Celebrate Compton’s 50th with Tenderloin Queer History Walking Tour

Posted July 26, 2016 by Randy Shaw

In August 1966, drag queens, trans sex workers, hair fairies and gay street hustlers rose up against police harassment in what became known at the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot at Turk and Taylor Streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Many events
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SF’s Unfinished Business For 2016

Posted July 19, 2016 by Randy Shaw

2016 has already been a productive political year in San Francisco. The highlights: a long needed Department of Homelessness was launched, consensus for police reforms emerged, and legislation sought to close a critical loophole promoting illegal short-term rentals. In June,
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AASHTO’s Draft Bikeway Guide Includes Protected Bike Lanes and More

Posted July 19, 2016 by Michael Andersen

As the most influential U.S. transportation engineering organization rewrites its bike guide, there seems to be general agreement that protected bike lanes should be included for the first time. A review panel appointed by the American Association of State Highway
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1980 Letter Reveals Tenderloin’s Other Side

Posted July 19, 2016 by Randy Shaw

I recently came across a Letter to the Editor I wrote published in the San Francisco Examiner on September 3, 1980: Tenderloin’s other side Dexter Waugh’s otherwise excellent article on children in the Tenderloin spoke of the “many myths” about
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Reviews From 2016 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Posted July 19, 2016 by Peter Wong

The documentary “A German Life” unsettles viewers by considering complicity in Nazism based on career choice. Directors Christian Krones, Olaf Muller, Roland Schrotthofer, and Florian Weigensamer raise disturbing questions on this topic through a very mundane Nazi. Subject Brunhilde Pomsel
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City Hall Plays Let’s Make a Deal

Posted July 18, 2016 by Randy Shaw

Among the best game shows of the 1960’s and 1970’s (and in syndication decades later) was Monty Hall’s Let’s Make a Deal. It worked like this: after a contestant was given a refrigerator, sofa or similar prize, Hall would entice
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Sanders Movement Pushes Democratic Party Platform Toward A Big Fight Over Charter Schools

Posted July 18, 2016 by Jeff Bryant

// Earlier this week my colleague Richard Eskow reported on the impact the populist progressive movement led by Bernie Sanders and others is having on the Democratic Party Platform to be voted on at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia
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To the Editor…

Posted July 14, 2016 by Beyond Chron

Subject: Please distinguish between referendums and initiatives Good article. Citizen ballot initiatives are initiated by the people. Referendums are referred to the people by legislatures. One reason this isn’t just academic is that ALEC and others around the country are
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