Brown, Hall, Pritikin Bedazzle Guests During Mural Unveiling
Former Mayor Willie Brown, former Supervisor Tony Hall and former ad-executive Bob Pritikin performed at the Pritikin Mansion Sunday as part of an official ceremony to unveil the world’s largest…
Kissing the Blarney Stone
Blarney Castle Photo by Judi Iranyi By Ralph E. Stone October 21, 2009 On our recent trip to the Republic of Ireland we stopped in Blarney, County Cork, where the…
Brown, Pritikin to Co-Host Unveiling of World’s Largest Portrait Mural
The world’s largest portrait mural by artist Guy Colwell will be officially unveiled Sunday at the Pritikin Mansion in San Francisco. Photos by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas October 21,…
Proposition D is a Billboard Scam
By Ian Fletcher, guest editorial October 14, 2009 In this November’s election, commercial interests are doing their best to ruin downtown San Francisco. Their primary initiative—Proposition D—would create an exemption…
Lessons from Loma Prieta, October 17, 1989
Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. Photo by Luke Thomas By Art Agnos October 13, 2009 Twenty years ago, the whole world watched as San Francisco faced its greatest disaster…
Open Letter to the San Francisco Planning Commission
Western SoMa Citizens Planning Task Force Chair, Jim Meko. By Jim Meko October 12, 2009 During the dot com boom, speculative land use development swept over the formerly industrial portions…
Activists Storm Leno’s Office,
Demand Schwarzenegger Veto Privatization Bill
Activists representing POWER entered the San Francisco offices of Senator Mark Leno yesterday to protest legislation he authored that would transfer State parkland to a private developer. Photos by Luke…