Smithsonian Institution

The Real Fantastic: Of Dungeons and Day Jobs

Good Spielberg's Bad Moments: An Emotional History

Blurring LINES

When Fritos Were Meant for the Dinner Table

​In honor of the Super Bowl, which has become an excuse for junk-food decadence unrivaled since Roman times -- we're going to eat 1.25 billion wings this Sunday! Have you heard of this thing called the meat stadium? -- this week the Smithsonian's food blog traced the history of the Frito pie, all ... More >>

The Mexican Museum Breaks New Ground in 2013

Next year will be groundbreaking for the Mexican Museum in more ways than one. In 2013, construction begins on a new 40,000-square-foot facility on the ground floor of 706 Mission, a residential building planned for Mission and Third Streets; the art space itself has a projected opening of 2016. In ... More >>

A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy

Next year will be groundbreaking for the Mexican Museum in more ways than one. In 2013, construction begins on a new 40,000-square-foot facility on the ground floor of 706 Mission, a residential building planned for Mission and Third Streets; the art space itself has a projected opening of 2016. In ... More >>

Leadbelly, the Murderer Who Sang Children's Songs

www.leadbelly.org/Huddie Ledbetter: Convicted murderer, children's singer.​I recognize that schoolyards are dens of rumor and conjecture, places where over the crackle of Pop Rocks and the snap of bubblegum kids swap sordid, little secrets. It's why I caught myself smiling when my 11-year-old ... More >>

R.I.P. Hazel Dickens, American Legend, Feminist Folk Singer, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fixture

Jay BlakesbergHazel Dickens with Dolly Parton and Warren Hellman​Hazel Dickens, a bluegrass singer who played every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival since the free event began in 2001, died today at age 75.Described by the Washington Post as "a living legend of American music," Dickens use ... More >>

S.F. Feral Cats Policy Good for Cats, Terrible for Birds

Jay BlakesbergHazel Dickens with Dolly Parton and Warren Hellman​Hazel Dickens, a bluegrass singer who played every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival since the free event began in 2001, died today at age 75.Described by the Washington Post as "a living legend of American music," Dickens use ... More >>

DADT Repeal: With All Deliberate Speed -- Or None At All?

​The Week in GayThe repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is fucking mess, but I think there might be a way to fix things. If we act quickly. This is a real longshot -- and it's not guaranteed to work -- but we need get our hands on some mercury. Lots of it. A flock of Ibises in Florida has been rendered ... More >>

"Fuck You All": Glen Friedman's punk and hip-hop photos are meant to inspire

​The Week in GayThe repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is fucking mess, but I think there might be a way to fix things. If we act quickly. This is a real longshot -- and it's not guaranteed to work -- but we need get our hands on some mercury. Lots of it. A flock of Ibises in Florida has been rendered ... More >>

"Fuck You All": Glen Friedman's punk and hip-hop photos are meant to inspire

​The Week in GayThe repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is fucking mess, but I think there might be a way to fix things. If we act quickly. This is a real longshot -- and it's not guaranteed to work -- but we need get our hands on some mercury. Lots of it. A flock of Ibises in Florida has been rendered ... More >>

Sarah Lee Guthrie: Folk for the Whole Family

Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

We praise the Julia half of Julie & Julia

Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

Finishing touches put on Duke Ellington's opera

Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

Folkster Jim Post Performs Songs About Mark Twain Feb. 2

Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

The Little Tribe That Could

As descendants of San Francisco’s aboriginal people, the Muwekma Ohlone Indian tribe seldom gets much respect. But that could be about to change.

Best Art Sans Art School

Friday the 13th West

Proofs Positive

Friday the 13th West

Slides Rule

At a gathering of the Oughtred Society, the reckoning may be dead or logarithmic, but the conversation is always right on the mark

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Collect Calling

Since selling his world-famous film archive to the Library of Congress, Rick Prelinger's been busy saving 40,000 magazines, newspapers, and government documents from history's dustbin. He wants you to take a look.

What the Hell Is Copia?

At Robert Mondavi's new $55 million foodie mecca, you'll find seminars on goat cheese and mustard; surrealist movies; a SPAM exhibit; wine tastings; figurines of pooping Catholics -- everything, in fact, but the answer to that question.

House of Tudor

Bubble blowers, tranny divas, and a Roxie rent party

Hope Springs Eternal

A touching exhibit of missing-persons posters that sprang up after 9/11

Holiday Highlights 2001

Holiday Event Lisitngs

On the Homeless Front

Providing comprehensive services for street people is morally uplifting -- and, as shown in New York, good policy

Southern Discomfort

Travis Somerville's paintings have been called provocative, brilliant - and racist

Through a Different Lens

We don't need more pretty pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge. So why is one of the country's finest documentary photographers taking hundreds of them?

End of the Road

Thirty years later, Harry Belafonte finds closure in a once-lost project

Personal Best

What the world needs now is a wholly subjective, occasionally snarky awards ceremony

Riff Raff

Mark Eitzel at Hotel Utah, Clit Stop, Arhoolie Records' 40th Birthday

Airing Old Secrets

Flags tell the stories of Chinese paper sons and daughters

Dinner (or Not) and a Show

Flags tell the stories of Chinese paper sons and daughters

Hear This

Flags tell the stories of Chinese paper sons and daughters

Ankle-Deep in Big Muddy

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Stage

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Reviews

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Gore Vidal/Christopher Hitchens

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Apocrypha

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Slap Shots

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Suspicious Minds

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Night+Day

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Suspicious Minds

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

Barron Storey's Life is an Open Comic Book

The demons -- personal andfantastical and pop cultural -- that have shaped the art of a San Francisco illustrator

The Man From Uncle ... Mame's

A toy story comes true in the Castro

Acid House

A toy story comes true in the Castro

Acid House

A toy story comes true in the Castro

Night+Day

A toy story comes true in the Castro