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Warren Hellman

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Live Review, 5/11/12: S.F. Symphony Looks Back at the City's Colorful Past in 'Barbary Coast'

    San Francisco Symphony: Barbary Coast and Beyond Friday, May 11, 2012 Davies Symphony Hall Better than: Your grandparents' (but maybe not your great-great grandparents') symphony. When you hear there are gonna be banjo pickers and fiddlers on the stage, you tend to expect a high-lonesome hoedown o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Lisa Frazier, Bay Citizen CEO, Steps Down

    Lisa Frazier​A month after the Bay Citizen's editor-in-chief resigned, the paper's $400,000 CEO, Lisa Frazier, announced she, too, will be stepping down.The Bay Citizen reported the news Friday afternoon, explaining how Frazier said she was leaving for personal reasons, though she will remain on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Saturday at Hardly Strictly: Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson Become the Great HSB Unifiers

    Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson A.A. Bondy Robyn Hitchcock Hugh Laurie October 1, 2011 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Better than: Seeing Neil Young after he released Greendale, that's for sure. A man dressed in an official Hardly Strictly shirt walks out to say that the biggest set of the day will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Jonathan Weber Leaving Bay Citizen

    "opportunity" knocks for Jonathan Weber​Jonathan Weber, the first editor-in-chief and initial employee hired by the Bay Citizen, abruptly informed his staff at noon today that he would also be the first EIC to leave. Weber confirmed to SF Weekly that he broke the news to his newsroom colleagues on ... More >>

  • News

    August 31, 2011

    The Billion-Dollar Bet: Which Pension Reform Measure Will Pass and Survive Legal Challenge

    "opportunity" knocks for Jonathan Weber​Jonathan Weber, the first editor-in-chief and initial employee hired by the Bay Citizen, abruptly informed his staff at noon today that he would also be the first EIC to leave. Weber confirmed to SF Weekly that he broke the news to his newsroom colleagues on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Pension Reports Predict Dire San Francisco Future

    Such a headache...​When discussing the city's pension morass, the preferred analogy is a bursting dam. Fair enough. But, today, we'll use different too-much-water nomenclature: In pension world, when it rains, it pours. Hot on the heels of city controller Ben Rosenfield's analysis of what would -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Jeff Adachi Already Crafting 'New Prop. B'

    Joe EskenaziLabor's Public Enemy No. 1 is ready to go to work...​Labor leaders and government officials talking about the need for "pension reform" has become as fashionable in San Francisco as toting around a yoga mat. But while the folks ostentatiously carrying around the yoga accouterments are, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    San Francycle: What Went Wrong With Bike Parking at Hardly Strictly?

    ​ Everyone who heard about the bike situation last weekend at Hardy Strictly Bluegrass had the same thought: "what went wrong?" What was supposed to be an upgrade in bike parking turned into a repeat of last year's deficit: With bike racks overwhelmed early in the festival, concertgoers were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Harldly Strictly Bluegrass, AIDS Wolf, World Veg Fest, Castro Street Fair and More

    Autumn De WildeJenny and Johnny are among 80 acts at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010​Hardly Strictly is here! But before you blow your figurative load over the biggest free concert of the year, keep in mind that there are plenty of other fun and cheap events in the city this weekend. Here's our lis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Missing From this Year's Bluegrass Festival: Hundreds of Bikes Hanging From Trees

    This year, no pick-your-own bike farm ​The San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks has taken steps to prevent a repeat of one of the most distinctive features of the 2009 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival: Tree branches festooned with hundreds and hundreds of bicycles left by concertgoin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010: A Sneak-Peak at This Year's Lineup

    ​The lineup for this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival -- the free, three-day mega-bash that brings great artists of all sorts to Golden Gate Park -- hasn't yet been announced. Rumors have been swooshing through the tubes about this year's bill, with no official confirmation. But we heard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Birth of Bay Area News Project Slower, Messier than Founders Hoped

    Yeah, and it's about time!​Last year, banjo-pluckin' billionaire Warren Hellman made a splash when he pledged $5 million to found the Bay Area News Project, an ambitious journalistic consortium of public broadcasting, U.C. Berkeley's journalism school, the Media Workers Guild, and New York Times. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Bay Guardian Confirms That Bicyclists (and Steven T. Jones) Are Morally Superior Beings

    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, c ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    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, c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2008

    Freight and Salvage Begins Year-Long Multi-Million Upgrade

    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, c ... More >>

  • News

    August 29, 2007

    The Daly Show

    Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

  • News

    August 8, 2007

    Governor Newsom?

    Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

  • News

    March 2, 2005

    Anus, Already

    Uniquely positioned to exert positive influence on public debate, San Francisco's business lobbies instead choose to act like, well, assholes

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    The City That Would Be King

    To maintain its natural position atop the local political food chain, San Francisco must be benevolent, as well as strong

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    What Would Jürgen Do?

    A degraded character actor comes to Gov. Schwarzenegger's rescue

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Weird Sport Invented in San Francisco

    Ride & Tie

  • News

    September 17, 2003

    Blowing It

    How San Francisco elections officials dropped the ball on instant runoff voting

  • News

    May 10, 2000

    Mecklin

    Cleaning Out the Swamp

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Mecklin

    Get Me Rewrite

  • Calendar

    October 28, 1998

    Cothran

    Get Me Rewrite

  • News

    March 19, 1997

    Temperature Rising

    The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

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