Howard Stern

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

Howard Stern pisses off Dolly Parton

SF's Top Eccentrics - Crank Calls from Omer Travers

Stern Sidekick Artie Lange Is Out Of Rehab And Heading To San Francisco

Nonconformity Still Reigns!

The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

Hey Now

The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

The Quiet Storm

The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

Bum Rap

50 Cent wants to be an actor ... but he's not

Torah! Torah! Torah!

Protocols of Zion takes a hard look at those who fear Jews

Working Blue. And Brown.

Inside the dirtiest joke ever told is a nugget of unadulterated joy

Rise of the Pod People

Podcasting: What it is, how to get it, and what it means for a radio dial near you

Hello Nasty

After 25 years, R&B crooner Lord Nasty is finally getting his message heard: Everything's better with a big, fat dick in your mouth

German Heat!

Dieter is here. Fawn, Hollywood agents. Fawn, Dieter says.

Meow Mix

Tune in, turn on, say "fuck": This is the story of a man named Monkey and his very special Pirate Cat Radio

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.

The Passion of the Goy

Gentile women defend their Jewish husbands against the Nazis in Rosenstrasse

The Misadventures of Spike's Dykes

We love lesbians, and we love movies, so why don't we love Spike Lee's lesbian movie She Hate Me?

Puppy Love

Dogster hosts photos and profiles of almost 20,000 canines

Hear This

Back with a new album, Wu Tang Clan's Method Man stops in San Francisco before taking over Hollywood.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Back with a new album, Wu Tang Clan's Method Man stops in San Francisco before taking over Hollywood.

Letters to the Editor for the week of 11/21/2001

Taking a Hammer to Pac Bell; A Feather in Our Cap; Painting a Different Picture; Bad-Mouthing Bush

Klinky Sex

Without apology, Bob Crane’s son shows the world Hogan’s privates

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

Bang, Bang,

The ins and outs of a disorganized try at the gangbang record

Night Crawler

Suspended Adulation

Night & Day

Suspended Adulation

Death Ray From Outer Space

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Savage Love

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Sound Ideas

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Savage Love

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Riff Raff

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Riff Raff

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Letters

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Unspun

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Letters

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Taking Howard Stern Seriously

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Mulch

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Unspun

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Letters

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

Politicos, prudes, and the paranoid protest the programming heard on Bay Area radio stations to the highest authority in the land -- the Federal Communications Commission

Top 10 Onstage Gaffes of 2009

We'll admit there's more than a little schadenfreude going on in this list of the best onstage gaffes of 2009. But why else would Al Gore have invented YouTube if not to feed our obsessive need to see celebrities get taken down a peg? Here with, our favorite of the year's music-related missteps, cau ... More >>

Northern Italian Credo to Open in the FiDi Jan. 18

The building once housed a Chinese bank.​Credo, the FiDi trattoria owned by political consultant and real estate macher Clint Reilly, is planning a Jan. 18 opening, according to GM Tim Felkner. Chef of the 75-seat restaurant in a one-time Chinese bank at 360 Pine (at Leidesdorff) is Italian-tr ... More >>

An Open Letter to All the Straight People

Nancy? Can we talk? ​Dear heterosexual allies, I think we need to talk. You really need to start being better friends to us gays. That includes my straight pals in San Francisco, who sometimes forget that in most parts of this country homosexuals are second-class citizens. In San Francisco ... More >>

The Worst First Pitches of All Time

Karen Peterson served as a schoolteacher in nearby Woodside for many a year. Her name did not become known nationally. Prior to Saturday's San Francisco Giants game, she threw what may be the worst ceremonial first pitch in the history of humanity. And now you know who she is. Welcome to the Interne ... More >>

The Radio Pirate Goes Legit

Now Pirate Cat Radio is following the rules.

Director Judd Apatow Talks Filmmaking, Pee Wee Herman, and S.F. (VIDEO)

​Back in September, we gave our readers a chance to interview director Judd Apatow-- the man behind the TV show Freaks and Geeks, and director of movies like Knocked Up and The Forty Year Old Virgin. Readers sent in three sample questions they would ask Apatow, and we picked the ones we liked best ... More >>

The 8 Sexiest Men on TV Cooking Shows

Producers of food TV don't just care if a guy can cook ― most stars of cooking shows these days have to be hot enough to make viewers' plasmas sweat. Behold, SFoodie's countdown of the eight sexiest male chefs currently taking up space on our DVRs, dudes with the power to sear our tenderloins with ... More >>

Rhymes with “Best”

Producers of food TV don't just care if a guy can cook ― most stars of cooking shows these days have to be hot enough to make viewers' plasmas sweat. Behold, SFoodie's countdown of the eight sexiest male chefs currently taking up space on our DVRs, dudes with the power to sear our tenderloins with ... More >>

A-Trak on Getting "Barbra Streisand" on Glee, and How to Perform in a Leather Jacket

Terry Richardson​Visiting San Francisco Mezzanine this Monday is one of the world's most versatile DJs, Montreal's Alain Macklovitch, better known as A-Trak. He's recognized for running the Fool's Gold label, working as Kanye West's touring DJ, and dominating the DMC World Championship 11 yea ... More >>

Blahna Del Rey or Lana Del Rage? Local Ladies Weigh In on Lana Del Rey

Nicole Nodland​ The women of the Bay Area music scene are breaking rules and defying expectations. Lass Out Loud is a new column exploring their lives and work. For an artist who often seems like she's taken one too many valiums, Internet sensation Lana Del Rey elicits a weird range of emotio ... More >>