By Meredith Brody
You may have noticed that there's precious little new stuff to watch during the holidays - a period which The New York Times describes as "a profound holiday slumber of repeats and musical specials." But we can't even find any musical specials, and are reduced to re-watching A Colbert Christmas , which in a marketing stroke of genius was broadcast before Thanksgiving and available on DVD immediately thereafter. ("Remember, every time you buy a copy of A Colbert Christmas, an
Michael Phelps, who deviated from a training-driven lifestyle that put Communist Chinese programs for 12-year-olds to shame only to channel Frank "The Tank" Ricard with a boozy, druggy bacchanal at the University of South Carolina is coming here.A full-page spread in the Sunday Chronicle pitched the forthcoming "Get Motivated! Business Seminar," featuring speakers such as Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani as well as Phelps. In addition to Phelps' speech on "competitiveness," one can presumably lear
In plotting to arrest Rudy Giuliani, 9/11 truthers may finally have found a way to make Bay Area folk sympathetic to the manA none-too-imaginatively named group calling itself the "March 24th Committee to Arrest Giuliani" sent out press releases confirming its plan to ... arrest Rudy Giuliani! Guess when? As "America's mayor" hits San Jose tomorrow for the Get Motivated! Business Seminar the group plan to arrest him (citing "California Penal Code 837") for allegedly lying about how he knew all a
Gavin Newsom's push to move the "chronic" homeless into supportive housing has made him the darling of the Bush administration's homelessness czar. But is there enough money to make it work?