AltWeeklies Wire
The SEIU's Union Disunitynew
The secret deal worked out between Service Employees International Union bosses and nursing home owners denies union members the right to speak out, strike, or protect patients.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
04-11-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Touchy-feely 'Researchers' Turn to Orgasmic Meditationnew
Orgasmic meditation is devoted to female orgasm, but the idea is that the "strokers" are also fulfilled through what community members call "pleasure by proxy," as well as by enjoying the sensations in their bodies as they stroke.
Taking Aim at VA Medical Center Expansionnew
Angered by what it calls a stealth attempt by the VA to greatly expand medical research amid spectacular parkland of the Golden Gate headlands, residents have filed a lawsuit to block those plans.
SF Weekly |
Ron Russell |
04-05-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
San Francisco's Wi-Fi Plan is About to be Blocked by a Group of Activistsnew
Folks who think it would be better to install an expensive, city-owned fiber network than to rely on radio waves have obtained backing on the Board of Supervisors to kill the mayor's Wi-Fi plan -- this is a bummer for San Francisco.
Tags: computers & technology
Mother Hips' Flaccid Nostalgianew
Dear Mother Hips: This letter serves to send word to the band and your multiple publicity-courtin' machines that I won't be covering the upcoming Mother Hips shows.
Fair and Balanced -- Almostnew
NewsTrust, an online rating service self-touted as "your guide to good journalism," is still working on calibrating it's neutrality.
Tags: media
Walking the Linenew
The SFPD says Daniel Dennard is a gangster, thief, and killer, but there's just one problem: They can't prove anything.
SF Weekly |
A.C. Thompson |
03-23-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Making of Malikanew
Less than two years after working as a Budweiser model at Oakland Raiders games, Malika Ubaka was hanging with Diddy on MTV.
A Walk in the Parknew
Cynics use the retarded to keep cars in Golden Gate Park.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
03-16-2007 |
Commentary
Full Nelsonnew
Can pro basketball's second-winningest coach put the Golden State Warriors back on the warpath? Don't count Don Nelso out too quick.
Tags: sports & fitness
The Snorification of Indie Rocknew
In place of gutsy songwriting is a benign Axis of (Evil) Indie Influences -- David Byrne, Gordon Gano, and, now more often, Bruce Springsteen -- fueling a disturbingly dull trend of uniform mid-tempo crapola.
Arthur: Rest in Peacenew
The beloved counterculture rag stagnates somewhere between dead and indefinite hiatus.
Tags: media
Free Trade (in Doctors)new
If physicians really cared about our health, they'd drop their iron wall against immigrant doctors.
Tags: Health & Science
What Makes Canines Go Crazy?new
The Canine Behavioral Genetics Project thinks the answer is in their genes.
SF Weekly |
Eliza Strickland |
03-09-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Slip Inside This Housenew
Gris Gris frontman Greg Ashley makes pop oddities with pocket change.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
03-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Greg Ashley
