Merry Pranksters

Early Summer Movie Guide: What to See, When to See It

Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie

The Radio Pirate Goes Legit

Now Pirate Cat Radio is following the rules.

The Units punked the system, played JC Penney

Now Pirate Cat Radio is following the rules.

Foodism: A Taste of Hippie San Francisco

You may have noticed Foodism, the nine-year-old quarterly free magazine, at shops around town. (Or you may not have, like this apparently unobservant writer.) But the publication also has an online space to peruse its flavors of hippie San Francisco in between printed seasons. With sections like "Fe ... More >>

Excavating the Canyon

You may have noticed Foodism, the nine-year-old quarterly free magazine, at shops around town. (Or you may not have, like this apparently unobservant writer.) But the publication also has an online space to peruse its flavors of hippie San Francisco in between printed seasons. With sections like "Fe ... More >>

Last Night: Milk Premiere at the Castro Theater

You may have noticed Foodism, the nine-year-old quarterly free magazine, at shops around town. (Or you may not have, like this apparently unobservant writer.) But the publication also has an online space to peruse its flavors of hippie San Francisco in between printed seasons. With sections like "Fe ... More >>

Beyond Gonzo

Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance.

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/8

Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance.

Get On the Bus

Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance.

Dark Meat drags underground rock below the Mason-Dixon Line

Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance.

This Is Burning Man

Arguably the best prose ever written about the 18-year-old festival

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Arguably the best prose ever written about the 18-year-old festival

Climbing the Hill

Il Pirata

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.

The Dude's Big Score

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.

Beat the Press

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.

Quadraphonia

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

The House of Tudor

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Tripmasters

The Bay Area's chemical gentry

System Crashing

Buying Wired magazine may align you with the digerati, but buying its stock might sink you into poverty

Bumpy Flight

The Marin revival of Cuckoo's Nest is a sturdy, if reserved, rendition of the archetypal good-vs.-evil play

Aisle Seat

The Marin revival of Cuckoo's Nest is a sturdy, if reserved, rendition of the archetypal good-vs.-evil play

Acid House

The Marin revival of Cuckoo's Nest is a sturdy, if reserved, rendition of the archetypal good-vs.-evil play

Acid House

The Marin revival of Cuckoo's Nest is a sturdy, if reserved, rendition of the archetypal good-vs.-evil play