Subject: NASA

• SF Gets Experimental: An Edgetone Music Fest Preview

  July 25, 2007

• Of Gashes, Gouges and Goo: The Endeavor

  August 17, 2007

• Exotic Erotic Ball Couches Tits as Freedom: Get Real! ... about Freedom (not Tits; fake Tits are fine)

  October 25, 2007

• What a Drag: Use a Parachute To Workout

  January 31, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: Apollo Sunshine

  June 24, 2008

• Saturday Night: Encounters at the End of the World

  June 29, 2008

• TCHO Gets Nutty

  August 20, 2008

• Tcho Launches Beta Store

  San Francisco has its very own chocolate factory with Tcho, a business launched in 2006 by former NASA software developer Timothy Childs and Wired founder Louis Rosetto. Coming from the technology world, Tcho puts all its personally sourced chocolate bars into beta testing, soliciting consumer feedback to help engineer the final products. Previously available online only, people may now pick up this special cacao at the brand new Tcho Beta Retail Store. “Hopefully within the next six mont

  November 17, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: N.A.S.A.

  Space is the place. At least that's still the deal when it comes to N.A.S.A. (North America South America) whose new single, "Money," features a hot-shit guest list. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, and Z-Trip are all part of the clan protesting the almighty dollar as the root of all things evil. Well, yeah, but cash also buys you N.A.S.A.'s single on iTunes, no? Check the song for free first here ... and tell me it doesn't remind you of another cash-rich jingle, "For The Love of Mon

  January 7, 2009

• Valentine's Sweet Hearts

  Self-respecting San Francisco residents should know that the words "Russell Stover" and "Whitman's Sampler" really have nothing to do with real chocolate, but many might be able to use some guidelines beyond that for Valentine's Day. Fortunately, we have some of the country's finest chocolatiers in the area, and they're sufficiently armed for their favorite holiday. Charles Chocolates in Emeryville (6529 Hollis) offers several heart-shaped boxes for V-Day, but we're craving the heck out of t

  February 5, 2009

• Night Crawler

  August 9, 1995

• Unknown facts about Noise Pop performers

  February 18, 2009

• The Gods Must Be Angry

  July 23, 2008

• Sad Sack Extraordinaire

  Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

  April 16, 2008

• Chafing Dishes

  February 13, 2008

• We Can Kick the Pope Around Next Year, Maybe

  February 6, 2008

• Bill Pullman's Shuttle Columbia Play 'Expedition 6' Comes Apart on Blast-Off

  September 26, 2007

• Rocket Men

  Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  September 19, 2007

• His Story

  Love through the ages

  October 26, 2005

• Aliens Beware!

  Infiltrator takes in NASA Space Camp for kids. As an adult. To save the planet.

  July 20, 2005

• Back to the Future

  A stair-climbing humanoid robot, a power-assist suit, and a mind-control device, at NextFest

  May 12, 2004

• Imitation of Life

  Snapping shots

  March 31, 2004

• Save Bitchen Science!

  Forget about cures for HIV and leukemia. Give us robo-warriors and high-tech Jesus boots.

  March 31, 2004

• Birthday Bash

  The Academy turns 150

  September 3, 2003

• Pipe Dreams

  A veteran of the Apollo program continues a quixotic quest to send a small rocket of his own design 60 miles high and, in the process, save his soul. Maybe ours, too.

  June 11, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of February 26, 2003

  February 26, 2003

• The Bleeding Edge

  A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

  February 12, 2003

• Abort. Abort.

