"Here's how you gotta start your story, dude," says Mike Cheney, matter-of-factly. "You create this scene where there's some sort of ceremony out on Altamont Pass and they're removing the… More >>

1983 Mike Cheney buttonholes former U.S. Sen. S.I. Hikakawa, convincing him to join mechanics in a City Hall demonstration calling for more training and better equipment. Six months later, an outside… More >>

On a recent morning, Brian Brophy walked out of his Franklin Street apartment to find the car his girlfriend had been kind enough to loan him was tagged with a… More >>

In a city awash in all things gay, perhaps nobody is waiting for the Supreme Court's June ruling on Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, more than wedding planners. In… More >>

"How much? How much?" asks a reporter in a checkered button-down and a pair of Air Jordans. He's pointing at a box of Rice Krispies cereal. The elderly Chinese woman in… More >>

Steve Foti is a great big teddy bear of a man who resembles a retired football defensive end. But he's a retired bean-counter with the office of Harvey Rose, the… More >>

Donald Tashkin's is a tale cannabis pushers like to repeat. The physician and professor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine set out to prove — via a study funded… More >>

Blog Comments of the Week Reader isn't a fan of farm occupiers: Seeing the way these guys planted and are watering their little garden, it is blatantly evident that, if this… More >>

During an event at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco in early November, a presenter screened a short film about San Francisco's fog. After the show concluded, before the sold-out… More >>

Comedian Anthony Griffith used to do a bit about a car salesman winning him over by highlighting how many dead bodies you could cram into a sedan's oversize trunk. When… More >>