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George Moscone

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2012

    The 10 Best San Francisco Indie Rock Records of 2012

    Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 14, 2012

    Slouching Toward San Francisco

    Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 3, 2012

    Note-Worthy

    Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 20, 2012

    Stairway to Heaven

    Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 13, 2012

    "Portrait of George (Moscone)": Finally on Display at SFMOMA

    Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

  • News

    May 23, 2012

    But, the Children: Save California Denounces Harvey Milk Day

    Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 16, 2012

    Tragedy Made Us Stronger

    Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 2, 2012

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

    Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 22, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    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 >>

  • Film

    November 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    (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 >>

  • News

    December 3, 2008

    White Lies

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

  • Film

    November 26, 2008

    Proposition Hate

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

  • News

    January 30, 2008

    Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

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

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2007

    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.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2007

    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.

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    Chris Daly's Twinkie Defense

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

  • News

    February 21, 2007

    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.

  • Film

    November 1, 2006

    Rev. Death

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

  • Film

    April 26, 2006

    Documentary American Style

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

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of November 19, 2003

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Week of November 19, 2003

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2003

    The Body Politic

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

  • News

    July 17, 2002

    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

  • News

    February 6, 2002

    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.

  • News

    August 30, 2000

    The Revolution is Canceled

    How the grand plan for district elections could backfire

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    Dog Bites

    Who Needs to Think When Your Feet Just Go?

  • Calendar

    October 20, 1999

    Truth and Consequences

    Greensboro: A Requiem

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Punks at War

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

  • Calendar

    April 21, 1999

    Night & Day

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

  • Calendar

    November 25, 1998

    Invasion of the Coffee Shops

    Forgive and Remember

  • Calendar

    November 18, 1998

    Cothran

    Forgive and Remember

  • Calendar

    September 23, 1998

    Night + Day

    Forgive and Remember

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    Letters

    Forgive and Remember

  • News

    May 21, 1997

    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.

  • Calendar

    November 27, 1996

    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.

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    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.

  • News

    February 28, 1996

    Judging Matthew Rothschild

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

  • 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

    December 20, 1995

    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?

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