AltWeeklies Wire
A Bridge Too Farnew
The San Francisco Chronicle's series of stories on Golden Gate suicides goes "radioactive."
Let's Go to Printnew
Emily McVarish's exploration of negative space as it exists in real life is the theme of a multiyear project on the reason why San Francisco is so resistant to change.
The Manly Men of Godnew
No women are allowed into the Promise Keepers, but that didn't stop the Infiltrator from getting on the Prayer Team.
Baring Equalitynew
A pair of San Francisco court cases illustrate opposite ends of the "privilege drift" phenomenon, in which those who have political and economic power are accommodated by the government in extraordinary ways.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
11-17-2005 |
Commentary
The Deal With the Navy's Treasure Islandnew
Charges of favoritism darken San Francisco's plan to transform what is perhaps the city's last and best undeveloped urban oasis.
Tags: California, Bay Area, a political supporter of the mayor, and Los Angeles grocery billionaire Ron Burkle, Lennar Corp., Mayor Gavin Newsom and his predecessor, or TICD. Its principals lobbyist Darius Anderson of Sonoma, real-estate megadeal, Tony Hall, Treasure Island Community Developers, Willie Brown.
Pacifists for Warnew
The fractured counterrecruitment movement includes those hoping to bring the draft back.
Don't Ask Why?new
Musician Yoni Wolf is moving in a new direction, replacing laptops and turntables with guitar-picking, piano chords, mournful lyrics, and big choruses. Is indie the new hip-hop?
SF Weekly |
David Downs |
11-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Welcome to Talkalotnew
Mayor Gavin Newsom sees San Francisco as an aristocratic kingdom existing only in the realm of fantasy. He espouses employment in modern high-tech industries while allowing a return to the industrial age.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
11-08-2005 |
Commentary
Fess Upnew
Two new anthologies of tell-all personal essays leave the reader little to identify with.
SF Weekly |
Karen Zuercher |
11-02-2005 |
Nonfiction
Hire Me!new
Armed with a fake resume, a columnist known as the Infiltrator figures out how to solve the so-called unemployment problem.
SF Weekly |
Harmon Leon |
11-01-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: job interview, job seeking
Private Dicksnew
As complex as the story twists in this detective film are, it's the throwaways that Shane Black seems to have the most fun with.
Here Comes the Fognew
The sprinter Lost in the Fog is the adored savior of horse racing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
SF Weekly |
Tommy Craggs |
11-01-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
S.F. Hosing Authoritynew
San Francisco city government officials promised victims of Hurricane Katrina a haven, then gave some of them the shaft.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
10-26-2005 |
Commentary
A Family Adriftnew
Nothing in Noah Baumbach's filmography suggests he had within him something as treacherously funny and wrenchingly sad as The Squid and the Whale.
San Francisco Political Battles Worthy of Science Fictionnew
Like Godzilla vs. Mothra, marijuana clubs are fighting their neighbors, a left-wing politician is battling wealthy members of the San Francisco Tennis Club, and Green Party activists face off against local parents.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
10-18-2005 |
Commentary
