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  • Blogs

    September 11, 2012

    How Obama and Romney Are Presiding Over the Death of the Campaign Song

    Last week in Charlotte, Bill Clinton stepped to a podium in front of his party's delegation and delivered a speech. Maybe you saw it? What I remember are words -- lots of words. Some of them wrapped around statistics, others glaring back at me like bumper stickers on chrome. Clinton's words flowed f ... More >>

  • Film

    May 23, 2012

    "Hysteria": A Tedious Slog Through the Vibrator's History

    Last week in Charlotte, Bill Clinton stepped to a podium in front of his party's delegation and delivered a speech. Maybe you saw it? What I remember are words -- lots of words. Some of them wrapped around statistics, others glaring back at me like bumper stickers on chrome. Clinton's words flowed f ... More >>

  • Film

    May 16, 2012

    "Elles": French Film Compares Housewives and Prostitutes

    Last week in Charlotte, Bill Clinton stepped to a podium in front of his party's delegation and delivered a speech. Maybe you saw it? What I remember are words -- lots of words. Some of them wrapped around statistics, others glaring back at me like bumper stickers on chrome. Clinton's words flowed f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Coloring Books No Kid Could Ever Want, Including David Lynch's "Dune"

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Dune Coloring Book Author: Michael Nicastre Date: 1984 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlop Discovered at: 57th Street Antique Mall, Sacramento The Cover ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 7, 2011

    Ivory Hunters

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Dune Coloring Book Author: Michael Nicastre Date: 1984 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlop Discovered at: 57th Street Antique Mall, Sacramento The Cover ... More >>

  • Film

    December 8, 2010

    "Tiny Furniture": Lena Dunham satirizes New York's bourgeois bohemia

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Dune Coloring Book Author: Michael Nicastre Date: 1984 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlop Discovered at: 57th Street Antique Mall, Sacramento The Cover ... More >>

  • Film

    May 26, 2010

    "Sex and the City 2" struggles against nature to stay forever young

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Dune Coloring Book Author: Michael Nicastre Date: 1984 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlop Discovered at: 57th Street Antique Mall, Sacramento The Cover ... More >>

  • Film

    December 9, 2009

    Whitewash: Disney's The Princess and the Frog can't seem to escape the ghetto

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Dune Coloring Book Author: Michael Nicastre Date: 1984 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlop Discovered at: 57th Street Antique Mall, Sacramento The Cover ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Local Flavor: Kleine's Polite Lil' Bites

    ​Treasa Ewing, owner of San Francisco's Kleine (German for "little girl" or "little one"), has expressed a dream to open up her own scone bar. Until that's realized, Kleine's Sconelettes offer a teeny taste of what that might be like.Ewing's creations, made with Fair Trade ingredients and pack ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2009

    Sweet Beat: Charlotte's Confections' Peanut Butter Caramel Twists

    These addictive chews were spotted at Faletti Foods (308 Broderick at Fell), a gourmet grocer with discerning aisles filled with local and organic products. Charlotte's Confections was an unfamiliar brand, but a little digging revealed that it's actually the wholesale end of Shaw's of Millbrae (1 ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 15, 2009

    April Book Events: Mark Rudd, Cori Crooks, Chris Carlsson, and more

    These addictive chews were spotted at Faletti Foods (308 Broderick at Fell), a gourmet grocer with discerning aisles filled with local and organic products. Charlotte's Confections was an unfamiliar brand, but a little digging revealed that it's actually the wholesale end of Shaw's of Millbrae (1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Flying With the Big Boys: SFO Cracks Top-10 of Nation's Busiest Airports

    Source: anna.aero, culled from airport's monthly self-reported figuresWe're No. 1 ... or, actually, SFO's reported growth made it the 10th-busiest airport in the realmWhile 2008 was generally as entertaining a year for airport proprietors as airline dinners are for airport customers, San Francisco I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    San Francisco ranked 48th in Manliness...By a Snack-Food Company...and This is News

    Bleh.I've never particularly liked Combos and there are two reasons for this. One: they're too crunchy. Two: the processed crap in the middle disgusts me. But now there is a much better reason not to eat Combo's -- the people trying to make us buy them are a bunch of sexist, ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Massive Law Firm to San Francisco Attorneys: 'Guess What? You're All Going to East Palo Alto'

    "It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 15, 2008

    The K of D is pure magic

    "It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 1, 2008

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2008

    Saturday Night: Sex in the City at the Sundance Kabuki Theater

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Film

    May 28, 2008

    Cheap Sex

    Despite the labels and levity, big-screen Sex and the City is a poor man's knockoff.

