[Translate] Ross Mirkarimi has dodged a bullet this week, since legendary Retired Navy Cmdr. Zoe Dunning (pictured), anti-DADT Activist, and Green Bay Packers Fan who won a seat on the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee (DCC), pulled her resolution to start a recall effort to remove the Sheriff from his position. According to the San Francisco Examiner,...
[Translate] The San Francisco TransBay Terminal (an artist rendition of the finished product is shown) is speeding toward its eventual completion. The design is the result of a competition held in 2007. Here’s this blogger’s video on the models that the design committee had to select a winner from: Now the giant facility is well underway toward...
[Translate] WonderCon, the large comic book convention that started in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been in Oakland at the Oakland Convention Center since 1987 to 2002, then at the Moscone Center to 2011. In 2012 WonderCon was forced to seek a temporary home due to expansion-related construction at Moscone Center. Anaheim came forward with an aggressive...
[Translate] Catching up on San Francisco news. The San Francisco Giants capped a glorious World Championship season with another giant parade down Market Street Wednesday. This one, which culminated with a large ceremony in front of San Francisco City Hall, wasn’t larger than the 2010 version that drew over a million people (largely due to the weather),...
[Translate] Ross Mirkarimi, the long-time San Francisco progressive politician who, after being termed out as District Five Supervisor, was elected to be San Francisco’s Sheriff, only to be suspended from his job, by court stay-away order separated from his wife Eliana Lopez (who moved to her native home Venezuela January 13th, 2012), and all after an New...
[Translate] SF POUROn Friday March 30th, the first annual San Francisco POUR will take place at the Julia Morgan Ballroom from 6PM to 9PM. San Francisco POUR is billed as a “fantastic evening full of first-rate pours of beer, cocktails, wine, spirits, and more,” it’s a great place and an awesome way to enjoy top-of-the-line tasting, live...
[Translate] The Gold Dust Lounge controversy is one that did not have to be. The owners of the bar currently located on 247 Powell St, just two blocks up from Powell Street BART, is now operating under an expired lease. But rather than move, as the space’s owners Handlery Hotels, the owners, The Bovis Brothers, are leading a sprited battle to remain in...
[Translate] The SF Sentinel now reports a story we first broke over at this blog where Larry Bowoto, the Nigerian man who claims he was shot by persons employed by Chevron, and whom Chevron points to as the person who held their employees hostage for several days, has dropped his lawsuit claim of human rights violations. The Sentinel observes: It is looking more and more likely that Bowoto and 150 of his compatriots took over the Chevron oil platform off Nigeria in a hostage takeover — which is far different from their claims of...
[Translate] While this happened over a month ago, the Olympics have not thus making this news still relevant. And even if the Olympics had past, this would still be memorable because of the comfortable power of Bishop Desmond Tutu as expressed in this speech. Of all of the speakers, including Richard Gere, Tutu was the most powerful one. ...
