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Masterminds 2012: Honoring 10 Extraordinary Bay Area artists

Schoolhouse Rocked: S.F.'s Most Controversial Charter School Throws Off For-Profit Masters

Top Chefs Tell Not Quite All

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

Just Desserts

Cake offers straight women a comfortable woman-friendly place to be sexy. So why does it feel so retro?

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Cake offers straight women a comfortable woman-friendly place to be sexy. So why does it feel so retro?

About a Man

In Good Company is wonderfully funny, a bit sad, and unmistakably real

Connerly's Con

Ward Connerly says his new anti-racism initiative won't have any real impact on California. Critics beg to differ.

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries

to be nice but

comes off very savage

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped,

the Folksmen turn it

way down from 11

Collect Calling

Since selling his world-famous film archive to the Library of Congress, Rick Prelinger's been busy saving 40,000 magazines, newspapers, and government documents from history's dustbin. He wants you to take a look.

A Dog-Eat-Dog World

A journalist frets about job security, then realizes things could be worse -- he could be a janitor at Yahoo!

Sound of Success

If you're looking for good news -- about kids, the future, and the power of art to change the world -- you needn't look beyond the Oakland Youth Chorus

The Unlikely Environmentalists

International environmentalists claim they stopped a Mexican salt plant that endangered the gray whale. Actually, though, the Mexican government canceled the plant for reasons of its own.

Mind Games

Fellow Travelers Performance Group wants to crawl around inside your head

Crushed

A successful, prolific inventor reveals how not to create a new product

Go Crazy

To its obsessed fans, Go isn't just a board game. It's a way of life, a key to building better computers, and maybe even the savior of American education.

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously

Cleared for Takeoff

With a brilliant sophomore album, Jets to Brazil both embraces and escapes the past

Reel World

With a brilliant sophomore album, Jets to Brazil both embraces and escapes the past

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.

Night+Day

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.

PC or Not PC?

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.

COLOR IT GONE

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town