Brown University

Ibogaine has helped addicts kick meth and heroin. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Konstantin Salikhov, Rhode Island Ph.D, Reported Missing in San Francisco

News 10Konstantin Salikhov, missing since last month​Providence, R.I. police have asked their colleagues in San Francisco to look into the mysterious disappearance of a 31-year-old man. Konstantin Salikhov, a recent graduate of Brown University with a doctoral degree in mathematics, hasn't been s ... More >>

Facial Profiling

Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

Masterminds 2010

Meet the talented Bay Area artists competing for our $2,500 grants.

Modern-Day Rube Goldberg Gets the Ball(s) Rolling With Hypnotic Mecahanical Art Puzzle

Aaron Geman tried to wheel his "Mechanical Puzzle Prototype" into the San Francisco alley surreptitiously, but it was too late. He was spotted and, before he could utter a word in protest, a dozen guests at a wedding being held across the street bounded over the blacktop like shoppers at a Black F ... More >>

Intelligent Design

PYT seduces her literary hero in the astute Starting Out in the Evening

Hocus-Pocus

With its somber sophomore record, Elefant shows its sleight of hand

Award Show Performers

SF Weekly Music Awards

Connerly's Con

Ward Connerly says his new anti-racism initiative won't have any real impact on California. Critics beg to differ.

Reps Etc.

Laugh, or We Kill the Lobster

Ben Westhoff gets inside the odd mix of cerebral and naughty humor that's taken S.F. comedy troupe Killing My Lobster to the edge of national fame

MC Paul Barman

Paullelujah!

Same Old Brand-New

Blame Rock River Communications -- and hipster Jeff Daniel -- for those cheesy store-branded music compilations

Looking for God at Berkeley

A provocative theory called "intelligent design" claims evolution is hogwash. But it's not the usual religious zealots leading the latest attack on Darwin. It's scientists and professors at Cal.

Fun and Games

Local lobsters

Band in a Box

Markus Popp's new sound installation makes being an electronica superstar easy

Looking A little Green

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

Time to kill

"Before the Rain" bears witness to the cost of civil war; "Federal Hill" stumbles on the wrong side of the tracks