Nicaragua

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Daly, Ammiano Push $200K to Fix Nicaragua - Peskin Questions Relief Package

San Francisco Taxi Rates To Rise Pending Health Care Plan: SFGovernmentInAction

SF Ghettos Re-Zoned for More Booze? It's: SFGovernmentInAction!!!

Last Night: Bang Data at the Elbo Room

Bang Data at the Elbo Room January 12, 2009 Review by Eric K. Arnold Photos by EKAphotography What more could anyone ask from a Tuesday night in the Mission than discovering both a new favorite taqueria and a new favorite band? First the taqueria: Los Coyotes on 16th (in-between Mission and Valenci ... More >>

Luna Tics

Bang Data at the Elbo Room January 12, 2009 Review by Eric K. Arnold Photos by EKAphotography What more could anyone ask from a Tuesday night in the Mission than discovering both a new favorite taqueria and a new favorite band? First the taqueria: Los Coyotes on 16th (in-between Mission and Valenci ... More >>

The Meaning of Life

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

Cartology: From the Inside Looking Out

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

Animal Welfare Commission Wants to Outlaw Cruel Art

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

Kiva's Microloans Underwriting Cockfighting in Peru

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

Song Sung New

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

The War On Gangs

With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

Repertory Film Listings

With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

Repertory Film Listings

With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

Repertory Film Listings

With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

Capsule reviews of current film releases

With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

Dissipating Smoke

When Sherlock's Haven closes, the city's cigar and pipe smokers will lose one of their few public refuges

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

When Sherlock's Haven closes, the city's cigar and pipe smokers will lose one of their few public refuges

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

When Sherlock's Haven closes, the city's cigar and pipe smokers will lose one of their few public refuges

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

When Sherlock's Haven closes, the city's cigar and pipe smokers will lose one of their few public refuges

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

When Sherlock's Haven closes, the city's cigar and pipe smokers will lose one of their few public refuges

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

When Sherlock's Haven closes, the city's cigar and pipe smokers will lose one of their few public refuges

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

When Sherlock's Haven closes, the city's cigar and pipe smokers will lose one of their few public refuges

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

When Sherlock's Haven closes, the city's cigar and pipe smokers will lose one of their few public refuges

Not Much to Say

Snappy one-liners can't rescue the Mime Troupe's too-obvious political message

Yo Soy Centroamericano

Why vote Kerry? Exhibit No. 1: George W. Bush has shamelessly hired the dangerous figures behind the Iran-Contra Affair into senior diplomatic posts.

Institute of Hate

Right-wingers are targeting liberal pastors -- including at least one in S.F. -- who favor gay marriage

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Right-wingers are targeting liberal pastors -- including at least one in S.F. -- who favor gay marriage

Fair Ball

Love of the national pastime, on display at a downtown art gallery

Tanks for the Memories

Reconnoitering the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation and its 205 military vehicles. In Portola Valley.

Sticky Situations

We went to the largest stamp collectors' convention in California. And found something to write about.

The Clash

Sandinista!

Freedom for a Transsexual

A refugee from torture is finally let out of jail

Postscript

Ride of Passage

Radio Days

Ride of Passage

Torture of a Transsexual

In a landmark case, Amanda DuValle, allegedly brutalized in Nicaragua because she is a transsexual, escaped deportation from the U.S. by invoking the U.N. Convention Against Torture. But if she won, why is she still in jail?

Letters

In a landmark case, Amanda DuValle, allegedly brutalized in Nicaragua because she is a transsexual, escaped deportation from the U.S. by invoking the U.N. Convention Against Torture. But if she won, why is she still in jail?

Letters

In a landmark case, Amanda DuValle, allegedly brutalized in Nicaragua because she is a transsexual, escaped deportation from the U.S. by invoking the U.N. Convention Against Torture. But if she won, why is she still in jail?

Tibetmania!

In a landmark case, Amanda DuValle, allegedly brutalized in Nicaragua because she is a transsexual, escaped deportation from the U.S. by invoking the U.N. Convention Against Torture. But if she won, why is she still in jail?

Past Forward

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Night+Day

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Desperately Seeking Citizenship

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

Night+Day

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

What Price Hygiene?

Janitors claim building managers are treating them like dirt

Aisle Seat

Janitors claim building managers are treating them like dirt

DJ Beto digs past Latin insects for the real funk

Janitors claim building managers are treating them like dirt

Mission Gallery Organizes Wednesday Bean-In

Gravel & GoldAn art, clothing, produce, good vibes -- and now bean -- dispenser in the Mission.​These days, art, food, and apparel don't amount to more than a hill of beans. Tomorrow, from noon until 3 p.m., or while legumes last, food activist and artist Mark Andrew Gravel will be serving up ... More >>

Comfort Food: At home on the Nicaraguan strip

Gravel & GoldAn art, clothing, produce, good vibes -- and now bean -- dispenser in the Mission.​These days, art, food, and apparel don't amount to more than a hill of beans. Tomorrow, from noon until 3 p.m., or while legumes last, food activist and artist Mark Andrew Gravel will be serving up ... More >>

How to Make Nacatamales, the Other Hot Pocket

Jen SiskaAdelita's nacatamal, exposed.​Not only did this week's review give me an excuse to eat queso frito over and over again ― even reading the words "fried cheese" makes the heart of any native Midwesterner swell ― it meant walking around the Mission sampling nacatamales. And then losing y ... More >>

Danielle Bologna Enters Witness Protection as Edwin Ramos Trial Nears

Edwin Ramos​Immigrant rights activists remember 2008 as the year that San Francisco turned its back on its sanctuary city status. Then-Mayor Gavin Newsom reversed the city's long-standing policy of shielding juvenile undocumented immigrants from deportation as the city became the target of anti-im ... More >>