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The Boy Scouts' Police Problem: Explorers Have Been Sexually Abused by Cops. Should Scouts Share the Blame?

Saturday Night: Clorox Girls, Midnite Snaxxx, Mermaid Bones, and Cigarette Bums Kick Off a Bender at the Hemlock Tavern

Clorox Girls at the Hemlock on Saturday. All pics by Romana Machado​Clorox Girls, Cigarette Bums, Midnight Snaxxx, Mermaid Bones February 19, 2011 @ Hemlock Tavern Better than: Getting knifed in Echo Park. Punk rock presents a certain physical hazard, or so I keep telling the pretty lady who tak ... More >>

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 >>

Willie Vlautin: Alcoholic for the Holidays

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 >>

Levada's Secret

As he prepares to be deposed in San Francisco next week, former S.F. Archbishop William Levada may have to come clean about a priestly child molester he protected in Portland.

Videogames and Stevie Wonder compliments of Amon Tobin, RJD2, and "Wonder-Full 2"

As he prepares to be deposed in San Francisco next week, former S.F. Archbishop William Levada may have to come clean about a priestly child molester he protected in Portland.

The Opposite of Suck

Mike Mills' debut is smart, funny, and gorgeously sad

Hear This

Giant Drag is anything but; Michael Penn introduces us to Mr. Hollywood, Jr.

Rural Cleansing

Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

Roof Access

The Roofies have perfected the fine art of not taking themselves seriously

Night+Day

The Roofies have perfected the fine art of not taking themselves seriously

Night Crawler

The Roofies have perfected the fine art of not taking themselves seriously

The Case For One Daily

The Joint Operating Agreement deprives the Chronicle of the resources it needs to produce a great newspaper; it also prevents the afternoon Examiner from connecting with the readers it needs to survive. Since the JOA makes it inevitable that only one wil