Bill Bentley
Jan 9, 20178 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / January 2017
Dennis Coffey, Hot Coffey in the D. In 1968 Detroit was still on fire for musicians. Motown Records’ success had lit the city up, and its...
James 'BigBoy' Medlin
Jan 7, 20171 min read
Warning
Warning: Do not attempt what this poor wretch did. It does no good to drink until you pass out. When you wake up Trump will have still...
S.F. Homeless Project / Video by Bob Simmons
Jan 4, 20172 min read
Homeless in San Francisco
Video of 7th Street Homeless Encampment by Bob Simmons "The foggy dampness had soaked through her tent. Again. The night chill had bit...
Anonymous
Jan 4, 20172 min read
Dear Red States: We're ticked off ...
Dear Red States: We're ticked off at the way you've treated California and we've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country...
Elliott Negin
Jan 3, 20174 min read
EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Would Trash Air And Water Safeguards
Nominating Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency gives lie to Donald Trump’s claim that he is...
Bill Bentley
Dec 29, 201611 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / Best of 2016 (last half)
2016 was rough. Losing friends and artists all through the year just would not stop, and the Presidential election turned the country...
Steve Weissman
Dec 22, 20164 min read
Trump and Le Pen: What Would Hitler Say?
Donald Trump poses many dangers, high among them the way he plays to the economic rage of workers losing their jobs to globalization and...
Frank Browning / Photo: Dan Hubig
Dec 19, 20165 min read
Un-Manning America
Three things men didn’t do when I was in high school: can tomatoes, knit scarves and push baby strollers. Today the only people I know...
Michael Castleman
Dec 16, 20165 min read
Affirmative Consent Doesn’t Prevent Rape, But Can Enhance Sex
“Is this okay?” has little impact on sexual assault—but it definitely improves sex. Affirmative consent means that sexual initiators must...
Frank Browning
Dec 15, 20163 min read
Grotto Bulls of Ancient Art
When four lads stumbled across a hole in the ground in 1940 in southwest France, they had no idea how profoundly their discovery would...
Bill Bentley
Dec 13, 201610 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / December 2016
The Big T.N.T. Show. During the 1960s when rock and roll was just becoming the currency of the realm for youth in America, there was a...
Elliot Negin
Dec 12, 20169 min read
Donald Trump’s Science Fiction
President-elect Donald Trump has been twisting the facts in ways beyond what even George Orwell envisioned in his dystopian novel 1984....
Danny N. Schweers
Dec 10, 20163 min read
"I See! I See!" A Danny N. Schweers Photo Exhibit
“I see! I see!” said the blind man, as he picked up his camera and saw. The camera connects me to the facts of the world; otherwise, I am...
Frank Viviano
Dec 7, 20162 min read
Opinion / The Disinformation Super Highway
I've been thinking about several "reforms" of the social networking and related Internet universe that are crucially necessary -- and in...
Randy Alfred
Dec 2, 20168 min read
The Randy List / 24 Devilishly Difficult Questions About Presidential History
QUIZ: Siri-lessly now, can you answer these without consulting your smartphone or a search engine? 1) Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump...
the Lunch Guys
Nov 29, 201613 min read
The Lunch Guys / Talking Trump
Every Thursday for the last 20+ years a group of artists, scientists, writers and one bail bondsman get together in the Mission District...