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Tomorrow is tonight in Gutenberg! The Musical!

06.15.10 - 11:53 am | sfbg |
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By Sam Stander

Have you ever seen a musical where most of the characters couldn’t read? It really is a novel idea, isn’t it? That’s what Doug Simon and Bud Davenport are here for! The hack musical theater hopefuls who basically constitute the whole cast of Scott Brown and Anthony King’s Gutenberg! The Musical! know that writing a musical is hard, so they’ve done all the work. It’s just up to the bigshot Broadway producers in the audience (purportedly) to make their dreams come true. In Beards Beards Beards: A Theatre Company’s production of the rather madcap little play, which premiered Thursday at Exit Stage Left in San Francisco, Austin Ferris and Joey Price play the two sickeningly sincere song-and-dance men to a tee.

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Editorial: PG&E's greed backfires

06.15.10 - 11:50 am | Guardian Staff Writers |
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The defeat of Prop. 16 showed that unlimited corporate spending on a ballot initiative doesn't guarantee victory.

EDITORIAL The single most important number to come out of San Francisco on election night was this: 67.49 percent. That's how many people in this city voted against Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s monopoly measure, Proposition 16. It's a statistic that ought to be posted somewhere on a wall at City Hall to remind everyone in local government that the voters sided overwhelmingly against PG&E and in favor of a public option for local electricity. Read more »

Street Threads: Look of the Day

06.15.10 - 11:21 am | Ariel Soto-Suver |
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Today's Look: Emma and Madeline, 26th Street and Castro

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The Daily Blurgh: Poisoned fruit cocktails, tipsy crafts

06.14.10 - 4:37 pm | Matt Sussman |
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Curiosities, quirks, oddites, and items from around the Bay and beyond

The moral imperative of the BP oil spill: Drive 20 percent less.

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Former gourmet chocolatier goes vegan.

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Meg Whitman, helluva boss

06.14.10 - 4:04 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Meg is proud of her success at EBay. I wonder if she's proud of shoving one of her employees. I know, I know -- Meg was a tough-love employer who demanded the best and would tolerate nothing less. She relishes the reputation that, as the NY Times says, she

was known as a demanding leader who did not hesitate to express displeasure with employees who failed to live up to her standards.Read more »

Appetite: 3 recent opening worth checking out

06.14.10 - 3:32 pm | Virginia Miller |
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Out of all the new additions to our food and drink scene last month -- and there were quite a few -- these spots launch with the promise of becoming SF classics. As always, read more about restaurants, bars, travel, food and drink in my newsletter, The Perfect Spot.

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Love Art Lab's sexy shade of green

06.14.10 - 3:29 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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“She's more high brow, and I'm more...” Golden girl of classic porn, and ex-prostitute, Annie Sprinkle and I are eating lunch in her Bernal Heights kitchen. She's searching for the words to compare her partner Beth Stephens' and her own artistic repertoires. The two women are in the midst of what they call the Love Art Lab, a far reaching, seven year project that's seen them married eight times all over the globe in lavishly creative ceremonies that invoke Sprinkle's and Stephens' commitment to “ecosexuality.” Read more »

SFBG Radio: Johnny and Tim on the stink of desperation

06.14.10 - 3:28 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Today, Johnny and Tim discuss the World Cup, Carly Fiornia, Afghanistan and the stink of desperation. You can listen after the jump. Read more »

Global-eyed: The street art of Chile

06.14.10 - 3:15 pm | Ben Hopfer |
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These pictures are a mix of Chilean street art I found in Santiago and Valparaíso (which is really similar to SF in too many ways to list). It was really cool walking though the back streets and stumbling across these beautiful and colorful pieces. I tried to focus my lens on the best murals, funniest cartoons, and the pieces that I felt were more than just "graffiti."

Leno bill would limit PG&E political spending

06.14.10 - 11:15 am | Tim Redmond |
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State Senator Mark Leno is introducing a bill that could stop Pacific Gas and Electric Company from spending ratepayer money on political campaigns.

The bill, which doesn't yet have a number, would put a serious crimp in the private utility's ability to launch another effort like Prop. 16 -- the $50 million campaign to block public power in California.Read more »

Even would-be terrorists love their kit-tehs

06.14.10 - 8:26 am | Marke B. |
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Or, birth of a meme: Princess Tuna! Not that we're trolling for snuggly jihadis, but this pic of New Jersey's recently detained (for the usual wannabe-terrorist idiocy) Mohamed Alessa, from this NYT story about his troubled but scarily typical teens, caught our attention. "Death to the West!" scream the crazy space-eyes of Princess Tuna (actual cat's name).

Street Threads: Look of the Day

06.14.10 - 8:09 am | Ariel Soto-Suver |
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Today's Look: Kathryn, 18th Street and Valencia

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Court hears Weekly's appeal in Guardian suit

06.13.10 - 6:42 pm | Tim Redmond |
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The California Court of Appeal heard oral arguments on the Bay Guardian’s lawsuit against SF Weekly and its chain parent June 11, and the discussion focused almost entirely on the Weekly’s assertion that it’s too easy to prove predatory pricing under California’s Unfair Practices Act.

Justices James J. Marchiano, Sandra L. Margulies and Robert L. Dondero peppered the Weekly’s lawyer, Dennis Maio, with questions as he attempted to argue that state law needed to be brought in line with federal standards.Read more »

The Daily Blurgh: Debauched Pride memories, extreme dog makeovers

06.11.10 - 3:51 pm | Matt Sussman |
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Curiosities, quirks, oddites, and items from around the Bay and beyond

Local, notable queers reminisce about their first Pride experiences.

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A breakdown of Berkeley's food Meccas.

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SFBG Radio: Johnny and Tim on American Tories

06.11.10 - 3:09 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Today, Johnny and Tim talk about why so many of the internet trolls -- and conservatives in general -- are writing and acting against their own interests. Read more »