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    October 3, 2011

    Newsweek Retracts Pelosi Quote Slamming Obama, White House

    ​The days might have passed when U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi was the most powerful woman in Washington, but the San Francisco Democrat and House Minority Leader is still one of the capital's heaviest hitters. So many eyebrows shot up yesterday when Newsweek and the Daily Beast published a story in whic ... More >>

  • Music

    February 20, 2008

    The Demise of Hyphy

    Thizzle, bling, and blunts may have helped bring down the overhyped hyphy movement. But KMEL pulled the trigger.

  • News

    May 2, 2007

    Boomtastrophe

    Baby Boomers hoped to die before they got old. They lied. And now they’re dragging the whole country down.

  • News

    November 30, 2005

    Craig$list.com

    The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.

  • News

    December 8, 2004

    Can Light Stay Afloat?

    POINT REYES -- Can Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Mitchell keep his small, renowned, and cash-starved newspaper going? It's a question...

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Poet of the Fallen World

    How an S.F. theater troupe helped turn a reclusive novelist into a full-fledged playwright

  • Holiday

    January 22, 2003

    Resuscitate Your Resolve

    How an S.F. theater troupe helped turn a reclusive novelist into a full-fledged playwright

  • News

    August 8, 2001

    The Making of Stephen Elliott

    How a product of Chicago's group homes became a local literary cause célèbre

  • News

    November 15, 2000

    Revenge of the Wimp

    Why Miami's Democratic mayor abandoned Al Gore and cost him all the votes he needed to be president

  • Culture

    July 19, 2000

    Dream Weaver

    Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place

  • News

    May 5, 1999

    The Fandom Menace

    Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. $300 action figures. The new Star Wars isn't just a movie. It's a force that's with us.

  • Music

    May 20, 1998

    Sinatra: The Voice, the Spark, the Image

    Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. $300 action figures. The new Star Wars isn't just a movie. It's a force that's with us.

  • News

    January 7, 1998

    Kooky Proles and Gucci Buddhism

    A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.

  • News

    June 19, 1996

    Looking A little Green

    Taking the Sierra Club's helm, boy wonder Adam Werbach confronts more than his own inexperience

  • News

    May 15, 1996

    Bring in Da Noise

    Michael Goldberg's rock 'n' roll Web dream

  • News

    October 11, 1995

    Mondo 1995

    Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter

  • News

    May 24, 1995

    Mal on the Street

    Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art

  • News

    March 15, 1995

    Proboscis Job?

    The foundering Nose snorts Editor Jack Boulware out of a gig

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