Warren Hellman

District 7: Cost Unclear on Recount

A consortium of labor groups this week moved to ask for -- and fund -- a recount in the razor-thin loss of labor leader F.X. Crowley in the District 7 race. This move was not unanticipated. But its cost remains uncertain. The San Francisco Labor Council was quoted as estimating a price tag exceeding ... More >>

Here's the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup, Or Most of It

The folks over at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass are such teases! They've been leaking the lineup for this year's free festival one song medley at a time since late July. And now, it looks like we've got the full lineup -- or at least most of it -- revealed. There are often late adds and sometimes change ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Sunday at Hardly Strictly: Gomez, Justin Townes Earle, and Bela Fleck Help Fuel the Good Vibes

Gomez Justin Townes Earle Zakir Hussein, Bela Fleck, and Edgar Meyer Devil Makes Three The Swanson Family Band October 2, 2010 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Better than: Smuggling vodka into Outside Lands. "This is so much better than Outside Lands!" a girl squealed Sunday after exiting a line of por ... More >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Official Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup: Elvis Costello, Conor Oberst, Patti Smith, Joan Baez

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band​A few weeks back we posted a sneak-peek at the lineup for this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, which looked pretty cool. Today, the official lineup for the festival's 10th anniversary was released and, well, it looks even better than we were ... More >>

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 >>

Panorama Writers Aren't Retiring on Their Paychecks

Smooth paper, bright colors. Mmmmm.  ​ ​There's been a lot of speculation about exactly how little Panorma writers got paid for their contributions to Dave Eggers' much-lauded, let's-prove-print-can-be-saved newspaper. The paper had 218 contributors who produced a total of 350 ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

SF Weekly Letters

Freight and Salvage Begins Year-Long Multi-Million Upgrade

The Daly Show

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

Governor Newsom?

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

Anus, Already

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

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

What Would Jürgen Do?

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

Best Weird Sport Invented in San Francisco

Ride & Tie

Looking Ahead

Aides insist that Mayor Gavin Newsom is focused on City Hall; his sudden celebrity has spawned speculation about higher office. Much higher.

Blowing It

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

Mecklin

Cleaning Out the Swamp

Mecklin

Get Me Rewrite

Cothran

Cothran

Temperature Rising

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