
Bill Bentley
- Jan 9, 2017
- 8 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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 5, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2016
- 11 min
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, 2016
- 4 min
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, 2016
- 5 min
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, 2016
- 5 min
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, 2016
- 3 min
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, 2016
- 10 min
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, 2016
- 9 min
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, 2016
- 3 min
"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, 2016
- 2 min
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, 2016
- 8 min
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, 2016
- 13 min
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...