Lenny Bruce

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Blakk Power

San Francisco drag queen Joan Jett-Blakk aims for the presidency

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

San Francisco drag queen Joan Jett-Blakk aims for the presidency

O Happy Day

San Francisco drag queen Joan Jett-Blakk aims for the presidency

Is it Just Me, Or Is it ...

San Francisco drag queen Joan Jett-Blakk aims for the presidency

And the Beat Goes On

An interview with Alan Kaufman

New Delis

If a place called Morty's isn't Jewish enough, what is? Our quest for a great delicatessen continues.

Misanthropes United

Country Teasers' agent provocateur allure

A Moon for the Miscast

Eugene O'Neill's emotionally powerful drama lacks its misbegotten heroine

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Eugene O'Neill's emotionally powerful drama lacks its misbegotten heroine

Hear This

Tom Russell pays homage to "real goddamn American character"; Dengue Fever takes you to Cambodia and back

Five Best Historical Bars

Tom Russell pays homage to "real goddamn American character"; Dengue Fever takes you to Cambodia and back

Reps Etc.

Tom Russell pays homage to "real goddamn American character"; Dengue Fever takes you to Cambodia and back

Capturing the Falcon

Reel San Francisco helps fill the holes in your S.F. cinema experience

Notes From Underground

Listening to letters read onstage isn't as compelling as reading them yourself

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Listening to letters read onstage isn't as compelling as reading them yourself

Three Women Scorned

Irish playwright isn't in love with love

Kung Pao Chuckling

A San Francisco holiday institution for Jews and their alienated friends

The Only Way From L.A. to S.F.

One definition of heaven: A week, a t-top Camaro, and the Pacific Coast Highway.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

One definition of heaven: A week, a t-top Camaro, and the Pacific Coast Highway.

Back to the Future

Paranoia and conservatism -- yay! It's the '80s again with "Not in My Backyard"

GIFTS

DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

Thrilla in Manila

Local comic Rex Navarrete invades the Philippines

Tears of a Clown

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

That Was the Wit That Was

Decades after he left the stage to teach math in Santa Cruz, the voice of legendary satirist Tom Lehrer still echoes

House Of Tudor

Teenage Frames, Neomythic, Austin Lounge Lizards, Alan Kaufman, Lowbrow

Riff Raff

Jim Ryan's experimental jazz and the Boom Boom Room mural controversy part II

Riff Raff

A controversial mural at the Boom Boom Room, Sister Double Happiness reunion, the closing of Cue's Records

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Will Durst

Letters

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The Full Lenny

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Reviews

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Reel World

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The Beat Goes On

Will Durst

Night Crawler

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Night+Day

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Night Crawler

Will Durst

Slap Shots

Will Durst

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Will Durst

The Prime Minister of Comedy

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

Not even the great Larry David can salvage Woody Allen's shtick in Whatever Works

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

When You're Strange

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

Film Showtimes for the week of September 22-28, 2010

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

Reading S.F. the Riot Act

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

Fall Arts: Nato Green Brings S.F. Truth to Red-State America

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

The Top 50 Songs To Get High To

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>

Ready for Takeoff

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>

Literary Events: Four Authors to Check Out This Month

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings January 18-24

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>

Frank Humor

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>