AltWeeklies Wire
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
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
Burnt Mannew
One of the founders of Burning Man is suing and makes a case for opening up the cultish event to more subversive fun.
Tags: lifestyles
In Pen and Inknew
They are unschooled, undisciplined, and often unpopular, but it's outsider artists like convicts who can sometimes shape mainstream culture.
Tags: visual arts
Larger Than Lifenew
Artist Anselm Kiefer makes books out of lead, clay, even semen.
Tags: visual arts
Sports Flightnew
Do the flights of the 49ers and the A's to suburbab venues forebode a seismic shift in the Bay Area sports scene?
Tags: sports & fitness
Mystery, He Wrotenew
The playwright of one of these one-acts seems to have vanished without a trace.
Tags: theater
New Delisnew
If a place called Morty's isn't Jewish enough, what is?
SF Weekly |
Meredith Brody |
11-09-2006 |
Food+Drink
Drawn Togethernew
Why the surging popularity of yaoi -- graphic boy-on-boy comics -- might be the source of the genre's downfall.
Tags: visual arts
Whose Haight?new
Street kids expect the neighborhood to welcome them as it did their forebears in the '60s, but residents, merchants, and cops are planning a different future.
Tags: lifestyles
Writing His Futurenew
Vulcan, the erstwhile king of spray can art, wants to leave the streets behind without losing his soul.
Tags: visual arts
Portrait of the Artist as an Old Mannew
After a lifetime in the arts, Christopher Lane is wrestling with poverty, mental illness, and a massive debt.
Tags: visual arts
