Teflon

A $50 million Cheshire grin -- Larry Mazzola, U.S. Department of Labor, Plumbing and Pipefitting

The Principal Matter

Teachers said Principal Gil Cho was dictatorial. Students said he manhandled them. The school district said he was doing a good job.

The Mystery of the Tween Demo

Bringing smarty back, Nancy Drew returns for another generation of young consumers

FEMA -- a Four-Letter Word?

The only quiz in the world that will tell you if you're an apologist for the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina response

Just the Facts

Many of the films at DocFest focus on the freakish -- and we like it that way

Industrial Light and Magic

Yves Béhar designs ordinary things that meet our needs in extraordinary ways

And a Reagan New Year!

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

Side Dish

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

The Mobster and the Shrink

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

The Grid

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

Il Divo

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

Tide Turns Against Kaushal Niroula in Murder Trial

Have the old boy's powers failed him?​A Palm Springs judge has refused to dismiss murder conspiracy charges against Kaushal Niroula and Danny Garcia, a rare setback in a pretrial process that seemed to favor the two alleged masterminds of the December 2008 murder of retiree Cliff Lambert.SF Weekly ... More >>

Wok On, Buy in Chinatown

Ben NarasinYee Cheong's wok on campfire coals​I've always been a big fan of cast iron: skillets, griddles, butter melters that look like medieval castle defenses in miniature. They last forever, they're cheap, and they don't seem to have any "bad for you" issues as aluminum and Teflon are repu ... More >>