Monica Lewinsky

Awaiting the Vote with a Drink at Hillstone

NYT Mag on Torture-Memo Author John Yoo: Aw, Ain't He Cute?

Uttered in any location with a view of San Francisco Bay, the name of John Yoo tends to reduce people to convulsive hand-wringing. Yoo, a professor at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, has been a frequent target of liberal protesters and activists -- many of them students -- because of his ass ... More >>

So, What's the Status of that $1.1 Million Ramp Michela Alioto-Pier Was So Fired Up About?

Heck, for $1.1 million, we'll sell you a ramp and a car to jump off it, tooAfter the shit hits the fan, it's mordantly entertaining to look back at the issues that used to occupy us: Monica Lewinsky, President Bush actually mentioning Brave New World -- which he almost certainly never read -- during ... More >>

Definitely, Maybe Rejects the V-Day RomCom Bliss

Myth Maker

A familiar tale, told well, is a thing to behold

Pop Goes the World

Will Schwartz and Hey Willpower want you to think about why you like pop, or, barring that, get your booty bouncin'

Love on the Run

How a combination footrace and frat party became one of the best places in the city to hook up

Cocksucker: A Love Story

Though it goes out of its way to shock, it's merely amusingly tasteless

False Recovery

An unflinching look at recollected abuse could use some skepticism

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 8, 2003

700 Years of 9/11

Never heard of the Battle of Malplaquet? Then you don't know your Sept. 11 history.

Reps Etc.

Tongues Untied

Monica Lewinsky and George W. Bush are dissected in new HBO documentaries being screened in S.F.

Bodies and Hearts in the Face of the Monster

It's a variation on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, but with genders reversed. If you think that sounds interesting, you're mistaken

Best Bar Manager

Nic Janes, Redwood Room

Frank Olivier's Twisted Cabaret

A crazed and dangerous night of vaudeville

Hail to the Ex-Chief

Clinton gets the rock star treatment at UC Berkeley; Chron Covers Enron-Size Bust

The State of Affair

Hilary Swank returns to revolutionize

Bizarre Bazaar

The Fringe Festival's 10th anniversary finds the Exit expanding its empire

Cumming Up

Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

Paul's Still Not Dead

But Jon Kelly's still doing backward speech analysis -- Dubya to "Make a Monica"; Britney on self: "Baby, I'm really sick. Save me, will ya?"

The View From Here

In the Cold War, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. saw "remote viewing" as a weapon. What about now?

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

The Offender

The Contender is a candidate for the year’s most high-minded trash

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

South to the Future

Coup de Mardi Gras: A North Carolina town turns the world upside down with its carnival of the grotesque

Half a Loaf

Inside Flynt

Larry Flynt's outing of powerful Republican hypocrites has the GOP fearing political ruin before the Y2K elections. An inside look at what makes Flynt's investigative team tick.

Savage Love

SFW Letters

Savage Love

Dog Bites

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Dog Bites

Savage Love

Dog Bites