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Arthouse Movie Listings February 22-28, 2012

Lost in the Night: Haçeteria Keeps the Cool Kids Happy

Haçeteria presents Breath Control Deco Lounge Feb. 4, 2012 Better than: The term "hipster house." What is it about the past that's so attractive? For as long as pop music has been around, previous iterations of youth culture have been an important part of it. Yet, for all the past's constant pres ... More >>

Prop 13: The Building-Sized Loopholes Corporations Exploit

Haçeteria presents Breath Control Deco Lounge Feb. 4, 2012 Better than: The term "hipster house." What is it about the past that's so attractive? For as long as pop music has been around, previous iterations of youth culture have been an important part of it. Yet, for all the past's constant pres ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings for March 2-8, 2011

Haçeteria presents Breath Control Deco Lounge Feb. 4, 2012 Better than: The term "hipster house." What is it about the past that's so attractive? For as long as pop music has been around, previous iterations of youth culture have been an important part of it. Yet, for all the past's constant pres ... More >>

Does Pandora Crush Your Soul, Or Free Your Mind?

It sees everything you like.​That's the question asked today in a New York Times piece by Virgina Heffernan, a self-described non-music-buff who finds the ability of Internet radio station Pandora to predict her tastes unnerving -- and also exciting.Her piece is a fascinating look into the philos ... More >>

James Franco's short fiction shows promise, but little else

It sees everything you like.​That's the question asked today in a New York Times piece by Virgina Heffernan, a self-described non-music-buff who finds the ability of Internet radio station Pandora to predict her tastes unnerving -- and also exciting.Her piece is a fascinating look into the philos ... More >>

James Franco's writing debut casts his native Palo Alto as a cold.

It sees everything you like.​That's the question asked today in a New York Times piece by Virgina Heffernan, a self-described non-music-buff who finds the ability of Internet radio station Pandora to predict her tastes unnerving -- and also exciting.Her piece is a fascinating look into the philos ... More >>

James Franco's "Palo Alto" is a cold, empty place — except for the weed

It sees everything you like.​That's the question asked today in a New York Times piece by Virgina Heffernan, a self-described non-music-buff who finds the ability of Internet radio station Pandora to predict her tastes unnerving -- and also exciting.Her piece is a fascinating look into the philos ... More >>

Zynga Mafia Wars Stickers Prompt City Attorney to Go to the Mattresses

Yes, money is power. But having the Unfair Competition Law at your disposal is power, too.​San Francisco's city attorney has decided that money is not enough to compensate for ad firm Davis Elen plastering 4,000 Zynga Mafia Wars stickers onto San Francisco sidewalks. And, unless ad executives agre ... More >>

Indian Lunch Pop-Up from Green Coriander/Chai Cart Starts Next Week

​Call Paawan Kothari ambitious. The Hyderabad native left an IBM marketing gig to sell chai on the streets of the Mission. Then, late last year, Kothari rolled out Green Coriander, a home meal service dispensing everyday Indian dishes that emphasize healthy. Now, Kothari's joining the ranks of ... More >>

How a Career in S.F. Street Food Plays Back Home in India

Luis C./YelpPaawaan Kothari and her chai stand.​Our favorite morsel from the Web. Bay Area writer Sandip Roy penned a profile of Chai Cart and Green Coriander founder Paawaan Kothari for The Times of India on Saturday. In San Francisco, the notion of a chai cart born in the facial-hair-and-ul ... More >>

Worms in the Apple

Two rebels take on America's most beloved computer company.

