Richard Nixon

Environmental Protection: New Research Says It's About Spin

"The House I Live In": The Straight Dope

Friends of Nicki?: Five Black Musicians Who Supported Republicans

You've probably already heard about Nicki Minaj's Mitt Romney-related lyrics, in which she claimed she was going to vote for the Republican presidential candidate. So, did she mean it? Was she being ironic? Is this a publicity stunt? The only thing we know for sure is that the online furor over this ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa: A Guide to the Republican National Convention

You've probably already heard about Nicki Minaj's Mitt Romney-related lyrics, in which she claimed she was going to vote for the Republican presidential candidate. So, did she mean it? Was she being ironic? Is this a publicity stunt? The only thing we know for sure is that the online furor over this ... More >>

Operagate

You've probably already heard about Nicki Minaj's Mitt Romney-related lyrics, in which she claimed she was going to vote for the Republican presidential candidate. So, did she mean it? Was she being ironic? Is this a publicity stunt? The only thing we know for sure is that the online furor over this ... More >>

Ridiculously Spacious Bay Area Home for Sale, Only $29 Million

​Here's something that will surely stoke contempt among the Occupy Movement: A San Francisco suburban home is on the market. Its asking price? Only $29 million!The mega mansion, which sits on 6 acres in the quiet town of Hillsborough, is secured by classic wrought-iron gates. It has reportedly bee ... More >>

Obama's Drug Czar Refuses to Meet With Cops Seeking End to War on Drugs

No you didn't!​In what way is Barack Obama similar to Richard Nixon (aside from ramping up someone else's foreign war)? Turns out common ground can also be found between Tricky Dick and BHO II when it comes to the drug war.A few weeks ago we told you about California NORML unhappily celebrating th ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Defense of Marriage Act Indefensible

Judge Joseph Tauro​The story of the week: A federal judge in Massachusetts declared that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) - passed by Congress in 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton - violates the U.S. Constitution. In his decision, Judge Joseph Tauro (A fiery young radical aged ... More >>

A Really Big Shew

Judge Joseph Tauro​The story of the week: A federal judge in Massachusetts declared that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) - passed by Congress in 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton - violates the U.S. Constitution. In his decision, Judge Joseph Tauro (A fiery young radical aged ... More >>

The Conspiracy Laid Bare: Who's Muscling Up On The Guardian?

Click on this image for a larger version​Last week, we ever-so-slightly spat out some of our coffee when we noticed an interconnected conspiracy theory chart a la Lyndon LaRouche in our rival publication, the Bay Guardian. The graphic purported to reveal the vast cabal squelching progressive thoug ... More >>

The Guardian's Illustrated, Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy -- Did You Know Spain Was Involved?

We're not exactly unaccustomed to paranoid political thinking in the pages of our rival weekly here in San Francisco. But the journos at the Bay Guardian have taken their conspiracy theories to new levels -- and depicted them in bolder-than-ever graphics -- in this week's issue.Appearing alongside a ... More >>

You're Welcome, Gavin: We Improve Erstwhile Mayor's Campaign Logo

Audrey Fukuman​The other day, Gavin Newsom's gubernatorial campaign gave the little people a chance to select which logo San Francisco's erstwhile mayor ought to use. While we appreciate being pandered to as much as the next constituent, you'd have to be myopic to not observe that all of the choi ... More >>

Watchmen

Audrey Fukuman​The other day, Gavin Newsom's gubernatorial campaign gave the little people a chance to select which logo San Francisco's erstwhile mayor ought to use. While we appreciate being pandered to as much as the next constituent, you'd have to be myopic to not observe that all of the choi ... More >>

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

Audrey Fukuman​The other day, Gavin Newsom's gubernatorial campaign gave the little people a chance to select which logo San Francisco's erstwhile mayor ought to use. While we appreciate being pandered to as much as the next constituent, you'd have to be myopic to not observe that all of the choi ... More >>

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

Audrey Fukuman​The other day, Gavin Newsom's gubernatorial campaign gave the little people a chance to select which logo San Francisco's erstwhile mayor ought to use. While we appreciate being pandered to as much as the next constituent, you'd have to be myopic to not observe that all of the choi ... More >>

Frost Advisory

Michael Sheen isn't one of the world's most famous people — he just plays them in the movies.

History as predicted by Inauguration Day's #1 hits

Michael Sheen isn't one of the world's most famous people — he just plays them in the movies.

Nixon in a Deep Frost

Langella and Sheen capture a summit of egos as Frost/Nixon goes from stage to screen.

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Top Republican Strategist: Great Move, Gav!

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Kim Jong-Il, Jesus, Watson and Crick, SF Rabbi Langer: the Snitch presents the "Top Ten Most Jaw-Dropping Bobbleheads"

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Vote Nihilist

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Nuclear Option

An original opera about the makers of the atomic bomb fails to ignite

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Hide and Seek

Find the future of queer cinema at the Gay Adult Film Festival

The Duke of San Francisco

Hunter S. Thompson is dead. Long live Hunter S. Thompson

Deep Impact

A documentary revisits the moment when porn went mainstream

Reps Etc.

A documentary revisits the moment when porn went mainstream

Run, Dick, Run

Sean Penn blames his problems on the president -- so what else is new?

Stop Making Sense

Donnie Darko's exquisite muddle

Best Used Books

Book Bay at Fort Mason

The Dreamlife of Angels

The year ahead in local film

Big Doctor Is Watching

As of April 14, the national security police can monitor your medical records without your knowledge. So can the local police.

House of Tudor

Dusty-voiced troubadours, corporeality explorers, cotton candy jazz, and animalistic toga parties

Acid Reign

From the Bush administration's assault on the Constitution to San Francisco's election fiascoes, core American values are being corroded

Sex, Work, and Videotape

Hookers, dancers, and porn stars on parade at the Sex Worker Film and Video Festival

Boxed Ears

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Beat the Press

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Letters

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Night+Day

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Unspun

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Dog Bites

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Slap Shots

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Slap Shots

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

The Absolutely True, Somewhat Spurious and Totally Impossible

CONSPIRACIES BY THE BAY!!!