Articles Posted by Hope Johnson

  • Stay Tuned: Speak Power to Power, A Dear John Letter

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    Stay Tuned: Speak Power to Power,
    A Dear John Letter

    Dear Budget Chair John Avalos… Photos by Luke Thomas By Hope Johnson July 21, 2009 Dear Supervisor Avalos: In a rarely seen move at Stay Tuned, I’ll get right to the point.  WTF is going…

  • Stay Tuned: MUNI & Me

    Stay Tuned: MUNI & Me

    Mind the MTA budget gap: Swing vote Supervisor Sophie Maxwell took a bold step Tuesday when she joined her Progressive colleagues and voted for a continuance of the MTA budget. Photos by Luke Thomas By…

  • Stay Tuned: You Are The Weakest Link

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    Stay Tuned: You Are The Weakest Link

    No one is questioning Supervisor Eric Mar’s integrity or his Progressive politics, or his concern for global climate change, but his refusal to allow for more analysis of an important solar energy contract with Recurrent…

  • Star Trek Movie Review: The Ties that Bind

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    Star Trek Movie Review: The Ties that Bind

    By Hope Johnson May 11, 2009 Star Trek, the latest entry in the legendary sci-fi series, collected a deserved $72.5 million in its opening weekend. The film is so unexpectedly wonderful, this Trekkie was brought…

  • Stay Tuned: Tourk It Up a Notch

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    Stay Tuned: Tourk It Up a Notch

    Tourking it up a notch, hired gun Alex Tourk rubs shoulders with the new Billy Whiz kid on the block, BOS Prez David Chiu, following Chiu’s soliloquy to the building tradesters Tuesday. Photos by Luke…

  • Stale Magnolias in Rectal, Texas

    Stale Magnolias in Rectal, Texas

    Raven Looney (Jef Valentine) and Spuvina Fetlock (Arturo Galster) release years of pent up rivalry towards each other during an hilarious scene in Stale Magnolias, now playing at Glama-Rama Hair Salon through June 14. Photos…

  • Stay Tuned: Wedges of Mass Construction

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    Stay Tuned: Wedges of Mass Construction

    By Hope Johnson April 30, 2009 FCJ felt right at home, like family even, at last weekend’s State Democratic Party Convention in Sacramento. Family, Sopranos style, that is. Larry Mazzola, Jr. took his childish resentment…