Al Capone

Saturday Night: Exprescion at Alcatraz

Get Drunk in Prison (No Toilet Pruno Necessary!)

On Comics: Barry Gets Own Book; Will Probably Beat Up Superman

City Slackers

A guide toSan Francisco political corruption -past, present, and future

Yo Soy Centroamericano

Why vote Kerry? Exhibit No. 1: George W. Bush has shamelessly hired the dangerous figures behind the Iran-Contra Affair into senior diplomatic posts.

Crooked as They Come

Criminal swipes its story from a far superior movie

Trouble at Home

Mike Farr is remodeling his Victorian to resemble a boat. But someone's trying to sink his ship of dreams.

Mad as Hell

Network zeroes in on the intersection of personal ambition and public media

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor swoons over Foetus, cowboy space tunes, and Tentacle Sessions

Record Caper

Long-missing Alcatraz files make their way back to the Bay Area

This Bud's for John

John McCain's family

Tales of the Country

How Tokyo Rose, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Amelia Earhart are endangered by money-saving moves at the National Archives in San Bruno

Last Picture Shows

Week 2 of the Mill Valley Film Festival

Night+Day

Week 2 of the Mill Valley Film Festival

Night+Day

Week 2 of the Mill Valley Film Festival

Sometimes You Eat the Bear

Week 2 of the Mill Valley Film Festival

A First-Class Ticket to Palookaville

Week 2 of the Mill Valley Film Festival

Urban Cat Hunting: Out Trapping Feral Felines For the SPCA

Joe EskenaziThe trap is baited...The sun was starting to dip beneath the horizon when the call came in. It was supposed to be a relatively easy job -- we were to finish cleaning up a colony out by Ocean Beach. Four kitties had already been bagged and, tonight, our mission was to snare the lone holdo ... More >>

Have you seen C.W. Nevius? Tenderloin kooks have

Joe EskenaziThe trap is baited...The sun was starting to dip beneath the horizon when the call came in. It was supposed to be a relatively easy job -- we were to finish cleaning up a colony out by Ocean Beach. Four kitties had already been bagged and, tonight, our mission was to snare the lone holdo ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide

No Bids Yet For Tommie Smith's Gold Medal

For sale​Yesterday, we reported that former San Jose State University sprinter Tommie Smith -- the man famously raising a black-gloved fist in a Black Power salute during the 1968 Olympic Games -- was selling off his medal and track spikes. Astoundingly, the $250,000 minimum price tag (not includi ... More >>

Iowa Ousts Three Judges Who Approved Gay Marriage

​LGBT Advocates Blast Special Interests' Campaign To Intimidate Judges NationwideThe huge shift to the right in yesterday's election probably doesn't bode well for any LGBT-friendly legislation coming down the pipeline. But perhaps the harshest rebuke of those who support LGBT rights came from Iow ... More >>

Marijuana Roundup: The Year In Pot

​How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>

Paradise Regained

​How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>

Alcatraz in Black and White

​How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>

Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana

​How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>

Feds Subpoenaed San Francisco for Medical Marijuana Records

THCfinder.comBusting you -- with public records.​Fifth SF Dispensary Likely To CloseIt wasn't Tommy gun-toting agents who finally put Prohibition-era bad boy Al Capone behind bars on Alcatraz: it was paper-pushers from the Internal Revenue Service who busted the syphilitic mobster on tax fraud.In ... More >>