Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg

male, deceased (1970)
Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike, Lala Palooza, Foolish Questions, Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, The Weekly Meeting of the Tuesday Women's Club…sanfranciscochronicle, San Francisco Bulletin
Reuben Garret L. Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist. He earned lasting fame for his Rube Goldberg machines...

Steve Kettmann

male
New York Times, oakland athletics, sanfranciscochronicle, salon.com, Boston Red Sox, American
Steve Kettmann is an American writer and editor. His first book was "One Day at Fenway," which described a single game between the Boston Red Sox...
Randy Shilts

Randy Shilts

male, deceased (1994)
From Aurora, Illinois, LGBT, From Davenport, Iowa, From San Francisco, Historian of LGBT topics, LGBT writer…sanfranciscochronicle, San Francisco Bay Area
Randy Shilts (August 8 1951 - February 17 1994) was a highly acclaimed, pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a reporter for...

Jeff Chang

male
American music journalist, music critic, Hip-Hop, San Francisco Bay Guardian, St. Martin's Press, Total Chaos The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop…sanfranciscochronicle
Jeff Chang is an American journalist and music critic on hip-hop music and culture. His writings have appeared in publications such as "URB", "The...

Randy Shaw

male, 53 years old
activist, sanfranciscochronicle, blogger, American, from California, tenderloin
Randy Shaw (born 1956) is a lawyer, author and housing activist who has played a leading role in San Francisco politics (and national activism) for...

Jason Roberts

male
novelist, The Believer magazine, nonfiction, From San Francisco, author, American…sanfranciscochronicle
Jason Roberts is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for "A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's...
Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith

male
New York Times, Medical ethics, National Journal, Discovery Institute, Seattle Times, bioethicist…sanfranciscochronicle
Wesley J. Smith is a lawyer and an award winning author, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force...
Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

male, 37 years old (Fargo, North Dakota, United States)
spin, Humorist, NCAA, Super Bowl XL, final four, the believer…sanfranciscochronicle
My take on Klosterman is this: if you absolutely must get a pop culture fix by reading about inane movie stars or overrated bands, you might as...
Anneli Rufus

Anneli Rufus

female
Santa Barbara, East Bay Express, Award winner, Modernist writer, University of California, Berkeley alumni, University of California, Berkeley…sanfranciscochronicle
Anneli Rufus is an award-winning American journalist and author. Born in Los Angeles, California, she first went to college in Santa Barbara, then...

Katharine Mieszkowski

female
fast company, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Financial Times, Slate, Ms. magazine, Yale…sanfranciscochronicle
Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior writer for Salon.com. In 2004, she reported from India for Salon about the outsourcing of technology jobs. Her...