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Double shooting pushes grim toll
- The City’s ever-increasing homicide count reached a sobering benchmark early Saturday morning with the fatal shootings of two men in the Mission district, pushing the unofficial tally to 96 and tying the 2005 mark for the highest yearly total in a decade.
- The City’s ever-increasing homicide count reached a sobering benchmark early Saturday morning with the fatal shootings of two men in the Mission district, pushing the unofficial tally to 96 and tying the 2005 mark for the highest yearly total in a decade.
The 3-minute interview: Ed Rosenthal
- The East Bay marijuana advocate and columnist for High Times Magazine during the late 1980s held his third annual cannabis festival in The City recently and is working on an appeal of a May 31 conviction for charges related to cultivating and distributing marijuana.
- The East Bay marijuana advocate and columnist for High Times Magazine during the late 1980s held his third annual cannabis festival in The City recently and is working on an appeal of a May 31 conviction for charges related to cultivating and distributing marijuana.
The 3-minute interview with Richard Goldman
- The 87-year-old native of San Francisco and president of the Richard and Rhonda Goldman Fund recently made news when he fell off the Forbes 400 Billionaires List because of what Forbes describes as his “selfless” philanthropic work. Goldman, who has donated more than $78 million through the fund to environmental causes and organizations in the last 10 years, will be honored at the Full Circle Fund Forum 2007 today at San Francisco City Hall. Former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to speak at the event.
- The 87-year-old native of San Francisco and president of the Richard and Rhonda Goldman Fund recently made news when he fell off the Forbes 400 Billionaires List because of what Forbes describes as his “selfless” philanthropic work. Goldman, who has donated more than $78 million through the fund to environmental causes and organizations in the last 10 years, will be honored at the Full Circle Fund Forum 2007 today at San Francisco City Hall. Former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to speak at the event.
S.F. Iran Literary Arts fest explores everyday life
- With a narrowly focused view of the Middle East, bombarded by headlines of Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the perilous war in Iraq, it is easy to construe the Iranian Literary Arts Festival, debuting in The City today, as a symbolic outlet of political uproar.
- With a narrowly focused view of the Middle East, bombarded by headlines of Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the perilous war in Iraq, it is easy to construe the Iranian Literary Arts Festival, debuting in The City today, as a symbolic outlet of political uproar.
The 3-minute interview with Susie Essman
- The Bronx-born comedian, who plays the expletive-spewing Susie Greene on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” has one advice for Bay Area residents who may catch her stand-up act at Cobb’s Comedy Club from Friday through Sunday: Don’t bring your kids. Although she insists she is not like her character, she says her act is “down and dirty,” edgy and mostly about sex and relationships.
- The Bronx-born comedian, who plays the expletive-spewing Susie Greene on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” has one advice for Bay Area residents who may catch her stand-up act at Cobb’s Comedy Club from Friday through Sunday: Don’t bring your kids. Although she insists she is not like her character, she says her act is “down and dirty,” edgy and mostly about sex and relationships.
Apparent suicide halts BART station
- A middle-aged man was struck and killed by a BART train Tuesday evening at the Powell Street station in San Francisco, closing the station for about an hour and a half to a throng of onlookers and riders waiting to get home.
3-minute interview with Kerry Yo Nakagawa
- The film writer behind “American Pastime,” a love drama about an enduring Japanese-American family who finds peace in baseball while imprisoned in a Utah internment camp during World War II, is screening the film Tuesday at Grace Cathedral in The City. The Fresno resident’s upbringing was steeped in a tradition of baseball; his uncle Johnny played with Lou Gehrig in the 1920s, and his uncle Lefty pitched against Jackie Robinson in 1937.
- The film writer behind “American Pastime,” a love drama about an enduring Japanese-American family who finds peace in baseball while imprisoned in a Utah internment camp during World War II, is screening the film Tuesday at Grace Cathedral in The City. The Fresno resident’s upbringing was steeped in a tradition of baseball; his uncle Johnny played with Lou Gehrig in the 1920s, and his uncle Lefty pitched against Jackie Robinson in 1937.
SFPD officer attacked on Market St.
- Alarmed by a middle-aged man brazenly holding up a sign marked by themes of killing, a female police sergeant was assaulted Thursday during her attempt to speak with him on Market Street, police said.
3-minute interview with Marc Bamuthi Joseph
- The list of accomplishments (National Poetry Slam champion, San Francisco Poetry Grand Slam winner, Broadway veteran) is nearly as long as the job descriptions (hip-hop artist and dancer, activist, teacher, poet) for the San Francisco-based artist. At the age of 10, he understudied Savion Glover for “The Tap Dance Kid.” The 31-year-old will end his world tour of “Scourge,” his solo work of spoken word and dance, Saturday at the ODC Theatre in the Mission district.
- The list of accomplishments (National Poetry Slam champion, San Francisco Poetry Grand Slam winner, Broadway veteran) is nearly as long as the job descriptions (hip-hop artist and dancer, activist, teacher, poet) for the San Francisco-based artist. At the age of 10, he understudied Savion Glover for “The Tap Dance Kid.” The 31-year-old will end his world tour of “Scourge,” his solo work of spoken word and dance, Saturday at the ODC Theatre in the Mission district.
