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Steve McQueen on Shame, Sex Addiction, and Self-Imposed Imprisonment

A prediction: One day soon, when we enter "Steve McQueen" in a web search, the results will be equally divided between the iconic Hollywood star and the rising English filmmaker. Despite any confusion the filmmaker may yet experience, he has already established a bracing, distinctive voice that call ... More >>

Dustin Lance Black, Milk Screenwriter, Asks LGBT Community to Tell Their Stories

Tell your story​By all accounts, the "It Gets Better" video campaign was a raging success. Sex columnist Dan Savage asked LGBT folks and their supporters to make videos encouraging gay teens to hang in there -- that life does gets better. The concept went viral and thousands of people, including P ... More >>

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Target Targeted By Angry S.F. Supervisor Candidates

Everyone loves the dog. Everyone hates his employer. ​When candidates running for the Board of Supervisors were asked what they thought about Target's plans to open a pair of San Francisco outlets, their opinions were like discount footwear at the big box store: plentiful, hard to miss -- and unco ... More >>

"Salt": Angelina Jolie is the first ambiguous action heroine

The Dark Prince

He claimed to be Nepalese royalty, but police say Kaushal Niroula is a con man whose crew of gay grifters may have murdered a wealthy Palm Springs man.

Guantánamo's Last Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

The Fifth Element

As mainstream hip hop stalemates in commodities, underground MCs keep old-school aesthetics alive through art

Drive-by Reporting

A primer for out-of-town journalists flocking to the Pelosi power story

It Was a Year Of ...

Well, lots of things, actually

Into the Mystic

God bless the Skaters

Bait and Snitch

Lying under oath, threatening witnesses, revealing the names of federal agents -- it's just another day on the job for one of the DEA's paid drug informants

Reps Etc.

Ghost of Politics Past

The varied life and celebrated death of Eric Allen Bass, the man who was Joefire.com

The Fine Art of Restroom Rating

When you gotta go, you gotta go. But there are places where you really shouldn't.

Readings and Eatings

Literary events lead us to the perfect neighborhood restaurant

Holiday Guide

Arts, crafts, events, performances, and New Year's Eve

Holiday Guide

Arts, crafts, events, and performances for the holidays

House Of Tudor

Teutonic new wave, Dutch sample-pop, junkyard blues, and snarling post-punk

Home Is Where You Hang

Virgil Shaw and Yuji Oniki inject new life into the singer/songwriter genre by writing about places they've been

Mission Implacable

Peter Glikshtern used a tire iron on four interlopers in his Mission District bar. Then he beat their lawyer's attempt to make the fight a political caues.

Rage Against the Machine

Tom Ammiano's mayoral bid: inside the campaign that has become a cause

When Cesar Reigned

An aging journalist remembers 1999, when an election became a revolution, and the city changed forever

Night Crawler

The Accouterments of Death

A Fading Light

Gay literature goes mainstream, and gay bookstores fight to survive

Letters

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