Email Author Alan Scherstuhl

Awards

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 3, 2008

  "The Best Story of the Year"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 24, 2008

  "Desert Storm"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published September 11, 2008

  "Water Logged"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "What's At Stake"

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2011 Stories by Alan Scherstuhl

• Playboy Calls the Endup One of America's Best Late-Night Bars

  published Jul 18, 2011

  Playboy, a magazine about being into Johnnie Walker and breasts, this week announced its list of the fourteen best late-night bars in America, possibly so that we can all go search them to see if Hef'... More >>

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  Obama Was Called the Anti-Christ by Jesus Himself, Claims Dumb Self-published Book

  published Jul 15, 2011

  Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Satan as Barack Obama Author: Steph... More >>

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  "The Danger Point for Teen-Age Lovers": A "Picture Report" from a Lurid and Alarmist 1955 Magazine

  published Jul 13, 2011

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Picture Life, the Pocket-Size Magazine of People i... More >>

• Protests Over BART Shooting Shut Down Civic Center Station During Evening Commute

  published Jul 11, 2011

  Update 8:03 p.m. Seems like protesters are leaving the cable car turnaround area. Powell Street station remains closed, but -- knock on wood! -- things seem to be finally winding down. We'll sign off... More >>

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  Left Behind Creator Tim LaHaye Worries Homosexual Clothing Might Harm Our Youth

  published Jul 08, 2011

  Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Understanding the Male Temperament ... More >>

• Ten Reasons Midnight in Paris Is a Dopey Mess

  published Jul 07, 2011

  The new Woody Allen movie -- about a man who somehow finds himself in a Wikipedia entry about the 1920s, where he learns that he can only love women who love walking in rainstorms -- has won rave revi... More >>

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  Which Decade's American History Textbook Is the Most Racistr It's the 1890s vs. the 1930s!

  published Jul 01, 2011

  Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State basements, thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Columbus and Columbia (189... More >>

• Broetry: Poetry for Dudes is a Book That Actually Exists

  published Jun 29, 2011

  The biggest problem with Broetry, the first book of "broems" from "broete laureatte" Brian McGackin, is a doozy: the book actually contains poems. Sure, Broetry looks like some dick-lit tchotke, som... More >>

• S.F. Pride: Photos and Faces from This Weekend's Best Party

  published Jun 27, 2011

  This weekend's Pride festival drew 100,000 people to San Francisco. Here's a taste. With the news that New York had at last legalized gay marriage, this vision of a rainbow America couldn't have be... More >>

• The Absolute, No-Debate Worst Song Any Beatle Ever Recorded

  published Jun 27, 2011

  Last week, our colleagues in Broward County and Los Angeles shared their lists of the five worst Beatles songs. While amusing, both omitted what objective science tells us are, in fact, the honest-to-... More >>

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  Even in the '30s, Magazines Demanded Women Be a Thousand Contradictory Things at Once

  published Jun 24, 2011

  Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State basements, thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Physical Culture Problem M... More >>

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  Five Signs of Mickey Mouse's Bad-Assery, All from the New Fantagraphics Collection

  published Jun 22, 2011

  Like an aged prizefighter greeting tourists in a casino lobby, poor ol' Mickey Mouse -- still the world's most universally recognized fictional character -- has got little to do these days but wear a ... More >>

• Michele Bachmann and Other Glitterbombed Politicians Should Be Happy They Weren't Pied Like Anita Bryant

  published Jun 20, 2011

  Sure, it was fun to watch that angry lump of uncooked cookie dough Newt Gingrich get covered in glitter at a Minneapolis book signing. And to see Tim "What's-His-Name" Pawlenty treated to a glitter-... More >>

• Wynton Marsalis at SFJazz Reminds Us Why We Need Wynton Marsalis

  published Jun 20, 2011

  Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraDavies Symphony HallSunday, June 19, 2011Look, Wynton Marsalis. You've taken a lot of shit over the years for rankling the people who -- like you -- worry over ideas of... More >>

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  Dressing Up Animals in People Clothes Is Pretty Much All '50s Americans Ever Did

  published Jun 20, 2011

  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. Squiffy the Skunk Author:Grace Neff B... More >>

• 1000 Things Every Girl Should Know: When in a New Relationship, Women Should Stop Going 'Number Two'

  published Jun 17, 2011

  Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State basements, thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets.The Little Red Book Author: ... More >>

• Diamanda Galas Calls Street Artist Novy "An Opportunistic Infection"

  published Jun 16, 2011

  In this week's SF Weekly cover story, "A Movement Defaced," our art critic Jonathan Curiel surveys the work and ambitions of queer street artist Novy and others in the SOMArts show "A History of Queer... More >>

• Outlaw Vern Laments the Sorry State of Badass Cinema

  published Jun 16, 2011

  Simply put, there is no funnier movie critic than Outlaw Vern, the mysterious Seattle-based independent aficionado of "badass filmatism" with an emphasis on straight-to-DVD action films and all things... More >>

• Dear Anna Is Talking About New Media in Every Form of Old Media

  published Jun 14, 2011

  Each week on this blog, Anna Pulley writes Dear Anna, a digital-age etiquette column that burns through the internet like the internet's an envelope and the column's a hot coal of awesome. Pulley also... More >>

• Game of Thrones: Five Life Lessons After Last Night's Shocking Episode

  published Jun 13, 2011

  There's much to learn about the real world from the fantasy world of HBO's Game of Thrones series. Set in Westeros, a made-up medieval kingdom where the battles take place offscreen but the whoring is... More >>

• Angry Talk Radio Station KSFO Will Text You News and Ads for Gold

  published Jun 10, 2011

  Updated at 3 p.m: Someone purporting to be from KSFO has responded to this piece with this thoughtful tweet: Original Post: One terrible truth of life is that on occasion talk-radio listeners wande... More >>

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  Twelve Amazing '70s Cakes, Including This Clown Made of Sugar, Flour, and Hell Itself

  published Jun 10, 2011

  Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State basements, thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. A binder of old Mail Box N... More >>

• See Super 8 for Free at the Castro Wednesday Night With This Secret Word

  published Jun 07, 2011

  San Francisco, this Wednesday night at 10 p.m. is your chance to be the first to see the new J.J. Abrams-directed (and Spielberg-produced) science-fiction adventure about movie cameras, '80s nostalgia... More >>

• Hustler's Porn Ghostbusters Parody: Your Minute-by-Minute Breakdown

  published Jun 07, 2011

  Recently, SF Weekly received a copy of This Ain't Ghostbusters, the new "parody" porn film from Larry Flynt's Hustler empire and director Axel Braun.Here's one man and woman's minute-by-minute review,... More >>

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  Three Ridiculous Books From The Shelves of Preachers

  published Jun 03, 2011

  Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State basements, thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets.  Your Dating Data Da... More >>