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Overheard in the Street: Love Rants
When people think a public audience isn't listening, what do they talk about and what are they saying? Leah Garchik, a popular opinion columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, includes a tidbit of public eavesdropping in each of her articles. All of the following have something to do with love, dating, and the meds that are helping us cope along the way.
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40 Years Later: Woman in Famous Photo Recognizes Herself
I love this story! The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting Robert Frank's photographs from his landmark 1959 work The Americans, widely viewed as the photographic analogue to Jack Kerouac's beat classic On the Road. Frank and Kerouac both had similar sensibilities, wanting to show the sprawling, diverse, and melancholy side of postwar America.
Front Page: Fires Rage in Southern California
- A relentless fire in Southern California has claimed the lives of two firemen, along with 18 houses. More than 6,000 homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. — LA Times
- Jenna Bush has been hired as a new correspondent for the Today Show.
Front Page: GM Goes Bankrupt Owing $172 Billion
- General Motors has filed for bankruptcy today. The company says it owes $172 billion.— New York Times
- An Air France flight traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people on board vanished over the Atlantic. — Huffington Post
- Twilight dominated the MTV Movie Awards last night.
Front Page: Pirates Build the Case Against Captured Pirate
- US prosecutors say Somali pirate Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was a brazen ringleader, despite his young age and skinny, 5-foot-2 frame. If convicted of piracy, he faces a mandatory life sentence. — AP
- More than one billion people are expected to celebrate Earth Day today.
Front Page: Cuba Is Ready to Talk With the US
- Cuban president Raul Castro says he's ready to "discuss everything" with the US, including human rights, freedom of the press, and political prisoners. — CNN
- President Obama unveiled his plan for high speed rail across the country. States will compete for funding.
Front Page: Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire Wins 8 Oscars
- Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture last night, bringing home a total of eight Oscars. — BuzzSugar
- Hundreds of people watched the Academy Awards from San Francisco's Castro Street Theater last night, roaring with a standing ovation when Milk won awards and cheering during Sean Penn's politically charged acceptance speech. — San Francisco Chronicle
- A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for over four years has arrived back in Britain.
Front Page: Treasury Unveils $1 Trillion Plan For Banks
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled a complex plan today to end the nation's banking crisis. A new federal entity would help private investors buy as much as $1 trillion in devalued real-estate assets. — New York Times
- Fourteen people died after a plane crashed into a Montana cemetery last night.
Marijuana Might Be a Wonder Drug For California's Budget
Marijuana might make a smoker mellow, but one lawmaker hopes it will stimulate the economy. California State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has a plan to legalize and regulate marijuana with the intention of creating $1 billion in tax revenue and thousands of green jobs.
The San Francisco Chronicle broke down the specifics last week.
Check This: Barack Has No Love For Gavin
An interaction, or lack of interaction, that took place four years ago between Barack Obama and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, still bothers the San Francisco politician. While Newsom was in the center of national outrage over his authorization of same-sex marriage in San Francisco, Obama allegedly declined to have his picture taken with the pro gay-rights mayor.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown told the SF Chronicle:
I gave a fundraiser, at his (Obama's) request at the Waterfront restaurant.
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