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Sheryl Crow Reschedules Bay Area Performance

Cat Power, Sheryl Crow, Henry Rollins, Mike Ness at This Land is Your Land Festival 9/20

Black Keys Added to 'This Land is Your Land' Lineup

One World, Under Gorby (Part II)

Gorbachev foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

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Gorbachev foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

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Novel Gazing

Self-consciousness steals the show in an adaptation of Daniel Handler's writing

Best Redwood Grove

Self-consciousness steals the show in an adaptation of Daniel Handler's writing

Of Thee I Sing

A brilliant production finds the real, democratic feeling behind William Saroyan's effusions

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Dream a SITI Dream

Blind love, plotting fairies, and humankind's obsessions at San Jose Rep

Chronicles of the Working Class

The book Nickel and Dimed is a first-rate journalistic look at minimum-wage life. The play it inspired is just journalism.

Hidden Treasure

Half a century ago, ex-heroin dealer Alfredo Santos created an epic work of art inside San Quentin. Now, he's coming back to be honored for it.

Of Vice and Men

Brilliant acting brings the characters of Steinbeck's Cannery Row alive

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Brilliant acting brings the characters of Steinbeck's Cannery Row alive

Of Mice and Men

A well-made, well-acted staging of Steinbeck's classic, for the 100th anniversary of the author's birth

One Book, One State

If San Franciscans tried to choose a single book to read, we'd kill each other. Fortunately, it's been chosen for us.

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If San Franciscans tried to choose a single book to read, we'd kill each other. Fortunately, it's been chosen for us.

And to All a Good Night

Neecha Thai Cuisine

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Neecha Thai Cuisine

The Kerouac Obsession

Gerald Nicosia has spent a decade challenging the disposition of Jack Kerouac's $20 million literary estate. Along the way, he's annoyed most of what remains of the beat generation.

A Tree Grows in L.A.

Gerald Nicosia has spent a decade challenging the disposition of Jack Kerouac's $20 million literary estate. Along the way, he's annoyed most of what remains of the beat generation.

The Grapes of Wrath

Bruce Springsteen reinvents himself as working-class hero

We're Getting Jobbed: San Francisco's Bleak Employment Picture Slightly Better Than State's 'Grapes of Wrath'-Like Totals

California's unemployment figures have gotten bad enough you are now allowed to mention the Joad familyHooray! It's that time of the month when the state's Employment Development Department releases its numbers about how much employment is not being developed. We're posting this article right now be ... More >>

WTF, USA?

California's unemployment figures have gotten bad enough you are now allowed to mention the Joad familyHooray! It's that time of the month when the state's Employment Development Department releases its numbers about how much employment is not being developed. We're posting this article right now be ... More >>

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Sarah Lee Guthrie: Folk for the Whole Family

Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

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Alleged Serial Groper Curtis Campbell Had Very Good Excuse

It turns out at least four women groped along the Saratoga Creek Trail were apparently dealing with a really sweet man ... with issues​A rarity has emerged from a San Jose investigation: A story about an alleged serial groper who terrorized women jogging along a trail for months -- that's upliftin ... More >>

New Cal Shakes Show is Far From 'Heaven'

Kevin BerneThe cast of The Pastures of Heaven​John Steinbeck's The Pastures of HeavenRuns through June 27 at California Shakespeare Theatre.Imagine an episode of The Waltons that just won't fucking stop, and you'll have some idea of the horror that awaits you with The Pastures of Heaven. The s ... More >>

Bouncer: Getting ignored at the Outsider

Kevin BerneThe cast of The Pastures of Heaven​John Steinbeck's The Pastures of HeavenRuns through June 27 at California Shakespeare Theatre.Imagine an episode of The Waltons that just won't fucking stop, and you'll have some idea of the horror that awaits you with The Pastures of Heaven. The s ... More >>

Sarah Palin in Bay Area Today

Hello San Jose! ​Does Sarah Palin know the way to San Jose? You Betcha. The conservative Liberty & Freedom Foundation is hosting what it calls "an evening forum event with Sarah Palin." Unlike most evenings with Palin -- which, presumably, include network TV, moose, and cursing Levi Johnson, t ... More >>

Go Buffy!

Hello San Jose! ​Does Sarah Palin know the way to San Jose? You Betcha. The conservative Liberty & Freedom Foundation is hosting what it calls "an evening forum event with Sarah Palin." Unlike most evenings with Palin -- which, presumably, include network TV, moose, and cursing Levi Johnson, t ... More >>

Bouncer: Dreams of California at the Pizza Place on Noriega

Hello San Jose! ​Does Sarah Palin know the way to San Jose? You Betcha. The conservative Liberty & Freedom Foundation is hosting what it calls "an evening forum event with Sarah Palin." Unlike most evenings with Palin -- which, presumably, include network TV, moose, and cursing Levi Johnson, t ... More >>

Dreaming of of California at the Pizza Place on Noriega

​Every week I take the N-Judah out to Ocean Beach for work, just another speck among specks, stopping at the very end of the line and walking several blocks to my client's house. If I have time, I always stop in at the Pizza Place on Noriega at the corner of 46th Avenue. It's just like its name -- ... More >>

Doc's of the Bay: Midwestern Burgers from a New Truck Seeking S.F. Spots

John BirdsallClassic burger ($7) from Doc's of the Bay, a truck hoping to make the leap from Emeryville to San Francisco.​Zak Silverman cooked at Berkeley's Elmwood Café, did a sort of apprenticeship with Suzanne Schafer and Shari Washburn onboard Ebbet's Good to Go, but it was all preamble, ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Midwestern Smash Burgers Shine, Food Trucks Get Pushback

John BirdsallClassic burger ($7) from Doc's of the Bay, a truck hoping to make the leap from Emeryville to San Francisco.​Zak Silverman cooked at Berkeley's Elmwood Café, did a sort of apprenticeship with Suzanne Schafer and Shari Washburn onboard Ebbet's Good to Go, but it was all preamble, ... More >>

July's Literary Events

John BirdsallClassic burger ($7) from Doc's of the Bay, a truck hoping to make the leap from Emeryville to San Francisco.​Zak Silverman cooked at Berkeley's Elmwood Café, did a sort of apprenticeship with Suzanne Schafer and Shari Washburn onboard Ebbet's Good to Go, but it was all preamble, ... More >>