Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
Educational Whisper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Delayed post as I've been up to my neck in a whole mess of other thing, and one massive deadline. I did my usual run on Thanksgiving. The same route as usual, except for one part through the park that is undergoing renovation. Two things that were remarkable. 1) I found out why the Hells Angels are always in town for this day. Apparently, they donate a whole bunch of time to cook dinner for
Dispatches from the Hogtown Front (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Christie Blatchford writes in the Globe and Mail (Two protests, two different OPP responses, Nov. 27) : About six weeks after the OPP refused to allow a Caledonia residents group to march down the town's main street carrying a Canadian flag and even arrested one man for doing it, the same police force gave a respectful, lights-flashing escort to native protesters who did precisely the same thing while...
The Motorcycle Blog Aggregator (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
From Bikes in the Fast Lane - Looks like even the famous Hells Angels are into the Thanksgiving spirit. ...
Ride Fast & Shoot Straight (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White as well as the top cops will be at the annual turkey-carving event at the Salvation Army Harbor Light Center today. On Wednesday, the local chapter of the ( Hells Angels ) motorcycle gang will be downtown at St. Anthony Foundation, helping the faith-based dining room prepare for its annual free Thanksgiving dinner. Now if everyone just would volunteer at...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The sound of revving engines will be a call to start carving turkeys on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 when the Hells Angels come to St. Anthony Dining Room to help out for one of St. Anthony's biggest days of the year. And on Thanksgiving Thursday the historic nonprofit will serve more than 3,500 turkey dinners to the poor and homeless; even Craigslist...
Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Welcome back! Well, to some of you, anyway. To the rest of you, glad you decided to stop by and I hope this humble column helps you navigate the stacks of new releases each week. My goal is to point you toward titles of interest and warn you away from those films that seek to do nothing but leech away your time and give you nothing in return. Full disclosure: I have not seen many of these titles, and...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
When someone says, "Thanksgiving," two thoughts probably pop into your head - turkeys and the Hells Angels. On Wednesday, the local chapter of the motorcycle gang will be downtown at St. Anthony Foundation, helping the faith-based dining room prepare for its...
Pokerati | Texas hold'em blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
(Left to Right) Andreas Oscarsson, a man charged with trying to extort him, billionaire investor Stefan Bengtsson, and former Hells Angel president Thomas Möller. A 44-year-old man allegedly tried to extort PokerListings for nearly $2 million; the site’s murdered cofounder, Andreas Oscarsson, was to testify against him this week on aggravated racketeering charges. [...]
The Modern Left (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Peter Coyote is probably best known today for his film acting as well as his narration of various documentaries and nature programs. You might remember him as "keys" in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial or possibly from his narration of the program The National Parks: America's Best Idea . Over the years, Coyote has amassed over 100 film roles . What is less widely known is that Peter Coyote led...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
In the 1970s there was a hugely popular genre of youthsploitation pulp fiction in the UK, with paperbacks catering to a seemingly insatiable demand for tales of sex, drugs, violence and youth subcultures (skinheads, bikers etc.). A key figure in relation into all this was Laurence James. As an editor at New English Library he was involved in publishing many of them. Then he moved on to writing his...
Al Fin (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Let's imagine that a Republican former vice president (say Dan Quayle or Dick Cheney) authored a similar book telling us that apocalypse was at hand unless we shoveled massive amounts of public money toward companies they've heavily invested in. Let's say the Republican-authored book also prominently featured the Bible verse above, suggesting that Quayle or Cheney was offering the reader the choice...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Police in central Quebec are rounding up 14 suspected Hells Angels associates believed to be involved in drug trafficking.
HowStuffWorks: Daily Stuff Feed (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has a reputation for being an "outlaw" motorcycle group. But is the organization really as dangerous as it's made out to be in the media?
Zada News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
25 Available Episodes Next episode of Sons of Anarchy, Season 2 Episode 12, “The Culling,” will air in the US on November 24, 2009. [1] Full Episode Summary: This gritty FX drama follows the lives of a chapter of the Sons of Anarchy, an international outlaw motorcycle club akin to the Hell’s Angels. [2] The retaliation is [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
George 'Bud' Hannaford George "Bud" Hannaford, a longtime Folsom civic leader who served twice as mayor during two decades on the City Council, died Thursday at age 84. He died of complications from pancreatic cancer, said his daughter, Kathy Gage. A lifelong Folsom resident, Mr. Hannaford never stopped contributing to the community as a volunteer, prison instructor or politician. At his...
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