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Got pests? Open data project reveals housing code violation data
Thanks to a handy new online platform created by the city’s Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation and Code for America, you can now determine whether...
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SFUSD sticker shock: new art school to cost $240 million
A still in progress rendering of the new Ruth Asawa School of the Arts high school building, on Van Ness. Architect render via SFUSDArt advocates have tried to move the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts...
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Berlin and Beyond Film Festival begins January 15!
Welcome to the 18th season of the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco! Attend the festival at the legendary Castro Theatre from January 15–19 and at the Goethe-Institut from January...
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Find friends, find mentors, find your music
In 2014 everyone should be a player, and Blue Bear School of Music has a class to make it happen! Play guitar: no need to read music, just you and your guitar will do. Sign up now for small group...
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Jack of All Trades Oakland
Shop local, shop unique at Jack of All Trades Market at Jack London Square this Saturday!Over 100+ local craft and antique vendors, underground food startups, mobile fashion trucks and more. Plus: live...
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Promo: Prom Night kickoff for IndieFest (Free admission for Bay Guardian...
Attend the prom-themed Sweet 16 launch party for the 16th Annual SF IndieFest that also doubles as the kick off party for the I Was a Teenage Teenager teen-themed film series, screening January 10-14...
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Voter Approval to Waterfront Development campaign officially underway
Last year's campaign morphed into the current one.The campaign to subject big projects proposed for San Francisco’s waterfront to popular approval is officially underway, with the City Attorney’s...
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Dan Siegel announces candidacy for Oakland mayor
Oakland attorney Dan Siegel, known for a long history of involvement in Bay Area social justice movements, joined a group of more than 150 supporters in front of Oakland City Hall this morning to...
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Gods and mom-sters: the week's new films
Tough mothers: Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in August: Osage County.Photo courtesy of the Weinstein CompanyThis week: August: Osage County(bumped from its previously-scheduled opening last week)...
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Here’s what the new FCC chairman heard when he came to Oakland
Don't worry, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler diligently took notes on everything that was said.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWELast night (Thu/9), the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications...
View ArticleSolomon: The CIA, Amazon, Bezo, and the Washington Post: An exchange with...
By Norman Solomon (B3 note: This exchange between Norman Solomon and the Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron followed a Solomon column that dramatized the ethical issues involving the Post...
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"Poll" showing 73 percent approval for Mayor Lee was flawed
Mayor Ed Lee appears larger than life in the USF "poll."Tim DawThere was a poll conducted in late November by the University of San Francisco, the results of which were released in conjunction with the...
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Article overlooks key findings and new academic research
USF Associate Professor Corey Cook is a co-author of the survey.By Corey CookI am writing in regard to Reed Nelson’s story “’Poll’ showing 73 percent approval for Mayor Lee was flawed.” As one of the...
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SFUSD students may get new police protections
13 year old Iheem Antone gives a thumbs up before marching for suspension reform outside the Board of Education on Tuesday, Oct. 22. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezStudents who run afoul of the...
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On the waterfront
Initiative would give voters a say on big waterfront projects that violate zoning standardsSup. David Campos (left) was the first to sign campaign manager Jon Golinger's initiative petition.GUARDIAN...
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The good foot
The FRESH Festival and Liss Fain Dance welcome 2014 with exciting new worksWoolf pack: Megan Kurashige in "After the Light"PHOTO BY RJ MUNAarts@sfbg.com DANCE The fourth FRESH Festival sounds like...
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Bee true
The documentaries of Berlin and BeyondRedemption Impossiblearts@sfbg.comFILM It's January, and our premiere German language film festival, Berlin and Beyond, is back to its rightful place on the...
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Soft eyes
Chip Lord unearths unexpected details in urban landscapesFasten your seatbelt: "In Transit" (2011) captures the check-in lobby at Frankfurt Airport.PHOTO COURTESY OF CHIP LORDcheryl@sfbg.comFILM Chip...
View ArticleEvents: January 15 - 21, 2014
WEDNESDAY 15"Lyrics and Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series"Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck, Berk; www.pegasusbookstore.com. 7:30pm, free. With authors Brian Ang, Carmella Fleming, Judy Juanita,...
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