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Lake County News Sues Sheriff for Retaliation After Printing "Unfavorable Articles"

Lake County Sheriff Francisco Rivero hosts an hour radio show called "Straight Talk With the Sheriff." An August Sac Bee profile described him as "brawny and mustachioed," "a maverick who walks tall and shoots from the lip," and a man who's "been called a thug, a liar, a bully, a cowboy and the Cuba ... More >>

Gift Guide: Buy Framed Vintage Menus From Classic S.F. Spots

All through December, SFoodie is bringing you local gift ideas for the food obsessives in your life. We've been fans of Cool Culinara, the online shop that sells framed and unframed prints of vintage menus, since it opened earlier in the summer -- along with the menus, the site gives some backgroun ... More >>

American Dreams: Two Plays Address Our Hopes and Fears

"True Grit": The Coen brothers' perverse buddy tale

Art Review: Greg Gossel: "Sleepwalking" at White Walls

Cowboy Down: Rob Krentz's Family Talks About the Life and Death of the Murdered Arizona Rancher

Food, Glorious Food: One Man's Fancy Food Show Experience

The Fancy Food Show returned to Moscone Center last week, and as usual the task of shuffling from one free sample to another was more challenging than might be expected. The Center, as you probably know, covers several acres of sprawling subterranean SOMA real estate, and last Sunday, Monday and Tue ... More >>

The Son Also Rises

Oliver Stone on W. and the president who would be John Wayne.

Empire Strikes Back

Mongol paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan.

Last Night: John Wayne Memorial Water Balloon Fight

The Top 20 Songs of Cube-mate Torture

Cellar Beware

Mandatory Deafening Concert

Our top DVD picks for the week of June 12:

Weird and Wonderful

Our top DVD picks for the week of December 12:

All-American pride at the student union Pub

Repertory Film Listings

Ford Tough

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 30.

Psycho Cowboy

Edward Norton plays a twisted hero in Down in the Valley

Our top DVD picks for the week of March 7

The Impossible Bomb

Homo on the Range

Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain

Funky Bunch

Mark Wahlberg stars in an odd remake that, oddly, isn't so bad

The Devil & Mr. Zombie

The rocker's second directorial stab yields a true gorefest

G'Dead, Mate

Zombies rise again, this time from Down Under

A New Lease on Life

This Wonderful Life isn't about saving a bank -- or Christmas

Like Moths to Flame

Americans will likely swarm to Ladder 49, an unabashed homage to firefighters

Bush Comes to Shove

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

White Dork Down

Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords

Live and Direct

Asking the Tough Questions

Reps Etc.

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

Other People's Money

Plans to turn the Presidio Theater into a health club fall through

Letters to the Editor

Lovable Luke; Who Knew Rent Control Was So Controversial?; Festival Facts; Correction

Hear This

Clarinetist Don Byron mixes playfulness and politics

Dust to Dust

Once more, a man calls upon the troops to save The Alamo, before it's gone forever

So Good It Hurts

The Joe Goode dance/theater group explores the connection between mind and body

Reel World

Budd Boetticher; Film awards; Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within preview

Saving Grace

Reel World

Feed Your Head

The House of Tudor

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Andre the Giant

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Night+Day

Second Time Around

Strained Interlude

Joe Goode's latest dance-theater piece is nothing new