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Ariel Pink Has a Good Night at the Chapel, 5/21/13

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti The Chapel Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Better than: Dining on pink slime. There is always an air of uncertainty before an Ariel Pink concert. Throughout his career the enigmatic Beverly Hills native has been known to have meltdowns on stage, throw fits at sound men, or just ... More >>

Drink 2013: Cocktails Listings

You Can Watch the Food Network a Full Day and Only See Five Shows

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's on going with food TV. This week we review Monday, airing Monday on the Food Network. Most cable channels can't withstand scrutiny. They're good to catch a quick show like Tommy Lee Goes to College but stay too long and the bottom drops out and yo ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Stay Open Despite Federal Deadline

On the day the federal government wished HopeNet to close, the operators of San Francisco's oldest licensed and taxpaying medical marijuana dispensary prepared accordingly: They grilled hot dogs."We made about 220," said Catherine Smith, whose Ninth Street medical cannabis dispensary is one of the n ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings April 4-10, 2012

Park Popular for Bike Polo, Drunks Is Feds' Reason To Shut Down Latest Medical Marijuana Dispensary

​As playgrounds go, Jose Coronado on 21st between Folsom and Shotwell streets is something of an outlier: the asphalt tennis and basketball courts are routinely re-purposed by players of bicycle polo. But other than filling that niche, the park appears suspect to the predictable urban flavors for ... More >>

Oakland's Wallpaper. Inks Deal with Epic Records

Wallpaper., the thumping crunk-pop outfit led by Oakland's Ricky Reed, signed a record deal late last year with Sony Music imprint Epic, making it the latest Bay Area group to jump to a major label. Best known for last year's breakout single, "#STUPiDFACEDD" -- which was featured on MTV and watched ... More >>

Stephen Glass, Disgraced Journalist, Continues Fight to Practice Law in California

​Disgraced former journalist Stephen Glass has hired a high-caliber Oakland lawyer in his effort to win the right to practice law in California.Glass, who is notorious for having fabricated magazine articles in the 1990s, has hired Jon Eisenberg, known for successfully suing the U.S. government ov ... More >>

Mike Mills Unpacks His Own Life for "Beginners"

Weezer’s legacy doesn’t end with "Pinkerton"

Director Judd Apatow Talks Filmmaking, Pee Wee Herman, and S.F. (VIDEO)

​Back in September, we gave our readers a chance to interview director Judd Apatow-- the man behind the TV show Freaks and Geeks, and director of movies like Knocked Up and The Forty Year Old Virgin. Readers sent in three sample questions they would ask Apatow, and we picked the ones we liked best ... More >>

Christopher Nolan interview: Can "Inception" director save the summer?

Lisa Cholodenko interview: "The Kids Are All Right" director makes a lesbian domestic comedy

New Pot Club Would Be Downtown's First

​Earlier in the week, Socketsite pointed attention to 527 Howard Street -- just beneath the Bay Bridge -- where a new medical cannabis dispensary wishes to open up shop.SF Weekly visited with applicant Igor Khavin and toured the nascent Igzactly Health Solutions. Khavin will have his permit hearin ... More >>

Pissed Off M.I.A. Takes Revenge on Writer

MosesM.I.A. at last year's Outside Lands​After New York Times writer Lynn Hirschberg called M.I.A. out on some of her bullshit in a profile published yesterday for the magazine, the spirited British rapper/songwriter/political activist took to Twitter this morning to pull some middle school reveng ... More >>

Films About What the Haves Have Not

Nicole Holofcener continues to mine her life — and life is complicated.

Ten Bands That Have Rocked 90210 - Then and Now

With the return of The CW's humdrum spin-off soap 90210 this week (March 9), we guilty-pleasure seekers are likely to be treated to a season of catfights, trysts, and--most importantly--new music cameos. Like its contemporaries Gossip Girl and The OC, the new 90210 has made an obvious effort ... More >>

Faux S.F. Doctor Timothy Andersson Hit With 51 Felonies for 'Dangerous and Unecessary' Procedures

​ He had no license to practice medicine in California or the United States, and no affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco, as he claimed. But 66-year-old Timothy Andersson (who also went by Dr. Tanweer Ahmad Syed) saw scores of patients in ... More >>

Earlier Today: Opening of Sprinkles Cupcakes

Models from Leonard Nimoy's 'Full Body Project' at Suite Jesus 8/22

Last Night: George Michael at the HP Pavilion

Punk Family Values

Meet the Rosenthals: two generations of art stars in one six-story warehouse.

Tube Boobs

American Dreamz' nation of idiots lands a little close to home

Love at First Fight

This Pride & Prejudice brings fresh passion to an old love story

Keira Get Your Gun

Domino chronicles the life of a model turned bounty hunter

The Jester Speaks the Truth

We know you get your news from comedians. Now here's one of the best.

All You Can Eat

James L. Brooks serves up too much of a good thing in Spanglish

Worth a Detour

Zax Tavern

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

Sex and the Special Bus

Romance gets retarded in Pumpkin

Emma Goes to France

Amelie serves up a daring, moving take on Jane Austen's best-loved heroine.

Reel World

Rocker Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind dabbles in acting

Come Together

At Deborah Oropallo's new show, the line between paintings and photos barely exists

My Life as a Eunuch

What's a man to do if he doesn't want his balls hanging around? Simple: Just find someone to cut them off.

Rights of Passage

With gates and fences, private property owners are increasingly cutting off traditional paths to public lands. State law offers some recourse, but not much.

Inside Flynt

Larry Flynt's outing of powerful Republican hypocrites has the GOP fearing political ruin before the Y2K elections. An inside look at what makes Flynt's investigative team tick.

Dog Bites

Enter the (Green) Dragon

Beat the Press

Dog Bites

Checchi's Checkered Record

Megamillionaire Al Checchi thinks he piloted Northwest Airlines so well that you should elect him governor. Actually, he sucked in public subsidies, strong-armed unions, reneged on promises -- and still almost flew the firm into the ground.

Heavy on the Lite

Mother

Sahl on Ice

Shorter Cuts

Night+Day

The Dusk of Civilization

Anna Deavere Smith delivers a heart-clutching dialogue about race in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Bedeviled by Color

Devil in a Blue Dress depicts the '40s antecedents of L.A.'s racial fracturing

Mal on the Street

Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art

Beauty Knows No Pain

Building a Better Body at the 28th Annual Session of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery