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"Alcatraz": What We've Learned So Far

Alcatraz: Inmates Return from Dead, Start Shit in S.F.

Because it became too expensive to house nearly 250 criminals on a rock in the middle of the ocean, Alcatraz officially shut down in 1963... or did it? And after it shut down, all of the inmates were transferred to other prisons... or were they? In the new J.J. Abrams-produced supernatural thrille ... More >>

Out with the Kids: Dinner at St. Francis Fountain

Alex HochmanThree-scoop banana split ($8.25), a dinner essential at St. Francis Fountain on 24th Street.​ You'd think the city's oldest ice cream parlor ― a place that's been in the same storefront on 24th Street since 1918 ― would be packed at dinner with families reveling in nostalgia a ... More >>

Folk for the Gamer Generation: Powerglove's antics elevate videogame metal

Alex HochmanThree-scoop banana split ($8.25), a dinner essential at St. Francis Fountain on 24th Street.​ You'd think the city's oldest ice cream parlor ― a place that's been in the same storefront on 24th Street since 1918 ― would be packed at dinner with families reveling in nostalgia a ... More >>

What to Do? Wednesday's Pick: 'The Art of Passing Time'

​'The Art of Passing Time'S.F. Arts Commission Gallery12:15 p.m., free For the exhibit "Now and When," the S.F. Arts Commission gave $2,000 each to a bunch of artists to make time-capsule projects. Packard Jennings spent his on dinner. He's a conceptual artist -- it was an expensive dinner. ... More >>

Time Passages

​'The Art of Passing Time'S.F. Arts Commission Gallery12:15 p.m., free For the exhibit "Now and When," the S.F. Arts Commission gave $2,000 each to a bunch of artists to make time-capsule projects. Packard Jennings spent his on dinner. He's a conceptual artist -- it was an expensive dinner. ... More >>

Now That's What I Call Crap: Music Detritus That Needs To Go

​ Sometimes one man's junk is just, well, junk.Zambaleta, a Mission-based nonprofit world music and dance school, hosted a flea market last Saturday for musical equipment and records. People sometimes regret throwing out music and memorabilia when nostalgia hits 40 years down the line and Davy ... More >>

The ABCs of Ditching School

Schools are trying to contain their truancy epidemic. How're they doing? Just ask the students smoking pot less than a block from campus.

Dork the Halls: Nerdy Christmas Tree Ornaments

Every year growing up, my brother and I got to pick out an ornament and add it to a growing collection. Unpacking and hanging up the previous year's ornaments was as much a treat as purchasing new ones, until Martha Stewart showed up and ruined everything. Homely trees covered in a hodge-podge of mi ... More >>

Fuzzy Fights

The combat's cuddly in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Look Who's Back!

After the unspeakable Grinch, a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation.

SF Design-Heads Get Their Pecha Kucha Stuffed at Yerba Buena Today

After the unspeakable Grinch, a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation.

Slideshow: ApresGarde at Gallery 1988, 1173 Sutter Street, Through 10.26

After the unspeakable Grinch, a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation.

Fish Carves a Niche

After the unspeakable Grinch, a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation.

Drawn Together

Why the surging popularity of yaoi — graphic boy-on-boy comics — might be the source of the genre's downfall

All Wet

M. Night Shyamalan steps up the lunacy with Lady in the Water

This Game Bites

The new Castlevania is the last nail in the franchise's coffin.

Wild at Art

In a show about collaboration, artists work with bees, trees, flies, and Chinese

Animation Nation

Get your cartoon fix

Zine Stealers

The Alternative Press Expo offers lots to look at -- but little to read

Mistresses of the Dark

Elvira and her progeny make an evening of it. Then the progeny go wrestling.

Full Court Fathers

They're young, poor, unmarried fathers -- but don't call them deadbeat dads. They want to be part of their kids' lives, and Oakland's Midnight Basketball League is helping them do it.

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

Playing Through

Are the Fairways destined to be overlooked in their own country?

Best Pokémon Store

Update Gift Shop

Night Crawler

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

South to the Future

In Search of eToys.com: The real downside to virtual shopping -- no reality

A Quality Year

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

South to the Future

Bipolar Bear Gains Cult Following

Night Crawler

Life Can Be a Beach