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February 27, 2012
Muni Masturbation Inspires Bay Citizen Poll on Public Transit Perverts
After former SF Weekly staff writer Lauren Smiley regaled readers with her ribald version of a Muni ride home alongside one too many masturbators, it appears those public transit perverts have intrigued the local media.Specifically, The Bay Citizen wants to know just how often Muni and BART& ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
SF Weekly Letters
After former SF Weekly staff writer Lauren Smiley regaled readers with her ribald version of a Muni ride home alongside one too many masturbators, it appears those public transit perverts have intrigued the local media.Specifically, The Bay Citizen wants to know just how often Muni and BART& ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
SF Weekly Letters
After former SF Weekly staff writer Lauren Smiley regaled readers with her ribald version of a Muni ride home alongside one too many masturbators, it appears those public transit perverts have intrigued the local media.Specifically, The Bay Citizen wants to know just how often Muni and BART& ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
Occupy SF: Mission District Residents Don't Want Protesters in Their Backyard
Lauren SmileyYou tell me: Is this guy an Occupy camper or just another Mission District resident?The feeling is mutual between Mission residents and Occupy SF protesters: Neither group wants to see the encampment relocate to the Mission District, despite what city officials say. The Chron's Matie ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
Lauren SmileyYou tell me: Is this guy an Occupy camper or just another Mission District resident?The feeling is mutual between Mission residents and Occupy SF protesters: Neither group wants to see the encampment relocate to the Mission District, despite what city officials say. The Chron's Matie ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Alien Pastry Chefs, Nice Baristas, and Fall Cocktails: This Week in Food Bloggery
Jonathan Percy/SF Weekly Flickr poolHighlights from the blog this week: 1. Have you read Lauren Smiley's great profile of Oscar Yedra yet? Yedra's a master butcher who, until now, has remained low profile in a food scene turning butchers into artisans (at minimum), even celebrities. SFoodie acc ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Occupy SF Prepares for Police Raid Tonight
Kate CongerIs San Francisco next?Update (5:45 p.m.): Department of Health officials led reporters through the encampment this evening as they inspected the area for violations. SF Weekly's Lauren Smiley says that Barbara Garcia, the director of the city's Health Department, claims the toile ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
Kate CongerIs San Francisco next?Update (5:45 p.m.): Department of Health officials led reporters through the encampment this evening as they inspected the area for violations. SF Weekly's Lauren Smiley says that Barbara Garcia, the director of the city's Health Department, claims the toile ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
What's Your Death Row Last Meal?
James Reynolds/Last SuppersRecreations of condemned inmates' actual last meal requestsI got to thinking about death-row last meal requests last week, which naturally made me think of mine. I don't want to speculate about why I'd be executed. Naturally, I would be being framed. I also asked ... More >>
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August 24, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
James Reynolds/Last SuppersRecreations of condemned inmates' actual last meal requestsI got to thinking about death-row last meal requests last week, which naturally made me think of mine. I don't want to speculate about why I'd be executed. Naturally, I would be being framed. I also asked ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Protesters Storm Civic Center BART, Trains Halt, Stations Closed
Lauren SmileyJust your avergae BART police protesterUpdate 6:30 p.m.: Protesters have lost steam. The chants are dying down and the crowd has thinned out to about 20 people. Allison reports that Embarcadero was closed for five minutes but has since reopened. Montgomery Street station has also ope ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
Lauren SmileyJust your avergae BART police protesterUpdate 6:30 p.m.: Protesters have lost steam. The chants are dying down and the crowd has thinned out to about 20 people. Allison reports that Embarcadero was closed for five minutes but has since reopened. Montgomery Street station has also ope ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
What Taqueria Is Tasty Enough for an MS-13 Member to Risk Getting Shot?
View Tacos on 24th Street in Norteño Territory in a larger mapSF Weekly reporter Lauren Smiley followed up on her (stunning) cover story, "A Rat's Life," with a blog post yesterday, "The Insider's Guide to the MS-13 Gang." In between tidbits like not using gang funds to buy broken-down Impalas and ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
View Tacos on 24th Street in Norteño Territory in a larger mapSF Weekly reporter Lauren Smiley followed up on her (stunning) cover story, "A Rat's Life," with a blog post yesterday, "The Insider's Guide to the MS-13 Gang." In between tidbits like not using gang funds to buy broken-down Impalas and ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
View Tacos on 24th Street in Norteño Territory in a larger mapSF Weekly reporter Lauren Smiley followed up on her (stunning) cover story, "A Rat's Life," with a blog post yesterday, "The Insider's Guide to the MS-13 Gang." In between tidbits like not using gang funds to buy broken-down Impalas and ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
View Tacos on 24th Street in Norteño Territory in a larger mapSF Weekly reporter Lauren Smiley followed up on her (stunning) cover story, "A Rat's Life," with a blog post yesterday, "The Insider's Guide to the MS-13 Gang." In between tidbits like not using gang funds to buy broken-down Impalas and ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
View Tacos on 24th Street in Norteño Territory in a larger mapSF Weekly reporter Lauren Smiley followed up on her (stunning) cover story, "A Rat's Life," with a blog post yesterday, "The Insider's Guide to the MS-13 Gang." In between tidbits like not using gang funds to buy broken-down Impalas and ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
View Tacos on 24th Street in Norteño Territory in a larger mapSF Weekly reporter Lauren Smiley followed up on her (stunning) cover story, "A Rat's Life," with a blog post yesterday, "The Insider's Guide to the MS-13 Gang." In between tidbits like not using gang funds to buy broken-down Impalas and ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
San Francisco's Next Mayor Is Royally Screwed
Our new city flag? Much speculation is under way as to who the Board of Supervisors will tap to succeed Gavin Newsom, who has finally managed to flee San Francisco politics. Less attention has been paid to the gift-wrapped turd Newsom presents his successor, whomever it may be. With a foot out th ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
When Following the Chile Lindo Saga, Don't Forget How Important the ADA Is
Lauren Smiley's coverage of Chile Lindo's closing in the face of an acrimonious lawsuit regarding wheelchair access makes me prickle in discomfort, torn between feeling for owner Paula Tejada and worrying that readers will excoriate the defendant, glossing over the importance of the Americans wit ... More >>
