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Minimalism to the Max

Green Day To Sing "About Fucking" on New Album

So what is Green Day up to in a world where Obama is president (for a little while, at least) and the U.S. is extricating itself from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Well, besides playing surprise shows in small venues like S.F.'s Mezzanine, and bringing the Broadway musical version of American Idiot ... More >>

Minimalism to the Max

So what is Green Day up to in a world where Obama is president (for a little while, at least) and the U.S. is extricating itself from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Well, besides playing surprise shows in small venues like S.F.'s Mezzanine, and bringing the Broadway musical version of American Idiot ... More >>

Feds: Drug Cartels Are Here, and They're Taking Our Jobs

Gone the way of UAW​The Drug War is going the way of the "evildoers," according to a federal report released last week. Two years ago, foreign drug cartels were in 230 American cities. Today, the cartels -- from Mexico, East Asia, and, presumably, Canada -- have infiltrated more than 1,000 America ... More >>

The Afrobeat Goes On

Gone the way of UAW​The Drug War is going the way of the "evildoers," according to a federal report released last week. Two years ago, foreign drug cartels were in 230 American cities. Today, the cartels -- from Mexico, East Asia, and, presumably, Canada -- have infiltrated more than 1,000 America ... More >>

Labor groups to picket Israeli ship to protest May 31 raid deaths

Not in Oakland you're not...​Bay Area labor groups plan to picket the Israeli container ship, Zim Shenzhen, June 20 when it is scheduled to arrive at 5:30 am in the port of Oakland, said local longshoreman Jack Heyman."South Africa, Norway, Sweden, are going to be following suit," Heyman said. "Th ... More >>

Welcome to the New Year. Libertarians Are Still Unhappy.

All told, you can't blame the stalwarts who still pledge allegiance to the Libertarian Party for being bummed these days. Is hope dead?​Their last presidential candidate, Bob Barr, was denounced by one of the national media's most prominent libertarians -- former SF Weekly Editor Jack Shafer -- as ... More >>

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report Confirms: SF Weekly Found Bin Laden in October 2001

He's on the right...​For shoppers wishing to give America the gift of national security, consider sending your favorite Pentagon staffer an SF Weekly. No offense to Jane's Defence Weekly, but a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report released Monday suggests the publication you're now reading pr ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Supes Try To Save Cats, Unify Ireland, and Create Public Power

  The moral high ground in San Francisco may be the most valuable real estate of all. Last week Gavin Newsom -- who thumbed his nose at state and federal law on gay marriage -- tried to claim it by saying he couldn't help illegal immigrants because he has too much respect for the law. The ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: City Brings Hammer Down on Anti-Prostitution Program, Then Forms a Glee Club to Sing Social Services to Sleep

  I've had a really busy few weeks, and I haven't been able to catch up on any of the new fall shows yet. So I tried to cram a lot of television in this weekend while writing SF Gov InAction. Just so you know. Monday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee Somebody has to sa ... More >>

October Book Events: October Book Swap, Barbara Rose Brooker, Tamim Ansary, John Freeman & R. Crumb

  I've had a really busy few weeks, and I haven't been able to catch up on any of the new fall shows yet. So I tried to cram a lot of television in this weekend while writing SF Gov InAction. Just so you know. Monday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee Somebody has to sa ... More >>

Raw Footage

A man who sought to capture and kill Bin Laden had his own film used against him. Is that fair use?

Guantánamo's Last Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

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Doc Block

Nonfiction continues its ascent onscreen

Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

Artists Insight: Making the Invisible Visible

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

An Army of Uno

Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

SFIFF Film Capsules

Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

Post-War

Sarajevo conflict was hell, but what comes after is another battle

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Patriot Act

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

All Gave Some

Sir! No Sir! recounts the GIs who refused to ride the killing machine

Home Fires Burning

A soldier returns a changed man in the gripping Danish drama Brothers

Reps Etc.

A soldier returns a changed man in the gripping Danish drama Brothers

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Funny Business

Week 2 of the 47th San Francisco International Film Festival

From Bad to Worse

An Afghan girl faces the terror of life under the Taliban

Home Work

An ambitious, groundbreaking show on a theme close to the heart

Boom Boom Room

Taiko's big, bad sound

Mildred Fierce

The Crawfords' ticklish nativity

Fight Club

David Rees gets his karate on

Real to Reel

Life abroad, through the lens of film

Letters to the Editor

Week of November 6, 2002

Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

International Dateline

How a 24-year-old San Jose woman became a media liaison for Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan

ReOrient

A two-day festival of plays about the Middle East can't live up to its promising subject matter

Mister Smith Goes to Obscuristan

Another leftist offering from the Mime Troupe is long on preaching but short on entertainment

The Babes of War

This pacifist masterpiece has less to do with Afghanistan than the Shotgun Players think

Letters to the Editor

A Chorus of Approval; What Do Whales and Our Whale Stories Have in Common?

La Vida Local

Alma

Pop Philosophy

Shop 'til you drop...dead; Maritime on the move

Dog Bites

What Did You Sing in the War, Daddy?; Anthrax for Dummies

Caught in the Storm

A Peace Corps volunteer describes his sudden evacuation from Uzbekistan as U.S. troops arrived for an assault on Afghanistan

Night & Day

A Peace Corps volunteer describes his sudden evacuation from Uzbekistan as U.S. troops arrived for an assault on Afghanistan

Letters

A Peace Corps volunteer describes his sudden evacuation from Uzbekistan as U.S. troops arrived for an assault on Afghanistan

The Tale of an Asp

A Peace Corps volunteer describes his sudden evacuation from Uzbekistan as U.S. troops arrived for an assault on Afghanistan