AltWeeklies Wire
Too $hort's Latests Falls Shortnew
Get Off the Stage's ten songs mostly regurgitate past work; it's hard to believe the rapper has never made a song called "Broke Bitch" before.
Tags: Too $hort, Get Off the Stage
Demo Salenew
California Democrats are in real peril in the face of serious campaigns to end the party's gerrymandering privileges and redistribute the state's electoral college votes to benefit Republicans. Yet the state's two most powerful Democrats, Fabian Nunez and Don Perata, seem every month to make new headlines sneering at charges of party corruption.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
12-20-2007 |
Commentary
The Newspaper Guild vs. Dean Singletonnew
Newspaper unions across the country are closely watching how the Bay Area campaign plays out, because its success or failure could signal a critical turning point for organized labor in a newspaper industry wracked by dwindling readership, declining revenues, and decimated newsrooms.
Tags: media
No Linkup for You!new
In the world of online community, one authoritative man can dictate your social life.
Tags: computers & technology
Unhealthy Unionnew
Could there be a secret deal with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on health care that will inflate union rolls?
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
12-12-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Best CDs of 2007new
Here is a list of my most favorite discs coming with me into 2008.
Is the Examiner Stealing Web Content?new
Most of the "Around San Francisco" columns disappeared from the paper's site after I asked the author by phone about what appeared to be work from other news sources, pasted verbatim and without attribution, into her column.
Tags: media
Wu-Tang Producer RZA's Balancing Actnew
It's hard to think of a more ubiquitously iconic figure in hip-hop, or a more visionary individual: RZA doesn't just make beats and spit rhymes, he captures moods, drops depth-charge metaphors, and creates epic mythologies.
SF Weekly |
Eric K. Arnold |
12-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 8 Diagrams, The Wu-Tang Clan
Rademacher Alchemizes Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse for Pure Indie-Pop Goldnew
If you've yet to hear of Rademacher (or to pronounce the name: raw-duh-maw-cur), the group is doing its damnedest to change that -- in S.F., in Fresno, and in Los Angeles.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
11-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rademacher
Human Life Speculators Bet on Elder Deathsnew
In an unusual come-on directed toward elderly people in California, Idaho, and perhaps other U.S. states, seniors are offered $1,000 if they'll sign notarized contracts in which they commit to handing over detailed personal medical and financial information.
Tags: Health & Science
SF Ad Exec Zach Slow's $50K Online Marriage Contestnew
The 28-year-old hopes to get 500,000 internet voters to pay $2 each to select his and his friend's bride in a web reality show, The 2 Husbands (www.the2husbands.com). The lucky ladies chosen to walk the two down the aisle will take home $50,000 each.
Tags: computers & technology
Spiritualized's Severely Diminished Grandeurnew
The problem is that without the usual instrumental bombast, the audience focuses on the lyrics -- and Pierce can be a very mediocre lyricist.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
11-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Spiritualized
Slacker Guys and Striver Girlsnew
When lazy men become projects for career women.
Little Brother Splits with Atlantic Records and 9th Wondernew
Getback is largely a personal reflection on the past year's events, which also includes the duo's parting ways with producer 9th Wonder.
Tags: Getback, Little Brother
The Angry Moped Gangs of San Francisconew
What happens when one reporter dares to penetrate the inner circles of post-track-bike hipsters.
