone, Milk, and the "Twinkie Defense."

Political Relativity

Stuck in a strange warp of the space-time fabric, our supervisors can't stop tilting against a dot-com development monster that's dead and buried

The Last of the Burtons?

They have dominated state and local politics for 50 years. Now, for the first time, the future of their "family business" is in doubt.

The Revolution is Canceled

How the grand plan for district elections could backfire

Rage Against the Machine

Tom Ammiano's mayoral bid: inside the campaign that has become a cause

Dog Bites

Who Needs to Think When Your Feet Just Go?

Truth and Consequences

Greensboro: A Requiem

Punks at War

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Night & Day

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Invasion of the Coffee Shops

Forgive and Remember

Cothran

Forgive and Remember

Night + Day

Forgive and Remember

Letters

Forgive and Remember

Queen of Sixth Street

Antoinetta Stadlman, a 200-pound transsexual on public assistance, dreams of controlling the multimillion-dollar redevelopment of Sixth Street. A misguided state law may just let her do it.

Night+Day

Antoinetta Stadlman, a 200-pound transsexual on public assistance, dreams of controlling the multimillion-dollar redevelopment of Sixth Street. A misguided state law may just let her do it.

State and National Candidates

Antoinetta Stadlman, a 200-pound transsexual on public assistance, dreams of controlling the multimillion-dollar redevelopment of Sixth Street. A misguided state law may just let her do it.

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.

Judging Matthew Rothschild

Why is the Democratic Party elite backing an underqualified party operative for the local judiciary?

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

Dome and Dumber

Q: How's it possible to spend $244 million to renovate one city building? A: Do the words "toilet partition metal head assembly" mean anything to you?

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?