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"The Odyssey": Ship Sails Through the Bay While Giving a Show

Paris Surf Minstrels La Femme Talk Censored Cover Art and American Adventures

​Contrary to what you might quite reasonably expect, Parisian post-surf-rock outfit La Femme is, well, not very feminine at all. Besides a variable cast of sultry chanteuses, the group comprises three to four vaguely shadowy young Frenchmen who, to hear them tell it, spend most of their time in a ... More >>

The year SXSW film broke

​Contrary to what you might quite reasonably expect, Parisian post-surf-rock outfit La Femme is, well, not very feminine at all. Besides a variable cast of sultry chanteuses, the group comprises three to four vaguely shadowy young Frenchmen who, to hear them tell it, spend most of their time in a ... More >>

New hotel brasserie Midi offers updated versions of French classics

​Contrary to what you might quite reasonably expect, Parisian post-surf-rock outfit La Femme is, well, not very feminine at all. Besides a variable cast of sultry chanteuses, the group comprises three to four vaguely shadowy young Frenchmen who, to hear them tell it, spend most of their time in a ... More >>

Room with a Few

A young San Franciscan’s dream: A room in a nice house, affordable rent, and a built-in social network.

An Inconvenient Plant

One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

SF Playhouse's The Scene Too Much Like Daytime TV

One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

Gay and Transgender Divas Battle for Stardom in Bay Area's Ballroom Scene

One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

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One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

My Body, My Self

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

Celebrate the Holidays with a Good, Hard Nut — Dance Photos from Zellerbach Hal Dec. 14

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

Like a Complete Unknown

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

Film-O-Phobic

For the first time ever, the LGBT Film Fest pulls a movie for being too controversial -- in this case, "transphobic"

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Pink Power

This musical stage adaptation of the movie, like, totally rocks

Strange Root

An artist using plants as his medium reminds us that nature is its own boss

Believe It or Not!

Let's get beyond the balderdash and take a closer look at the motivations behind some political campaigns

Du Right

Messing with the message

A Lost Soul

Soul Calibur III is a gorgeous but frustrating rehash.

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Soul Calibur III is a gorgeous but frustrating rehash.

There Be Monsters

A malfunctioning windup toy of a show, meant for adults but good for kids

Drift Wood

Evan Rachel Wood and James Woods get lost amid Pretty Persuasion

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Evan Rachel Wood and James Woods get lost amid Pretty Persuasion

Profiles in Gumption

Thanks to SFMOMA, Mattel wasn't able to squash a Utah artist who puts Barbie dolls in blenders

Für Alles

Cinema from the fatherland

Lucky 7

Small-scale circus comes home

Shane's Addiction

Documentarian Sarah Share delivers the man, the music, the myth: MacGowan

Slides Rule

At a gathering of the Oughtred Society, the reckoning may be dead or logarithmic, but the conversation is always right on the mark

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

At a gathering of the Oughtred Society, the reckoning may be dead or logarithmic, but the conversation is always right on the mark

Visions of a Robot Future

The Holiday Robot Games and Expo offers fascinating projects, promising students, and unsettling premonitions

Massacre Under the Redwoods

Country spookiness, movies, and the Texas Tranny Two-Step made Guerneville the place to be, pre-Halloween

Thrilla in Manila

Local comic Rex Navarrete invades the Philippines

Hamlet, the Melancholy Dame

An all-female adaptation of Hamlet

Riff Raff

Everything Quieter Than Everything Else; Studio Time

See How They Run

Everything Quieter Than Everything Else; Studio Time

Oy, My Aching Funny Bone

Everything Quieter Than Everything Else; Studio Time

Web Rouser

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Pixel Cut

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Night Crawler

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

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The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Looking A little Green

Taking the Sierra Club's helm, boy wonder Adam Werbach confronts more than his own inexperience

Stone Cold

Jade masquerades as an erotic thriller

COLOR IT GONE

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

Slap Shots

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

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Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town