Joyce GoldschmidWarren Hellman, banjo messiah? With just a half-year to go before Golden Gate Park's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, free-concert backer Warren Hellman is combing the wreckage of the global financial collapse, seeking to augment the fortune that keeps his massive three-day music festival stocked with first-rate talent.According to the financial newspaper The Daily Deal, Hellman & Friedman LLC is among the bidders for iShares, an exchange-traded fund business whose owner i
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
Warren Hellman may have fancied himself opening up America's hearts to music with his bigger-than-ever, three-day Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. He also helped famed San Francisco eccentric Frank Chu open city visitors' minds to opaque theories about an alleged intergalactic political conspiracy.
Making fun of the Chronicle isn't as enjoyable as it used to be. Writing some snarky bit about our troubled hometown paper these days is like laughing at a blind guy who walks into a door -- on his way to chemotherapy. It feels like picking on someone less fortunate than yourself. Like writing a review panning a Keanu Reeves performance, it's just too easy.
Now comes more bad news for our journalistically crippled cousins: During the six-month period between April and September, the Chr
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