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Jack Kerouac

  • Music

    October 13, 2010

    San Francisco Love Story

    Before founding Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch came here to get healthy. He left with songs, skills, and a promise to return with a band.

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    December 10, 2008

    The fight for the bohemian soul of North Beach's Caffe Trieste

    Before founding Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch came here to get healthy. He left with songs, skills, and a promise to return with a band.

  • Music

    October 8, 2008

    Jolie Holland's storytelling grows in scope

    Before founding Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch came here to get healthy. He left with songs, skills, and a promise to return with a band.

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2007

    CD Review: Aesop Rock -- None Shall Pass

    Before founding Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch came here to get healthy. He left with songs, skills, and a promise to return with a band.

  • Music

    June 27, 2007

    Manifesting dead-end destinies

    Willy Vlautin attempts the great escape

  • Music

    May 9, 2007

    Fruitvale's Mayor Emeritus

    Sonny Smith pens intriguing tales of his city

  • News

    July 19, 2006

    Inside the Savage Nation

    He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

  • Culture

    February 22, 2006

    Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

    He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

  • Culture

    February 22, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

    He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

  • Culture

    January 25, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

    He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

  • Culture

    January 25, 2006

    Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

    He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

  • Film

    January 4, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

  • Calendar

    November 23, 2005

    Seminal Beat

    A tribute to an unsung maverick of beatnik culture

  • Culture

    August 31, 2005

    Sin City

    Two new books on San Francisco noir tell vastly different stories

  • News

    February 9, 2005

    Naked Ambition

    Our friend takes photos of naked people at City Hall. And then he publishes them.

  • Culture

    April 2, 2003

    A Grand Guy

    How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

  • Culture

    January 22, 2003

    Bad Boys

    Causeless rebels, in a Tennessee Williams play you've never seen before

  • Culture

    November 27, 2002

    Lend Me Your Ear

    Building a community in the Presidio, book by book

  • Film

    March 13, 2002

    Decodings

    A movie historian resurrects a long-dead experimental filmmaker, and a long-departed era of San Francisco

  • Film

    January 9, 2002

    Reps List

    Film Reps List for 1-9-2002

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    January 2, 2002

    Reps List

    Film Reps List for 1-2-2001

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Dog Bites

    Rejected Proposals for Treasure Island Monuments

  • Film

    July 11, 2001

    Reel World

    Capitalizing on last year's success at Sundance, two S.F. filmmakers take on a new project with Doonesburycreator Garry Trudeau.

  • Music

    January 31, 2001

    Character Crazy

    Singer/songwriter Sonny Smith has a lot to say about the odd twists of life -- and an interesting way to say it

  • Music

    December 6, 2000

    Tears of a Clown

    With The Mission Is Not Impossible, local composer and instrument builder Peter Whitehead feels a neighborhood's pain

  • News

    November 29, 2000

    Buried Memories

    San Francisco is home to one of the largest and most renowned poetry archives in the world. Where? Well, right now it's in some guy's apartment.

  • News

    September 13, 2000

    Artjournalism

    Bruce Conner, the greatest artist you don't know, uses our Peter Byrne for image-honing purposes. We use Conner to get you to pick up the paper.

  • Calendar

    August 11, 1999

    Stand and Deliver

    Bruce Conner, the greatest artist you don't know, uses our Peter Byrne for image-honing purposes. We use Conner to get you to pick up the paper.

  • Music

    May 26, 1999

    Tom Waits' Variations

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Film

    November 4, 1998

    Reel World

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • News

    July 22, 1998

    Dog Bites

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Music

    January 21, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Music

    December 3, 1997

    Reviews

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Music

    June 4, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Music

    July 3, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Music

    March 27, 1996

    Recordings

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Calendar

    February 21, 1996

    Night+Day

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • News

    January 17, 1996

    Barron Storey's Life is an Open Comic Book

    The demons -- personal andfantastical and pop cultural -- that have shaped the art of a San Francisco illustrator

  • Calendar

    September 20, 1995

    Night+Day

    The demons -- personal andfantastical and pop cultural -- that have shaped the art of a San Francisco illustrator

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