Rush Limbaugh

Progressively Modest: Eric Mar Stays out of the Headlines

Mike Daisey's "Truthiness"

​This week's episode of This American Life is both fascinating and painful to listen to, as many of the show's best episodes are. I came away from it still enraged at Mike Daisey and his lies, but also a bit sympathetic toward him. The show made it clear, without saying so, that he's dealing with ... More >>

Jello Biafra's 'Ultimate Third Rail': Why the Outspoken SF Punk Rocker Abandoned Plans to Play in Israel

Last summer, SF punk rocker, notorious political rabble-rouser, and former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra was booked to perform in Israel, along with his band, the Guantanamo School of Medicine, in support of their new Enhanced Methods of Questioning EP. But their plans raised quite a controver ... More >>

Leland Yee: Drivers Could Park Three Days for Free at the Cost of Nat Ford's Severance Package

Wants three days of free parking ​Last week, City Attorney Dennis Herrera took what seems to be the first real potshot at a fellow mayoral candidate when he publicly said that he has better things to do than fight with Rush Limbaugh and ban shark fin soup. Anyone who has even barely scanned the he ... More >>

Angry Talk Radio Station KSFO Will Text You News and Ads for Gold

​Updated at 3:00 p.m: Someone purporting to be KSFO has responded to this piece with this thoughtful Tweet: ​ Original Post: One terrible truth of life is that on occasion talk-radio listeners wander out of earshot and languish momentarily without anyone telling them what they should b ... More >>

Why Leland Yee Won the Sierra Club Endorsement

A snapshot of Leland Yee's environmental record​Somebody has it out for State Sen. Leland Yee -- someone aside from Rush Limbaugh. When the news hit that the highly esteemed Sierra Club tossed its support behind Yee for mayor, the Twitter activity started buzzing; City Hall insiders -- and even re ... More >>

Who Wants a Date with a Smokin' Hot Progressive?

How much would you pay for a date with him?​The question of whether mayoral candidates can technically be bought has been answered. Yes, they can. Some of San Francisco's mayoral candidates will be auctioning themselves off at a fundraiser for the New Leaders Council on Wednesday, April 27 -- and ... More >>

Brian Sussman, Talk Radio Blowhard, Fails to Expose Earth Day Idiots

Tune into KSFO during morning drive time, and you might hear professional angry man Brian Sussman, whose job it is to gather news items that he can pretend to get pissed about. These he sprinkles like rose petals to prepare for the arrival of Master Rush Limbaugh, who follows Sussman at 9:00 a.m.A ... More >>

Saturday Night: Henry Rollins, Now 50, Imparts Punk-Rock Wisdom at the Independent

​ Henry RollinsApril 9, 2011@ The IndependentEvery 25 minutes or so, Henry Rollins hacks into the mic to clear his throat, like he's about to cough something up, right there on the largely empty stage of the Independent. But it's impossible to get mad -- or even grossed out -- by it when ... More >>

Dennis Herrera, Leland Yee, Two PR Machines Running for Mayor

Has he ever said 'No comment?'​On a near-daily basis, media outlets including SF Weekly receive a plethora of press releases from elected officials who are also gunning for higher office. The two who are most prolific with press releases are San Francisco's City Attorney Dennis Herrera and State S ... More >>

Breathing Funny

Has he ever said 'No comment?'​On a near-daily basis, media outlets including SF Weekly receive a plethora of press releases from elected officials who are also gunning for higher office. The two who are most prolific with press releases are San Francisco's City Attorney Dennis Herrera and State S ... More >>

The Real Message of Jared Loughner

Jared Loughner​There's been a lot of ink devoted to analyzing Jared Loughner's motivations in the shooting rampage that left U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) seriously wounded and six others, including a 9-year-old girl, dead. Much of the press attention has focused on the question of whether ... More >>

Harvey Milk's Camera Shop Defiled, and Other Outrages

WWHD?​There's an emerging pattern in Gayville lately. It's not a new thing -- not new to the gays or the general population either for that matter -- but it's still disconcerting. It's called whorishness.Does everything good have to be sold out, watered down, or compromised? The Human Rights Campa ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

WWHD?​There's an emerging pattern in Gayville lately. It's not a new thing -- not new to the gays or the general population either for that matter -- but it's still disconcerting. It's called whorishness.Does everything good have to be sold out, watered down, or compromised? The Human Rights Campa ... More >>

"The Social Network": David Fincher on Facebook's unlovable creator, Mark Zuckerberg

WWHD?​There's an emerging pattern in Gayville lately. It's not a new thing -- not new to the gays or the general population either for that matter -- but it's still disconcerting. It's called whorishness.Does everything good have to be sold out, watered down, or compromised? The Human Rights Campa ... More >>

Her House Divided

The most powerful female politician in the country now teeters between long-term victory and instant defeat.

The Week in Gay: Prop 8 Trial Slam Dunk! Elton is worse than we thought! San Francisco attacked by bad gay films!

In the movies​Last night the Frameline34 film festival celebrated opening night with a premiere at the Castro Theater followed by booze and wine and liquor and drinks and dancing out in the avenues. Of course, not all of the films are bad...some of them have promise. Closing night features Jame ... More >>

Charlie Varon's visionary Rabbi Sam leaves audiences rapt

In the movies​Last night the Frameline34 film festival celebrated opening night with a premiere at the Castro Theater followed by booze and wine and liquor and drinks and dancing out in the avenues. Of course, not all of the films are bad...some of them have promise. Closing night features Jame ... More >>

The Beer Whisperer

In the movies​Last night the Frameline34 film festival celebrated opening night with a premiere at the Castro Theater followed by booze and wine and liquor and drinks and dancing out in the avenues. Of course, not all of the films are bad...some of them have promise. Closing night features Jame ... More >>

Great Scott!

In the movies​Last night the Frameline34 film festival celebrated opening night with a premiere at the Castro Theater followed by booze and wine and liquor and drinks and dancing out in the avenues. Of course, not all of the films are bad...some of them have promise. Closing night features Jame ... More >>

Assassination Tango

Controversial docudrama imagines a post-Bush scenario

Untouchable

Half of U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's lawyers have quit. But as he remains bunkered against criticism, who's minding the shop?

Inside the Savage Nation

He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

Moonbat Is on the Air

Conservative radio host tries to teach Infiltrator rules of right-wing punditry

Tower of Babble

Bill O'Reilly wants terrorists to bomb Coit Tower because we're a bunch of sissies. Whose side are you on?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bill O'Reilly wants terrorists to bomb Coit Tower because we're a bunch of sissies. Whose side are you on?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bill O'Reilly wants terrorists to bomb Coit Tower because we're a bunch of sissies. Whose side are you on?

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theatre

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Bouncer

From 3 p.m. till late, Bouncer drinks and jibes with fellow liberals at the 500 Club on election day

Bouncer

Find out what dancers at "The Crib" thought of last week's debates

Looking Ahead

Aides insist that Mayor Gavin Newsom is focused on City Hall; his sudden celebrity has spawned speculation about higher office. Much higher.

Capital Rap

From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

Rural Cleansing

Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

Letters to the Editor

Letters from November 22, 2000

The Sol Shank Redemption

Letters from November 22, 2000

Death Ray From Outer Space

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Riff Raff

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Stage

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Night+Day

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Letters

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Letters

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Unspun

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Night+Day

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Aisle Seat

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Stone Cold

Jade masquerades as an erotic thriller

Hard Labour

Love's Labour's Lost imprisons with its verse; My Piece of the Sky incarcerates the audience