Aaron Sankin

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Aaron Sankin's work has appeared in San Francisco Magazine, The Onion, The Bay Bridged, Theatre Bay Area, Crawdaddy!, the Bold Italic and The San Francisco Bay Guardian. Sometimes he writes about ninjas and sometimes he writes about puppies but mostly he just looks for opportunities to make puns using the titles of Bowie songs. There's a growing industry of Bowie puns and he's getting in on the ground floor.

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Commented on SF Examiner Owner Announces Plans For Yet Another Local Media Acquisition
Beyond Chron. If only for Vogt to continue his tradition of separating a media outlet from its associated real estate empire....
Commented on SF Examiner Owner Announces Plans For Yet Another Local Media Acquisition
Beyond Chron. If only for Vogt to continue his tradition of separating a media outlet from its associated real estate empire....
Commented on SF's New $10.24 Minimum Wage Takes Mayor Ed Lee By Surprise
Ed Lee is not a guy who photographs well. Not to say that he's hideous or anything like that, but he's certainly a dude with a tendency to look goofy in photographs. If the Appeal wanted to use a picture...
Commented on SF Mayoral Candidates Admit To Failures In Reading (Video)
This just gave me the mental image of mayor Emil Lawrence sitting alone in a rocking chair in Room 200 reading Gravity's Rainbow with a snifter of brandy in one hand and two dire wolf cubs lazily napping at his...
Commented on Jeopardy Host Alex Trebek Reportedly Injured During Theft Attempt At SF Mariott Marquis
"I'll take your wallet for $500, Alex"...
Commented on M83's Forthcoming Double Album and Its First Single, "Midnight City," Considered
A number of things (all of which are about the Smashing Pumpkins): Thing the first: The Pumpkins released two albums after Mellon Collie (Adore & Machina) before breaking up. After Corgan reformed the band a few years ago, he released...
Posted San Francisco's Human Rights Commission Seeks To Designate Ex-Cons A Protected Class to News
For the over seven million Californians who once lived inside the state's massive prison system, securing many of life's basic necessities can be a...
Posted Major SoMa Accident May Have Been Caused By Backwards Facing Traffic Light to News
If you were one of the myriad San Franciscans attempting to sneak out of the city a few hours early last Friday afternoon, you...
Posted Muni Operators And Taxi Drivers Planning Coordinated, 24-Hour Strike to News
It might be a good idea to mark Tuesday, August 2nd as your own personal Bike to Work Day. That's the day labor groups...
Posted Clandestine Cocktail Capers Cause Closure of Carlos Club to News
Following a six-month investigation into illegal business practices by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the long-time Mission fixture Carlos Club (also known...
Posted Agency Tasked With Telling You Not To Drive Subsidizes Cars For Top Employees to News
The folks known for telling you to "Spare the air" and avoid driving might not be taking their own advice. The Bay Area Air...
Posted SF Movie Ticket Sales Scheme Derailed When Theater Owners Say They Never Agreed To It to News
After a furor of online activity and discussion, the much anticipated Bay Area trial of a service attempting to bring Netflix's all-you-can-watch model to...
Posted SF Pride Threatens Videographer With Legal Action To Fight Association With Mid-Market Shooting to News
Just a few blocks from the Civic Center SF Pride celebration, the festive atmosphere of Market Street Pink Saturday night was punctured with the...
Posted AT&T's Plan To Install Hundreds Of Utility Boxes On City Sidewalks May Move One Step Closer To Reality Tomorrow to News
After months of delay, tomorrow SF's Board of Supervisors may finally make a decision on whether to allow AT&T's controversial plan to place 726...
Posted Golden Gate Bridge One Step Closer To Installing Suicide Prevention Barrier to News
Earlier this week, the Golden Gate Bridge District approved a $4 million engineering study looking into the creation of a full-fledged suicide prevention barrier....
Posted Muni Pays Big Money In Bike Accident Settlement to News
On November 20th, 2008, David Wheeler was biking along the Great Highway. He was riding through a crosswalk from the adjacent bike path when...
Posted All Major Mayoral Candidates To Take Public Financing And It Will Cost The City Millions to News
A report by the city's Ethics Commission says it expects each of the nine major mayoral candidates to qualify for, and opt into, San...
Posted Castro's Pink Saturday Celebration Bans Booze In Effort To Re-Focus On LGBT Community to News
Joining many of San Francisco's other large-scale public events, Pink Saturday has, for the first time in its history, gone dry. This year, the...
Posted Despite Growing Unrest, Nat Ford's Golden Parachute Is All But Assured to News
At a meeting tomorrow, SFMTA's governing board is expected to strap on Nat Ford's golden parachute and allow him to walk away from his...
Posted SFMTA Roundup: Welcome To Year Zero Of The Post-Nat Ford Era to News
Looking Into Yesterday's Epic Muni Fail Yesterday morning, a damaged electrical harness on an inbound N-Judah caused the train to pull down 500 feet...
Posted Charges Of Racism Continue To Fly After Grieving Athlete Arrested For Attempting To Board SFO Plane Wearing Baggy Pants to News
Update 6/17: A video has emerged showing a portion of the incident. What started as a dispute over an airline passenger's fashion sense, ended...
Posted Mayor's Plan To Pass Cost of Maintaing Trees Onto Property Owners Has Many Seeing Red to News
In March, Mayor Ed Lee held a ceremony celebrating the accomplishments of Charlie Starbuck, a San Francisco citizen who has single-handedly planted over 7,000...
Posted Real Foods Location In Noe Valley Still In Limbo After All These Years to News
Nearly a decade after its sudden closure, the old Real Foods storefront in Noe Valley remains vacant, Noe Valley SF reminds us today. Located...
Posted Slow Fundraising For The America's Cup Could Cost San Francisco to News
When Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison was selling San Francisco on the benefits of hosting the 2013 America's Cup, the city was assured that the...
Posted First Company To Take Advantage of Mid-Market "Twitter Tax Break" Moves Into A Rapidly Changing Neighborhood to News
Sometime in 2010, it became abundantly clear that Zendesk had outgrown it's office space. The tech firm, which specializes in cloud-based help desk software,...
Posted Recriminations Abound In Wake Of Muni Drivers' Rejection Of Contract Agreement With SFMTA to News
In a vote that sent shockwaves though San Francisco, the membership of the Transit Workers Union (Local 250-A) has resoundingly rejected the terms of...
Posted Video of Crazed Cabbie Indicative of Greater Disquiet Among SF Taxi Drivers to News
Ed Meng just wanted to go home. It was late last Sunday night and Meng needed to get out of Potero Hill and back...
Posted Angry Driver Attacks Mission Cyclists to News
Riding a bike in San Francisco is difficult enough without cars deliberately running you over. When a driver decides to to make it his...
Favorited Acoustic Duo PWolf and Avi Finds Inspiration In One Another on Culture/Entertainment
Posted Muni Reaches Tentative Agreement With Operators Union Although Feuding Continues to News
Elsewhere: SFMTA Reaches Tentative Labor Agreement with Muni Operators Union [Streetsblog], Muni reaches tentative contract with drivers [Chron], Muni management, operators union reach tentative...

