Forrest Gump

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The War Womb

For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights

Toxic Gump

The Young Poisoner's Handbook is a love letter to the sordid misfits of Britain

Old Man Pitt

The curious case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Apocalypse Whatever

Ben Stiller's Hollywood sendup lacks firepower.

Nintendo's Wii Fit ignites yet another fitness fad

Ben Stiller's Hollywood sendup lacks firepower.

Writing His Future

Vulcan, the erstwhile king of spray can art, wants to leave the streets behind without losing his soul

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

Awol One 2MEX and Life Rexall

The War of Art ... Are $martyr

Pong 360

Like the real thing, Table Tennis shouldn't be played alone.

Jesus Wept

Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?

Tragedy Re-Revisited

Spielberg's Munich rehashes a tale we've heard before

Playing on Fear

Spielberg and Hanks spawn a daring new genre: the post-9/11 comedy

No More Wussies

Or, why Tom Hanks isn't Steve Guttenberg

A Fitting Send-Off

Painter Gordon Onslow Ford: the "Forrest Gump" of the art world

The Ecstatic

The creepy cover almost put us off. Maybe we should have let it.

Below the Law

Herod's Law skewers dirty Mexican politics

Double Fantasy

Renee Zellweger and Morgan Freeman stalk their dreams in Nurse Betty

I See Dull People!

Michelle Pfeiffer stars in What Lies Beneath

Buck Teeth

Mike White stars in Chuck & Buck

Instant Karma

The Green Mile

Wired for Sound

The Mill Valley Film Festival

Reel World

The Mill Valley Film Festival

The Free Willies

The Mill Valley Film Festival

For Love and Money

The Mill Valley Film Festival

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

The Mill Valley Film Festival

Identity Crisis

American movies once enthralled the world with their exuberance and clarity. What happened in the 1990s?

Racket

American movies once enthralled the world with their exuberance and clarity. What happened in the 1990s?

Fools for Rules

Some S.F. book-buyers are ruining the city's reputation

Klump, Gump, and Chump

The Nutty Professor Directed by Tom Shadyac. Starring Eddie Murphy and Jada Pinkett. Phenomenon Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Starring John Travolta and Kyra Sedgwick. Purple Noon Directed by Rene Clement. Starring Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet.

What's Killing Hip Hop?

From the Western Addition to the East Bay, police and wary club owners have all but banished hip hop. Have the cops overreacted? Are the clubs at fault? Or have a few well-armed fans hijacked the positive vibe of the hip-hop nation?

The Dark Prince of City Hall

First Larry Bush was a politician. Then he was a journalist. Then he was a politician. So now as editor and publisher of CitiReport, a hard-hitting journal with a private agenda, what the hell is he?

Save the Date: Next Weekend's Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Promises to Give Squash Its Due

SFAntii/FlickrPumpkins are like chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.​If the shrimp-infatuated Bubba from Forrest Gump had grown up, not in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, but in Half Moon Bay, California, he might have extolled the virtues of a different food to his new buddy Forrest. We ... More >>

A Christmas Carol : Dickens in CGI

SFAntii/FlickrPumpkins are like chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.​If the shrimp-infatuated Bubba from Forrest Gump had grown up, not in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, but in Half Moon Bay, California, he might have extolled the virtues of a different food to his new buddy Forrest. We ... More >>

Sarah Palin-Related Story Pitch a Top Contender For Worst E-Mail of All-Time

​As we've noted before, when your e-mail has the name of a newspaper in it, you get a lot of desperate missives. You'd be amazed at what communications professionals think you the reader are dying to know about; my favorite example is still the guy pitching a story about his stars-and-stripes embl ... More >>

Vallejo rapper Moe Green wants fame too badly to sleep

​As we've noted before, when your e-mail has the name of a newspaper in it, you get a lot of desperate missives. You'd be amazed at what communications professionals think you the reader are dying to know about; my favorite example is still the guy pitching a story about his stars-and-stripes embl ... More >>

Youngbloods -- Who Sang that Song, You Know It -- Sued for Millions

It ain't the checkered jacket that got The Youngbloods sued...​The 1960s-era rock group that sang one of the all-time odes to love, reconciliation, and collaborative methods of diffusing disputes has, naturally enough, become enmeshed in a nasty, multi-million-dollar lawsuit with its former re ... More >>

Bridge School Benefit 2010: Buffalo Springfield, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, More

Buffalo Springfield​LiveNation today announced the lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit -- Neil Young's annual show for the school he helped found for his son -- and, well, wow: In addition to the regulars, the classic '60s outfit Buffalo Springfield is reuniting for the show, minus t ... More >>

Men Walking Across United States Pass Through San Francisco

Will these four men become as famous as Forrest?​Four magicians have set out to walk nearly 3,000 miles across the United States -- from San Francisco to New York City. And their reasoning is not much different from Forrest Gump's: Because they felt like it.SF Weekly spoke to the crew via phone on ... More >>

Buffalo Springfield Announces Tour, Fox Theater Oakland Dates

So does this kill our Outside Lands prediction? Buffalo Springfield, the seminal California folk-rock band that helped launched the careers of Neil Young and Steven Stills, plans to tour this summer, after a one-off reunion show last fall at Young's Bridge School Benefit here in the Bay Area. For th ... More >>

S.F Businessman to Swim for 60 Hours Nonstop -- For No Reason

chlorine on the brain​To the non-athlete, even a five-mile run or swim seems crazy. But here is a guy who can make even ultra marathoners look sane. Jamie Patrick, a die-hard swimmer and owner of Patrick & Co. in San Francisco, is planning to swim 240 miles nonstop across the Sacramento River ... More >>

Home-Brewed Beer of the Month Club Avoids the Law

BrewlabYou get a mismatched six-pack of home-brews from the beer CSA.​CSA boxes are like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: You never know what kind of local, sustainably farmed, organic, heirloom tomato you're gonna get. Sign up for the Brewlab club, however, and one thing's for sure: Your mon ... More >>

Environmental Fanatic Runs from South America to Alaska ... Barefoot

Considering some of the insane stories we read in the news these days -- like "Kerry Campbell" saying she gave her 8-year-old daughter Botox -- Henry Sanchez's tale about running barefoot from Argentina to Alaska isn't that hard to believe.  But we still think he's craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... More >>

Non-Gross Raw Food Classes, Vegan Deep-Dish in Alameda, and Vegan Bodybuilders!

​• Vegan bodybuilders featured in the New York Times. They're huge and scary and fairly-awesome. Proof that you can get yoked without the yolks. HA! Also, where's my article? I'm proof that you can get hella chubs and adorable without animal protein. WHERE'S MY PARADE, HUH? Oh well, at least I'v ... More >>