Subject: Tony Hall

• Rookie of the Year: David Chiu Just the Latest Young, Inexperienced Smart Guy to Obtain Presidency

  Chris Daly Twirls His Mustache, Cackles at Ross Mirkarimi as Chiu Ekes Out Win By Joe Eskenazi Watching a man with mutton-chops every bit as stylish as his white overalls engrave the word "President" on Supervisor David Chiu's office door, one couldn't help but recall good ol' Will Shakespeare: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."Depending upon how surprised the rookie supervisor really was to win a back-and-forth election for Board P

  January 8, 2009

• They're Baaaaad: Matier & Ross Rely on 20-Year-Old Movie Tagline for Writing Inspiration

  "Don't call it a comebaaaack." The Chronicle's pop culture writer, Peter Hartlaub, did an amusing piece the other day about memorable movie taglines. Perhaps the most enduring -- and irritating -- tagline Hartlaub wrote about is from the 1986 sequel to Poltergeist. You all know it: "They're back." (The static written phrase doesn't adequately capture the high-pitched, sing-song voice of the little girl in the movie. It's more like, "They're baaaack.")   While few people can remember

  January 12, 2009

• Under the Covers

  April 3, 1996

• Letters to the Editor

  June 13, 2007

• Par for the Course

  Give away city golf courses? Yet another scheme to take public property and put it into private hands without much oversight.

  February 7, 2007

• Missed Connection

  The multiuse Transbay Terminal project may have shrunk into a really expensive bus station

  March 8, 2006

• Pouring Money Down a Hole

  January 25, 2006

• The Deal With Treasure Island

  November 9, 2005

• Little People Win!

  A bland supervisor, a high school student, an industrious bureaucrat, and Pamela Anderson prove that any of us can change the world for the better

  June 23, 2004

• Sand Trap

  February 11, 2004

• Same as the Old Boss?

  Why the new mayor should resist political pressure from the new shadow ayatollah of San Francisco politics, real estate mogul Clint Reilly

  January 14, 2004

• According to Plan

  November 26, 2003

• Derailing the Jaye Train

  Why Matt Gonzalez should stick with his progressive roots, and ignore pressure to act "responsibly"

  November 19, 2003

• Lee Way

  The public career path of Andrew Lee explains a lot about what's wrong with Willie Brown's style of politics and governance

  November 5, 2003

• The Great Left Hope

  Matt Gonzalez wants to be mayor. And he doesn't mind climbing over fellow progressives to get the gig.

  October 8, 2003

• In-laws You Can Live With

  July 9, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of April 30, 2003

  April 30, 2003

• Remembrance of a War Past

  An unfond look back at Freedom Toast, TV jingoes, and a pro-war bully called Tony Hall

  April 16, 2003

• Losin' It

  February 19, 2003

• The Great Irish Hope?

  How amateur boxing matches -- and a bunch of mostly black and Latino fighters -- are resurrecting Irish culture in the Sunset

  November 13, 2002

• Image Is Everything

  The economy's in a slump, and so are a lot of S.F. politicians. At least for the pols, Brow Set seems to be part of the answer.

  August 14, 2002

• Political Relativity

  July 17, 2002

• Horse Senseless

  City closes Golden Gate Park stables for long-needed rehab; only-in-S.F. protest has privileged horse-owners refusing to move mounts

  January 23, 2002

• Gift of the Magus

  It's nice to think the right presents could make this a merry holiday season. Nice, but not particularly wise.

  December 19, 2001

• Dog Bites

  September 26, 2001

• Delusions of Power

  April 4, 2001

• Dog Bites

  Board of Supervisors; Population Growth; Dot-com Layoffs

  January 10, 2001

• Dog Bites

  Runoff election; Fangxaminer Watch monitors amusing errors

  December 6, 2000

• Dog Bites

  Fangxaminer rollout; Anarchy in the U.S.A.

  November 29, 2000

• The Sound of Politics

  District election format makes neighborhood singer Tony Hall a real challenge to Supervisor Mabel Teng

  July 19, 2000

• Newsom Team Slaps Down Tony Hall's Clinton Payback Story -- With Sarcasm

  'Great catch, guys...'​Running on adrenalin apparently left over from this morning's Bill Clinton endorsement, Gavin Newsom's crack campaign staff wasted no time in slapping back at an SF Weekly blog item, which had alleged a vast political conspiracy with San Francisco's mayor at its center. The purported affair, detailed in "Ex-Treasure Island Czar: Clinton's Newsom Endorsement a Favor for Billionaire Ron Burkle" speculated that Bill Clinton's recent endorsement of Newsom was part of in an i

  September 15, 2009

• Former San Francisco Supervisor Sends Out E-Mail Blast of Favorite Songs Through the Decades -- Because Everyone Deserves a Little Joy

  Tony Hall during the height of the Disco Era​If you're on former Supervisor Tony Hall's e-mail list, you can count on a few sternly worded missives about San Francisco land use every week. So it came as something of a surprise that Hall fired out links to an e-jukebox, putting his audience of policy mavens and City Hall critics one click away from thousands and thousands of songs hailing from 1950 to 1989. Complex treatises on city governmental matters of yore have their place -- but, hey, som

  October 2, 2009