The Broadview

Athletes need to play by the rules

February 28, 2013

Claire Fahy Editor-in-Chief Katie Hnida. Yeardley Love. Charlottesville. Boulder. And now Steubenville. The names of small towns and close-knit communities rocked by scandals involving athletes’...

Living on luck

February 15, 2013

Claire Fahy Editor-in-chief “Everyone deserves to have life this good, to live as well as we do.” Theology teacher Paul Pryor-Lorentz presented my Theology 4 class with this idea after viewing...

Women still battle for equality

February 15, 2013

Staff Editorial This time last year, The Pentagon released a statement that outlined 14,000 new positions for women. This past week, again The Pentagon released a statement this time say that women...

Roam no farther: New burger joint opens on Fillmore

February 15, 2013

Alice Jones Food Columnist [singlepic id=240 w=320 h=240 float=right] There’s a new burger on the block. With Johnny Rockets’ closure earlier this year, a new burger joint has opened across the...

Looks can be deceiving

February 15, 2013

Elizabeth Smith Editor-in-chief On a recent stop at a St. Helena restaurant, I was served by a man with enormous gauges that stretched out his earlobes. I accepted my sandwich from him with a smile...

‘Dutch Mona Lisa’ visits San Francisco

February 14, 2013

Rebecca Siegel Design Editor Despite arriving only a half hour after the De Young Museum opened on Saturday morning, patrons were already waiting in long lines to view the special traveling exhibition,...

Brave women take on the world

January 25, 2013

Claire Fahy Editor-in-chief Moira Kelley stood in the middle of a New York City Cathedral, depicting a devout Dorothy Day pleading with God, explaining that her efforts to change the world were proving...

Looking to the ‘new normal’

January 25, 2013

Not so long ago, the label “feminist” conjured images of angry bra-burning women who resent men for denying them equal opportunities. Despite most working women in the United States earning only 74...

Focus on the person, not the politician

January 25, 2013

Elizabeth Smith Editor-in-chief Having just emerged from a presidential election, I feel beaten down by all the political talk — one of my least favorite conversation topics in the human repertoire....

Grill keeps old San Francisco alive

December 11, 2012

Alice Jones Food Columnist Walking down the 200 block of California Street, it’s hard to miss the glowing, red-neon Tadich’s Grill sign — and once you catch a whiff of the wafting aroma...

A ‘fair weather’ Christian

December 11, 2012

Liz Smith Editor-in-Chief When it comes to the holidays, unfortunately I am a CEO. For those who are unfamiliar with this acronym, it stands for “Christmas and Easter Only.” My attendance at...

Staff Ed: Drinking shouldn’t be seen as part of teen culture

December 11, 2012

Staff Debra Allen lost her 17-year-old daughter to acute alcohol poisoning over the 2009 Christmas holiday. Shelby Allen was active in her school community, a good student and a good friend, but one...

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