Gertrude Stein

"Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National": The Women Who Inspired Picasso

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An Inconvenient Plant

One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

Spin Cycle: San Franciscan’s Fascination with the Ennui of the Laundromat Leads to Laundry Runs on Four Continents (and Yuba City)

One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

Neglected Treasures

A famed Mexican artist painted six murals for the 1939 World's Fair in S.F. One famously disappeared. The others have practically been ignored.

Repertory Film Listings

A famed Mexican artist painted six murals for the 1939 World's Fair in S.F. One famously disappeared. The others have practically been ignored.

The Sundance Kids

For alumni of America's most prestigious film festival, winning is less than half the battle

Kees to the City

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

Capsule Reviews

April; Beau Travail; But Forever in My Mind; Bye Bye Africa; Charisma; Darkness and Light; First Person Plural; Hamlet; Journey to the Sun; Kikujiro; The Letter; Missing Boy; Moloch; Set Me Free

Theater Sports

The first SF Weekly Black Box Awards

Snatching Saroyan

How Stanford University aced out UC Berkeley and acquired the million-dollar archives of San Francisco's most prolific author, William Saroyan -- without paying a dime

Slap Shots

How Stanford University aced out UC Berkeley and acquired the million-dollar archives of San Francisco's most prolific author, William Saroyan -- without paying a dime