AltWeeklies Wire
Fighting Global Warming With High-Risesnew
Mayor Gavin Newsom could become an environmental star by raising, and broadening, San Francisco's skyline more aggressively than anything we've seen before.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
11-08-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Dr. Oliver Sacks on 'Music Brain'new
He studies the innate ties between music and the mind, and his findings underpin the ways people really could, say, be "born to rock" -- or, at the very least, that they could develop a psychological need to rock at some point in their lives.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
10-31-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Is Ghostface as Dumb as He Wants You to Think He is?new
Ghostface Killah is a brilliant storyteller and lyricist, and is the only Wu-Tang Clan member still making relevant solo albums. He's also a cry baby.
Sean Penn Leads Matt Gonzalez Into the Wildnew
Rumor has it that Penn wants his pal Matt Gonzalez, the former San Francisco Supervisor and Green Party hunk, to take on Gavin Newsom. But Gonzalez is reluctant.
Friendly Competition?new
Chauncey Bailey Project unites Bay Area media -- except the Chronicle and the Express.
Tags: media
Richard Thalheimer's Run With Sharper Image is Overnew
Dumped as head of the San Francisco-based retailer last September, and banished from its board at year's end, Thalheimer's remaining connection to the company he founded 30 years ago was severed in May.
SF Weekly |
Ron Russell |
10-24-2007 |
Business & Labor
How SMC Recordings Built an Indie Rap Empirenew
In the past five years, Will Bronson, 25, and his partners Ralph Tashjian, 59, and George Nauful, 56, have built an impressive roster of hip-hop talent, hosting regional sensations looking to make a wider impact and major-label castaways no longer deemed profitable by the suits.
Why Won't The New Republic Run Ward Schumacker's Illustration?new
"They're just chicken, I think," the illustrator says. "What you're saying in the article is that you should be able to [curse], but they're saying we can't?"
Tags: media
San Francisco's Vice Hotelnew
One of the largest city-funded Care Not Cash hotels was allegedly run as a home for extortion, drug dealing, and other vices.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
10-10-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' Leads to Digital Goldnew
San Francisco producers, label heads, and distributors say the biggest music story of the year isn't taking place onstage at the Fillmore or in the racks at Amoeba Music this week. It's happening on everyone's computer at Radiohead.com.
Tags: In Rainbows, Radiohead
Students Sue California Culinary Academynew
Several dozen CCA students and graduates filed a class-action lawsuit late last month which alleges that CCA engaged in "a fraudulent scheme" in connection with the recruitment of students, misrepresented the admissions process, and failed to provide students with meaningful assistance in finding employment.
SF Weekly |
Mary Spicuzza |
10-10-2007 |
Food+Drink
Love Like Fire Aims For the Massesnew
Sounding like equal parts Muse and the Cure, Love Like Fire represents San Francisco's pop-obsessed shoegazer aesthetic.
Is MF Doom Getting Advice From Lauryn Hill?new
The indie rap star misses another gig, which isn't helping rumors that a fake Doom appeared at a San Francisco show earlier this year. But he's not the only artist whose strange behavior is disappointing audiences.
Tags: MF Doom
Jack Johnson's Label Hosts Rogue Wave's Moody New Albumnew
Asleep at Heaven's Gate, the group's surprisingly hopeful new record, marks a fresh luck streak and a release from the band's collective emotional damage.
SF Weekly |
Jenifer Maertz |
10-03-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Russian Sergey Brin and Googlenew
A KGB-style propaganda and spying machine?
Tags: Google, computers & technology
