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Getting a Head

"Howl": Longtime doc filmmakers tackle Ginsberg's poem

Jack Dangers is back with a new beat manifesto

Jay Farrar, Ben Gibbard, and a bad actress pay tribute to Kerouac’s Big Sur

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Films with Bay Area ties.

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Films with Bay Area ties.

Producer, Label Honcho, Performer, Journalist

Pat Thomas is San Francisco's musical catalyst.

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Pat Thomas is San Francisco's musical catalyst.

Art Beat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

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Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

The Great Left Hope

Matt Gonzalez wants to be mayor. And he doesn't mind climbing over fellow progressives to get the gig.

Dog Bites

An Anniversary for the Rest of Us

Spade Work

Putting the lessons of Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco life and art to practical use

The Return of the Bastard Angel

To resurrect his reputation as one of America's greatest poets, Harold Norse is counting on the help of one of the city's most despised organizations -- Act Up S.F.

Man at the Top

To resurrect his reputation as one of America's greatest poets, Harold Norse is counting on the help of one of the city's most despised organizations -- Act Up S.F.

Night + Day

To resurrect his reputation as one of America's greatest poets, Harold Norse is counting on the help of one of the city's most despised organizations -- Act Up S.F.

Night Crawler

To resurrect his reputation as one of America's greatest poets, Harold Norse is counting on the help of one of the city's most despised organizations -- Act Up S.F.

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.

Night+Day

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.

Night+Day

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.

Slap Shots

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.

Mal on the Street

Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art