San Francisco

Everybody must get stoned Everybody must get stoned

A new plan to legalize marijuana in California would create a $1 billion tokin' tax and thousands of green jobs. Now that's a stimulus plan!
  • Party on, GOP

    Let Republicans act clueless while Obama rallies the country around school construction and aid to locals, and wins back higher ground.
  • The man who blew up America's closets

    Sean Penn leaps to the front of the Oscar race with his uncanny invocation of the slain gay-rights leader. Gus Van Sant's vibrant biopic meets the challenge -- almost.
  • Bill O'Reilly is very afraid of San Francisco

    The drug- and homeless-infested city portrayed in a Fox report shows what the whole country will become under Obama.
  • The bane of San Francisco cycling

    Two years ago, high oil prices made Rob Anderson's crusade against bike lanes look dumb. Today, words fail.
  • The art world's Pepsi Generation

    "Beautiful Losers" chronicles the art rebels of the '90s, fueled by punk, skateboarding, graffiti and trash culture. Now brought to you by Nike!
  • Can a fractured friendship be renewed?

    Six years ago she said she never wanted to see me again. The other day she called.
  • Let the games begin!

    Every Olympics is a miniature world -- and leaves you feeling more hopeful about the human race than you were before.
  • A "fitting monument" for Dubya

    San Franciscans may get a chance to vote to name their sewage treatment plant in honor of President Bush.
  • "I now pronounce you wife and wife"

    Meet the lesbian pioneers who will be San Francisco's first legally married same-sex couple.
  • San Francisco values

    A political ad burning up the Internet tries to link a Democratic congressional candidate to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco and gay people.
  • Life, death and spring

    April in the Sierra foothills is the cruelest month -- and the most beautiful.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The Olympic torch ducks out of sight in San Francisco, leaving the streets to thousands of politicians.
  • My San Francisco buzz

    Feeling old and in the way, I revived my spirits among the beautiful young wired generation out West.
  • Hillary Clinton's Web 2.0 presidency

    In a San Francisco appearance, Bill Clinton talks about the need for blogs at all levels of government.
  • Oiled migration

    Last week 58,000 gallons of oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay. It could not have come at a worse time for the million birds stopping to rest on their journey south.
  • Congress to New York (and Chicago and L.A.): Drop dead

    Popular proposals to choke off federal support to immigrant-friendly "sanctuary cities" would also dry up anti-terror funding for the cities most at risk.
  • His beautiful game

    Bill Walsh transformed football into a work of art, and gave San Francisco a boost when the city needed it most.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    "The Bronx Is Burning": Eight-part soaper/cop show about the '77 Yankees and the Son of Sam is a big step forward for ESPN.
  • My daily bread

    Raised to worship the New York Times on Sundays, I found myself going to church and praying instead. I thought a lot about God and flesh and blood -- and didn't tell my friends I was becoming a religious freak.
  • Celebrate Valentine's Day with a "Certificate of Inequality"!

    On Feb. 14, same-sex couples make their love official -- just not with a marriage license.
  • The Gavin Newsom sex scandal: Why did his lover tell?

    Why did Ruby Rippey-Tourk confess her affair with the San Francisco mayor to her husband? What good would that do?
  • Gavin Newsom, before the flood

    San Francisco Mayor's testy exchange with a reporter regarding "the drinking."
  • My day at the Porn Palace

    S/M media giant Kink.com stirred up controversy by announcing plans to move its headquarters into San Francisco's Mission District. But for Kink's performers, sex is all in a day's work.
  • Who's to blame for James Kim's death?

    It's not the federal government or law enforcement or the people who tried to rescue him from the Oregon wilderness.
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