Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.
Maybe you've seen him blow through stop signs and red lights, tooEvery day in San Francisco, hundreds of thousands of people do something good for the environment by taking Muni instead of driving their cars. These brave souls definitely don't ride Muni trains and buses without complaint; in fact, complaining about Muni is one of the city's great pastimes. What Muni riders definitely don't do, however, is preach. Muni vets understand that taking public transit, even in San Francisco, does not qu
The Guardian would have you believe that stealing this van is a violation of The Raker ActSo SFist is blaming the robbery of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's "Best of the Bay" van on us. Apparently, some miscreant(s) broke into the SFBG's parking lot last night and zoomed off with the easily identifiable van, powering through a chain-link fence during the great escape.A quick office poll yielded no admissions of guilt. The poll has also turned up the tip that it's more likely this was an inside
'Meeting time, guys.' The strangely nostalgic odor of stale beer wafts through the streets of Potrero Hill as a handful of familiar figures converge on a designated corner. It's the Progressive Apologists, a group of lefty media movers and shakers who have been summoned to a top secret meeting by Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann.
They are assembled at their haunt of choice -- the taco truck down the road from the Anchor Steam brewery. There's Brugmann and his executive editor Tim
An e-mail promoting a festival of 9/11 Truther conspiracy theory films was sent today to perhaps hundreds of members of the Bay Area media by one of the city's most respected cinematic promoters, Karen Larsen of Larsen Associates. On the e-missive, a surprising number of respected Bay Area institutions were listed as "supporters" of the 9/11 Film Festival -- and SF Weekly's calls to several of these institutions revealed that they, too, were surprised to be listed as supporters.
But we've still got plenty hereNotwithstanding a barrage of intemperate comments on our recent post discussing the comparative claims to insanity of the "birther" and "truther" movements, we here at The Snitch had thought that adherents of these conspiracy theories were comfortably removed from the Bay Area. In backwater patches of states like Arizona or New Hampshire, both home to birther outbursts this summer, it seems plausible that anti-Obama paranoia would gain a foothold.But the shadows
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