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Interview: Alexander Payne Discusses "The Descendants," Pessimism, Failure, Filmmaking

Gay Binational Couples Fighting Deportations On Obama's New DOMA Stance

​Gay couples are already using President Obama's new stance against the Defense of Marriage Act as a weapon to fight deportations of their foreign spouses. The couples hope that the administration's declaration last week that the law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman is uncon ... More >>

Byron Williams, I-580 Shooting Suspect, a Composite of Nightmares

Byron Williams -- a man with issues​Also: Is Byron Williams the poster boy for flaws with three-strikes law? Update, 1:15 p.m.: Here's a satellite photo of the remote, rural home of Byron Williams and his mother -- in the remote, rural town of Groveland:

To Serve & Collect

Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

The Fifth Element

As mainstream hip hop stalemates in commodities, underground MCs keep old-school aesthetics alive through art

Battleship Down

The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

Gomorrah by the Bay

The GOP's last-ditch message to voters before the midterm elections was a tirade against our fair city. How do you feel about San Francisco values in the political spotlight?

Fight Snub

The last people you would want to stiff are cage fighters, but it appears that’s what one promoter did

Gang Today, Hair Tomorrow

The Suey Sing Boys of Oakland were a bunch of low-level Chinese-American thugs. Then 10 of them became high-fashion hairstylists.

Quannum Mechanics

The amazingly true tale of the Bay Area's greatest hip hop success story

A Protest for April Fools

Trifecta: Zippy, the Bushman, and Princess Leia's dad!

Phodown

New Saigon City, Turtle Tower, Vietnam II

The Snore of the Crowd

Does the world need another college football bowl game? Some San Francisco boosters are banking on it.

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Dubphonik's genre-stretching ideology has made it ground zero for new ideas in jungle, hip hop, and reggae

Welcome Home

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Fanfare for the Common Band

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

Panic or Attack?

Did this aspiring cover boy, who says he killed in a panic fit brought on by unwanted gay advances, get away with murder?

Thirty-two years of Satan in popular culture

Thai Me Up!

Spammer-Jamming Hammered

The Internet's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys just escalated

Against All Odds

Fundamentalists want to ban same-sex marriage. All across California, people are mad as hell. So how come nobody's doing anything about it?

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