(James Franco as Harvey Milk's partner, Scott Smith, in Milk)Man, Terry Gross really kisses ass when she interviews celebrities sometimes. Between the Fresh Air interview with Stephen Colbert last week and James Franco last night, my ears are getting cavities from all the sugary gushing she did with these dudes. Worst of all, do we really need 15 minutes of hard hitting questions about Franco kissing Sean Penn in Milk? (We get it. Two straight actors kissed. For a full minute. Stop the presses.)
George Gascon, San Francisco's police chief-to-beBy now, anyone even loosely following city government knows that San Francisco's next police chief is George Gascon -- and, if you've been following SF Weekly's coverage, you may even know how he stands on policy matters (and that he sounds a bit like a high-pitched Tony Montana).But it was a full year ago, when Phoenix New Times ran this lengthy but well worth the read cover story, that staff writer Ray Stern foreshadowed that Gascon may have had