Iwo Jima

A$AP Rocky Brings Out Hometown Special Guests at the Fox Oakland, 10/24/12

A$AP RockySchoolboy QDanny BoyWednesday, October 24, 2012Fox Theater, OaklandBetter than: Anything else you could do on a Wednesday night. Where were you!?Bouncing around on a stage draped in camouflage nets with the rest of the A$AP mob, A$AP Rocky wore a bright white army-like vest in front of a g ... More >>

Hiding in Uniform

Friday Night: Kinky Friedman and Carletta Sue Kay at Great American Music Hall

Wade GrubbsL-R: Jeff "Little Jewford" Shelby, Kinky Friedman, and Washington Ratso​Kinky FriedmanCarletta Sue Kay July 30, 2010, @Great American Music Hall Better than: Nobody. Friedman is a Jewish Renaissance dude: a singer-songwriter, writer of comedic crime novels, independent po ... More >>

Eastwood on the Pitch

79 at the turn of a very prolific decade, Clint tackles Mandela and the Hereafter.

Forgiven

Clint Eastwood finds salvation in Gran Torino.

Very Minor Miracle

No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

Apolitical Theater

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

Exotic Erotic Ball Couches Tits as Freedom: Get Real! ... about Freedom (not Tits; fake Tits are fine)

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 22:

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 22:

Going Dutch

Paul Verhoeven returns to the past — his and ours — in the Holocaust thriller Black Book

Behind Enemy Lines

Letters sees WWII from Japanese POV, as Eastwood continues to chip away at the hero myth

Print the Legend

Clint Eastwood strips away the myths surrounding the Greatest Generation

Nuclear, Dude

When it comes to terrorism and U.S. atomic power plants, we may as well put Homer Simpson in charge

Letters to the Editor

Letters from February 14, 2001

The Closer

He's fallen off a third-story balcony, survived tuberculosis, and come back from four arm surgeries to lead the Oakland A's to the brink of post-season play. His name is Jason Isringhausen, and he IS the closer

Agent Provocative

In the 1960s Anthony Poshepny was a CIA operative whose macabre Southeast Asian exploits drew comparisons with Col. Kurtz, the megalomaniacal anti-hero of Apocalypse Now

Coal Miner's Son

CyberTowne U.S.A.

Tired of computer gimmickry and gadgetry for Christmas? Prepare for exhaustion!