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Netflix Says That Actually it Doesn't Advertise with Rush Limbaugh at All

​For the last year or so, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has been behaving like the hero of Brewster's Millions or some other sad 80s comedy (probably available for streaming!) where the hero has to piss away a fortune or a corporation or something while pretending to be a reasonable person. (This was ... More >>

KSFO's JD Hayworth Tells Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers "We'd Love to Have You Over Here"

​Former congressman JD Hayworth hosts the most gentlemanly three hours in conservative talk radio, twinkling warmly over the 9 a.m.-to-noon shift at KSFO 560 with all the fire and fury of the avuncular God up in the stars at the opening of It's a Wonderful Life. He chats up the issues of the day, ... More >>

KSFO Talk Radio to Feature Conservative Former Congressman JD Hayworth

​San Francisco, oddly enough, has something of a rich history when it comes to conservative talk-radio hosts. Who can forget the memorable international affair involving our own Michael Savage, who was banned from entering the United Kingdom in 2009 because of his right-wing statements on the air? ... More >>

Proopsian Technology

​San Francisco, oddly enough, has something of a rich history when it comes to conservative talk-radio hosts. Who can forget the memorable international affair involving our own Michael Savage, who was banned from entering the United Kingdom in 2009 because of his right-wing statements on the air? ... More >>

Michael Savage Still Can't Go to the U.K., British Government Renews Ban

British government thinks Michael Savage is a savage.​Michael Savage, the San Francisco-based shock jock was, well, shocked to learn this week that the British government renewed its ban to keep the notorious conservative radio host from entering the United Kingdom. Savage, 69, the bombastic, righ ... More >>

Common: Five More Reasons for Talk Radio Conservatives to Hate Him

This man is dangerous!​Turns out, we were wrong. For all these years, we considered Chicago rapper/romantic comedy star Common just a hair more hardcore than Jamiroquai. We thought of him as a somewhat conscious MC boasting a warm baritone, some strong tracks, and the allegiance of white guys who ... More >>

Leland Yee Fans Support Boycott of Rush Limbaugh

Yummy pizza, yucky politics​Just yesterday State Sen. Leland Yee received racists death threats from someone who presumably supports Rush Limbaugh and probably believes Sarah Palin is a liberal. In the last 24 hours since the death threats were faxed to Yee's offices in Sacramento and San Francisc ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Supporter Sends Leland Yee Death Threats

Wanted an apology, but got death threats instead.​State Sen. Leland Yee received death threats after the San Francisco Democrat asked conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking the Chinese language in his radio show last week.Yee's staffers said the messages came via fax th ... More >>

Michael Savage Sues Talk Radio Network Over 'Indentured Servitude'

Michael Savage is an angry man. ​Conservative talk radio host Michael Savage is trying to dump Talk Radio Network, but claims in a federal lawsuit that the radio syndicate is not taking to the split nicely, threatening him with a $4 million lawsuit for breaking his contract. Meanwhile, Talk Radio ... More >>

Four More Movies About Tech Moguls That We Want to See

​Thanks to The Social Network, tech is hot! And sexy -- meow. And whenever anything is hot and sexy, Hollywood mauls it until it's bleeding and dying from liver failure in an El Segundo psych ward. But that's a few years off! Right now tech movies are getting a little of the "ol' treatment," if yo ... More >>

Dead Air: Progressive Air America Radio Network Bites the Dust

​ In another hit to the ever-shrinking journalism industry, Air America Media announced today that it will be ceasing live programming just about immediately. Today is the last day the network will be paying its employees, and will be filing for bankruptcy "soon." A messag ... More >>

Local Blogger Prompts Two More Advertisers to Abandon Conservative Talk Radio Station

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S.F. Lawyer Launches Anti-Limbaugh Web Site

Would you eat McNuggets made from this?"It's time to start calling a chicken a chicken," San Francisco attorney Steve Baughman says of his latest Web endeavor. The chicken in question, it so happens, could probably feed many of the homeless encamped in Golden Gate Park -- that is, if you could ever ... More >>

A turn on the GOP therapy couch

S.F. Republicans’ prescriptions for an ailing party By Peter Jamison I spent the momentous night of Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, in an unlikely place — among Republicans in San Francisco. To observe the city’s longtime political minority watching their party recede to a minority nationwide, I vent ... More >>

Talk to Me, Twin Peaks, No End in Sight: DVDish

S.F. Republicans’ prescriptions for an ailing party By Peter Jamison I spent the momentous night of Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, in an unlikely place — among Republicans in San Francisco. To observe the city’s longtime political minority watching their party recede to a minority nationwide, I vent ... More >>

Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life

S.F. Republicans’ prescriptions for an ailing party By Peter Jamison I spent the momentous night of Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, in an unlikely place — among Republicans in San Francisco. To observe the city’s longtime political minority watching their party recede to a minority nationwide, I vent ... More >>

Who Killed It?

Nas and the right wing vie for the heart of hip hop

Mixing politics with pleasure

Nas and the right wing vie for the heart of hip hop

Charting Hits

A year on the Public Enemy roller coaster

Radio Waves

A year on the Public Enemy roller coaster

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.

Keep It Really Real

Willie Brown acknowledges his cronies fed at the city trough? Now that's funny.

Satanic Hacking

What do you think about the Felipe Alou-KNBR brouhaha? Racism, or just a bunch of Caribbean slop? Take quiz, find out.

Radio Radio

Contemplating the airwaves, the NBA, and what it means to be Welsh at Dylan's

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Rush Limbaugh in Night School

Charlie Varon's hilarious one-man tour de force feels its age

Bouncer

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

Best Sneering Sports Guy

Gary Radnich

Best Local Interviewer

Michael Krasny

The Poindexter Effect

Digging into the architect of Total Information Awareness unearths good news: Ordinary Americans value civil liberties

Best New Radio Show

Working Assets Radio

Crushing a Contrarian

The "patriotic" squelching of Bill Maher is a scary sign of an emerging groupthink

God and Country, Remixed

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Taking Howard Stern Seriously

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Dog Bites

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

Politicos, prudes, and the paranoid protest the programming heard on Bay Area radio stations to the highest authority in the land -- the Federal Communications Commission