When I first ran across the proposal by Supervisors Tom Ammiano and Chris Daly to fund a $300,000 study on whether the city should go into the... More >>

Mufasa's ghost: Simba, you have forgotten me. Simba: No. How could I? Mufasa's ghost: You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten... More >>

Last week I was crusading on behalf of an ancient common-law precept granting widespread access to God's earthly treasures when a mistimed... More >>

I don't know a whole lot about made- in-San Francisco independent film. But I know what I like, and I love Monsturd, the story of a... More >>

When I met Barry Mallek last week, he was already a couple of hours into a day of defending America from terrorist threat. Still, he seemed to be... More >>

On Wednesday, Aug. 11, life at Alta Vista Healthcare, a nursing home in Riverside, started with a break from the usual monotony. That morning, a... More >>

On paper, the Mission Housing Development Corp. would seem a sleepy nonprofit cubicle farm, similar to hundreds of others that populate San... More >>

Photocopied fliers festoon Panhandle telephone poles, advertising politicians rather than lost cats. Cole Valley's coffee shops seem friendlier... More >>

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -- Jürgen Prochnow, a German character actor known for playing villains with a penchant for torturing... More >>

To watch the dictators and political operatives and religious zealots go at it, censorship might seem like a tough business. The so-called... More >>