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A Rat's Life: MS-13 Snitches Run Wild While Turning State's Evidence

Arthur the Stolen Tortoise Returned to San Francisco's Randall Museum

Arthur's tortoisenappers wouldn't have got away if they'd stowed him in one of these​The thief who stole Arthur the 50-year-old California desert tortoise from The Randall Museum March 10 apparently changed his or her mind. On Saturday left the 12-pound animal was deposited in the museum's lobby w ... More >>

Fancy beef at extravagant prices at 5A5 Steak Lounge

Arthur's tortoisenappers wouldn't have got away if they'd stowed him in one of these​The thief who stole Arthur the 50-year-old California desert tortoise from The Randall Museum March 10 apparently changed his or her mind. On Saturday left the 12-pound animal was deposited in the museum's lobby w ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Tristes Tropiques

Here at SF Weekly, we place a high value on San Francisco's humble DJ tastemakers. But we also place high honors on music geeks whose sense of humor (and Jay McInerney appreciation) is as evident as their vinyl instinct. All this makes post-punk/disco/no wave/krautrock/etc/etc/etc DJ Tristes Tropiqu ... More >>

Makin' Copies

Here at SF Weekly, we place a high value on San Francisco's humble DJ tastemakers. But we also place high honors on music geeks whose sense of humor (and Jay McInerney appreciation) is as evident as their vinyl instinct. All this makes post-punk/disco/no wave/krautrock/etc/etc/etc DJ Tristes Tropiqu ... More >>

Richard Thalheimer, Founder of Sharper Image, Talks for the First Time About His Ouster

Here at SF Weekly, we place a high value on San Francisco's humble DJ tastemakers. But we also place high honors on music geeks whose sense of humor (and Jay McInerney appreciation) is as evident as their vinyl instinct. All this makes post-punk/disco/no wave/krautrock/etc/etc/etc DJ Tristes Tropiqu ... More >>

Maimed Brothers Flee San Francisco Violence

Here at SF Weekly, we place a high value on San Francisco's humble DJ tastemakers. But we also place high honors on music geeks whose sense of humor (and Jay McInerney appreciation) is as evident as their vinyl instinct. All this makes post-punk/disco/no wave/krautrock/etc/etc/etc DJ Tristes Tropiqu ... More >>

Best Sex Writing 2006

It's hardly smut, but still sexy -- and thought-provoking

A Bridge Too Far

The Chronicle's series of stories on Golden Gate suicides goes "radioactive."

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

The Chronicle's series of stories on Golden Gate suicides goes "radioactive."

Not on the List

Dog Bites tags along for a Kafka-esque encounter with the FBI

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 22, 2003

Delicious Wickedness

Special effects aren't necessary to make Les Liaisons Dangereuses current

The Milky Way

In which we troll the warm city for cooling scoops of ice cream

Viva Ms. Vega!

A folk icon looks back at the highlights of her career

Best Travel Store

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This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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Reigning Cats and Dogs

At Petchitecture, a charity event where architects and design firms build and auction animal habitats, the animals, of course, dress up.

The Great Divide

Why do books and other art forms remain so separate?

Visions of a Robot Future

The Holiday Robot Games and Expo offers fascinating projects, promising students, and unsettling premonitions

Osama bin Laden dislikes kelloggs frosted mini wheats

The gloriously unambitious world of John Patrick McKenzie, who doesn't care that he's a rising star in the visual arts. And who, as it happens, is autistic.

Idiocy Inc.

Jon Brumit and Marc Horowitz have made it their business to be the best-known art idiots in San Francisco.

So ... y'wanna ride a Big Wheel down Lombard?

Affirmative Action:

"Yes Yoko Ono" is surprisingly good

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

Speaking Volumes

In the middle of the tug- of-war over artists' books

Gambling Their Future

How a tiny, impoverished Indian tribe managed to persuade a city, a powerful union, and the U.S. Congress to let them build a Nevada-style casino in the East Bay

Best Place to Get a Meaningful Gift

Creativity Explored

Mother Nature

Facing East Dance & Music's new piece

Dog Bites

Vive La Révolution

Unspun

Vive La Révolution

Masked Marvel

Bullpen Coach Carlos Alfonso could be the hardest-working, and least prominent, San Francisco Giant

Heartbreak Hotel

Traveling room to room in the Columbia, a Tenderloin SRO, shows that fixing a building up is one thing. Repairing broken lives is another.

Death and Transfiguration

Dead Man Walking airs both sides in the moral dilemma of capital punishment

Riffing on a Pan-Med Theme

Cafe Chaise offers jazz and a Mediterranean spin on its French-California fare