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'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' Cited at Scholarly Conference

Who knew this was the stuff of academic pondering? ​At a faculty colloquium, you can expect to overhear the featured speakers drop a few highfalutin quotes originally uttered by revered academic luminaries.It was ever thus at a recent San Francisco gathering of Saybrook University, a school best k ... More >>

The Meaning of Life

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

Peripatetic, Poetic, and Chic

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

'Tragedy' makes fun of news media's tragic lack of perspective

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

I Think, Ergo I Laugh

Triumph bombed when it premiered in 1732, but this bonkers love story has aged well

That Girl is Poison

Katy St. Clair illuminates another dubious connection: Socrates and the Hemlock Tavern

Electrelane

The Power Out

Best Place to Learn How to Kick Ass

Fairtex Combat Sports Camp

Disease Detective

Deborah Hayden's new book, Pox, pulls the covers off famous people with syphilis. That's right: syphilis.

United Nations

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

Who Is Clint Reilly, Really?

He's running for mayor again, and this time he wants to define himself, before his enemies do it for him

All in the Family

Eight Immortals

Enema of the State

Readers and S.F. Art Institute students respond to our story about the controversy surrounding performance art student Jonathan Yegge

The House of Tudor

Readers and S.F. Art Institute students respond to our story about the controversy surrounding performance art student Jonathan Yegge

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Readers and S.F. Art Institute students respond to our story about the controversy surrounding performance art student Jonathan Yegge