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2007

    Kim Jong-Il, Jesus, Watson and Crick, SF Rabbi Langer: the Snitch presents the "Top Ten Most Jaw-Dropping Bobbleheads"

    Despite the labels and levity, big-screen Sex and the City is a poor man's knockoff.

  • Home Entertainment

    January 10, 2007

    Whip Smart

    The new Castlevania lives up to its legacy

  • Culture

    July 20, 2005

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    July 13, 2005

    Encore

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    July 6, 2005

    Encore

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    June 29, 2005

    Cross-Dressed to Kill

    A pair of drag divas turn a Bette Davis cult classic into entertaining theater

  • Calendar

    June 8, 2005

    Charlotte's Web

    A cross-dressing spoof on a classic film

  • Film

    May 11, 2005

    What Ever Happened to Lady Jane?

    Fonda's humiliation is only one reason this Monster is such a dog

  • Music

    December 29, 2004

    BeatBox

    From "Resistance Lounge IV" to "005," we've got the cure for your New Year's blues

  • Culture

    November 10, 2004

    The Real Fling

    A meditation on marital catastrophe with brutal comic momentum

  • Music

    November 10, 2004

    BeatBox

    Diplo teaches dancefloors new Hollertron-icks; the EndUp turns 31; rapper Nas makes a rare live appearance

  • Music

    September 22, 2004

    BeatBox

    "Sugar" is as sweet as ever; "Recovery Party" will make your post-party crash feel more like a fender bender

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2004

    Spies in the House of Love

    Leave your Manolo Blahniks at home for the "Sex in the City Tour"

  • Culture

    December 24, 2003

    Kinsey Sicks: Oy Vey in a Manger

    We can't resist "I Had a Little Facial, I Made It Out of Clay" or an offensive "Feliz Navidad."

  • Music

    December 17, 2003

    BeatBox

    Cheap Red Stripe and great reggae make Wednesdays at Nickie's BBQ "Crucial"; Sing "Happy Birthday" to SF's beloved Toph One during Red Wine's 12th Annual Holiday Bash.

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2003

    She's Baaaack

    New sex in the same city

  • Film

    June 25, 2003

    Boogie Nights

    For a band that isn't "commercial-sounding," scoring a movie is a boon

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Up-and-Coming Power Couple

    Gavin and Kimberly

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Three Best Ways to Dance Away a Beautiful Sunday

    Gavin and Kimberly

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Nonprofessional Reading Series

    "Bored Collective" at 26 Mix

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    Cottontales

    A week of hare-raising adventures with the rabbit people and the bunny lady

  • Film

    January 9, 2002

    Spy, But Why?

    Charlotte Gray went to war, and all she came back with was this lousy movie

  • Music

    December 26, 2001

    Sound Advice

    The bored, the gothic, and the really flexible

  • Culture

    July 11, 2001

    Tongue of a Bird

    The story of a desparate mother searching for her kidnapped daughters starts awkwardly, then takes flight.

  • Film

    May 16, 2001

    Dang Those Nuances

    Merchant and Ivory return, as rarefied as ever -- this time with Henry James

  • Culture

    February 23, 2000

    Stage Capsules

    Merchant and Ivory return, as rarefied as ever -- this time with Henry James

  • Film

    September 22, 1999

    Reel World

    Broadcast News, Big Wednesday, and The Straight Story

  • Music

    April 14, 1999

    Creative Cacophony

    In one Lower Haight studio space, techno, R&B, and hip hop artistry as well as a bit of radical history collide nightly

  • Culture

    November 12, 1997

    Stage

    In one Lower Haight studio space, techno, R&B, and hip hop artistry as well as a bit of radical history collide nightly

  • News

    May 8, 1996

    Charlotte's Web

    The mayor's plan for City Hall could net the city's protocol chief millions in taxpayer-financed rent

  • Culture

    March 1, 1995

    Curtain Calls

    The mayor's plan for City Hall could net the city's protocol chief millions in taxpayer-financed rent

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