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  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Inmate Sues Hospital After Learning He Was Circumcised Decades Ago

    Who better to serve as the poster child for how circumcision creates a lifetime of hardship than a convicted criminal behind bars?We have to say we were shocked to read that a South Dakota inmate was shocked when he recently discovered that he's circumcised and has been since he was a newborn. Natur ... More >>

  • News

    April 4, 2012

    Soup to Nuts: Crazy Food Taxes Penalize the Poor, Benefit the Rich

    Who better to serve as the poster child for how circumcision creates a lifetime of hardship than a convicted criminal behind bars?We have to say we were shocked to read that a South Dakota inmate was shocked when he recently discovered that he's circumcised and has been since he was a newborn. Natur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Dave Schwartz, "Hero" of Nevada's Pot Movement, to Take Over Michela Alioto-Pier's Mayoral Campaign

    Luke ThomasMichela's marijuana man​The days when "gambling" with marijuana on a Las Vegas' Strip could result in lifetime imprisonment are long gone. Reefer now mixes with roulette in the nation's Sin City -- where, it should be noted, one has never needed a medical recommendation to use prostitut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Californians Are Stifled by Their Own Government

    ​That's the conclusion, more or less, of a new study that ranks California near the bottom among the 50 American states for the freedoms it grants its citizens.The study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University ranked California 48th in its "state freedom rankings." Analysts measured su ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 9, 2011

    Can We Find More Like Him?

    ​That's the conclusion, more or less, of a new study that ranks California near the bottom among the 50 American states for the freedoms it grants its citizens.The study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University ranked California 48th in its "state freedom rankings." Analysts measured su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Nancy Pelosi's Daughter to Lead Young Democrats

    For Just $13 Per Hour, Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Will Teach You How To Lead The Public​Nancy Pelosi may no longer count herself the leader of Old Democrats -- thanks to an election that ceded the House to Republicans. But her family today captured leadership of the Young Democrats.The House minorit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    California Economy Among Nation's Worst, Study Claims

    Our new state seal ... or piggy?​The bad news for California: A recently released study named the Golden State's "economic outlook" to be the fifth-worst in the nation. The good news: There's always Illinois, New Jersey, Vermont and New York. Sucks to be them! Taking stock of California and surmis ... More >>

  • News

    April 14, 2010

    The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

    Our new state seal ... or piggy?​The bad news for California: A recently released study named the Golden State's "economic outlook" to be the fifth-worst in the nation. The good news: There's always Illinois, New Jersey, Vermont and New York. Sucks to be them! Taking stock of California and surmis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Voice of 511 Often Calls Himself

    This is the fellow telling you where to go on 511 -- Bob Hesse​Halfway through a phone interview with Bob Hesse, we just can't help it anymore. It's just too much of a trip. Here we are talking to the voice of 511 -- and he understands what we're saying. None of those "I didn't get that," or "I mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Got Stress? List of Most and Least 'Stressed' Counties Updated -- S.F. Makes Neither.

    Dorothea LangeYes, San Francisco's economic 'stress levels' have been worse...​If you needed a statistical analysis to back up your gut feeling, here it is: San Francisco ain't such a bad place to be. At least that's what the Associated Press' Economic Stress Index reported on Monday. The index -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Palin's Palm: What Pearls of Wisdom Lie Within?

    It takes guts to criticize the president for using teleprompters while taking advantage of the manual version on the end of your wrist. But, then, Sarah Palin certainly has plenty of guts (seriously -- they've run out of refrigerator space. Todd had a field day out on the last hunting expedition). A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Toilet Economics: Why Has Cost Per Restroom Jumped $53K Since '08?

    Jim HerdThe price tag for this john in the Panhandle exceeded $531,000​Last week, via a series of toilet-related double-entendres, the Chronicle announced that the city's restroom commission -- yes, such a thing exists -- was ready to begin spending $7.2 million to renovate or replace 19 of the ci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Top 10 Onstage Gaffes of 2009

    We'll admit there's more than a little schadenfreude going on in this list of the best onstage gaffes of 2009. But why else would Al Gore have invented YouTube if not to feed our obsessive need to see celebrities get taken down a peg? Here with, our favorite of the year's music-related missteps, cau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Few Show For California Redwoods' Football Opener -- But Fans Still Manage to Have Fun (Legally and Illegally)

    Jim HerdThere is grandeur in this view of life...​Text by Joe Eskenazi. Gorgeous photos by Jim Herd. In the many months between when we first reported the inception of the San Francisco-based United Football League up to the moment we wandered into a largely abandoned AT&T Park for the Saturda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Tree-Huggers, Meet Your Redwoods! Fledgling San Francisco Football Team Signs 31 Guys ... You Likely Never Heard Of.

