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NOISE: James Brown is dead - long live James Brown

12.28.06 - 11:07 am | Music Blogger |
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Whoa, I go crazy - James Brown in his casket. Who would have thought it could happen? To the hardest working of us all?

Newsday reports that a gold casket carrying the Godfather of Soul's body, drawn by two white horses, arrived at the Apollo Theater today as thousands of fans lining the street erupted in chants.

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Died on Christmas day. Courtesy of AFP

McClatchy sells the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to a New York venture capital firm with no newspaper experience. It's sad for the staff, for the state of Minnesota, and for the newspaper business

12.28.06 - 10:07 am | Bruce Brugmann |
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Bu Bruce B. Brugmann

It's yet another WLSB, another wimpy little story in the business section of the Hearst/Singleton papers, except this time it was not even in the business section of the San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst.
And it was just a couple of paragraphs boiled out of an Associated Press story in the business digest of the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, and the San Jose Mercury News (all Singleton papers).

Why? Read more »

Of Hearst, Singleton, the WLSBs, and the documents of collaboration

12.22.06 - 4:07 pm | Bruce Brugmann |
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By Bruce B. Brugmann

To get the citizen's point of view, I have long maintained that every reporter and every editor and every publisher ought sooner or later to be the center of a story and see how the media works.

I found the exercise most instructive when the Media Alliance and the Guardian, represented by the First Amendment Project (Attys. James Wheaton, David Greene, and Pondra Perkins), went into federal court on Thursday to intervene and seek to unseal key records in the Reilly vs. Hearst/Singleton antitrust trial. Our three P.S. Read more »

How campaign consultants built a highrise

12.22.06 - 1:10 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

The line between campaign consultant and lobbyist has always been far too fuzzy -- but now the Center for Public Integrity has issued a report on how the revolving door can lead to terrible public policy. Read more »

NOISE: Joanna Newsom overwhelms in SF

12.22.06 - 12:47 pm | Music Blogger |
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Guardian contributor Max Goldberg caught Joanna Newsom's recent performance at Great American Music Hall. Here's his review:

Sans bangs and decked in red, Joanna Newsom played the last of a sold-out three-night stand at the Great American Music Hall Wednesday, Dec. 20. It was a performance concentrated and sustained enough to feel like a dream: no small thing given the general crush of people. Read more »

Comedy Tonite!

12.22.06 - 12:15 pm | Marke B. |
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Intern Aaron Sankin's take on the recent live SF appearance of Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter, two of the creators of the show Stella

The first time I saw Stella I was instantly enraptured. It was clever, it was funny, and, most of all, it was zany. Zany like the old Marx brothers movies (which, for my money, are the funniest things to have ever been committed to celluloid); zany like the Animaniacs cartoons that entertained me for many a Cheerio-filled Saturday morning. Zany in a way that modern comedy no longer is. Read more »

My, how the rumors swirl

12.21.06 - 8:56 am | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

Well, now I'm not the only one speculating about the possibility of Carole Migden deciding to run for mayor. Sasha at LeftinSF floated it out Tuesday, and SFist weighed in on it today.

All of this, of course, goes back to the story that Read more »

NOISE: Coup keeps on keepin' on...

12.20.06 - 3:05 pm | Music Blogger |
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FOR THE COUP

THE SHOW GOES ON

New Orleans Musicians Fund to Assist band recover from devastating bus crash

The Coup will play Claypool's Mad Hatter's Ball New Year's Eve

Grace Pavilion, Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa -- December 120, 2006 -- The Harmony Festival has received many queries about whether or not The Coup, having recently survived a devastating tour bus accident in which they lost all of their belongings and were forced to cancel their tour, would be Read more »

Hawk eyed

12.20.06 - 2:54 pm | Music Blogger |
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Urban wildlife sightings are always joyous things - but not if you're a rat. We spied this gorg bird from our offices on Potrero Hill and watched it tear the entrails from a humongoid rodent. Missed our deadlines, but it was much better than the Discovery Channel. Read more »