The CrackBerry Chronicles: Gone Fishin’

Elaine Santore
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Elaine Santore
July 8, 2008
For the Ladies
Last Tuesday Fog City Journal attended the launch party for Women’s Independent Cinema (WIC) Documentary & Film Club at the Presidio Social Club with FCJ friend and SFLuxe editor, Damion Matthews. WIC co-founder Jennifer Siebel was unable to attend because she was “being held […]

 

Sandra Lee Fewer Campaign Kick-Off

From the Campaign to Elect Sandra Lee Fewer
June 25, 2008
Candidate for San Francisco School Board Sandra Lee Fewer will kick off her campaign today at the historic Cathay House Restaurant, 718 California Street (at Grant), in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The event begins at 6:00 p.m. with elected officials scheduled to speak at 6:40 p.m., […]

 

Photojournal: Harvey Milk Club Dinner Extravaganza

Harry Britt speaks at the Harvey Milk Club dinner on June 17, 2008.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Elaine Santore and Luke Thomas

June 18, 2008
Fog City Journal attended the Harvey Milk Democratic Club annual buzzfest yesterday to celebrate the club’s 30th anniversary and to celebrate a historic victory for civil rights.
Sean Penn, who plays Harvey Milk in […]

 

Community Unites to Tell Health Insurance Industy:
Health Care Yes, Insurance Companies No!

From Senior Action Network
June 16, 2008
Who: A Coalition of health care reform activists
What: Rally at the AHIP Convention
Where: 4th and Howard Street, Moscone West
When: Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 12:00PM
Why: The June 19 rally will be the first organized mass expression of popular demand for high-quality, affordable health care directed by patients and doctors, not […]

 

The CrackBerry Chronicles: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Elaine Santore at Oxenrose Salon’s reception for Shu Uemura’s Art of Hair Collection.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Elaine Santore
June 16, 2008
Because Life Is Too Short For Bad Hair And Cheap Liquor
Maybe it comes from working with and befriending hairstylists during my short, unabashed self-centered life, but I believe the state of a person’s hair reflects how […]

 

Organizers Prepare for Major Protest
of Health Insurance Convention

By Bob Brigham
June 16, 2008
Thousands of Californians and concerned citizens are expected to take advantage of free regional public transit Thursday to protest America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) annual convention in San Francisco.
The convention, to be held at Moscone Convention Center, is expected to draw as many as 38,000 health insurance executives and lobbyists […]

 

Terry McAuliffe to be Protested June 19th

Former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe
By Bob Brigham
June 12, 2008
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) decided downtown San Francisco would be a good place for the health insurance company lobbyists and executives to hold their convention. Not surprisingly, thousands of people will take to the streets at noon, June 19th, at the Moscone center to protest getting […]

 

San Francisco Food Bank’s One Big Table

By Lisa Moresco
June 2, 2008
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
- Legendary Chef, James Beard
The devastating experience of hunger, not so much, but 150,000 of our fellow residents endure the frightening encounter of deficient and inadequate nourishment yearly. In a setting as prestigious as San Francisco, children, families and seniors are now placing […]

 

Court: Falun Gong can be excluded
from Chinese New Year Parade

By Julia Cheever
June 2, 2008
A state appeals court has upheld the right of the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce to exclude the Falun Gong spiritual group from street fairs related to the chamber’s annual Chinese New Year Parade in the city.
The Court of Appeal, in a ruling issued in San Francisco on Friday, said […]

 

Deafening Silence:
Carmen Policy and Lennar Ignoring Requests
to Debate, Face Community

From the Proposition F Campaign
May 30, 2008
F is for Fairness Moving Forward with Opportunity for Both Sides
to Face the Bayview/Hunters Point
Concerns are rising that Lennar consultant Carmen Policy may continue ignoring calls for a debate before the Bayview/Hunters Point community. Since issuing an open invitation to Policy on Wednesday May 28, F is for Fairness […]