Tonight marks the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Thousands of spectacularly talented athletes, outfitted in uniforms resembling packets of mustard and ketchup, the witches of the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, or those guys with the matching blazers on Glee, will march into the stadium. The g ... More >>
J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky, and Scott Foundas put their minds together and come up with their favorite films of the year. Let's hear it for teamwork.
No worries, Basil. It's 'fair use!' In the past few years, it seems the powers that be have found so many devious new ways to restrict our freedoms. They're reading our e-mails, listening to our phone calls, and calling up incessantly to try to get us to donate to their "Police Athletic Leagues" ... More >>
Cops say nonprofits and their landlord were gaming the bingo laws.
Winslet and Fiennes take the long and (Oscar-)worthy road to redemption.
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theater
SF Weekly writers pick their favorite Bay Area records of all time
Zmijewski prods human nature
The art of chaos
Chronicling Hitler's last days with an awkward note of sympathy
Our critics weigh in on local theatre
Our critics weigh in on local theatre
A too-long two-act play launches this "one-act" festival
It's a powerful wake-up call to despotism, but the America link doesn't fly
Stranded in northern Scandinavia, three foreigners go Cuckoo
A focus on the wrong woman hinders the otherwise beautiful Nowhere in Africa
Eccentrics, tattoos, and naked party games in the home-grown German films of Berlin & Beyond
In Das Experiment, ordinary volunteers quickly turn totalitarian
Foreign films find an unusual home in San Francisco this summer
Icky flicks, modern pagans, and disturbed piano-duos
Aimée & Jaguar tells the intriguing story of two women drawn together in wartime
Steven Skybell stars in Hamlet
"Once Removed"
Freaks and friends explain why the Residents still matter
