George Washington

John Edward Crosses Over to the Masonic Center

SF Gov InAction: The Supes are Back. Do We Need Them?

SF Gov InAction: Supes Dream of Presidency, Take the Week Off -- Except For a Major Budget Showdown that Could Doom Us All

For the last eight years in San Francisco, "President's Day" was a cruel joke on a city with no sense of humor about politics. Sure, America could boast Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and TWO Roosevelts -- but we were stuck with Bush. None of our traditional coping strategies worked. No matter ... More >>

How 'douchebag' became everyone's favorite insult

For the last eight years in San Francisco, "President's Day" was a cruel joke on a city with no sense of humor about politics. Sure, America could boast Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and TWO Roosevelts -- but we were stuck with Bush. None of our traditional coping strategies worked. No matter ... More >>

Snow Angels

For the last eight years in San Francisco, "President's Day" was a cruel joke on a city with no sense of humor about politics. Sure, America could boast Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and TWO Roosevelts -- but we were stuck with Bush. None of our traditional coping strategies worked. No matter ... More >>

Snow Angels

For the last eight years in San Francisco, "President's Day" was a cruel joke on a city with no sense of humor about politics. Sure, America could boast Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and TWO Roosevelts -- but we were stuck with Bush. None of our traditional coping strategies worked. No matter ... More >>

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For the last eight years in San Francisco, "President's Day" was a cruel joke on a city with no sense of humor about politics. Sure, America could boast Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and TWO Roosevelts -- but we were stuck with Bush. None of our traditional coping strategies worked. No matter ... More >>

The Daly Deal

How the sordid extraction of $50 million from Rincon Hill developers helps Chris Daly, city bureaucrats, and Gavin Newsom -- and hurts everyone else in San Francisco

What's Matt Smokin'?

A state assemblyman explains why our columnist is wrong about legislation that would legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp

Film Feast

American independent cinema is alive and well at IndieFest

Angry Talk Radio Callers -- Unite!

Inside the Patriot Defenders Network, which is busy supporting our veterans, troops, and families, and respecting God, country, flag, and president

Imposter Impersonator

Things get ugly when Infiltrator is unmasked at a celebrity impersonator convention, but all ends well when fake Arnold Schwarzenegger marries faux Shania Twain

Holiday Gift Guide

Things get ugly when Infiltrator is unmasked at a celebrity impersonator convention, but all ends well when fake Arnold Schwarzenegger marries faux Shania Twain

Two Fools

Terry Baum's play about lesbian love draws its conflicts from dull stereotypes rather than artfully, from life

Green Achers

Undertow relishes in the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family

Sounds of Silence

ASCAP's legal threats kill a thriving local music scene

Long Night's Journey Into Day

Jonestown on his mind: A documentary maker struggles with the ineffable

Chef Flower Power

The Hippy Gourmet serves up '60s philosophizing with his seafood Newberg

Asking, Telling

The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

God's Mistakes

George Washington finds beauty in the midst of overwhelming sadness and waste

Twisp of the Tale

When C.D. Payne stopped writing ad copy, he created a revolutionary teenage hero

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Dr. Frank from the Mr. T Experience

Film Fights Back

Dr. Frank from the Mr. T Experience

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Dr. Frank from the Mr. T Experience

Suspicious Minds

Dr. Frank from the Mr. T Experience

Dos Equis 'Interesting Man' is Entirely Too Common

Interesting men are all too common latelyI'll admit it -- I listen to a lot of Energy 92.7. And over the past weeks and months, that's meant I've been repeatedly subjected to Dos Equis' "Interesting Man," commercials. You know, the one's about the old guy guy with the spray-on tan w ... More >>

Mission Bay 'Jump Man' a Fit Fixture

Joe EskenaziChris "Jump Man" "Wilson​It takes a lot to get noticed in this city, be it leaping out from behind a bush to carrying a sign related to 12 galaxies. But if you do anything for an hour a day, five days a week, for a year -- pretty soon people will start watching you. And that's the case ... More >>

It's Hemp Week! And San Francisco Says 'Meh.'

Courtesy Adam Eidinger/Hemp History WeekLyster H. Dewey, a botanist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, measures a four-meter high hemp plant in 1929. He planted a grove on the current site of the Pentagon. ​ Cannabis users stole hemp farmers' fire It's easy to be overburdened with activis ... More >>

Karim Mayfield, Pro Boxing 'Return to San Francisco.' When Did It Leave?

And the winner is ... Karim Mayfield!​Promotional materials for a June 12 evening of fisticuffs at Kezar Pavilion headlined by San Francisco's own Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield jubilantly announce "Pro boxing returns to San Francisco." This is the first hometown fight for Mayfield, who grew up in th ... More >>

'Go Topless Day' Coverage Easy Publicity for Bizarre Raelian Cult

There -- that got your attention, no? ​Admit it, you looked. Who wouldn't? A bevy of topless women, and men in bikini tops illustrating the oddities of forcing women to cover up -- that gets people's attention, even in San Francisco. That's just what cult leader Claude Vorilhan -- aka Rael -- is c ... More >>

Today In Girl Talk: A Date Which Will Live in the Opposite of Infamy

Like a shaggy George Washington crossing a Delaware of hipsters​Happy Gregg Gillis Day! Oh, you thought it was Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day? Get with the times, fossil. December 7 is now a holiday devoted to the one-man dynamo of exhaustive intertextuality that is Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk -- ... More >>

Man Busted For Smuggling Whale Teeth

What a smile​Here is a story that involve both sperm and teeth -- and it's still G rated.James Saunders was convicted yesterday in a San Francisco courtroom for scheming to illegally buy, sell, and smuggle sperm whale teeth from the far away country of Ukraine. The conviction was a crack in an nat ... More >>

Ronald Reagan Was the Greatest President, Poll Says

Make room for Ronald Reagan​A pre-President's Day poll showed that Americans thought Ronald Reagan was the country's best president, even more so than Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, two of the most influential leaders in history. Reagan score 19 percent of the vote,edging out Lincoln who h ... More >>

"Your Highness": D&D Nerds Get Their Own Stoner Comedy

Make room for Ronald Reagan​A pre-President's Day poll showed that Americans thought Ronald Reagan was the country's best president, even more so than Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, two of the most influential leaders in history. Reagan score 19 percent of the vote,edging out Lincoln who h ... More >>

San Francisco's Top 5 British Pubs

Darts and old British stuff at The Pig and Whistle​Let's face it, San Francisco: We wish we had lost the Revolutionary War. Hurray, we have the Tea Party! Wouldn't you really rather be in the EU? Then, when Oklahoma and Kansas and Alabama get together to elect President Bachmann, we could al ... More >>

Hello, Cruel World

Darts and old British stuff at The Pig and Whistle​Let's face it, San Francisco: We wish we had lost the Revolutionary War. Hurray, we have the Tea Party! Wouldn't you really rather be in the EU? Then, when Oklahoma and Kansas and Alabama get together to elect President Bachmann, we could al ... More >>

Enter: A Superhero: The Ray Faced Down Cops to Help Occupy, But His True Mission Is Darker

Darts and old British stuff at The Pig and Whistle​Let's face it, San Francisco: We wish we had lost the Revolutionary War. Hurray, we have the Tea Party! Wouldn't you really rather be in the EU? Then, when Oklahoma and Kansas and Alabama get together to elect President Bachmann, we could al ... More >>