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  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Feds Renege on Plea Deal for State-Legal Medical Marijuana Providers

    SF WeeklyScott Feil​Scott Feil wants to go to prison. And the United States wants to put him there. That, however, is where the common ground between Feil -- one of the state-legal medical marijuana providers the federal government is prosecuting -- and the Department of Justice ends.Three of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Giovanni Ramirez, Accused of Beating Bryan Stow, Could Be Released

    Could be free soon​UPDATE: A judge decided today that Ramirez will remain in prison another 10 months for parole violations. Last month when police arrested Giovanni Ramirez, on suspicion of beating Giants fan Bryan Stow, there was a wave of relief that perhaps someone would be held accountable. B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Bryan Stow Update: Doctors to Take Beaten Giants Fan Out of Coma

    Bryan Stow and his kids​Doctors are attempting to remove Bryan Stow from his medically induced coma for the second time since he was viciously beaten outside Dodger stadium last month.Hospital officials in Los Angeles told reporters today that it will take up to three days before there could be an ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

    Bryan Stow and his kids​Doctors are attempting to remove Bryan Stow from his medically induced coma for the second time since he was viciously beaten outside Dodger stadium last month.Hospital officials in Los Angeles told reporters today that it will take up to three days before there could be an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Top State Forensic Analyst under Fire for Defending Disgraced NC Crime Lab

    ​The top forensics official at California's Department of Justice has come under attack for public statements defending controversial practices at a crime lab in North Carolina.Jill Spriggs, chief of the DOJ's Bureau of Forensic Services, appeared before a panel of North Carolina legislators a few ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2010

    SFPD crime lab's DNA evidence could be tainted by concealed mistakes

    ​The top forensics official at California's Department of Justice has come under attack for public statements defending controversial practices at a crime lab in North Carolina.Jill Spriggs, chief of the DOJ's Bureau of Forensic Services, appeared before a panel of North Carolina legislators a few ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    'Whore' Comment Doesn't Cost Jerry Brown National Organization for Women Endorsement

    Be careful whom you call a whore...​The day after Jerry Brown's campaign landed in hot water for describing Meg Whitman as a "whore," Brown received the gubernatorial endorsement from the state's largest women's organization. Patty Bellasalma, the president of the California chapter of the Nationa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    City Attorney: $9 Million Nightclub Lawsuit 'Baseless'

    Can you treat San Francisco like the Sopranos? City Attorney's office says no. ​Yesterday, a nightclub owner and one of his former bartenders filed a complaint against the city and state alleging a "pattern of racketeering activity, including false arrests, assault and battery, kidnappings, [and] ... More >>

  • News

    March 17, 2010

    Turning the Tables

    Police have made a number of arrests and seizures of DJ equipment at underground parties and clubs. Is it enforcement or harassment?

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Oops, Typo: Cops Did *Not* Sit on Hugues de La Plaza Medical Report For Year and a Half

    Hugues de la Plaza​With CBS' 48 Hours preparing to show its take on the beguiling Hugues de La Plaza case on Saturday, much has been made of an elusive medical report the show's producers managed to turn up. In it, former San Francisco Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Ferenc concludes, unambiguously, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Cops: Man Accused of Dousing Neighbor in Boiling Oil Had Lengthy Criminal Record

    ​When San Francisco police followed a trail of splattered grease down the hall of the Rose Hotel to William Pious' room and arrested him for allegedly dousing a sleeping neighbor with a pan of boiling cooking oil, it was not the 50-year-old's first brush with the law. The SFPD states that Pious wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Friends Worry LAPD Overview of Hugues de La Plaza Case Will Reveal SFPD Bungling -- But No Murderer

    Hugues de la Plaza​New San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon continues to prove that he certainly knows how to make a first impression (other than being spotted around town in baggy shorts and flip-flops). Yesterday, the Chronicle reported that Gascon's old boss, LAPD Chief William Bratton, has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    'Three-Ring Circus' Of Immigrant-Bashing in Mesa, Ariz. May Have Hastened New SFPD Chief George Gascon's Departure

    George Gascon, San Francisco's police chief-to-beBy now, anyone even loosely following city government knows that San Francisco's next police chief is George Gascon -- and, if you've been following SF Weekly's coverage, you may even know how he stands on policy matters (and that he sounds a bit like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Top Cop George Gascon Meets The Press

    Joe EskenaziIncoming Police Chief George Gascon addresses the sweating throngs of the fourth estate, as Mayor Gavin Newsom looks onThere are two times in life when it's pretty much guaranteed that everyone will find something nice to say about you: Your wedding and  your funeral. It was a littl ... More >>

  • News

    December 26, 2007

    On Deck

    Something to look forward to in 2008: Clint Eastwood's Changeling

  • Film

    August 8, 2007

    The Popcorn King

    Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

  • Film

    September 13, 2006

    Ghost World

    True-crime noir goes searching for Hollywood's heart of darkness

  • Film

    September 6, 2006

    Detective Comics

    Showbiz noir investigates TV Superman's real-life tragedy

  • Calendar

    November 23, 2005

    Seminal Beat

    A tribute to an unsung maverick of beatnik culture

  • News

    October 5, 2005

    Sign of the Cult-Buster

    Anti-cult crusader Ford Greene and the town of San Anselmo are staging a nasty public fight over Greene's strident anti-Bush political signs. But is that an old religious enemy we see behind the curtain?

  • News

    July 20, 2005

    Aliens Beware!

    Infiltrator takes in NASA Space Camp for kids. As an adult. To save the planet.

  • News

    May 25, 2005

    Bullshitting the Lie Detector

    Infiltrator cooks up a criminal past. A PAX TV show absolves him of it. Ain't it a great country?

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    Intrepid Antiwarriors of the Libertarian Right Stake Their Rightful Claim to Power

    Looking into the endearing obsession known as Antiwar.com

  • Film

    August 27, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    Looking into the endearing obsession known as Antiwar.com

  • Film

    August 20, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    Looking into the endearing obsession known as Antiwar.com

  • Music

    August 13, 2003

    The Wrath of Gahan

    With the release of his solo debut, the Depeche Mode frontman completes the ultimate rock 'n' roll star trek: Success, Overdose, Resurrection

  • Music

    January 1, 2003

    House of Tudor

    Plane old new wave/speed metal, the visualization of sound, an African update of Carmen, and the über-proto-feminist lifestyle-radical

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2002

    The North and South

    A Southern California artist imagines a literal civil war between L.A. and San Francisco

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Law of the Bungle

    Sara Jane Olson's attorney would like to say a few words about how her San Francisco co-counsel handled the high-profile case

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Punks at War

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

  • News

    May 5, 1999

    The Fandom Menace

    Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. $300 action figures. The new Star Wars isn't just a movie. It's a force that's with us.

  • Film

    June 11, 1997

    That Sinking Feeling

    Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. $300 action figures. The new Star Wars isn't just a movie. It's a force that's with us.

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Paper Trails

    Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. $300 action figures. The new Star Wars isn't just a movie. It's a force that's with us.

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