  There's a solution for NASA's management problems and foolish focus on manned spaceflight: no NASA

  February 12, 2003

• The Poindexter Effect

  Digging into the architect of Total Information Awareness unearths good news: Ordinary Americans value civil liberties

  December 24, 2002

• Visions of a Robot Future

  The Holiday Robot Games and Expo offers fascinating projects, promising students, and unsettling premonitions

  December 18, 2002

• Sci-fidelity

  At Worldcon, everyone -- from famous author to humble fan to mothlike alien -- is equal

  September 4, 2002

• Poisoned Gods

  As museums return stolen religious artifacts, Native Americans are learning that their most sacred objects may kill them

  September 4, 2002

• House of Tudor

  Sci-fi filk singers, a still-flying Byrd, and the infectious Dengue Fever

  August 28, 2002

• Talkin' Tolkien

  Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

  December 19, 2001

• Mr. Reppas Goes to Hollywood

  A Hillsborough entrepreneur wants to sue the U.S. government for $65 million. George Clooney, call your agent.

  October 18, 2000

• Reel World

  2001: A Space Odyssey; Up the Down Staircase; The Blackboard Jungle

  August 16, 2000

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  August 4, 1999

• Advertisement for Itself

  July 1, 1998

• Pulling the Wings Off Flies

  A scientist discovers what makes the insects so agile -- and why NASA should care

  June 17, 1998

• Letters

  April 22, 1998

• Heavenly Secrets

  How the NASA researchers who inspired the film Contact outfoxed Congress and continued the search for intelligent aliens

  April 1, 1998

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  October 22, 1997

• The House of Tudor

  July 2, 1997

• Planet Wars

  Last year, two Bay Area astronomers said they had discovered planets outside our solar system and became instant media celebrities. Now, Paul Butler and Geoff Marcy face prominent scientific challengers who contend some of the new planets are nothing but

  July 2, 1997

• DJ Paul van Dyk Announces Cow Palace Show, iPhone App

  DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena rock acts and rodeos. Along with Van Dyk, whose greatest-hits compilation Volume drops June 1st, the scheduled lineup includes Derrick Carter, Ferry Corsten, Deadmaus, Andy Caldwell, Flosstradamus, a

  April 27, 2009

• Marin Youth Center Kids Land N.A.S.A. Gig

  N.A.S.A."hey, pass the mic"The young artists of the Marin Youth Center (MYC) are over the moon--almost. Having just announced the release of the MYC compilation album Many Thoughts/One MYC (available on CDBaby now ), which proves it is possible for today's youth to record curseword-free rap music, they've been selected to perform at the 40th Anniversary of the N.A.S.A. moonwalk on July 19th in Mountain View. MYC artists have also announced a bunch of shows and appearances leading up to the his

  May 13, 2009

• Points For Variety: Newsom Reels In Big Donations From Plumbers, Maker of Spaceships

  Ky MichaelsonCombine rockets and toilets and you get this ... and Gavin Newsom's big donors. Credit where credit is due: If there's one thing Gavin Newsom can do with elan, it's accept a check. Perhaps sometimes there's a little too much elan -- he recently returned a hefty donation from Russell Weiner, the son of radio lunatic Michael Savage, and took big money from anti-rent control sugar daddy Thomas Coates. You've got to admire Newsom's range now, however. Recent filings indicate he managed

  June 17, 2009

• Reeling Drunk With Apparent Ability to Alter Time and Space Arrested at S.F. Zoo For Harassing Kids, Animals

  If you're going to be instantaneously transported from Hippie Hill to the zoo, it isn't happening without this guy's helpA man with a fondness for large amounts of cheap alcohol and an apparent ability to teleport across the city was arrested Wednesday evening for bothering children and animals at the zoo. It happens all the time. Officers from the Taraval station headed to the zoo after receiving reports of "an extremely intoxicated man" making trouble. The gent admitted to officers that he'd q

  June 26, 2009

• Encore

  October 3, 2007

• Meteor Hunting in San Francisco Tonight? Good Luck.

  Sacre bleu!​Get ready for some serious galactic debris, San Francisco. According to NASA, the peak visibility of the Perseids meteor shower will come tonight around midnight (most visible after the moon sets), revealing dozens of streaming fireballs across the night sky every hour until dawn. Sound romantic? It would be. If only we could see it.Although various forecasts are predicting a clear night in San Francisco for the show, all signs (i.e. looking out the window) point to the opposite. P

  August 11, 2009