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Subject: Oceanside (New York)

  • S.F. gets off the crapper

    February 22, 1995
  • Mercury Falling

    May 8, 1996
  • Oh, Shit

    March 29, 2006
  • Those Who Dared

    Why the three San Francisco music scene vets who make up Virginia Dare have happily retired to home and hearth

    June 16, 1999
  • Fecal Matters

    When it comes to sewers, San Francisco just can't get its shit together

    September 23, 1998
  • Portrait of the Soul-Jacker

    Police call Bernard Temple the meanest hit man ever to roam the gang-infested streets of Bayview-Hunters Point. Temple calls himself a soul-jacker -- someone who kills to steal the spiritual power of his victims.

    March 26, 1997
  • Chronic City: What If They Banned Zoloft Or Something Else Instead?

    igougo.comIf you're a medical marijuana patient, Oceanside may decide on Wednesday that it doesn't want your business. Or your crime, or your noise. Wait, what?Oceanside, like 110 or so other cities in California, may impose a (temporary, they say) ban on medical marijuana dispensaries until the city decides how to "regulate" them, according to the North County Times. On Wednesday, the Oceanside City Council will look at an "urgency ordinance" that would immediately prohibit marijuana dispe

    May 11, 2009
  • Told You So: Newsweek Reports SF Wastewater Plant Now a Popular Tourist Destination. Imagine How Popular It'd Be If We'd Named It After George W. Bush.

    Turns out that wouldn't have been a bad idea after all Funny how being broke changes your perspective on things. Not so long ago, a goodly number of Californians still seemed to believe that marijuana made you behave like flesh-eating zombies as depicted in the now-laughable film Reefer Madness. Yet now that the state's run out of money and our bond rating is "Top Ramen," the idea of legalizing pot and taxing it appeals to a healthy majority of Californians -- and Gov. Arnold "Is Numero Uno" Sch

    May 12, 2009
  • Farmers' Market or Organic Delivery Service? Weighing the Eco Options

    heather/FlickrHeart of the City market: Low carbon footprint?Agoraphobic? Is it raining out? Or maybe you're just too lazy to drag your ass to the farmers' market. Spud, the largest organic food delivery service in North America, can hook you up. But is that entirely a good thing? It is if convenience is your chief value. Spud, which began its grocery delivery business in Vancouver more than a dozen years ago, launched locally in January 2008, before the proliferation of city farmers' markets (

    June 8, 2009
  • Chronic City: Marijuana Moratorium -- How To Ignore The Voters And The Law

    Dispensary moratorium: Latest political fad?​One by one, across California, the lights are winking out.In city after city, town after town, patients who had dared hope they would at last have safe access to the medicine recommended by their physicians are having those hopes dashed  by political cowardice, inertia, and the status quo.In case you haven't noticed, medical marijuana is yet another front in the culture wars. Conservative hamlets which aren't yet ready for the 21st Century noti

    August 4, 2009