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"Absence of Being": Susan Burnstine's Photography Explores Loss

How To Deal With Break-Ups Gracefully In the Digital Age

​ Anna, Your previous advice regarding approaching ladies the right way online landed me a really fun date that turned into about 15 more, but now that we've had an argument or two I'm thinking maybe I should start over. How can I tell when it's time to break up when you're not even really "datin ... More >>

Prelinger Archives Show How San Francisco Has Always Struggled with Change

​ Anna, Your previous advice regarding approaching ladies the right way online landed me a really fun date that turned into about 15 more, but now that we've had an argument or two I'm thinking maybe I should start over. How can I tell when it's time to break up when you're not even really "datin ... More >>

The 10 Most Epic Food Fights: Who Invented What?

Chicago has deep-dish pizza. Florida has key lime pie. And don't mess with Texas; it's got a real zeal for barbecue. But what if someone or somewhere else took credit for your favorite regional food? It's a full-on food fight. SFoodie is finally going to settle the score in the 10 most heated food d ... 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 >>

Design for Living

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 >>

Jailbreak! iPhone Users Can Now Legally Download Apps Apple Hasn't Approved.

Tough luck, Steve...​The Library of Congress' copyright office today approved an application submitted by San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation which will allow millions of iPhone owners to get out of jail -- free. It is now legal for iPhoners to break electronic locks and download applic ... More >>

Recession's Silver Lining: Housing Slump Chilled Ellis Act Evictions

Ben ShahnFewer condo conversions during tough times? Who woulda guessed?​March 2009-Feb. 2010 evictions down eleven percent from year beforeEllis Act TIC/condo evictions down 78 percent in bad economySan Franciscans received 1,269 eviction notices between March 1, 2009 and Feb. 28, 2010 --  a ... More >>

New Alan Lomax box set captures old Haiti with fresh ears

Ben ShahnFewer condo conversions during tough times? Who woulda guessed?​March 2009-Feb. 2010 evictions down eleven percent from year beforeEllis Act TIC/condo evictions down 78 percent in bad economySan Franciscans received 1,269 eviction notices between March 1, 2009 and Feb. 28, 2010 --  a ... More >>

After 146-Year Absence, 'Living Human Products' Back on U.S. Market

Library of CongressFor sale once more?In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring illegal the sale, purchase, or ownership of living human products, known then as people.In 2009, Barack Obama signed an order lifting restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research,& ... More >>

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Library of CongressFor sale once more?In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring illegal the sale, purchase, or ownership of living human products, known then as people.In 2009, Barack Obama signed an order lifting restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research,& ... More >>

Howard Wiley Gains Inspiration from an Unlikely Locale: Angola Prison

Library of CongressFor sale once more?In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring illegal the sale, purchase, or ownership of living human products, known then as people.In 2009, Barack Obama signed an order lifting restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research,& ... More >>

Neglected Treasures

A famed Mexican artist painted six murals for the 1939 World's Fair in S.F. One famously disappeared. The others have practically been ignored.

The Bird and the Bee, Sonic Youth, Aaron Ross -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Thursday, July 19

A famed Mexican artist painted six murals for the 1939 World's Fair in S.F. One famously disappeared. The others have practically been ignored.

The Day the Music Dies

Internet radio stations like SomaFM have launched bands and influenced what mainstream DJs play. On July 15, they could be gone forever

Charting Hits

A year on the Public Enemy roller coaster

Repertory Film Listings

A year on the Public Enemy roller coaster

Watching Zora Neale

An exhilarating blues musical stymied by its Broadway ambitions

What Came Before

Music and dance older than Jim Crow

Out of the Past

Forgotten cinema rises anew

House of Tudor

A Deadhead's Songcatchers and the best rock band in America

Running Around San Francisco for an Education

Visiting the low-profile (and captivatingly curious) National Film Preservation Foundation

A Grand Guy

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

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.

Virtual Gutenberg

An Oakland company is quietly preserving our intellectual history -- with technology

Holiday Highlights 2001

Holiday Event Lisitngs

End of the Road

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

Tool(s) of the Man

Mickey Hart is still pursuing that perfect beat -- in words, sound, and even government service

A Puff of Smoke

Paul Wesolowski knows the secret word: Groucho

Rhapsody in Green

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

Reel World

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

Second Time Around

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

Second Time

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

Mulch

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

Night+Day

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

In the Cards

The New Main Library retains something of the old

Booked Up

A tower of tomes on Mission Street

Mondo 1995

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter

Reel World

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter