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The Chron Finally Launches Its (Leaky) Paywall

The paywall that San Francisco Chronicle flirted with for years appeared over the weekend, accompanied by a euphemistic letter from Chron president Mark Adkins. He characterized it as a safe harbor for the paper's "premium content" (ie, news and columns) "uncluttered" by the slideshows, celebrity go ... More >>

Storytelling 10110001101: Comics and Novels Evolve

Sex in Black and White

You Can Now Get General Tso's Chicken in Beijing

jeffreyw/FlickrIf General Tso's chicken is beloved in Stockton, why not Shanghai as well? ​Now that you can find American-style sushi in Tokyo and chai lattes in Milan, why not chop suey and General Tso's chicken in Beijing? (Side note: You realize those aren't actual Chinese dishes, don't you?) ... More >>

College Guys Are Hotter Than College Girls, Newsweek says

Smart girls ​More women than men are getting their college degrees, but all that time they spend studying means less time for primping.At least, that's what Newsweek and The Daily Beast would have us think after releasing their "Most Beautiful" list.This fear of being surrounded by unsightly coeds ... More >>

Bridging the Food Gap? Don't Expect that to Happen Anytime Soon

paulswansen/Flickr​Our favorite morsel from the Web. The ethical dilemma of good food rankles like a fish bone lodged in the throat. In the Bay Area especially, we know that fresh, unprocessed food ― raised locally by small producers ― is good for the region, good for the planet, good for ... More >>

Deflating the Social Media Hot Air Balloon

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Not a revolutionary​Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and their ilk -- standard bearers for the ill-defined phenomenon known as "social media" that is now supposed to be the future of the Web -- are having a tough time these days in the thinking person's press.Over the past f ... More >>

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

The Week in Gay: You Call *That* a Repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'?

You'll still have to stay in the closet for now, sailor​Thursday night the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that claims to repeal the ban on gays serving in the military (Don't Ask Don't Tell). But the details of the bill reveal that the policy is not really repealed and it won't be unt ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Don't Ask, Shut the Fuck Up

At ease, soldier​On Thursday, the U.S. military announced that it plans to be less dickish about enforcing the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy that prohibits gay people from serving in the armed forces. I'm not sure why this new plan is supposed to be exciting. The gist of it seems to say, "He ... More >>

Other Car Not Broom, Sorry

Kaya Oakes' Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture

Told You So: Newsweek Reports SF Wastewater Plant Now a Popular Tourist Destination. Imagine How Popular It'd Be If We'd Named It After George W. Bush.

Turns out that wouldn't have been a bad idea after all Funny how being broke changes your perspective on things. Not so long ago, a goodly number of Californians still seemed to believe that marijuana made you behave like flesh-eating zombies as depicted in the now-laughable film Reefer Madness. Yet ... More >>

Sorry, S.F.: Gavin Newsom's just not that into you

(with apologies to the authors of He's Just Not That Into You)

Lights, Camera, Mystic!

Newsweek: Gavin 'Has Become a Joke to Democratic Insiders'

As part of its "Obama's America" package this week, Newsweek included a profile of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his "crazy" crusade to legalize gay marriage and become governor. Reporter Jonathan Darman portrays Newsom as one of those all-too-rare politicians willing to stand on principle ev ... More >>

The Passion of The Newsom

Last Night: Mortified at the Make-Out Room

The Fears of a Clown: MC Frontalot Gets Trapped in Unfunny Nerdspeak

Leno's Hemp Screen

Just say "no" to more hemp. Focus on the weak dollar and apocalypse tomorrow!

Heavenly States Sign Film Option for Libya Movie

Myth Maker

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

Absolutely Fabulist

A subdued thriller considers the ominous power of storytelling

Award Show Performers

SF Weekly Music Awards

The Daily Lickspittle

Journalism has a lot of problems, but too many of them are manifestations of a sycophantic attitude toward the big-e Establishment

Blown Away

A murderous cabal unspools onstage

Yo Soy Centroamericano

Why vote Kerry? Exhibit No. 1: George W. Bush has shamelessly hired the dangerous figures behind the Iran-Contra Affair into senior diplomatic posts.

Words Into Type

Jim Parkinson designs the letters that let you read

Long Night's Journey Into Day

Jonestown on his mind: A documentary maker struggles with the ineffable

Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports

A brief, shining geek triumph -- as told from the sidelines

Reps Etc.

Body Image

Think teen boys are fucked up? Check out the gals in the book and photo exhibit Girl Culture

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 10, 2002

True Professions

What do you call whores who don't have sex and porn stars who don't get paid?

City of Lost Children

Ghosts of magazines past

Generation Excess

A close look at Kibu.com, the teen Web site -- backed by Silicon Valley's elite -- that vaporized $15 million in a matter of months

Fork-Beard, Vlad, and the Fat King of France

The last millennial retrospective you need to read

Return of the Teenager

Everything I need to know about high school I learned from the New Teen Cinema

We're Honored

Hear This

Riff Raff

The Naked and the Dead

Unspun

Unspun

Night+Day

Letters

Slap Shots

PC or Not PC?

Slap Shots

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