Sigmund Freud

"On the Road": Kerouac Would Be Meh

Get Deliciously Creative at the Chocolate Casting and Mold-Making Workshop

​What: Chocolate Molding Class Where: Million Fishes Galleries When: Mon, Tues., Weds., February 6-8, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $140/person for three days, which includes all materials The rundown: A three-day hands-on workshop that'll teach you how to make molds for candy. The coolest part is you can m ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings December 21-27

"A Dangerous Method": Cronenberg Examines the Birth of Psychoanalysis

The Life of the Mind

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"Reborning": Theater Review

Oh, Baby

Chris Daly May Know a Lot about a Lot -- But He Doesn't Know Jack About SF Weekly

Chris Daly​I want to thank Supervisor Chris Daly. I want to thank the man for forcing me to read through his turgid, 2,500-word polemic about supervisorial candidate Theresa Sparks and how "big money" has supposedly been showered upon this newspaper in return for a cover story. Now we know what it ... More >>

Asked to Change His Name Tag, San Francisco Cop Instead Changed His Name

Jim HerdSergeant Carl T -- really​If you click on the above shot recently snapped by ace photographer Jim Herd, you'll observe that the policeman's name tag actually reads "Carl T." While first-name, last-initial is par for the course with restaurant servers, Sigmund Freud case studies, or Rollerb ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Madatory Composting -- And Your Mother -- Are Back In Town

Well, that's the thing: I thought my mom would know the Snuggie was a gag gift, but she actually thought it was a real gift. So here I'd planned this completely ironic moment, and she was starting to tear up. She actually said "It looks so comfortable, and I get so cold in winter!" Shit! So what ... More >>

Josh Is a Verb

The Gift of Admission

Warhol's Jews

Visual Arts Picks

Democracy to Get Pornier, Says Researcher

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

You Spin Me

The ethnomusicologist and the flack tell a beguiling tale of influence

Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Repertory Film Listings

Aw Nuts

The lunatics have taken over the Asylum, and they're very horny

Encore

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Heir Abhorrent

This enthralling, confusing Macbeth posits childlessness as a source of murderousness

Out of the Ashcan

The "apostles of ugliness" have the last laugh

Disease Detective

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

Augustine (Big Hysteria)

A thought-provoking drama about a 19th-century "hysteric" victimized by a misguided psychoanalyst

The Spectre Inspectors

When it's a question of spectral orbs -- or ectoplasm, or cold spots, or plain old ordinary ghosts -- who are you going to call? Why, Bay Area Paranormal Investigations, of course.

Moving in Stereo

Can Europop act Stereo Total evolve without losing its joie de vivre?

Night Crawler

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Phallus in Blunderland

The insatiable desire for bigger and better lured thousands of men into the operating room for penile augmentation surgery. Now, one of the nation's top docs is trying to clean up the mess.

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Night+Day

Nin of the Above

Delta of Venus is an imploding star of soft-core porn

Drag Kings

From San Francisco to London, women are donning men's clothes, assuming males personas, and challenging the very concept of gender. Just what is male and female, anyway?

Aisle Seat

A Woman's Lot

Dolores Claiborne serves up "three square meals of bitching"