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June 30, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
Lauren Smiley's coverage of Chile Lindo's closing in the face of an acrimonious lawsuit regarding wheelchair access makes me prickle in discomfort, torn between feeling for owner Paula Tejada and worrying that readers will excoriate the defendant, glossing over the importance of the Americans wit ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
Lauren Smiley's coverage of Chile Lindo's closing in the face of an acrimonious lawsuit regarding wheelchair access makes me prickle in discomfort, torn between feeling for owner Paula Tejada and worrying that readers will excoriate the defendant, glossing over the importance of the Americans wit ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
Lauren Smiley's coverage of Chile Lindo's closing in the face of an acrimonious lawsuit regarding wheelchair access makes me prickle in discomfort, torn between feeling for owner Paula Tejada and worrying that readers will excoriate the defendant, glossing over the importance of the Americans wit ... More >>
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April 27, 2010
Janitors Descend From Skyscrapers to Protest Immigration Raids
At 9 p.m. on Monday night, long after the white-collar workers that make the Financial District hum had gone home, the janitors started to trickle out of the skyscrapers into the dark plaza in front of 101 California.It was like sighting a secret society, a gathering of workers whose job lends on ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
SF Weekly Wins Big at CNPA Awards
Hey, that's us!SF Weekly won seven awards in the California Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspaper Contest -- the second-most of any weekly in the state with a circulation higher than 25,000. The Weekly earned three first-place prizes -- including one for Best Investigative/Enterpris ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Paper Trails: Honor Killings, A Dead Sex Offender, and Hannah Montana
In the paper this week...Paul Rubin writes about a Muslim father's "honor killing" of his 20-year-old Americanized daughter in Arizona.Matt Smith uses Healthy San Francisco as a crystal ball to portend what national health care reform might bring: longer lines in the waiting room. Peter Jamison ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Kauffman's Five: This Week in Bloggery
Five favorite bits from the blogs and beyond:T. Palmer1. A couple years ago, a friend and I drove several hundred miles out of our way to stop in Pie Town, New Mexico, for apple and green chile pie. Now all I have to do is walk to Chile Pies. Something about the blog buzz around the new restauran ... More >>
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February 24, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
Five favorite bits from the blogs and beyond:T. Palmer1. A couple years ago, a friend and I drove several hundred miles out of our way to stop in Pie Town, New Mexico, for apple and green chile pie. Now all I have to do is walk to Chile Pies. Something about the blog buzz around the new restauran ... More >>
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December 2, 2009
SF Weekly Letters
Five favorite bits from the blogs and beyond:T. Palmer1. A couple years ago, a friend and I drove several hundred miles out of our way to stop in Pie Town, New Mexico, for apple and green chile pie. Now all I have to do is walk to Chile Pies. Something about the blog buzz around the new restauran ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Come For Black Friday, Stay For -- Gay Marriage?
Last week, Lauren Smiley wrote a fascinating story about a Mexican man who specifically flew to San Francisco to participate in the Black Friday buy-a-thon in the City by the Bay.Most San Franciscans probably wouldn't be thrilled with the impression of our city an out-of-towner gets if his or her ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
SF Weekly Letters
Last week, Lauren Smiley wrote a fascinating story about a Mexican man who specifically flew to San Francisco to participate in the Black Friday buy-a-thon in the City by the Bay.Most San Franciscans probably wouldn't be thrilled with the impression of our city an out-of-towner gets if his or her ... More >>
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November 10, 2009
Breaking: 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 Aliot ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Chris 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 ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
Vandals 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 clot ... More >>
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July 8, 2009
SF Weekly Letters
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 clot ... More >>
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March 23, 2009
Saga 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 corn ... More >>
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January 7, 2009
Gavin'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 ... More >>
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December 31, 2008
11th 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 th ... More >>
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December 24, 2008
All 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 ... More >>
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December 22, 2008
Picking 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 t ... More >>
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December 17, 2008
SF Weekly Letters
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 t ... More >>
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December 11, 2008
California 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 ... More >>
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December 4, 2008
SF 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 loo ... More >>
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November 28, 2008
Coming 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 t ... More >>
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November 3, 2008
Halloween at the Cat Club, Dia de los Muertos in the Mission and the Alternative Press Expo: Your Monday Morning Hangover
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 t ... More >>
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August 20, 2008
SF Weekly Letters
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 t ... More >>
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July 13, 2008
Friday Night: James Hunter at Bimbo's 365 Club
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 t ... More >>
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July 7, 2008
SF's Top Eccentrics - Owen Dias a.k.a. Powell Street's No Sex Guy
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 t ... More >>
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January 28, 2008
Anti-Weekly Suit Set for Take-Off
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 t ... More >>
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July 25, 2007
Clown Wants Newsom’s Job – Wait a minute …
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 t ... More >>
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