John Muir

Local Charity Raises Money for Corlina Godfrey, 10-Year-Old Girl Killed in Weekend Fire

Catholic Charities is tapping the community to help the victims who were displaced by a large blaze on Treasure Island, including the family of a 10-year-old girl who was killed in the fire. According to press reports, the local nonprofit has already started collecting money to assist the family o ... More >>

Wing Wings' First-Ever Chicken Wing Eating Contest Tonight

Wing Wings Chicken Wing Eating Contest When: Tuesday, Oct. 9th, 6 p.m. Where? Lucky 13, 2140 Market Street at Church Wing Wings is known for its fresh, California free-range chicken, homemade sauces, fries and sides. Now, in an effort to raise money for Western Addition Beacon Center, they are brin ... More >>

Eliot Rose Makes Sense of Cosmic WTFs Tomorrow at Hotel Utah

Aaron Caley​Due to some great clerical error in the cosmos, this guy is famous and Eliot Rose isn't. Yet. The Oakland-based (via Portland via Romania via New Haven) micro-fi troubadour has been hitting new strides repeatedly since the early aughts, making spellbinding, eloquent songs out of unusua ... More >>

The Week in Event Names: A Pop Quiz

​A lot of noodle-scratchers in town this week. Can you make heads or tails of them? No. 2 pencils only. Answers after the jump.I. Short answer1. What is the Eleventh Commandment? 2. How does King Midas In Reverse work?3. Who are Mill Valley's Most Honest Men?II. Match the leader with the band4. Ji ... More >>

Wiener Dogs on Wheels Fund-Raise in Hayes Valley

Joe EskenaziOpen your hearts, open your wallets...​As we've written before, San Francisco is a city where a man outfitted in a floral-print dress and pushing a conga drum down the street while sporting a John Muir beard will garner hardly a glance. But a pair of weiner dogs in a Radio Flyer wagon? ... More >>

Leno: State Harvey Milk Day Entirely in Schwarzenegger's Hands

Learning about John Muir has hardly made the state's schoolchildren conservationists ... so how could curriculum on Harvey Milk turn them gay?Milk, on the whole, tends to suffer when left out -- but Sen. Mark Leno feels a year of exposure is just what his Milk bill needed. The San Francisco State Se ... More >>

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Wide Open Spaces

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Mean People's Court

On many fronts, the spiteful are doing harmful things that you should know about

The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relations

The envelope, please ... and the Pulitzer goes to -- Environmental Defense!

Drawn and Quartered

A few designs for the California quarter that better capture the nature of our splendid state

Big Dam Mess

The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?

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Surgery Sans Blood

Jehovah's Witnesses refused transfusions -- and led the way to bloodless surgery

One Weird Church

A tale of faith, hope, and serendipity

Cleaning Slates

Superintendent Bill Rojas is pushing a simple solution for troubled schools: Get rid of everybody.

Looking A little Green

Taking the Sierra Club's helm, boy wonder Adam Werbach confronts more than his own inexperience

Navel Maneuvers

If Adam and Eve moved to Northern California, they'd probably note on the first day that the balmy weather, inspiring vistas, and mellow vibesreminded them of Eden. On the second day, they'd pick up a copy of "Common Ground" and enroll in a self-help cour