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July 11, 2007Clown Wants Newsom’s Job – Wait a minute …
July 25, 2007Proof That Hipsters Will Eat Anything
July 25, 2007GLAAD Nominates SF Weekly's Lauren Smiley for '2008 Media Award'
January 21, 2008Anti-Weekly Suit Set for Take-Off
January 28, 2008Video: SF's Top Eccentrics - Dane Johnston
July 3, 2008SF's Top Eccentrics - Owen Dias a.k.a. Powell Street's No Sex Guy
July 7, 2008Friday Night: James Hunter at Bimbo's 365 Club
July 13, 2008Video: Anonymous Protests in the Bay Area
August 18, 2008Halloween at the Cat Club, Dia de los Muertos in the Mission and the Alternative Press Expo: Your Monday Morning Hangover
November 3, 2008Election Day Photos: Part 3 (Around Town)
November 4, 2008Coming Soon: Day Without a Gay
By Lauren Smiley The opposition to Prop. 8 is trying a new, less divisive approach to tilt public opinion in favor of gays, and, by extension, gay marriage. Two gay men in West Hollywood conceived the Day Without a Gay, slated for December 10 to coincide with International Human Rights Day. With the slogan "Fight the H8 with love," the movement asks that LGBT folks "call in gay" to work that day and instead volunteer at a humanitarian organization. (See their website here.) Co-founder of the
November 28, 2008SF Weekly Challenges Guardian Op-Ed on "Border Crossers"
By Lauren Smiley Usually SF Weekly lets its stories speak for themselves, yet the op-ed in the Guardian attacking my "Border Crossers" cover story last week -- comparing me to Jerry Springer and the Weekly to the National Enquirer -- calls for a response. My story took a critical yet sensitive look at a quirk in the asylum system: that transgender immigrant women locally and nationwide have succeeded in winning asylum despite the fact that many have prior prostitution arrests on their records,
December 4, 2008California Cities and Same-Sex Couples Join SF's Prop. 8 Challenge
By Lauren SmileyThe San Francisco city attorney filed an amended petition (note: PDF file) challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8 in the state Supreme Court Wednesday, adding seven same-sex married couples and 11 more cities and counties as parties. The amended filing also argues that Prop. 8 (if the high court would uphold it as constitutional) wouldn't affect the marriage status of couples who tied the knot before it passed. The petition added the counties of Alameda, Marin, San Mateo,
December 11, 2008Note to the Privately Insured: St. Luke's Wants You!
By Lauren Smiley Billboards have popped up around the city this month in a new ad campaign from California Pacific Medical Center reading, "Rediscover St. Luke's....the SoMa gateway to California Pacific Medical Center. We're here to stay!" It sounds a tad bit defiant, but marketers figure that such chutzpah was in order for a money-bleeding Mission hospital that has battled rumors and the reality of closing before and after being merged by health-care giant Sutter Health at the first of
December 15, 2008Picking the Bones of a Desiccated Corpse: A Visit to New College's Blowout Sale
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens -- ALL MUST GO! By Joe EskenaziAfter reading my colleague Lauren Smiley's article about New College's going-out-of-business blowout sale, I figured I had to attend. It's not every day one gets to wade through the detritus of other folks' shattered hopes and broken dreams. And I like to collect old phones. The edifice of the Lilliputian liberal arts school -- which abruptly closed earlier this year amidst wh
December 22, 2008All Bingo Hall Wants for X-mas: P-E-R-M-I-T-S
By Lauren Smiley So much for $20 tucked in a greeting card from Grandma. Army Street Bingo is hoping Santa (well, at least a jolly Superior Court judge) will deliver a surprise worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. As in our story this week, the police have denied bingo permits to eight San Francisco non-profits that run fund-raising games at the bingo hall on Cesar Chavez for 2009, citing multiple violations of the law. With the clock till January 1 ticking, and no a
December 24, 200811th Hour Decision: Let there be BINGO! (At least for 90 days)
By Lauren SmileyWaiting for "Bingo!" at Army Street Bingo has been suspenseful for more than dauber-wielding grannies in the last couple months. The eight non-profits who hold games there to fund-raise for their charities have worried they'd lose a major source of revenue since the police denied their 2009 permits in November. (Read our story here.)This afternoon, with hours ticking till the New Year, the police informed the non-profits they wouldn't slaughter their cash cow. Yet. The non-profi
December 31, 2008Gavin's Catholic Bashing
By Lauren Smiley Is Mayor Newsom a self-hating Catholic? The Catholic League said this week that the Mayor (and the Board of Supervisors) should be blamed for vandals scrawling the names of the pope and the San Francisco archbishop next to a Nazi symbol on Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro. Why? Because he doesn't do anything to stop such Catholic-offending acts like naked dudes running amok at the Folsom Street Fair, of course.Here's the statement of Catholic League preside
January 7, 2009Snuggies Bring Comfort, Stall Productivity at SF Weekly
