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Posts published by “Steve Heilig”

Still Drug Crazy

Mike Gray died recently at 77 years of age, with prominent obituaries in some publications due to his status as a successful movie screenwriter -…

Prince’s Sign O’ The Times

When The Artist Again Known As Prince first exploded into superstardom three decades ago, I had just moved to San Francisco and his music —…

Apotcalypse Now

On April 20th each year, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park are arguably our beleaguered planet's ground zero for what is loosely referred…

Dig This, Man

Back in the murky pre-history of San Francisco's fabled Haight-Ashbury, even before the fabled “Summer of Love” in 1967, let alone the ever-evolving touristic version…

The Wonderful World Of Online ‘Debate’

Anybody foolish enough to spend much time reading online comments on any remotely controversial article or news story knows that this is one way to despair of modern humanity.

Punker Than Thou

I saw an old-school “punk rocker” on the street the other day — one with the full spiked-out mohawk hairstyle, in addition to the beat-up,…

Beat Poets, Acid Gurus, The Governor & Me

A local saloon changing owners is rarely front-page news in the big city, but the recent sale of Tosca, in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood,…

‘Paranoia Strikes Deep’

Headline: A lone gunman opened fire today in (San Francisco, Aurora, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson, Oak Creek...) and shot _____ innocent people, killing _____ people…

Taking More Control Of Your Final Days

One of the sick ironies of “pro-life” activism opposing abortion and euthanasia is that, if such self-identified advocates are successful in obtaining their goals, not…

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