IBM to Unveil World's Fastest Computer; Porn Addicts Giddy at the Possibilities

I'm disturbed by what you're downloading, DaveJust seven months after creating the world's speediest supercomputer, those enablers at IBM have announced plans to craft one faster yet -- with the power of 2 million laptops (an improvement over my laptop, which has the power of half a laptop). T ... More >>

Hanging Around

I'm disturbed by what you're downloading, DaveJust seven months after creating the world's speediest supercomputer, those enablers at IBM have announced plans to craft one faster yet -- with the power of 2 million laptops (an improvement over my laptop, which has the power of half a laptop). T ... More >>

Fighting Oxbow Singer Gets Props; Fat! So? Author Says Bouncer a 'Weight Bigot' in SF Weekly Letters

I'm disturbed by what you're downloading, DaveJust seven months after creating the world's speediest supercomputer, those enablers at IBM have announced plans to craft one faster yet -- with the power of 2 million laptops (an improvement over my laptop, which has the power of half a laptop). T ... More >>

Attention SF Giants, DiFi - Matt Smith's New Year's Resolutions Others Ought to Follow

DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

Into the Jargonosphere! Top 10 Cyberslang Terms

DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

Shed excess pop with OK Go's power calisthenics

DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

The Whole World in His Hands

In this star-studded piece of hero porn, Emilio Estevez blames the ills of the world on RFK's murder, but what about the man?

Craig$list.com

The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Free the Science!

A UCSF professor organizes a scientific boycott to protest apparent censorship of a study that suggests a link between working at IBM and dying of cancer

He Stats! He Scores!

Aptos statistics geek Roland Beech just might change how the NBA plays -- and you watch -- basketball

Surprise!

If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

The Past and Future Fraud

Yes, punch-card voting machines are error-prone. The touch-screen systems planned to replace them may be just as bad.

It's a Bechtel World

Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

The Rush of Victory

Under coach George Rush, City College regularly wins national football titles. But is community college really the place for big-time sports?

House of Tudor

Amazonian space babes, satanic holiday celebrants, and an extremely Elvis Xmas

A Kinder, Gentler Commute

Tired of sitting in traffic till your butt turns to granite? This French guy may be able to help you.

Chef Flower Power

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

Misplaced Priorities 101

Amid a drastic budget crisis, why is the California State University system spending $400 million on computers? And where is the money coming from?

A Taxing Problem

Why are two candidates for assessor trying to take credit for a computer system that has been an abysmal failure?

Go Crazy

To its obsessed fans, Go isn't just a board game. It's a way of life, a key to building better computers, and maybe even the savior of American education.

A HAL of an Idea

Dr. David Stork is trying to create a new computer that thinks like a human being. But he needs your help.

Secrets of Almaden

An elegant experiment at a Bay Area lab echoes through the world of quantum physics

An Endowed Chair

Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.

Small Wonders

Local scientists are shrinking chips and wires to atomic scale, revolutionizing the electronics industry. But most of the nanotechnological advances you've read about are outsized hype.

Music.competition

With MP3s under attack and major labels designing new standards, three Bay Area firms try to corner the market on online music

Ol' Blue Screen

New software lets anyone sing like Sinatra or compose like Mahler. But do we really want computers that make country-and- western stars croon on key?

Fecal Matters

When it comes to sewers, San Francisco just can't get its shit together

The Disney Perversion

When it comes to sewers, San Francisco just can't get its shit together

Riff Raff

When it comes to sewers, San Francisco just can't get its shit together

Letters

When it comes to sewers, San Francisco just can't get its shit together

Temporary Solidarity

With a new (powerful) champion in Silicon Valley, a recent court victory, and ranks that continue to swell by the day, long-beleaguered "contract workers" have reason to believe their house may not be so bleak after all.

Ringmaster Willie

Although Mayor Brown's opening acts have impressed, he's also allowed more than a few rogue elephants under his Big Top. We begin our stampede watch.

Fish Story

Red Herring Editor Tony Perkins is a self-described maverick, a stylish fast-talker with a knack for making friends and influencing people in the high-tech world. Not bad traits for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, but are they what it takes to publish a "m

Pet Sounds

Douglas Hollis combines audio with visual in his larger-than-life environmental sculptures

Mondo 1995

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter

Slap Shots

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter

Mal on the Street

Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art