Eastern Europe

Lech Walesa Street: Jane Kim Ready for a Change

Last week, Supervisor David Campos told SF Weekly that he'd be open to starting a dialogue about whether to strip Lech Walesa's name off a city street.Supervisor Jane Kim is ready to move past all that. She wants Walesa gone. Step one, however, is figuring out who to call. Kim aide Ivy Lee says that ... More >>

Muni: Our Transit Agency Has Neglected Maintenance for Years

The 10 Best Quotes from Steve Albini's Ask Me Anything on Reddit

Today, cranky lord of the mixing board Steve Albini submitted himself to an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. This means that random users asked him random questions for a few hours, and he gave responses as he saw fit. Many of the answers were very, very interesting. Steve Albini, of course, is the owner ... More >>

Chelsea Wolfe, Demon Girl

Jewish Humor Traces Back to July 1661, Berkeley Prof Says

His origin has been traced to 1661...​At first, the notion of pinpointing the very day Jewish humor was born sounds every bit as crazy as Bishop James Ussher claiming the world was created on Sunday, Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. But U.C. Berkeley theater professor Mel Gordon tracing the origin of Jewish hum ... More >>

January's Literary Events

Odessa Chen Talks to the Animals For New Album

Shoka ShafieeOdessa Chen​Odessa Chen decided four years ago that she was done with romance -- at least until her next CD. For her current project, Archives of the Natural World, the singer-songwriter cast aside songs for an ex named Jeff (not to be confused with Mr. Jeff Buckley, to whom she's oft ... More >>

Everyone Sing the Bay Area Media Songs!

Joyce GoldschmidGet out your banjo, Warren, and sing the company song!​On May 26, financier Warren Hellman invited throngs of hangers-on to a Great American Music Hall bash to celebrate the launch of the Bay Citizen, the news nonprofit he tossed $5 million.The highlight, apparently, was an offici ... More >>

You Should Hear: Rank/Xerox Do Post-Punk Right

​Sometimes it feels like "post-punk" has become a dirty descriptor. More often than not, if a band cites its influences as pre-Joy Division Warsaw or the Fall, expect to see some bad haircuts and hear a clichéd hodgepodge of post-punk darkwave and cheesy modern dance music that lacks heart, origi ... More >>

Baker and Banker: Don't say Californian

Arthouse movie listings for February 11-17

Local Madoff Victim Speaks Out

Although Bernie Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme engulfed its share of wealthy East Coasters, a comprehensive list of victims made public today as part of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing revealed 43 Madoff accounts attached to San Francisco addresses. Some belonged to investment firm ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for January 28-February 3

Your Guide to the San Francisco International Film Festival

Avant-Vietnam

Super, Thanks for Asking

Only in San Francisco

The sole Istrian restaurant on the West Coast is hiding in plain sight

Repertory Film Listings

View From the Top

The rare story of a powerful female politician whose private life is secondary

Decisions, Decisions

At the Southwestern U.S. Pro-Am Rock Paper Scissors Invitational, the choices are limited, the competition fierce

Politics Unusual

A Brit takes on the American system

The House of Sour Cream

Our critic finds Russian food more artful than a Russian painter

Playing Pool

S.F. has great swimming pools, but political insanity makes them all but useless to families and kids

alt.war

Traditional media mislead the public about the war in Iraq as a media revolution makes traditional media increasingly irrelevant

House of Tudor

Love on the rails, adolescent surrealism, and the resurrection of the original Joe Jackson Band

Tanks for the Memories

Reconnoitering the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation and its 205 military vehicles. In Portola Valley.

Expatriate Games

Arthur Phillips reads from his debut novel, Prague, a tale of four Americans searching for adventure in Eastern Europe

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Truth Over Death

A Berkeley forensic mathematician, the herculean effort to identify World Trade Center victims with DNA, and the value of closure

Giving Pause

West Oakland's Mono Pause is the Bay Area's most adventurous rock band you've never heard of

All God's Children

When terrorists breed hatred among us, they've already won the war

Two to Say Go

The woman who would bike the length of North and South America, and the man who's running around the world

What's Green and Black and Blue All Over?

Maybe Nader voters should be slapped around a bit; their leftist purity will likely bring us four very squalid years

Dog Bites

A Little Crazy

Mission Implacable

Peter Glikshtern used a tire iron on four interlopers in his Mission District bar. Then he beat their lawyer's attempt to make the fight a political caues.

Postscript

From Russia With Sleaze

Golden Graham

Heather Graham stars in Committed

Night & Day

S.F. International Film Festival

Fiddling With Tradition

For local klezmer musicians, experimenting with Jewish music's history is just as important as embracing it

Night + Day

Letters

Night + Day

Stage

Stage

The S.F. International Film Fest, Week 2

Past Forward

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Recordings