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The Salvation Army

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Danish Cult Could Be Illegally Placing Donation Boxes On S.F. Sidewalks

    Them again?​Mission resident Joe Stevens has new neighbors:"I left for work, one day, everything was normal. And I came back, I see this fucking ugly box the size of a car on the sidewalk," Stevens says.The yellow boxes are the property of US'Again, a for-profit front company that a 2001 Danish ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    5 O'Clock Somewhere, a Sneaky Summer Special at Clock Bar

    Tamara PalmerWho knows what this mug held before its current assignment?​A highlight of the new summer cocktails at Michael Mina's Clock Bar is a wonderfully deceptive flip called 5 O'Clock Somewhere. It's a flip due to the use of a whole raw egg, in this case shaken with a healthy pour of Bul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Spending High Time with MC5 -- A Guided, Stoned Tour through Motor City Mayhem

    ​Listen to this while high: High Time by MC5. Behind the buzz: Our recent visit to the Detroit retro-rock showroom sends us straight to the Cadillac of crunk rock, the Motor City Five. Elektra Records' overweening lust for a piece of the huge Midwestern rock LP market led to its short-lived assoc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Maurice Van Buren, Sex Offender, Charged With Impersonating Salvation Army Bell-Ringer

    Maurice Van Buren, 47, is charged with being a bad bell-ringer​A Bay Area man has taken the express route to bad karma following a Friday bust for allegedly impersonating a Salvation Army bell-ringer and pocketing the money. Maurice Van Buren, 47, is still in custody at Solano County Jail facing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Last Night: Flux Summit at Pyramind Studios

    ​Flux Summit April 29, 2010 Pyramind Studios Better Than: The ninth season of American Idol remixed by Moby. It's a good thing that the Flux Summit's bar was situated in the same room as its music critique contest. Nervous electronic music artists needed a stiff belt before auditioning their p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Oakland's Month-Old Beer Revolution Inspired by SOMA's City Beer Store

    Push/FacebookFeel free to order in vegan soul food from the restaurant next door.​Napoleon said, "In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them." A man like Fritz Maytag, who resurrected S.F.'s Anchor Brewing in 1965, is the former. A man like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Couple Biking from Alaska to Argentina Make San Francisco Stopover To Assemble Pot Pies

    Roland and Belinda Hinmueller ​​At the central Salvation Army kitchen in SoMa Wednesday morning, two line cooks wore cycling jerseys along with their hairnets. You could consider kitchen hands Roland and Belinda Hinmueller a type of extreme migrant worker: a New Zealand couple pedaling from Alas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    The Last Picture Show: Beloved Parkway Theater -- With Pizza, Beer, Second-Hand Couches -- Goes Dark

    Show's over The Parkway Theater -- the second-hand movie paradise known for its embrace of coupling beer and cinema while seated on a Salvation Army couch -- has long been one of the only destinations that can induce San Franciscans to gleefully leave the confines of the city and head east to Oakl ... More >>

  • Film

    January 21, 2009

    One-Scene Wonder

    In Doubt, Viola Davis once again proves that there are no small parts.

  • Music

    October 22, 2008

    Budget Rock by the alphabet

    In Doubt, Viola Davis once again proves that there are no small parts.

  • Film

    November 7, 2007

    Vince Vaughan's Bad Santa Bro Targets Teens in Fred Claus

    In Doubt, Viola Davis once again proves that there are no small parts.

  • Calendar

    October 17, 2007

    The Soothing Uncompromising Experience

    In Doubt, Viola Davis once again proves that there are no small parts.

  • News

    September 19, 2007

    Sex&Murder

    Joe Konopka was an anti-drug crusader. Terry Frazier was a bondage escort with a drug habit. Two months ago, their lives collided.

  • Culture

    July 12, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Joe Konopka was an anti-drug crusader. Terry Frazier was a bondage escort with a drug habit. Two months ago, their lives collided.

  • Culture

    July 5, 2006

    Happy End

    Joe Konopka was an anti-drug crusader. Terry Frazier was a bondage escort with a drug habit. Two months ago, their lives collided.

  • Culture

    November 23, 2005

    Happy End

    Gangster movie meets musical theater in the back room at Original Joe's

  • Calendar

    October 12, 2005

    Street Scavenging

    Go for the gold

  • News

    April 27, 2005

    Gang Today, Hair Tomorrow

    The Suey Sing Boys of Oakland were a bunch of low-level Chinese-American thugs. Then 10 of them became high-fashion hairstylists.

  • Music

    February 23, 2005

    Bootyology 101

    Discussing chest-buns, the Baboon's Ass, and furniture moving at the Monkey Club

  • Culture

    April 21, 2004

    Saint Joan of the Stockyards

    Bertolt Brecht does George Bernard Shaw, badly

  • News

    February 18, 2004

    Reclamation Project

    Pirates and other hooligans retake Haight Street for the only cause that matters -- love

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    Surprise!

    If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

  • News

    January 7, 2004

    Promises, Promises

    In which the boy mayor shows off his basketball, um, prowess, while his wife just shows off

  • Music

    October 1, 2003

    Karmic Chameleon

    Kelley Stoltz's Antique Glow shines with a voice both familiar and unique

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Kelley Stoltz's Antique Glow shines with a voice both familiar and unique

  • News

    March 26, 2003

    Sugary Dreams

    You want one. You know you do.

  • Culture

    December 18, 2002

    The Tired Nut

    The last days of San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker as we know it

  • Music

    March 7, 2001

    LiLiPUT/Kleenex

    LiLiPUT (Kill Rock Stars)

  • Music

    May 26, 1999

    Tom Waits' Variations

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Calendar

    April 21, 1999

    Disaster Corts the Mission

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Music

    August 19, 1998

    Reviews

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Calendar

    November 26, 1997

    Night+Day

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • News

    January 8, 1997

    Traveling at the Speed of Sound

    An aural activist hears the future

  • News

    September 25, 1996

    Logic Boards, Not Blackboards

    The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

  • News

    May 29, 1996

    Final Deadline

    David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

  • News

    May 8, 1996

    Mercury Falling

    For 11 years, Markus Cook was synonymous with Bay Area bike messengers. But he didn't live to see his dream come true -- the Cycle Messenger World Championships held here in San Francisco.

  • Music

    December 6, 1995

    Spirit of '77

    Sin and salvation with Rancid

  • Calendar

    July 12, 1995

    Paper Trails

    Sin and salvation with Rancid

  • Music

    April 19, 1995

    Samples

    Sin and salvation with Rancid

  • Calendar

    April 5, 1995

    REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

    Sin and salvation with Rancid

  • News

    March 22, 1995

    Matrix's Happy Face

    New statistics contradict Jordan's spin on homeless crackdown

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