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Eve Batey commented on SF's New $10.24 Minimum Wage Takes Mayor Ed Lee By Surprise
Hey, everybody! Thanks for the great debate, and for (mostly) keeping things civil. I wanted to note one thing: we do not use that photo with every story we run about Mayor Lee. A quick search of our archives verifies this. However, we do only have a few Appeal "owned" shots of Lee (the photo from this piece was taken for us by our own Chris Roberts, for example) so we are inclined to use those again and again, as opposed to using photos we don't have the rights to and hoping we don't get caught. I'll certainly take all...
Becca Klarin commented on SF Examiner Owner Announces Plans For Yet Another Local Media Acquisition
Maybe he'll through us for a loop and go all monthly mag on us. 7x7, anyone?...
Max A. Cherney commented on SF Examiner Owner Announces Plans For Yet Another Local Media Acquisition
Well it's not the EBX (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/92510/archives/2012/12/21/the-express-is-not-for-sale)...
david podger commented on SF Examiner Owner Announces Plans For Yet Another Local Media Acquisition
Who would want to invest in a depreciating asset? That is, any print media still extant today? Examiner is a print FoxNews wannabe; SFBG an utter joke sell-out with the last laugh on the Brugman'$ & good for them... Who would want to be added to that "portfolio..?" SF Bay Times a possibility (LGBT props, sorta). BAR is a pure vanity project. SF Weekly maybe to settle old debts. Nobody cares about the East Bay stuff. Owners would be holding their noses at signing but might represent a sensible divestiture. Now or never.......
Elmer commented on SF Examiner Owner Announces Plans For Yet Another Local Media Acquisition
SF Examiner is an obnoxious right wing paper with drones nearly forcing it on you as you exit MUNI downtown first thing in the morning. No thank you, I have no interest in supporting a paper that thought Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina would make better leaders than we have (yes, we need better leaders, but not these whack-jobs)....

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