The Army National Guard

"New Jerusalem": A Study in Grime

Our Most Corrupt Tax Breaks: 10 Loopholes to Close Right Now

Jury Nullification Does Work -- If You're a White Rastafarian

The right thing isn't always the legal thing, as many moralists venturing inside a courtroom will discover. Mandatory minimums mean a judge must sometimes hand down a stiff sentence. The law is the law and it has left no choice, unsavory as it might have been.But there is another way, another l ... More >>

How To Be a Sound Guy (Without Electrocuting Anyone)

So you wanna be a sound guy? Get paid to go to all those shows? Control how everyone in the room hears the band? Sounds pretty sweet, huh? Bay Area native Nick Malgieri has been doing sound since he was 15 years old -- for clubs, festivals, conferences and, oh, yes, churches. He currently works as a ... More >>

Striking Data

FAIR-y Tales

Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesnít Work

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

California Sued For Shortchanging Business Owners With IOUs

​A National Guard veteran who sold $28,000 worth of uniforms to the state of California for a youth camp has filed a lawsuit against state officials, asserting the state violated state law by paying her with  IOUs in lieu of cash during last year's budget crisis.Nancy Baird, a resident of San ... More >>

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

NightClub Impresario and Serial Candidate Cesar Ascarrunz to Run for Mayor -- Yes, Again!

Is San Francisco ready?​Cesar Ascarrunz' Cesar's Latin Palace was a top fixture of 1990s San Francisco night life. His 1999 New Years' Eve bash at Bill Graham auditorium headlined by Los Van Van is still remembered as the greatest concert in San Francisco history. But Ascarrunz is most fondly reme ... More >>

War games: Soldiers reenact life and death in Iraq and Afghanistan

SF Weekly Letters

Adjust Your Television

The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

Fighting to Work

No End In Sight For Cindy Sheehan's World Tour

Oh, we've still got Cindy to kick around...Though George W. Bush may be out to pasture, his nemesis, San Francisco's Cindy Sheehan, shows no sign of slowing down as she campaigns for an Oregon bill that would keep National Guard troops home, appears in a documentary film honoring an AWOL anti-war so ... More >>

Bondage Sets and Miniskirts on a Tour of Kink's Armory

Padded Cell Set.If you think the old Armory at 14th and Mission -- a giant brick fortress fashioned back in the 1910's as a recreated Moorish castle -- looks imposing from the outside, check out its insides. Once a month Kink.com, the alternative porn studio that owns the enormous building, opens it ... More >>

Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

No Fondles Barred: Sexual Female Wrestling in SF this Weekend

Longest Day

A Mechanized Assault From the Nostalgia Artillery: Rambo Toy Commercials!

Investigating the Future of Investigative Journalism. Part II – Journalists and Bloggers: ‘Let’s Not Throw Grenades at Each Other’

Tower of Babble

Bill O'Reilly wants terrorists to bomb Coit Tower because we're a bunch of sissies. Whose side are you on?

Go West

Join Kanye and the rest of the music community in sharing your thoughts about Dubya's response to Katrina

The Minuteman's 15 Minutes of Fame (Minute 14.5)

At the Arizona border, Infiltrator checks in with Americans who help the government look for illegal aliens

Yo Soy Centroamericano

Why vote Kerry? Exhibit No. 1: George W. Bush has shamelessly hired the dangerous figures behind the Iran-Contra Affair into senior diplomatic posts.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 4, 2004

Surprise!

If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

Schizophonic Illness

Motion Man wants to be rap's mad clown prince

Pull My Daisy

"Cinema Salon" aims to recapture the spirit of old North Beach café society

Gift of the Magus

It's nice to think the right presents could make this a merry holiday season. Nice, but not particularly wise.

Resurrection

After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale

Tapped Out

There're not enough buglers and honor guards to keep pace with dying vets

Political Theater

A strange mix of art, politics, and economic policy stalls renovation of the York Theater and revitalization of the Mission District

When Cesar Reigned

An aging journalist remembers 1999, when an election became a revolution, and the city changed forever

Masters of Disaster

The San Francisco Office of Emergency Services unveils its new post-apocalypse playbook

Cops Watching Cops

Police watchdog agency the Office of Citizen Complaints braces for its fifth lame director

Slap Shots