Afghanistan

Rory, JAG-off, and Amy: the Surprise 'Next Food Network Star, Season Three' Ending

Rory, JAG-off, and Amy: the Surprise 'Next Food Network Star, Season Three' Ending

The Sound and the …

U.S. Marine Corps an Orgy Palace of Stoned, Drunk, Horny Teens, New UCSF Study Suggests

By Matt SmithWhile doomsayers bemoan America's ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center may have turned up a brilliant silver lining.Thanks to desperate recruiting methods required to staff those wars, the U.S. Marines may be t ... More >>

Immortal Technique Visits Afghanistan for SF NPO

EKAphotographyAnti-Terrorist: Immortal TechniqueA few months back, hardcore political rapper Immortal Technique  played a sold-out show at the DNA Lounge. That show, as it turns out, was a benefit for OMEID International, a SF-based non-profit founded by Afghan-American women. Tech's no rad ... More >>

Survival of the Tastiest

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

Relics Revisited

Art lovers, history buffs, and science geeks get their fill this fall.

Grounded

Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won't fly

It Could Shatter

Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won't fly

Repertory Film Listings

Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won't fly

Phone Noir

Movies shot on cellphones. Downloadable features. In its 50th year, the S.F. International Film Festival looks to the future of filmmaking and film-watching.

To Hell and Back

Michael Winterbottom puts a face — and a hood — on the suffering at Guantanamo

Border Crossings

Michael Winterbottom puts a face — and a hood — on the suffering at Guantanamo

Over a Barrel

The role of oil in U.S. policy: A new documentary goes behind the headlines

From Aush to Bowlawni

Everything we try at this Afghan restaurant in North Beach is unusual and delightful

Various Activists

On the local compilation Azadi!, the music matters almost as much as the cause itself

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

On the local compilation Azadi!, the music matters almost as much as the cause itself

Reps Etc.

On the local compilation Azadi!, the music matters almost as much as the cause itself

Project Censored

Lefty weeklies are always bitching about the mainstream press. Here're some rotten chestnuts we wish the alternative press would quit serving up.

Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

A subjective history of American communism in the Cold War era

Mail Man

Tamim Ansary, author of a famous post-9/11 e-mail, reads from his poignant new memoir about reconciling his Aghan and American heritage

Angels in Afghanistan

A controversial, uneven, and eerily timely production at the Berkeley Rep

Quintessential Kushner

Tony Kushner's prescient new play, set in Afghanistan during the Taliban's rule, is being billed as the local theater event of the season

Various Artists

Turkish Delights
Hava Narghile
Devil's Anvil

Peace Wars

The bitter battle over piloting a campus peace movement that hasn't even left the ground

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

The Call of Afghanistan

Young Afghan-American professionals pledge to return to their homeland to rebuild a war-ravaged nation

Mixed Blessing

Andalu

Osama Was Here

To show the value of pundits in the Terror Era, our columnist tells the CIA where bin Laden's been, President Bush where to go

Dog Bites

Don't Take This With You to Your Polling Place Nov. 6; War Is Bad. Or Good, Depending.

House Of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

Down by the River

The Helmand

Most Bourgeois Radical Group

The Workers World Party

Afghan Star

The Workers World Party

Welcome Back, Kaddo

The city's favorite Afghan restaurant reopens

President Didn't Show For President's Cup -- But Code Pink Did

Courtesy Code PinkWhat did you do to promote world peace today, Tiger?​San Franciscans heading to the southwest of the city for the weekend's President's Cup golf tournament may not have been 100 percent certain if the president -- and those who'd like to tell him a thing or two -- would be headin ... More >>

Bay Links: Kittens, Code Pink & Bikes

​If you like kittens and cupcakes, you'll love this. [Mission Mission]Transportation may be a total shitshow this weekend. [SFAppeal]Code Pink's Madea Benjamin talks about her trip to Afghanistan. [SFgate Politics Blog]The nerdy dozens: "Yo momma so stupid, she thinks the Large Hadron Collider is ... More >>

Afghan Star

​If you like kittens and cupcakes, you'll love this. [Mission Mission]Transportation may be a total shitshow this weekend. [SFAppeal]Code Pink's Madea Benjamin talks about her trip to Afghanistan. [SFgate Politics Blog]The nerdy dozens: "Yo momma so stupid, she thinks the Large Hadron Collider is ... More >>

War Photographers

​If you like kittens and cupcakes, you'll love this. [Mission Mission]Transportation may be a total shitshow this weekend. [SFAppeal]Code Pink's Madea Benjamin talks about her trip to Afghanistan. [SFgate Politics Blog]The nerdy dozens: "Yo momma so stupid, she thinks the Large Hadron Collider is ... More >>

Getting Carded

​If you like kittens and cupcakes, you'll love this. [Mission Mission]Transportation may be a total shitshow this weekend. [SFAppeal]Code Pink's Madea Benjamin talks about her trip to Afghanistan. [SFgate Politics Blog]The nerdy dozens: "Yo momma so stupid, she thinks the Large Hadron Collider is ... More >>

War games: Soldiers reenact life and death in Iraq and Afghanistan

​If you like kittens and cupcakes, you'll love this. [Mission Mission]Transportation may be a total shitshow this weekend. [SFAppeal]Code Pink's Madea Benjamin talks about her trip to Afghanistan. [SFgate Politics Blog]The nerdy dozens: "Yo momma so stupid, she thinks the Large Hadron Collider is ... More >>

Support the Troops ― Send Them French Army Rations

Our favorite morsels from the Web. Baby killers, freedom fighters: Don's ask us to figure out the morality of soldiering. What we do know is that armies run on their stomachs, and that stomachs from different armies have different expectations about how to fill them. For this Memorial Day, we thoug ... More >>

Restrepo

Our favorite morsels from the Web. Baby killers, freedom fighters: Don's ask us to figure out the morality of soldiering. What we do know is that armies run on their stomachs, and that stomachs from different armies have different expectations about how to fill them. For this Memorial Day, we thoug ... More >>

Film is a battlefield

Journalist-filmakers go to war in "Restrepo."

“The Tillman Story”: A furious documentary on a craven cover-up

Journalist-filmakers go to war in "Restrepo."

Not Fade Away

Journalist-filmakers go to war in "Restrepo."

War: What Is It Good For?

Journalist-filmakers go to war in "Restrepo."

Loving Hut Showers the Sunset with Benevolence, Dash Cafe with Waffles

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Thrillist reports on the appearance of Dash Cafe (420 Judah, heh heh, 661-1237, Facebook page), which serves waffles for lunch and dinner ― most notably in the form of waffle sandwiches. F ... More >>

Hiding in Uniform

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Thrillist reports on the appearance of Dash Cafe (420 Judah, heh heh, 661-1237, Facebook page), which serves waffles for lunch and dinner ― most notably in the form of waffle sandwiches. F ... More >>

"Face of Our Time": Photos of Africa Show Life as It Is, with No Exoticism

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Thrillist reports on the appearance of Dash Cafe (420 Judah, heh heh, 661-1237, Facebook page), which serves waffles for lunch and dinner ― most notably in the form of waffle sandwiches. F ... More >>