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  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Meet the California Lawmakers Who Are Enabling the Marijuana War

    Losing efforts sometimes score wins. Medical marijuana scored such a moral victory late Wednesday, when 163 members of Congress voted in favor of not allowing federal dollars to be spent on busting pot growers, distributors, and dispensaries in states with medical cannabis laws.The brainchild o ... More >>

  • News

    February 29, 2012

    They Were Kings: The Feds Attack the Internet Poker Industry

    Losing efforts sometimes score wins. Medical marijuana scored such a moral victory late Wednesday, when 163 members of Congress voted in favor of not allowing federal dollars to be spent on busting pot growers, distributors, and dispensaries in states with medical cannabis laws.The brainchild o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    It's Too Late to Stop Wild Horse Round Ups in California

    flickr/David Reese​Horse-lovers were disappointed this week when the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco rejected a motion for a restraining order and injunction to halt the round-up of over 2,000 wild horses and wild burros along the California-Nevada border. The court said that the motion was moot as ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 29, 2011

    Grocery Chain Fresh & Easy Opens First Location in S.F.

    flickr/David Reese​Horse-lovers were disappointed this week when the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco rejected a motion for a restraining order and injunction to halt the round-up of over 2,000 wild horses and wild burros along the California-Nevada border. The court said that the motion was moot as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Previewing San Francisco's New Fresh & Easy Markets

    Jonathan KauffmanFresh & Easy's prepared salads are attractively packaged.​Wednesday, June 22, is opening day for the Richmond District Fresh & Easy, a Britain-based grocery chain spreading across California with the speed of kudzu vines in Georgia. Owned by Tesco, Fresh & Easy opened ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Giants Ask You to Lend a Hand By Donating a Glove

    The children's future is in your hands​There has been a little too much beating up in baseball this season. So we suggest letting kindness take over for a change. At this Saturday's Giants game against the Cincinnati Reds, you can lend a hand by donating a glove. The Giants Community Fund, the tea ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Mexican Macroeconomics

    The children's future is in your hands​There has been a little too much beating up in baseball this season. So we suggest letting kindness take over for a change. At this Saturday's Giants game against the Cincinnati Reds, you can lend a hand by donating a glove. The Giants Community Fund, the tea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    Camels Chided For Using San Francisco in Tobacco Ads. Use These Sh*tholes Instead.

    Phallic camels aren't welcome in this here town! ​Earlier this week, City Attorney Dennis Herrera and short-timer Department of Public Health Director Mitch Katz wrote a sternly worded letter to Joe Camel's corporate overlords. The two chided R.J. Reynolds for using the Haight -- as well as Brookl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Republican Election Ploy: Gays Marry Goats, Dogs, and ... Clocks?

    Dating material perhaps. But you want to marry this? ​The Week In GayHave you noticed that the midterm election is around the goddamned corner? If your home is like mine you shovel 10 pounds of crap out of the mailbox and into the recycling bin every day; you have stopped answering the phone altog ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Rec and Parks chief Jared Blumenfeld dumps his boat to work on green issues

    Dating material perhaps. But you want to marry this? ​The Week In GayHave you noticed that the midterm election is around the goddamned corner? If your home is like mine you shovel 10 pounds of crap out of the mailbox and into the recycling bin every day; you have stopped answering the phone altog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Burning Man 2010: A Freakishly Cold Fish Barrel for Cops?

    Taymar Richard Gillmore​"Hell," as P.B. Shelley wanly admitted, "is a city very much like London," but it's hard to imagine this simile gaining much traction at this year's Burning Man. The theme for the 2010 installment of the gigantic annual art party held in the Nevada desert was "Metropolis: ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 1, 2010

    Fall Arts: A designer and a diva give flavor to "Aida"

    Taymar Richard Gillmore​"Hell," as P.B. Shelley wanly admitted, "is a city very much like London," but it's hard to imagine this simile gaining much traction at this year's Burning Man. The theme for the 2010 installment of the gigantic annual art party held in the Nevada desert was "Metropolis: ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 7, 2010

    July Literary Events

    Taymar Richard Gillmore​"Hell," as P.B. Shelley wanly admitted, "is a city very much like London," but it's hard to imagine this simile gaining much traction at this year's Burning Man. The theme for the 2010 installment of the gigantic annual art party held in the Nevada desert was "Metropolis: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Why Did People's Donuts Change Its Name to Pepple's?

    Tamara Palmer​Pepple's Donuts, the organic, vegan East Bay wholesale bakery formerly known as People's Donuts, has opened a kiosk in San Francisco's Ferry Building. What's with the weird name change? A Pepple's rep told us that she heard it was because the owner, Josh Levine, thinks Pepple's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Paul Addis, Who Torched the Burning Man, Has New Solo Show

    ​Paul Addis is back, and he's ready to crash the system. Remember back in 2007, when Burning Man suffered from a case of premature burn? The guy responsible for the arson was local performer/provocateur Paul Addis. At the time, he was about to embark on a tour of Gonzo: A Brutal Chrysalis--his o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Got Stress? List of Most and Least 'Stressed' Counties Updated -- S.F. Makes Neither.

