Subject: Rodney King

• Disgraced BART Cop Hires Barry Bonds' Lawyer -- But Don't Expect a Legal Home Run

  It was only a matter of time before Johannes Mehserle, the ex-BART officer accused of murdering unarmed passenger Oscar Grant, hired Pleasant Hill-based attorney Mike Rains. While the general public probably recognizes Rains primarily for his work representing Barry Bonds, in local legal circles he's known as the go-to guy for cops accused of misconduct. Rains most (in)famously represented one of the Oakland officers nicknamed "The Riders," who'd been accused of brutalizing suspects and planting

  January 22, 2009

• Hip-Hop Horror

  May 24, 1995

• The Third Man

  August 23, 1995

• Vocal Talent

  August 30, 1995

• Aisle Seat

  February 28, 1996

• Masters of Disaster

  March 20, 1996

• White Fright

  Exploration of self-hating white guy is alternately dope and wack.

  November 5, 2008

• Your Friends and Neighbors

  Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace.

  September 17, 2008

• The Roots’ state of the union address

  June 4, 2008

• Off the Wall

  One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

  May 16, 2007

• Elf Me!

  Walking in a hellish Santaland

  December 3, 2003

• What Dreams May Come

  Life after Party of Five, training for Latin American military officers, and the "Godfather of Gore"

  July 2, 2003

• Ecstasy Is an Art Car

  Philo Northrup and his wacky automotive tribe take a road trip to places in California you can't even imagine

  April 9, 2003

• Radar Bros.

  And the Surrounding Mountains (Merge)

  July 31, 2002

• Chump Changes

  Journalists are playing into the hands of George Bush when they unthinkingly insist that everything is different since Sept. 11

  January 2, 2002

• American Beauty

  September 5, 2001

• Bzzzzzzt

  April 4, 2001

• Black Rage

  May 17, 2000

• Jet Set

  March 22, 2000

• Postscript

  July 21, 1999

• Cothran

  July 21, 1999

• Lock and Keys

  January 27, 1999

• Night + Day

  January 27, 1999

• Dog Bites

  July 30, 1997

• The Grid

  April 2, 1997

• Stage 1996

  Five notable productions

  January 1, 1997

• Dead Heat

  Despite the deaths of Aaron Williams and Mark Garcia, the SFPD continues to use pepper spray on suspects who stand a good chance of dying in custody.

  May 15, 1996

• The Dusk of Civilization

  February 7, 1996

• Night + Day

  January 24, 1996

• Cop Stop?

  A Jordan first: He lurches left on cop discipline

  November 22, 1995

• Slap Shots

  November 8, 1995

• S.F. Cops on BART Glass-Shattering Incident: C'est La Vie

  Every once in a while, we give a call to a veteran San Francisco police officer with 20 years of patrol experience. Naturally we phoned him up to get his take on the weekend incident in which a BART officer removing a disorderly man from a train resulted in a  YouTube video titled "Officer Breaks Window With Drunks Face." The San Francisco officer noted to us that, yes, it looked like there was "a little bit of intent" form the BART cop, and, no, the BART cop certainly couldn't have expec

  November 24, 2009