    Joe EskenaziWho is man enough to wear this jersey?​Jerry Seinfeld once noted that, due to rampant player turnover, sports fans are "basically rooting for clothing." If so, that's bad news for any would-be fans of the fledgling United Football League's California Redwoods (I christen them "Tree-Hug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Art & Soul Organizer Explains What Happened To This Year's Festival

    You Know You Want This, Oakland: Shawn Colvin​ Earlier this week I wrote about discovering that Oakland's Art & Soul Festival--which happens August 15 & 16--had managed to almost completely ignore the youthful 16-35 demographic with its bookings for this year. There's no live hip-hop, ind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    If Clergywomen Beat the Gong For an Antidemocratic, Pro-Union Bill and Dianne Feinstein Isn't There To Hear It...

    Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    The Audacity of (No) Hope: Cindy Sheehan's Quixotic Quest

    Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2008

    Nader and Gonzalez Stump in Marin

    Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2008

    Last Night: Tobias Wolff at the SF LGBT Community Center

    Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2008

    What the Controller Saw

    Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Breaking News: Ward H. Bushee Replaces Embattled San Francisco Chronicle EIC Phil Bronstein

    Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2007

    DethKlok to Destroy DESTROYS UC Berkeley in Bloody Surge of Destructive Destruction

    Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to s ... More >>

  • Film

    September 26, 2007

    Wide Open Spaces

    Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject

  • News

    April 12, 2006

    KRON's Last Gasp

    How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.

  • Summer Guide

    June 29, 2005

    Hipster San Diego

    It's not all surf and silicone in America's Finest City

  • Music

    January 12, 2005

    Hear This

    Simon Finn's wacky '70s Brit-folk gets a second chance; the Album Leaf soaks the Independent in psychedelic ambience

  • News

    October 20, 2004

    Yo Soy Centroamericano

    Why vote Kerry? Exhibit No. 1: George W. Bush has shamelessly hired the dangerous figures behind the Iran-Contra Affair into senior diplomatic posts.

  • Music

    January 28, 2004

    Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

    Jeff Fare and the Paradise Boys may be S.F.'s best hope for electro-rock success

  • Film

    June 12, 2002

    American Dream

    Two local filmmakers are busier than ever shooting reality shows for NBC and HBO

  • News

    April 24, 2002

    Death of a Death School

    The 72-year-old San Francisco College of Mortuary Science -- perhaps the country's premier institution of funeral service education -- has its last graduation and moves (gulp) into the great beyond

  • News

    December 19, 2001

    The Spybots Among Us

    How the NSA tracks terrorists in the United States through the Internet

  • Film

    September 5, 2001

    Reel World

    Oakland's Black Cinema Café screens challenging films for African-American professionals

  • Calendar

    September 13, 2000

    Camp WinanObie

    Playwrights go to camp

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    South to the Future

    Community or Crime Syndicate? Feds bust online trading scheme

  • News

    February 9, 2000

    Letters

    Censorship Begins at Home, Aww! Dog Bites Blushes, Nursing Home Neglect, On the SFUSD Chain Gang, Informed Faith, Rave Purity

  • News

    February 2, 2000

    Spy vs Spite

    The Clinton administration has praised the Anti-Defamation League for helping shield kids from Internet hate. But should a group that spied on thousands of Californians be allowed to police the Web?

  • Dining

    January 26, 2000

    The Man Who Came to Dinner

    James Cromwell

  • Calendar

    January 20, 1999

    Night + Day

    James Cromwell

  • Calendar

    November 11, 1998

    A Tree Grows in Tennessee

    James Cromwell

  • Calendar

    July 15, 1998

    Night Crawler

    James Cromwell

  • Calendar

    April 29, 1998

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    James Cromwell

  • Calendar

    January 28, 1998

    Night + Day

    James Cromwell

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    The President of Oz

    James Cromwell

  • News

    September 25, 1996

    Logic Boards, Not Blackboards

    The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

  • News

    October 25, 1995

    Genderation X

    You can change your body with surgery and hormones, but what happens after that might surprise you

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