John F. Kennedy

Golden Gate Park 420 Revelers' Illegally Parked Cars Go Unticketed

For the dazed, happy 420 celibrants shambling about San Francisco on Saturday like characters in a George Romero film, all was well. For those left to clean up after them, it was less so. Picking up tons of detritus will cost the city a pretty penny. So it comes as a bit of a surprise that, ... More >>

David Borowy Identified as Man Found Dead in Golden Gate Park

Medical authorities say the man who was found deceased in Golden Gate Park on Sunday evening is 55-year-old David Borowy, a resident of San Francisco. The Coroner would not release a cause of death. We called the SFPD to ask more questions, but they had no more information to offer at this time. Pol ... More >>

Police Investigate Suspicious Death

San Francisco police are trying to figure out what happened to a man they found dead yesterday evening in the city's Richmond District. Sgt. Michael Andraychak had very little information to offer at this time, but said police were called to the intersection of John F. Kennedy Drive and Bernice Roge ... More >>

The Top 5 Most Repulsive Moments in Lana Del Rey's Videos

As we all know, Lana Del Rey is a vastly annoying human. We've all got our own personal reasons to be irritated -- maybe it was SNL, maybe it was the dating Axl Rose thing, maybe it's her lack of true credibility or any discernible personality. For us though, it's the damn music videos. Nowhere else ... More >>

The 1952 Baton Twirling Magazine That Dared to Address the 'Sissy' Question

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Majorettes on Parade magazine Date: April, 1952 Publisher: International Baton Twirling Foundation Discovered at: Mission estate sale The Cover P ... More >>

Who Can Help San Francisco's Cycling Conditions? The Dutch

​According to HG Wells, "After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go." As Arthur Conan Doyle saw it: "When the spirits are low, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth ... More >>

MTV at 30: The Top 10 Most Controversial Music Videos (NSFW)

via Flickr​As MTV celebrates its 30th birthday, it seems poised for a calm middle-aged life in a nice neighborhood, where it can safely raise Jersey Shore and Teen Mom into even more reliable moneymakers. But it wasn't always that way: Before it gave up on music, MTV swept through American hou ... More >>

L.A. Rhymeslinger Dom Kennedy on Why He's the Best Kennedy After Bobby

Ich bin ein accomplished rapper​Few rappers would have the audacity to rhyme over a Biggie beat, much less have the skill to do it well, but... well, Los Angeles mainstay Dom Kennedy is audacious and talented. To wit, he likes to refer to himself as the Best After Bobby -- download the mixtape of ... More >>

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Film Showtimes for the week of November 3-9, 2010

Debra Saunders' Painfully Stupid Abuse of Obama for Wearing a Bike Helmet

No helmet. Now there's a real man​I can't say I enjoy Debra Saunders' writing, but I do enjoy the concept of Debra Saunders. In a city where polar opposites like Chris Daly and Gavin Newsom are, officially, members of the same party, perhaps it's worthwhile to know what an actual Republican is thi ... More >>

San Francisco Celebrates 'National Public Works Week' -- By Dumping Tons of Crap on Streets

Jim HerdPost-race detritus in Golden Gate Park​You wouldn't waltz home on Mother's Day, toss Ma a steak, and demand she cook it up for you. Would you? You wouldn't clog up the toilet on Father's Day, hand Dear Old Dad the plunger, and put him to work? And yet, on the first day of National Public W ... More >>

Where Does Your School Rank in Cranking Out Peace Corps Volunteers?

​Nathan "Hale" Sargent doesn't want to say a bad economy is good for the Peace Corps. That'd be simplistic. That'd be insensitive. A bad economy is bad for everyone. That being said -- applications in 2009 were up 18 percent over the year before. So there's that. "We're not Plan B," says Sargent, ... More >>

'Tut at Twilight' Dinner Deal Designed to Make the de Young Experience Easier to Swallow

AgentAkit/FlickrIt's a question you might not be asking after a good meal.​Those of you needing a food-related nudge to experience the beauty (good) and crowds (bummer, but the timed tickets are rumored to help) of the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit at the de Young (50 ... More >>

Examiner Backpedaling On Screaming Zodiac Killer Front-Page Headline -- Fast

Wanna mulligan on this one? We're trying not to give a hard time to our journalistic colleagues more than we should. You don't need to be religious nor Christian -- and we're neither -- to glean the wisdom of Matthew 7:1 -- "Judge not, that ye not be judged." That being said, our relatives from Broo ... More >>

Former Employer of Woman Who Claims Dad Was Zodiac Says She Told Him Her Dad Was John F. Kennedy

Who's your daddy?Chris Sorensen, a mortgage bank and real estate expert who says he recently employed Deborah Perez, claims the woman who on Wednesday told throngs of reporters her stepfather was the Zodiac Killer last year told him she was actually the illegitimate daughter of President John F. Ken ... More >>

Stop the Presses: Kennedy Ate Bacon on a Friday

As we just learned from George Stephanopoulos while watching the Inauguration (and listening to the endless stream of factoids issuing forth from the lips of well-paid commentators essential to such occasions), John F. Kennedy breakfasted on bacon on the morning of his Inauguration, even though it w ... More >>

Let's Get Inaugurated! Enliven Barack Obama's Speech with the Inaugural Drinking Game

Those of us lucky enough to still have gainful employment as the George W. Bush years stumble to their ignominious thud will be clocking in tomorrow around the time President-elect Barack Obama knocks the "elect" off his title.A rollicking article in the current New Yorker notes that while president ... More >>

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