Iraq

Bouncer Gets a Pre-Flight Glass of Reality at SFO's Vino Volo

War games: Soldiers reenact life and death in Iraq and Afghanistan

Getting Carded

War Photographers

Metal from the Middle East

​Acrassicauda, an Iraqi thrash metal band, just hosted Headbangers Ball to promote Only the Dead See the End of the War, their new EP about wartime in Iraq. Bullied out of Baghdad by bombs to their practice space, death threats for their style of music and being branded as Satan worshipers, the ba ... More >>

The I Rock War

​Acrassicauda, an Iraqi thrash metal band, just hosted Headbangers Ball to promote Only the Dead See the End of the War, their new EP about wartime in Iraq. Bullied out of Baghdad by bombs to their practice space, death threats for their style of music and being branded as Satan worshipers, the ba ... More >>

The Hurt Locker

​Acrassicauda, an Iraqi thrash metal band, just hosted Headbangers Ball to promote Only the Dead See the End of the War, their new EP about wartime in Iraq. Bullied out of Baghdad by bombs to their practice space, death threats for their style of music and being branded as Satan worshipers, the ba ... More >>

Baghdad by the Bay

​Acrassicauda, an Iraqi thrash metal band, just hosted Headbangers Ball to promote Only the Dead See the End of the War, their new EP about wartime in Iraq. Bullied out of Baghdad by bombs to their practice space, death threats for their style of music and being branded as Satan worshipers, the ba ... More >>

As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie

​Acrassicauda, an Iraqi thrash metal band, just hosted Headbangers Ball to promote Only the Dead See the End of the War, their new EP about wartime in Iraq. Bullied out of Baghdad by bombs to their practice space, death threats for their style of music and being branded as Satan worshipers, the ba ... More >>

The Hurt Locker

​Acrassicauda, an Iraqi thrash metal band, just hosted Headbangers Ball to promote Only the Dead See the End of the War, their new EP about wartime in Iraq. Bullied out of Baghdad by bombs to their practice space, death threats for their style of music and being branded as Satan worshipers, the ba ... More >>

'At Least Iraqi Journalists Can Afford to Throw Their Shoes' and Other Silver Linings of Our President's Latest Misadventure

Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

Making Waves

Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

Resistance Is Fertile

Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

Apolitical Theater

Iraq War movie Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war.

Vallejo Rapper Soldier Hard Brings Home Iraq's Harsh Realities

Iraq War movie Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war.

Insurgent General's Report

Iraq War movie Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war.

Walk Through the Valley

Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

CCA Strikes Again

Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Blood Money

Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Useless Resolve

The Board of Supes likes to tell the world what to do. The world could care less.

Pretty Rowdy in Pink

How some ladies from S.F. will harass Hillary Clinton into being the tipping point against the Iraq War

Virtual Quagmire

The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Over a Barrel

The role of oil in U.S. policy: A new documentary goes behind the headlines

She's a Fighter

Bay Area represent!

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 1, 2005

What the Left Got Wrong About Iraq

Anti-war activists ignored Saddam Hussein's horrendous crimes against ordinary Iraqis. Do they have anything -- beyond anti-Bush demonstrations -- to offer the oppressed in Iran and Syria?

The Mideast Beast

Anti-war activists ignored Saddam Hussein's horrendous crimes against ordinary Iraqis. Do they have anything -- beyond anti-Bush demonstrations -- to offer the oppressed in Iran and Syria?

Asymmetric Warfare: The Game

Advances in ultrarealistic simulation let soldiers experience the war in Iraq -- before they go

Planet Asia

The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival goes global

No Film at 11

Gunner Palace shows what the news doesn't

Chard Into Memory

Food for when you're in danger of becoming a hopeless pessimist

The Whole Truth?

Inside Al-Jazeera, journalists tell a familiar story unfamiliarly

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Keeping Occupied

Did The Battle of Algiers teach the Pentagon tactical lessons?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Did The Battle of Algiers teach the Pentagon tactical lessons?

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The year in local film, plus the passing of a cinematic champion

Veronique of the Mounties

Our local source for protest theater offers a weird exercise in moral equivalence

Kurds Away

A popular Kurdish musical group gets Marooned in Iraq

Best Local Psychic

Bruce Brugmann

Battle Scars

Bruce Brugmann

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Our Foreign Friends

If you can't speak calmly to people you disagree with, don't have political discussions at all

Prewar Snack

As war drew near, consumption of junk food at the Snaxpo convention soared

Dog Bites

Let's make some serious money off all the hippies who come downtown to protest Bush's war

A Smuggler's Tale

A Berkeley woman's efforts to deliver banned medicines and other goods to Iraq arouses federal ire

Letters

A Berkeley woman's efforts to deliver banned medicines and other goods to Iraq arouses federal ire

Dial Saddam for Murder

Sargon Dadesho survived an Iraqi assassination plot. Now he's out for blood money.