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The Summer Movie Rises: Twenty Films to Watch Out For

The Psychic World of Stanley Krippner: A quest to document ESP

Medical Marijuana Providers Go to Prison. Will President Obama Intervene?

This pretty much sums it up​Dr. Mollie Fry and her husband, Dale Schafer, are ill. Fry is a breast-cancer survivor with severe mental-health issues, and Schafer's hemophilia means he is frequently bedridden. So he will have to be in a prison hospital beginning May 2, when the couple will begin fiv ... More >>

"Hanna": Teen Girl Kicks Major Ass in Taut Thriller

This pretty much sums it up​Dr. Mollie Fry and her husband, Dale Schafer, are ill. Fry is a breast-cancer survivor with severe mental-health issues, and Schafer's hemophilia means he is frequently bedridden. So he will have to be in a prison hospital beginning May 2, when the couple will begin fiv ... More >>

Father of American Taliban John Walker Lindh Assails Media in Talk at USF

John Walker Lindh​When your son has been called a traitor by the Secretary of State, portrayed as a terrorist by leading military officials, and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, you might be expected to hold a grudge against the media outlets that reported these developments.But Frank Lind ... More >>

You Mean It’s True? Damn.

John Walker Lindh​When your son has been called a traitor by the Secretary of State, portrayed as a terrorist by leading military officials, and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, you might be expected to hold a grudge against the media outlets that reported these developments.But Frank Lind ... More >>

Singularity Summit Highlights: World Fails to End

Good guess, champ! ​Well, the world didn't end this weekend. Nobody really expected it to, anyway -- the Singularity Summit at the Hyatt Regency (about which we wrote in some detail last Friday) was less about invoking an immediate techno-cataclysm than it was about laying the groundwork for o ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

Good guess, champ! ​Well, the world didn't end this weekend. Nobody really expected it to, anyway -- the Singularity Summit at the Hyatt Regency (about which we wrote in some detail last Friday) was less about invoking an immediate techno-cataclysm than it was about laying the groundwork for o ... More >>

Edge of Darkness: Mel Gibson gets some kind of revenge

Good guess, champ! ​Well, the world didn't end this weekend. Nobody really expected it to, anyway -- the Singularity Summit at the Hyatt Regency (about which we wrote in some detail last Friday) was less about invoking an immediate techno-cataclysm than it was about laying the groundwork for o ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Supes Try To Save Cats, Unify Ireland, and Create Public Power

  The moral high ground in San Francisco may be the most valuable real estate of all. Last week Gavin Newsom -- who thumbed his nose at state and federal law on gay marriage -- tried to claim it by saying he couldn't help illegal immigrants because he has too much respect for the law. The ... More >>

Awesomely OCD: Yet Another 'No Reservations' Contest Winner

Rigged/FlickrA fan shows Bourdain his Tony tattoo.​Behold the fourth winning entry in our No Reservations viewing party contest, part of our daily wind-up to Monday's airing of the local episode of Anthony Bourdain's food-steeped travel show. As you recall, we begged would-be Tony groupies to ... More >>

Human Rights Watch: Pelosi Has Some 'Splaining To Do About Torture Briefing

Oh, that waterboarding...Oh, for a return to the days when a troupe of miscreants breaking into Democratic Party headquarters was the source of our national angst -- and not nightmarish, government-sanctioned torture techniques. A memo released yesterday by the Director of National Intelligence and ... More >>

Guantánamo's Last Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

Bay Area Lawmakers Among Obama's Worst Frenemies

Bay Area residents rejoicing over the historic inauguration of Barack Obama might want to take heed of an assessment of their elected representatives featured yesterday on Politico, the political news Web site. Writer Glenn Thrush posted a top-ten list of Democrats who pose a threat to Obama's agend ... More >>

The Feinstein-Panetta Back Story

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

No 'A' for Effort: Meet the (Lonely) Opponent to the $887M General Hospital Bond Measure

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

Lies We Can Believe In

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve.

Spy vs. Why

Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor.

Get Out of Jail Free

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.

Osama Hunter Greg Shade Captured on IndieFest Doc American Hero

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.

The S.F. Weekly Field Guide to San Francisco Tourists

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.

Sealed With a Dis

A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

The Big Valley

A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

Repertory Film Listings

A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

Methodist Acting

A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

I Spy a Bullshit Columnist

In your top-secret heart of hearts, are you a Bob Novak supporter? Take quiz, find out.

Dog Bites

Making a meal out of journalistic and political news, spell-checking the Guardian, and wrapping up the Castro race skirmish.

Film Capsule Reviews

Making a meal out of journalistic and political news, spell-checking the Guardian, and wrapping up the Castro race skirmish.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Making a meal out of journalistic and political news, spell-checking the Guardian, and wrapping up the Castro race skirmish.

Focking Wonderful

Streisand and Hoffman save a family -- and a movie, too

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.

Pinheads and Vidiots

Walking the floor with the arcade obsessed

It's a Bechtel World

Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

House of Tudor

Amazonian space babes, satanic holiday celebrants, and an extremely Elvis Xmas

Letters to the Editor

Week of November 6, 2002

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

Wise Bird

Men may want to take cover when Krissy Keefer, feminist survivor, dances

The Spybots Among Us

How the NSA tracks terrorists in the United States through the Internet

Pop Philosophy

Everything tastes better with Gravy (Train); the plot to get rid of Dave Emory

Amused to Death

How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?

Too Close for Comfort

The weird coincidences between last week's terrorist attacks and David Hagberg's novels have been keeping the author up at night

The Path of Inquiry

How research for this story was conducted

Reversing Course

A broad repudiation of Prop. 209 surfaces at Berkeley

Be-Siege'd

A broad repudiation of Prop. 209 surfaces at Berkeley

The Truth Is in Here

Secret voice mails reveal Chiquita plot to bomb Latin American dictators with GM pickup trucks bearing CNN's nerve gas

The Name is Nino. El Nino.

Investigation unmasks worldwide James Bond weather-disaster conspiracy

The Truth, and the Consequences, Are Out There

Investigation unmasks worldwide James Bond weather-disaster conspiracy

Air Force One -- Audience Nothing

Investigation unmasks worldwide James Bond weather-disaster conspiracy

Riff Raff

Investigation unmasks worldwide James Bond weather-disaster conspiracy

Stage

Investigation unmasks worldwide James Bond weather-disaster conspiracy