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San Francisco Gets Perfect Score When it Comes to Being Gay Friendly

San Francisco might not be the gayest city in America anymore, but it sure is among one of the gayest-friendly cities in the nation -- and that's something to brag about. On the 34th anniversary of Harvey Milk's death, the Human Rights Campaign released a national report that gives a snapshot of how ... More >>

Progressively Modest: Eric Mar Stays out of the Headlines

John Hodgman Explains the Beauty of the Internet

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Pete Fecteau, San Francisco Artist, Turns Nerdy Rubik's Cubes into Fine Art

Ready, set, cube​In the '70s, Rubik's Cubes were nerds' weapons of choice, and in the late 2000's, speedcubing -- and its crazy cousin, blindfolded speedcubing -- became (sorta) cool.But S.F. artist Pete Fecteau is turning Rubik's Cubes into large-scale mosaic art, and young wannabe-nerds (we mean ... More >>

Which Smurf Would Your Favorite S.F. City Hall Politico Be?

Creepy!​If you have young kids or are some kind of weird serial killer, you've probably been eagerly anticipating the release of the 3D movie version of The Smurfs. Frankly, the appearance of these eerily topaz CGI gremlins on the big screen is not something we're so excited about. The same cannot ... More >>

BART to Get Its Gay on for Pride

Does it get any gayer than this?​Remember when The Daily Show made fun of San Francisco for getting, ahem, topped by Minneapolis as the gayest city in the nation? Well, perhaps BART is helping us try to make a comeback, just in time for Gay Pride. It seems that BART is now hopping aboard the gay t ... More >>

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Aaron Peskin Labels Ed Lee, David Chiu 'Lightweights'

Don't expect this photo to be recreated anytime soon​In the wake of last night's epic progressive fumble attempting to maneuver a left-of-center candidate into Mayor Gavin Newsom's chair, progressive stalwart Aaron Peskin rained bitter words on everyone involved. The former Board of Supervisors pr ... More >>

They Might Be Giants, Street Food Fest, Rock Make, Booty Bassment and More

They Might Be Giants play Stern Grove for free this Sunday​Celebrate San Francisco this weekend. We have awesome bands, awesome fests and awesome non-summer summers. Check out our list of top ten things to do for less than a cocktail costs at some fancy-pants L.A. club. Locals only: Alamo Square ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Defense of Marriage Act Indefensible

Judge Joseph Tauro​The story of the week: A federal judge in Massachusetts declared that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) - passed by Congress in 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton - violates the U.S. Constitution. In his decision, Judge Joseph Tauro (A fiery young radical aged ... More >>

Whither Skippy? Will Man Profiled in SF Weekly Cover Story Have to Give Up His Service Iguana?

Joe EskenaziCosmie Silfa and Skippy​Our more fervent readers may recall a June SF Weekly cover story titled "Service with a Snarl" exploring the city's intriguing rules and regulations regarding service animals. Yes, it was the one with the maniacal Chihuahua on the cover. One of the service anima ... More >>

Medicine for Melancholy

Race to Fame

W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

Black Like Me

Not a coveted demographic, the young African-American hipster gets a movie.

"Speaking of Responsibility, We've Taken It;" "Everything the 49ers Have Asked Us to Do, We've Done," - the Wit and Wisdom of Gavin Newsom on the economy

By Benjamin Wachs What's that, you say? Didn't Gavin already give a Newsom-isode on the economy? Well, yes, but that was the "Economic Climate." This is the Newsom-isode on "Economic Development." What's the difference? Well, one kind of tells you what Gavin plans to do, and the other kind o ... More >>

Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People

And they bring him to life in Ghost Town.

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Party Crashers 08

Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

Absurdistan

The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.

Let's Go to Prison

Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.

Personal Foul

Will Ferrell's umpteenth sports comedy is only half bad. His half.

Human Giant Hit SF for NoisePop

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Sex Sells Itself at the Aurora Theater in Berkeley

Voter Fraud

Barry Levinson wags the dog again, but his bark is worse than his bite

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Your forecast of the summer's top movies

K's Choice

She's not an addict (maybe that's a lie). Bouncer visits the Page.

You Suck What?

Katy St. Clair discovers the Marilyn Monroe of dive bars: Randy's Place

Cherry on Top

The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes

Cursed

Bewitched delivers just what you'd expect. Absolutely nothing.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A Winding Path

Why a Bay Area microbiologist turned to the New Age art of building labyrinths -- by hand, out of dirt

OK Then

Ashlee-gate proves that George Bush's incompetence has corrupted our nation's pop singers

Vote No

Silver City plants a shrub where it wants to dig up a Bush

Good News

Will Ferrell's Anchorman is dumb, and funny, as hell

House of Tudor

Wigging Out

Amy Sedaris finds a seething cesspool of lucre, lust, and lunacy in Wigfield

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

As Seen On

We like books and we like TV, so why don't we like book TV?

House of Tudor

Astrology songs, pungent death metal, Philippine culture, and a Presidential roast

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Sign Language

Cult hero Harvey Sid Fisher, creator of Astrology Songs, plays the Mission

It Happens

Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park’s the funniest show on TV.

Einstein's Dreams

Inventor Alex Chiu will give you a million bucks if you can come up with something better than his Immortality Device

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

The Talking Penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight

STUFF: Dawn of the Dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

And Now, On With the Show: SFIFF Week 2