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Bringing Up Baby Gavin
How William Newsom's pipeline into the Getty fortune has put money -- lots of it -- in his politically ambitious son's pocket
April 02, 2003
As a Matter of Fat
The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health
January 17, 2001
Kamala's Karma
She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that.
September 24, 2003
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Edited by Stephen Elliott MacAdam/Cage (2003), $13 San Francisco-based novelist Stephen Elliott has put together a collection of inspired fiction reflecting our post-9/11 culture. The 30 short stories (and cartoon art) of Politically Inspired range from comic and satirical to…
by Peter Byrne
January 28, 2004
Tags: Books, Books, Stephen Elliott, San Francisco, George W. Bush, Ben Greenman
News,
Feature
On a gorgeous, warm November morning, a small army of San Francisco cops, sheriff's deputies, FBI agents, and other would-be terrorist fighters gathers behind Pac Bell Park to test its chops. Armed with guns and laptops, the law enforcement officers…
by Peter Byrne
January 21, 2004
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, John Brown, San Francisco, Arlene Singer, Gavin Newsom
News,
Feature
During the summer of 2002, Bay Area rapper Paris wrote and recorded a song called "What Would You Do?" and made it available for free downloading. The song accused President George W. Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft of orchestrating…
by Peter Byrne
December 3, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Oscar Jackson, Paris, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush
News,
Dog Bites
On a warm November night, in a rent-controlled penthouse high above the Tenderloin, six members of the anti-Gavin Newsom underground gather in preparation for a night of illegal postering. Most of them are gay, under 30, and work at white-collar…
by Peter Byrne
November 26, 2003
Tags: Dog Bites, Columns, Gavin Newsom, Kimberly Newsom, John F. Kennedy, Maria Shriver
Culture,
Books
By James Tracy, Dani Montgomery, Raw Knowledge, George Tirado, Leroy Moore, Ananda Esteva, and Josiah Luis Alderete Manic D Press (2003), $13.95 Aficionados of San Francisco's spoken-word scene will know Molotov Mouths, a verbally incendiary band of activists-slash-poets who have…
by Peter Byrne
October 29, 2003
Tags: Books, Books, George Tirado, James Tracy, Josiah Luis Alderete, Dani Montgomery
News,
Feature
Terence Hallinan sits in the auditorium of the State Building on Golden Gate Avenue, staring morosely at the stage. There, members of the low-profile but powerful San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee are wrangling over the temperamental district attorney's fate.…
by Peter Byrne
September 24, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Bill Fazio, Donald Harris, Kamala Harris, Terence Hallinan
News,
Bay View
Beginning last January, right-wing San Francisco radio talk show host Melanie Morgan gleefully began throwing her wattage behind the gathering movement to recall Gov. Gray Davis. Morgan, co-host of the KSFO-AM (560) Morning Show, invited a string of conservative Republican…
by Peter Byrne
August 20, 2003
Tags: Bay View, Columns, Gray Davis, Melanie Morgan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shawn Steel
News,
Feature
Late in the afternoon of Oct. 23, 1999, Muni driver Sarah Benton picked up an empty bus at a Municipal Railway yard in southeast San Francisco, drove off, and an hour later exited Highway 280 at Monterey Boulevard, racing at…
by Peter Byrne
August 6, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Sarah Benton, Welton N.M. Beattie, Andy Gescheidt, Emily Landsverk
Culture,
Books
By Wes "Scoop" Nisker HarperSanFrancisco (2003), $24.95 Silence and Noise: Growing Up in America By Ivan Richmond Atria (2003), $13 Two Bay Area authors -- a fiftysomething and a twentysomething -- have written memoirs about being Buddhists, American-style. Both books…
by Peter Byrne
July 30, 2003
Tags: Books, Books, Ivan Richmond, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., Mill Valley, Advertising Council
News,
Feature
In early April, my dentist was rooting around inside my mouth, making the terrible jokes for which he is infamous while I, as usual, laughed politely. Then he wiped his hands clean and handed me a toothbrush and a "Notice…
by Peter Byrne
May 28, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Federal Bureau of Investigation, California, USA Patriot Act, San Francisco
News,
Feature
Retired state appeals court Judge William A. Newsom III likes to take his lunch at the Balboa Cafe, a pleasant Marina District eatery that happens to be owned by his son, Supervisor Gavin Newsom, the leading contender for next mayor…
by Peter Byrne
April 2, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Gavin Newsom, Gordon Getty, William Newsom, Sarah Getty