When I arrived at the SF Weekly this morning, it became obvious that something was terribly wrong. Instead of working dilligently and greeting visitors, our editorial assistant Andy Wright (pictured above) had gone to sleep underneath her desk, and she was wearing a bright blue blanket...with sleeves. When I asked her what was up with that, she opened her eyes very wide and said, in a raspy, almost demonic voice, "it's the Snuggie." Then she passed out. The Snuggie. Where h
January 29, 2009They Hate Us on Yelp (And Want To Gag Us With an "AIDS-Ridden Coc%")
Many in the Yelp kingdom hated our cover story this week, "Faux-Star Reviews." The comments section of the story is raging with Yelp supporters and defenders, and the ratings for SF Weekly on Yelp have taken a nosedive as of late, as shown in the screen shot:So to perpetuate the linking of blogs (here's SFist's linking to Eater SF's page on the topic), let's highlight some of the more entertaining insight on the piece, or at least the writer: "That dumb cun at SF Weekly is more of an attention
March 13, 2009Saga of a Hurled SF Weekly Box
We know these are tough times for the print media, but who would have expected this?It wasn't yet 10:30 on Sunday morning, when we heard that an SF Weekly box had been moved -- no, seemingly hurled -- from its comfortable post among the line of newspaper boxes in the BART plaza on the corner of 24th and Mission Streets. We hurried down to check it out. Ruling out the morning gusts as a culprit since all the other boxes were still in their designated spots, we thought this had
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April 2, 2008Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites
Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.
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Life Imitates Apatow; Moped Bitches Lash Out
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August 1, 2007SF Weekly Told Off By Wanker At Masturbate-a-Thon
Lauren SmileyThis group was not camera-shy, however...You know what they say about sex and politics -- you just can't separate the two.Well, the same turned out to be true at Saturday's Masturbate-a-Thon at the Center for Sex & Culture on Mission Street. Now in its ninth year, the event is an outgrowth of the National Masturbation Month started by Good Vibrations sex shop in 1995 after former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired for saying youngsters should be taught to masturbate as a
May 4, 2009Pat on the Back: SF Weekly Cleans Up at Peninsula Press Club Awards
It's awards season yet again, and the SF Weekly took home a grand total of eleven at this weekend's ceremony for the Peninsula Press Club Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards. (All awards were granted in the Non-Daily Newspaper category.) Want to peruse our award winning stories? The whole list is below with links to the full pieces. Congrats to all our talented writers. They like us, they really like us! Joe Eskenazi, First Place Specialty Story (Consumerism), "Voodoo on the Vine"John Geluardi, F
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July 22, 2009Vandals May Think We're A Rag; but the Guardian Is a Crapper
It's not easy being a newspaper dispenser in the Mission. We were walking down Valencia this week and saw that many of the SF Weekly boxes had been adorned/defaced with graffiti, but this poor, beat-up guy in particular had been turned into: 1. Homeless clothes storage 2. A fire hazard ready to go up in flames. 3. A comment on our paper being a rag? With the newspaper industry tanking, the Missionites
July 24, 2009Check the Box: The Plot Thickens
The always alert Lauren Smiley was one of the first to notice that SF Weekly boxes are victims of countless abuses. This box was spotted early this morning prone on Bryant Street. This time, the Weekly wasn't the only publication to fall victim to random violence. Laid out beside it was the Advertiser and near by, that other paper, the Bay Guardian. In fact the only publication whose dispenser remained erect is that of the Real Estate Times. Which raises the question, what were you doing last
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August 26, 2009Chris Daly May Know a Lot about a Lot -- But He Doesn't Know Jack About SF Weekly
Chris DalyI want to thank Supervisor Chris Daly. I want to thank the man for forcing me to read through his turgid, 2,500-word polemic about supervisorial candidate Theresa Sparks and how "big money" has supposedly been showered upon this newspaper in return for a cover story. Now we know what it's like to be trapped in an office cubicle with Leon Trotsky on speakerphone. And if it takes this sort of inspiration to lead us to live more virtuous lives to avoid such a fate in the great beyond -
November 4, 2009Breaking: Supes Override Newsom's Veto on Sanctuary Policy
Lauren SmileySupervisor David Campos meets the press after initial passage of his ordinance in OctoberAs anticipated, the Board of Supervisors this afternoon beat back Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto of Supervisor David Campos' sanctuary policy legislation. With a vote of 8-3 (Carmen Chu, Michela Alioto-Pier, and Sean Elsbernd dissenting), the supes adopted a new policy in which law enforcement would not be required to inform immigration authorities of a juvenile's status until after he or she is c
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