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Saudi Arabia

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Cops Seeking Stolen Saudi Arabia Service Medals

    San Francisco police are asking for your help in locating some really cool and valuable medals that were stolen during a residential burglary in the city's Bayview neighborhood last month. During this break in, many items were stolen, but among the most valuable were two gold medallions that were gi ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 2, 2011

    Grill House Mediterranean: New Shawarma-and-Pie Shop Sometimes Worth a Visit

    San Francisco police are asking for your help in locating some really cool and valuable medals that were stolen during a residential burglary in the city's Bayview neighborhood last month. During this break in, many items were stolen, but among the most valuable were two gold medallions that were gi ... More >>

  • News

    November 2, 2011

    Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

    San Francisco police are asking for your help in locating some really cool and valuable medals that were stolen during a residential burglary in the city's Bayview neighborhood last month. During this break in, many items were stolen, but among the most valuable were two gold medallions that were gi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Stanford Solar Car Project to Race Across the Australian Outback

    susolarcar /flickr​Barely 3-feet tall and plastered with shiny panels, Xenith looks more like a spaceship for miniature aliens than a car. But the tiny vehicle is the pride and joy of the Stanford Solar Car Project, and will carry the group 2,000 miles across the Australian outback from Darwin to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Out with the Kids: Hands-On at Assab

    Alex HochmanThis is the neatest your dinner will look all night.​As parents, we're constantly begging our children to be more hands on. We get all exultant over the Zeum or the Exploratorium because they're hands on museums. We peer over our iPhone screens to yell at the kids to turn off the t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    The Clogged Bus-Only Lane Theory of Policing: Cite More Motorists and the Rest of the Public Safety Picture Will Fall Into Place

    Jim HerdHere's another way of keeping drivers out of bus lanes​In Mexico, a visitor will quickly get the sense that society isn't working quite right when she's asked for a bribe by police. In Saudi Arabia, the same conclusion becomes obvious when a woman is arrested for prostitution simply becaus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Camel Milk Chocolates? You Might Soon be Able to Score Some in Noe Valley

    A Noe Valley shop hopes to be among the first U.S. retailers to sell chocolate bars made with camel milk. Jack Epstein, owner of Chocolate Covered (4069 24th St. at Castro), told SFoodie he only recently found out about the camel milk chocolate bars, manufactured by Dubai-based chocolatier Al Nass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Super Bowl Hot Wings Crisis -- in the Media

    .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{col ... More >>

  • Film

    April 16, 2008

    Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

    Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.

  • Film

    January 30, 2008

    Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance '08

    Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

  • Home Entertainment

    January 2, 2008

    Black Russian

    Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

  • Film

    September 26, 2007

    'The Kingdom' Posits CSI: Riyadh with a Jamie Foxx Twist

    Peter Berg sends Foxx to fight the enemy over there

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2007

    Who Among Us Doesn’t Love Israeli Porn?

    Peter Berg sends Foxx to fight the enemy over there

  • Film

    November 2, 2005

    Killing Time

    In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    Student of Concern

    Will we be more secure -- or just less competitive -- if the government forces hundreds of thousands of international science students to get export licenses simply to look through a microscope?

  • News

    October 22, 2003

    Rolling in War Bucks

    How the state public employees' retirement system and the politically connected Carlyle Group profit from defense

  • News

    September 17, 2003

    Total Future Awareness

    The Defense Department hires a New Economy futurist to help fight terror. Don't you feel safer already?

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    The World According to Bechtel

    There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    It's a Bechtel World

    Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

  • Culture

    April 16, 2003

    The Gulf Between

    When these soldiers became writers, the pen became very mighty indeed

  • News

    January 22, 2003

    Cheerleaders of War

    Post-Saddam Iraq will be "a gold mine" of opportunity for U.S. and foreign contractors, says an exile leader

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of December 11, 2002

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    Rude Awakening

    Major news organizations need to snap out of 9/11 emotionalism and ask impolite financial questions about Saudi elites and President Bush

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    Rich Conspiracy

    Unless there's been a Newsom/Getty/bin Laden/Bush plot of some kind, how could voters support Care Not Cash?

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2002

    A Woman's Touch

    At the MadCat Women's International Film Festival, post-feminism has morphed into profound humanism

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Libel, or Liable to Make You Laugh?

    Are the people who posted some 13,000 Internet messages about subsidiaries of Varian Medical Systems funny First Amendment heroes or "despicable," obsessional liars?

  • News

    October 17, 2001

    Osama Was Here

    To show the value of pundits in the Terror Era, our columnist tells the CIA where bin Laden's been, President Bush where to go

  • News

    September 26, 2001

    Crushing a Contrarian

    The "patriotic" squelching of Bill Maher is a scary sign of an emerging groupthink

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    The Tangled Path to a Response

    As we prepare to retaliate for last week's atrocities, let's take time to be sure of our targets

  • News

    August 8, 2001

    The Making of Stephen Elliott

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

  • Dining

    June 6, 2001

    Dinner at the Oasis

    Fattoush

  • News

    March 28, 2001

    Flying Blind

    Are San Francisco International Airport managers running Honduras' airports? If so, why?

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

    Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    Tail of Two Races

    Matt Gonzalez should be backed in District 5 runoff; George W. Bush should be ashamed for considering a coup

  • Dining

    July 5, 2000

    Home Is Where the Heart Is

    Ristorante Mereb

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    Market Economics

    Ristorante Mereb

  • Calendar

    April 10, 1996

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    Ristorante Mereb

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