Benjamin Franklin

Enter: A Superhero: The Ray Faced Down Cops to Help Occupy, But His True Mission Is Darker

Barnes and Ignobles

The battle over a Philadelphia art collection — as culture, money, and power collide — in The Art of the Steal.

In a Flash

The battle over a Philadelphia art collection — as culture, money, and power collide — in The Art of the Steal.

Cheap Queens Behaving Badly

The battle over a Philadelphia art collection — as culture, money, and power collide — in The Art of the Steal.

Santacon 2008, Ski Team: The Party, The Cure, Skot Olsen and Too $hort: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Weekend wrap-up by Janine KahnSunday was nasty and rainy, but that didn't keep photographer Jen Cash home in Walnut Creek. Click here for her photo set from 111 Minna, which had been converted into a retro winter wonderland with snow on the floor and attendees in 80's neon ski garb for "Ski Team: Th ... More >>

San Francisco Overrun With Drunken, Smoking, Half-Naked Santas Again

Words and Photos By Ashley Harrell (Click here for a full Santacon 2008 slideshow.) Saturday was a pretty average day -- if a little cold -- until the chanting started. Listening through an open window in my North Beach apartment, I couldn't quite make out the words. So I head ... More >>

Mystic Puritan

Words and Photos By Ashley Harrell (Click here for a full Santacon 2008 slideshow.) Saturday was a pretty average day -- if a little cold -- until the chanting started. Listening through an open window in my North Beach apartment, I couldn't quite make out the words. So I head ... More >>

Check Nate

A friendly game of chess makes for arresting theater

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes us long for good Nic Cage movies ... like Con Air

The Wizard of Ass Has Spoken!

Hal Robins - erudite comic of the absurd, underground cartoonist of note,co-host of the world's strangest radio program, early member of the Church of the SubGenius - has a new hit with the "Ask Dr. Hal Show." But he really could use a paying gig. Really

700 Years of 9/11

Never heard of the Battle of Malplaquet? Then you don't know your Sept. 11 history.

Letters to the Editor

Paintings in Black and White; A Night to Remember; The Hall of Records; The End Is Near; Bush Whacking; Correction

Do You Read Me?

Making books with the obsessed

House Of Tudor

Japanese cartoon-pop, and Baffling dissent

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Japanese cartoon-pop, and Baffling dissent

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Japanese cartoon-pop, and Baffling dissent