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"Transformers: Dark of the Moon": The Enjoyable Hum of Your Brain Cells Dying

In Space, No One Can Hear You Laugh

Out of This World

Rocket Woman

Fly Girls

Buzz Aldrin's San Francisco Appearance Has Been Grounded

Major buzzkill...​ San Francisco, we have a problem. Believe it or not, space ranger Buzz Aldrin will no longer be attending the grand reopening of Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum at Fisherman's Wharf today.Though he was expected to bring that extra oomph to a new space exhibit, The Apollo XI ... More >>

Points For Variety: Newsom Reels In Big Donations From Plumbers, Maker of Spaceships

Ky MichaelsonCombine rockets and toilets and you get this ... and Gavin Newsom's big donors. Credit where credit is due: If there's one thing Gavin Newsom can do with elan, it's accept a check. Perhaps sometimes there's a little too much elan -- he recently returned a hefty donation from Russell Wei ... More >>

The Grass Is Dead

Ky MichaelsonCombine rockets and toilets and you get this ... and Gavin Newsom's big donors. Credit where credit is due: If there's one thing Gavin Newsom can do with elan, it's accept a check. Perhaps sometimes there's a little too much elan -- he recently returned a hefty donation from Russell Wei ... More >>

It Could Be Worse (or, Tales from the Dark Side of Thanksgiving - and the Moon)

By Meredith Brody You might secretly be dreading tonight's festivities: the dry turkey, lumpy gravy, wacky dressing, and panoply of oddly-assorted sides; the mindless mayhem playing itself out on the TV, whether it's guys crashing into each other on the football field or balloons knocking lampposts ... More >>

Space Kimchi Poses Explosion Risk

By Meredith Brody You might secretly be dreading tonight's festivities: the dry turkey, lumpy gravy, wacky dressing, and panoply of oddly-assorted sides; the mindless mayhem playing itself out on the TV, whether it's guys crashing into each other on the football field or balloons knocking lampposts ... More >>

Encore

By Meredith Brody You might secretly be dreading tonight's festivities: the dry turkey, lumpy gravy, wacky dressing, and panoply of oddly-assorted sides; the mindless mayhem playing itself out on the TV, whether it's guys crashing into each other on the football field or balloons knocking lampposts ... More >>

Bill Pullman's Shuttle Columbia Play 'Expedition 6' Comes Apart on Blast-Off

By Meredith Brody You might secretly be dreading tonight's festivities: the dry turkey, lumpy gravy, wacky dressing, and panoply of oddly-assorted sides; the mindless mayhem playing itself out on the TV, whether it's guys crashing into each other on the football field or balloons knocking lampposts ... More >>

Rocket Men

Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

From Spaceballs to Expedition 6

Bill Pullman's new docudrama mixes astronauts' psychological profiles with trapeze artistry

Of Gashes, Gouges and Goo: The Endeavor

Bill Pullman's new docudrama mixes astronauts' psychological profiles with trapeze artistry

The Fault, Dear Berkeley.

Bill Pullman's new docudrama mixes astronauts' psychological profiles with trapeze artistry

There Be Monsters

A malfunctioning windup toy of a show, meant for adults but good for kids

Aliens Beware!

Infiltrator takes in NASA Space Camp for kids. As an adult. To save the planet.

Architecture in Helsinki

Fingers Crossed

Best Poster Store

Poster Source

Mars Attacks!

Planetary play in Oakland

Pine Valley Cosmonauts

The Executioner's Last Songs Vol. 2 & 3

Pipe Dreams

A veteran of the Apollo program continues a quixotic quest to send a small rocket of his own design 60 miles high and, in the process, save his soul. Maybe ours, too.

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 26, 2003

Abort. Abort.

There's a solution for NASA's management problems and foolish focus on manned spaceflight: no NASA

Traveling Companions

Gray whales are leading tourists, conservationists, and business operators on a rocky voyage toward economic and environmental salvation

Reel World

San Francisco was the birthplace of American Astronaut, a quirky, ultra-low-budget space western

Short and Sweet-and-Sour

The disparate tales of "Boys Life 3" showcase the flourishing art of the gay short film

Reel World

2001: A Space Odyssey; Up the Down Staircase; The Blackboard Jungle

Mission Implausible

2001: A Space Odyssey; Up the Down Staircase; The Blackboard Jungle

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2001: A Space Odyssey; Up the Down Staircase; The Blackboard Jungle

Heavenly Secrets

How the NASA researchers who inspired the film Contact outfoxed Congress and continued the search for intelligent aliens

The House of Tudor

How the NASA researchers who inspired the film Contact outfoxed Congress and continued the search for intelligent aliens

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

How the NASA researchers who inspired the film Contact outfoxed Congress and continued the search for intelligent aliens

Night+Day

How the NASA researchers who inspired the film Contact outfoxed Congress and continued the search for intelligent aliens