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Illustration by Dan Andreasen.
James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony.
It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel...
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Wouter "Wally" de Backer is just your average Aussie with a left-field smash hit currently residing on the Billboard singles chart somewhere near Adele and Nicki Minaj. The...
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In the final days of 1949, a few years before Ray Kroc and Glenn Bell would change the American diet forever, two Swiss-Peruvians named Roger Schuler and Franz Ulrich opened a...
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The inventor and radical thinker R. Buckminster Fuller walked into a public washroom and, spying an unflushed urinal, pulled the handle. Asked why he attended to someone...
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Agricultural labor conditions have long been brutal — fair work breaks, restrooms, and even access to water have been denied to many migrant farm workers. Cesar E....
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Over the years Earth Day has been criticized as ferment for anti-human pessimism or, worse, an opportunity for companies to “greenwash” their brands — which...
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Be careful what you assume, and be careful what you consider “normal.” So sings the perpetual chorus in über-diverse San Francisco, where we like to believe...
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Fifteen years ago, people advocating things like learning to grow your own food, scaling back living spaces, and drastically limiting financial obligations were the same ones...
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It doesn’t take a long walk through many San Francisco neighborhoods to see just how many of our residents live on the streets. Despite the efforts of multiple people...
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John Waters readily admits that San Francisco was the first city to wholly accept and champion his films. We’re his people. We love him. We’ve always loved him....
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When Three 6 Mafia's Juicy J and DJ Paul took home an Oscar in 2006 for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp," from the film soundtrack Hustle & Flow, they became the first, last,...
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It's obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He's got a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment, confusion, and self-doubt. But as the...
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Many come to appreciate opera through sheer force of will, gritting their teeth through three-hour shows in languages they don’t understand with plots they can’t...
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“What would Jesus tweet?” “Oops, did I just click send?” “I’m going to pretend I didn’t see your nipple-piercing video.” Those...
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When it launched in 1952, there had been nothing like MAD — a comics magazine dedicated to humor and satire aimed at a broad range of targets. Led by creators Harvey...
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While he comes closer to pure evil than anyone else in Shakespeare, the villain in Othello is often called within the play itself "honest Iago." Even as he's trapping all the...
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The Supreme Court may have confirmed that corporations are people, but many Americans remain skeptical. These so-called people, after all, avoid the dues our society demands:...
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Sizzle
• Elvis Costello brought his big spinning wheel to the Warfield on Sunday to determine which songs he and the Impostors would play. While that meant we didn't get...
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The Germans, of course, have a word for one of our favorite times of year: Spargelzeit, or asparagus season. The appearance of asparagus is the moment when going to the...
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This episodic, easy-rolling saga of nomadic living and grassroots insurgency centers on a convivial band of armed traders in the French provinces in the 1850s. The monarchy...