    Dorothea LangeYes, San Francisco's economic 'stress levels' have been worse...​If you needed a statistical analysis to back up your gut feeling, here it is: San Francisco ain't such a bad place to be. At least that's what the Associated Press' Economic Stress Index reported on Monday. The index -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Too $hort Arrested for DUI in Vegas

    Too Drunk? Too $hort​Say it ain't so, $hort. This may have slipped under the radar due to all the music-related stuff going on last weekend, but on Aug 27, TMZ.com reported that Oakland rap pioneer Too $hort, ne Todd Anthony Shaw, had been arrested in Las Vegas under suspicion of driving under th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2008

    O Hypodermic Light

    Too Drunk? Too $hort​Say it ain't so, $hort. This may have slipped under the radar due to all the music-related stuff going on last weekend, but on Aug 27, TMZ.com reported that Oakland rap pioneer Too $hort, ne Todd Anthony Shaw, had been arrested in Las Vegas under suspicion of driving under th ... More >>

  • Music

    September 3, 2008

    Mexican bribes and high gas prices: The May Fire's tour diary

    Too Drunk? Too $hort​Say it ain't so, $hort. This may have slipped under the radar due to all the music-related stuff going on last weekend, but on Aug 27, TMZ.com reported that Oakland rap pioneer Too $hort, ne Todd Anthony Shaw, had been arrested in Las Vegas under suspicion of driving under th ... More >>

  • News

    April 23, 2008

    Print is dying, but Chron gets glossy new press

    Too Drunk? Too $hort​Say it ain't so, $hort. This may have slipped under the radar due to all the music-related stuff going on last weekend, but on Aug 27, TMZ.com reported that Oakland rap pioneer Too $hort, ne Todd Anthony Shaw, had been arrested in Las Vegas under suspicion of driving under th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008

    ABC7 Makes The Times: Raw Matthews-On-Clinton Action

    Too Drunk? Too $hort​Say it ain't so, $hort. This may have slipped under the radar due to all the music-related stuff going on last weekend, but on Aug 27, TMZ.com reported that Oakland rap pioneer Too $hort, ne Todd Anthony Shaw, had been arrested in Las Vegas under suspicion of driving under th ... More >>

  • News

    May 9, 2007

    All-in or Nothing

    Rene Medina’s Colma casino brought life to a city of cemeteries. It also brought federal agents looking for corruption.

  • News

    February 7, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of 2-7-07

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    Ready to Rumble

    It's the 100-year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. Are you a fan of all the hoopla? Take our quiz and see.

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2004

    Wild Things

    David Brower's fight to save the west

  • News

    July 21, 2004

    The Politics of Burning Man

    Burning Man and the Republican convention coincide. Where's a good progressive to go?

  • News

    November 5, 2003

    Hair Story

    Combing the aisles at the World Beard and Moustache Championships

  • Film

    February 19, 2003

    California Split

    Who's winning what at the upcoming S.F. International Film Festival

  • Film

    November 6, 2002

    Out of Sight

    Doing the Landmark switcheroo, hitting the underground S.F. music scene, and encouraging chick flick-makers

  • News

    October 9, 2002

    Future Speak

    The Long Now Foundation wants to assemble every human language on one nearly indestructible disk -- and, maybe, to last forever

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of September 18, 2002

  • News

    January 30, 2002

    The Inimitable Luke Brugnara on...

    Luke Brugnara's quotable quotes about Willie Brown, his wealth, and the failings of higher education.

  • Film

    January 16, 2002

    I Like Trouble

    Julia Roberts' next film will be shot, and set, in San Francisco

  • News

    September 5, 2001

    Through a Different Lens

    We don't need more pretty pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge. So why is one of the country's finest documentary photographers taking hundreds of them?

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from March 21, 2001

  • Calendar

    January 31, 2001

    Manifest Mythology

    "Native to the Land: Photography and the North American Indian, 1870-1930"

  • News

    November 29, 2000

    Paying the Price

    Major oil companies are gobbling up independent gas station operators, all in the name of greed

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Selection of Beef

    Tehama Angus Ranch Annual Bull Sale

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    Night Crawler

    Past Perfect

  • News

    November 10, 1999

    Mister Sandman

    The Bay Area's most prolific beach artist steps forward after years of anonymity

  • News

    July 21, 1999

    Dog Bites

    The Bay Area's most prolific beach artist steps forward after years of anonymity

  • Culture

    December 2, 1998

    Stage

    The Bay Area's most prolific beach artist steps forward after years of anonymity

  • News

    July 8, 1998

    The One ... the Only ... Circus Redickuless

    Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

  • Calendar

    June 10, 1998

    Night Crawler

    Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    Fake It to the Limit

    For 10 years, Lewis Peter Morgan impersonated Randy Meisner, an obscure former bass guitar player for the Eagles rock group. Morgan smooth-talked his way into a borrowed lifestyle of guitars, girls, and casinos. He could have checked out of the deception

  • News

    August 13, 1997

    Monsters of Drag

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • Music

    May 7, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • Calendar

    March 5, 1997

    Savage Love

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • Music

    September 11, 1996

    Samples

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • News

    June 7, 1995

    Exile in Rental Land

    Surviving the hunt for San Francisco housing

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