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Nate Silver's Forecast Is Very Optimistic About Same-Sex Marriage

Nate Silver is less than a god but more than a man. After November's presidential election, the bossman at the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog became best known for correctly predicting the electoral outcomes of all 50 states. His forecast models became legendary. Of course, he had previousl ... More >>

Stephen Glass, Disgraced Journalist, Continues Fight to Practice Law in California

​Disgraced former journalist Stephen Glass has hired a high-caliber Oakland lawyer in his effort to win the right to practice law in California.Glass, who is notorious for having fabricated magazine articles in the 1990s, has hired Jon Eisenberg, known for successfully suing the U.S. government ov ... More >>

Ron Paul Is Crazy. Admit It.

​Congressman Ron Paul grabbed the lion's share of headlines among GOP presidential candidates last week, and not just because he is the latest improbable figure to challenge the inevitable nomination of Mitt Romney.The conservative Weekly Standard ran a rehash by writer James Kirchik of an article ... More >>

"Our Idiot Brother": Predictable and Shallow Indie Ensemble Comedy

Does California Have a Future? No: California *Is* the Future.

The face of things to come​That's the conclusion of an interesting piece of commentary published today in The New Republic. Penned by former Sacramento Bee editorial page editor Peter Schrag, the article argues that California -- the favorite punching bag of bad-government critics who assail its p ... More >>

The Story

In an age where newspapers are in decline, a play about the power of the press seems dated.

New Republic won't run Ward Schumacker's illustration along with story about cussing

Sources Say, Meh

Resurrecting the Champ gets journalism right, and that's a grind

Spy vs. Spy

Billy Ray takes on another liar: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

Pecking Order

Dale gets childish

Freestyle Fellowship

Kees to the City

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

Imperfect Unions

A new documentary sells gay marriage as the only answer to discrimination

Homeland Sinecurity

A chat with the man who does nothing, all day long, for the Department of Homeland Security

Glub Glub

In which our first solo sail nearly becomes our last

Play Rotorecall

Have fun with democracy, before it has fun with you

Play It to the Bone

"Michelangelo had the pope and da Vinci had the Medici and we got the studio system"

The Rabbi Who Would Save the World

Michael Lerner has won many followers with his ideas for world peace. But if all he is preaching is the Golden Rule, why is he so controversial?

The Pen Is Mightier

Two plays from outspoken African-American playwright August Wilson

The Return of the Bastard Angel

To resurrect his reputation as one of America's greatest poets, Harold Norse is counting on the help of one of the city's most despised organizations -- Act Up S.F.

Postscript

Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

Boxed Ears

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Night + Day

Silver Mining

Digging for the genuine article at the Telluride Film Festival's 25th anniversary celebration

The Truth Is in Here

Secret voice mails reveal Chiquita plot to bomb Latin American dictators with GM pickup trucks bearing CNN's nerve gas

Savage Love

Dog Bites

Night + Day

Dog Bites

Savage Love

Fools for Love

Dog Bite

New Editor at SF Weekly

Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part I)

There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

Night+Day

The Tale of an Asp