Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth, who may or may not have been a member of the Black Liberation Army in San Francisco — an extra-violent off-shoot of the Black Panthers — was charged along with seven other men with murdering police Sgt. John Young at Ingleside Station on Aug. 29, 1971. He was previously accused and arrested for shooting on an officer in South San Francisco in 1968, after being stopped for credit card fraud at a discount store — after which he jumped bail and remained on the lam, around the Bay Area until 1971 or so, and then disappearing to Africa and eventually returning to get a Masters Degree and living, likely under an assumed name, as a husband, father, and college counselor in an undisclosed location. more ›

How can it be? So many great film festivals all over town! This week, you've got the Jewish Film Festival coming up at the Castro, and this Saturday, the Slant Film Festival at the 4 Star (Clement and 23rd). more ›

-St. Boniface Catholic Church in the Tenderloin is having a money crunch which could affect it's ability to handle the homeless. -Cabbie is found shot to death in the Richmond Annex more ›

show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Friday. Spoken by one of the 19 teenagers from YBCA’s Young Artists at Work, they set the tone for the evening. The opening attracted an unusually diverse crowd, and while mingling among the black leather and activists, we felt as if we had stepped back into 1968. That is, until we shelled out $6 for a crappy Cabernet in a plastic Dixie cup, and were abruptly brought back to the present. more ›

We've got friends on both sides of the Prop H debate: friends with handguns and friends who've lost relatives to handguns. Friends whose parents were proud Black Panthers and friends who co-authored the proposition. Of course, our stated middle ground is that no one has banned shotguns, which you're more than welcome to carry openly. Now that's what we call a deterrent! more ›