Jesse Helms

"How to Survive a Plague": Here's Who Saved the World

David France: ACT UP in the Plague Years

The Gay Selma: Schools Ignore Gay Bullying at Their Own Peril

The Summer Movie Rises: Twenty Films to Watch Out For

Week in Gay: Ted Haggard is Bisexual and Anderson Cooper has a 'Companion'

Coming after cousin Geri​This edition of The Week in Gay is a potpourri (either a miscellaneous collection of stories or a mixture of dried flowers and spices) of four categories - plus an extra special bonus!Included are updates on the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the latest stories from San F ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Local Blogger Takes (Some) Credit For FBI Release Of Michael Jackson Files

via flickr by Bernissimo Sunshine act​The FBI finally released hundreds of pages of classified documents related to pop star icon Michael Jackson, who died in August, detailing various investigations, including threats of a terrorist attack against Jackson. And local rabble-rouser Michael ... More >>

Taking Woodstock does nothing more than recycle the same late-'60s tropes

S.F. Examiner Op-Ed Crosses Into Looney Tune Territory, Claims Obama Fomenting Bloody Class Warfare in U.S.

We've noted before that the San Francisco Examiner is not exactly a paper in step with the rest of this city. This is no knock on the paper's hard-working local reporters -- they do good work and God knows they write fast. But the editorial direction of the paper appears synonymous with the views of ... More >>

That 'Damn Lesbian' Roberta Achtenberg Thinks Now May Finally Be the Time for Executive Order Barring Sexual Discrimination

CSU-San Luis Obispo Public AffairsRoberta AchtenbergYou can't bar the disabled from federal housing. Ditto that for racial or religious minorities, the aged, or nearly any other group -- but homosexuals. Amazingly, in 2009, one can still be barred from a place in federally funded housing based upon ... More >>

The Culture of No Culture: Muni's Museum Bus Experiment Failed, Why Not Cut it Now?

Good night, sweet busYou got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,Know when to walk away and know when to run.You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.-- Kenny Rogers, The GamblerMuni's pretty yellow culture buse ... More >>

Arcade Fire

Ballot Fun

Real excerpts from S.F.'s 272-page Voter Information Pamphlet.

Boy or Girl? Maybe Not.

Cut It Out

She's Back

Performance artist Karen Finley, that "chocolate smeared woman," is back in S.F.

Reel World

Local effects

Blow Up the Box

TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

Enema of the State

Readers and S.F. Art Institute students respond to our story about the controversy surrounding performance art student Jonathan Yegge

Might See TV

Joel Engardio picks his way through the political minefield around ITVS, the San Francisco group that Congress created to put the edge back in PBS

This Is Your Brain on PSAs

Night & Day

American Nowhere

Hal Hartley on realism, surrealism, and Henry Fool

The Gay '90s

From closet cases to party monsters: A critical guide to the 22nd International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Building a Better Bomb

While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal

Riff Raff

Falling for the Gap

San Francisco gave away the store to help The Gap Inc. and its politically connected chairman build an upscale headquarters with a bay view. But more than $18 million in subsidies apparently won't bring the city anything it couldn't have had free.

Ponche

Mulch

Petrelis the Pest

Michael Petrelis has entered the AIDS debate once again

Aisle Seat

The Prime Minister of Comedy

Barry Weintraub's a joker, he's a voter, he's a Web-page stoker

Letters

Achtenberg's Third Act

Roberta Achtenberg bristles when anyone dares say that Williw Brown is the one who gets things done. "I have gotten things done my entire life, right?" she says, citing when her accomplishments as a law school dean, her 800-page book on sexual orientatio

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