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Fine Arts Museums management blasted in colorful anonymous letter

03.21.13 - 3:57 pm | Rebecca Bowe |
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Ever since the Guardian reported on recent firings and allegations of improper behavior by senior staff at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), we’ve received a great deal of correspondence relating to the museums. Read more »

The human price of Catholic conservatism

03.21.13 - 2:50 pm | Tim Redmond |
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A new book by local historian William Issel explains the key role the Catholic Church played in funding and supporting progressive causes in 20th Century San Francisco, and Randy Shaw's take on it is accurate: For a while, in the 1970s and 1980s, the Church funded a lot of the tenant advocacy and poverty work in this city. The other side of that is a piece of the debate over the new Pope that we're not hearing much.Read more »

Keystone pipeline protesters bound for Pac Heights

03.21.13 - 2:31 pm | Rebecca Bowe |
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Environmentalists opposing the Keystone XL oil pipeline are gearing up to protest in San Francisco's wealthy Pacific Heights neighborhood on April 3, when President Barack Obama will dine with the city's upper crust for a Democratic Party fundraiser.Read more »

On KPFA, Gavin Newsom ducks the tough ones

03.21.13 - 2:09 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Gavin Newsom sat down for an hour with Brian Edwards-Tiekert of KPFA's Up Front, and the show is remarkable. Brian was a little less harsh than Steven Colbert, who (properly) said the Gavster's new book, Citizenville, needs "a bullshit detector" and that "everything in there could be carved on a stone and put in someone's garden," but he did a great job putting Newsom's book in the context of state and lo Read more »

San Francisco female priest and gay Catholics react to selection of Pope Francis

03.21.13 - 1:54 pm | Avi Asher-Schapiro |
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Victoria Rue, a female Roman Catholic Priest, leads a small community of renegade Catholic worshipers in San Francisco. Ordained by a trio of female Bishops on a boat on the St. Lawrence Seaway in 2005, she’s part of a growing international movement to dismantle the longstanding ban on female clergy and push the Catholic Church in a more liberal direction. Although Rue was excommunicated shortly after her ordination, she continues to consider herself a Catholic.Read more »

Snap Sounds: Justin Timberlake

03.21.13 - 12:28 pm | Taylor Kaplan |
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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE
(RCA)

It's 10 songs, seven minutes apiece. A quick look at the track-listing to Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience reveals a giant slice of pop ambition; a brazen comeback effort that practically dares the rest of the Grammy-elite to catch up. Read more »

The garbage rate hike

03.21.13 - 10:51 am |
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Yes, your garbage rates are going up. As much as 23 percent, maybe. That’s what Recology, the local trash monopoly, announced March 15.

The rate hike isn’t as bad as some people expected, nor is it as high as earlier predictions. More important, the way the company charges for the three bins we all use is going to change rather profoundly: No more free recycling and compost bins, but you can save money if you cut back on the amount of unrecyclable crap you shouldn’t buy anyway that’s headed to the landfill.

Here’s how it’s going to work:Read more »

Bad kids get slimed with the Black Lips at Great American Music Hall

03.21.13 - 10:44 am | Haley Zaremba |
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Black Lips at the Great American Music Hall. Photo by Haley Zaremba.
Black Lips at the Great American Music Hall. Photo by Haley Zaremba.
Black Lips at the Great American Music Hall. Photo by Haley Zaremba.
Black Lips at the Great American Music Hall. Photo by Haley Zaremba.
Black Lips at the Great American Music Hall. Photo by Haley Zaremba.

The Great American Music Hall was a soupy, sweaty mess of swamp-like proportions before the Black Lips had even taken the stage Monday night. The crowd, buzzing with the combined excitement of intoxication and anticipation, erupted into howls and screeches as the band took the stage in a puff of fog-machine smoke. From behind the mist, one of the Black Lips yelled into the mic, “If you wanna be smart, read a goddamn book. If you wanna have fun, you’re in the right goddamn place!” And so it began. Read more »

Art: It's like money in the bank

03.21.13 - 9:11 am | Caitlin Donohue |
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The panic that grips you in those moments when you need to open a new checking account, but really needed a double shot of espresso are over. Yes, my moneyed mates, greetings and welcomes to the Financial District's somewhat recently opened Capital One 360 Cafe.

Within the gleaming walls, one can perform banking transactions and caffiene transactions with well trained bank staff-baristas. You can plan ahead and reserve a workspace at which you will enjoy free WiFi thanks to corporate America's largess. And for a limited time on those gleaming walls, you can enjoy artist Nick Mancilla's commentary on the transience of wealth while you bask in the endless future of your own, unfurling before you like a expensive, woven, cheerful, infinite Stars and Stripes. Read more »

Yoga, church, and radical acceptance: An interview with the Grace Cathedral yoga team

03.21.13 - 9:01 am | Karen Macklin |
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Every Tuesday evening, hundreds of people flock to the Grace Cathedral Labyrinth to practice yoga with local teacher Darren Main. With Easter around the corner, SFBG talked to Main and the Rev. Jude Harmon, who manages the program, about how this unlikely class came to be, and why it works so well in San Francisco. Read more »

Hot sexy events: Getting (a?)head in the boardroom

03.20.13 - 4:40 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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I've been reading Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg's new book Lean In recently, which despite its rather class-specific advice and observations is a really great look at why we don't have enough women in power positions. (Hint, sexism.)

Sandberg is great on suggesting ways to circumvent the internalized patriarchy that we carry around with us, but a workshop that is taking place this evening (Wed/20) hosted by BDSM educators Society of Janus and instructor Beatrice Stonebanks takes another tack. In "Corporate Dominatrix Training 101," attendees will learn how to harness sexual tension and turn it to an advantage in officeplace dealings. Read more »

Localized Appreesh: Swells

03.20.13 - 11:13 am | Emily Savage |
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Localized Appreesh is our thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com. Read more »

Guest opinion: Pinochet, the Pope and good priests

03.20.13 - 10:43 am |
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By Fernando Andrés Torres

I still remember when I was removed from solitary confinement into the general inmate population of Tres Alamos -- one of the infamous concentration camps of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet -– and the special welcome given to us 30 or so freshly arrived detainees by the commander of the camp, Conrado Pacheco.Read more »

The Performant: Oakland, We’re For You

03.20.13 - 10:27 am | Nicole Gluckstern |
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Oakland Nights…LIVE! Photo by Joe Carrow
Oakland Nights…LIVE! Photo by Joe Carrow
Oakland Nights…LIVE! Photo by Joe Carrow
Oakland Nights…LIVE! Photo by Joe Carrow
Oakland Nights…LIVE! Photo by Joe Carrow

Oakland Nights….LIVE! makes a scene

Clear your calendars everybody, Oakland’s own untelevised late-night talk show has returned from a wintry hibernation and found itself some indoor digs, all the better to display their charmingly populist showcase. Read more »

Spare change, Larry?

03.20.13 - 10:19 am | Rebecca Bowe |
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Tensions flared over the America's Cup last week as critics called for billionaire yacht owner Larry Ellison to cover the looming city deficit out of his own deep pockets.

It's evidently a popular idea: A petition asking Ellison to pony up had collected 1,663 signatures as of Wednesday morning.Read more »