The Salvation Army

Seats of Power: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Moving Bronze Art Chairs Across the Street

Bouncer Takes in California Christmastime at Straits

Give a Little, Get a Lot

UC Berkeley Might Ban Salvation Army Bell Ringers for Holidays, Claiming the Organization Is Anti-Gay

The ubiquitous Salvation Army bell ringers who collect donations for charity every Christmas might be booted from the liberal bastion of UC Berkeley, where the student body has accused the Christian group of holding homophobic policies. Last month, the student government passed a resolution saying ... More >>

Get Your Sugar Buzz on, It's National Donut Day

On most every other day you'd be reading health pundits lecture you about how fat you are and how that extra snack time at the office is slowly killing you. But consider today a holiday from all that health-nut public relations shaming and go get yourself a big, fat sugary donut -- or 12. Today is N ... More >>

Danish Cult Could Be Illegally Placing Donation Boxes On S.F. Sidewalks

Them again?​Mission resident Joe Stevens has new neighbors:"I left for work, one day, everything was normal. And I came back, I see this fucking ugly box the size of a car on the sidewalk," Stevens says.The yellow boxes are the property of US'Again, a for-profit front company that a 2001 Danish ex ... More >>

5 O'Clock Somewhere, a Sneaky Summer Special at Clock Bar

Tamara PalmerWho knows what this mug held before its current assignment?​A highlight of the new summer cocktails at Michael Mina's Clock Bar is a wonderfully deceptive flip called 5 O'Clock Somewhere. It's a flip due to the use of a whole raw egg, in this case shaken with a healthy pour of Bul ... More >>

Spending High Time with MC5 -- A Guided, Stoned Tour through Motor City Mayhem

​Listen to this while high: High Time by MC5. Behind the buzz: Our recent visit to the Detroit retro-rock showroom sends us straight to the Cadillac of crunk rock, the Motor City Five. Elektra Records' overweening lust for a piece of the huge Midwestern rock LP market led to its short-lived assoc ... More >>

Maurice Van Buren, Sex Offender, Charged With Impersonating Salvation Army Bell-Ringer

Maurice Van Buren, 47, is charged with being a bad bell-ringer​A Bay Area man has taken the express route to bad karma following a Friday bust for allegedly impersonating a Salvation Army bell-ringer and pocketing the money. Maurice Van Buren, 47, is still in custody at Solano County Jail facing a ... More >>

Last Night: Flux Summit at Pyramind Studios

​Flux Summit April 29, 2010 Pyramind Studios Better Than: The ninth season of American Idol remixed by Moby. It's a good thing that the Flux Summit's bar was situated in the same room as its music critique contest. Nervous electronic music artists needed a stiff belt before auditioning their p ... More >>

Oakland's Month-Old Beer Revolution Inspired by SOMA's City Beer Store

Push/FacebookFeel free to order in vegan soul food from the restaurant next door.​Napoleon said, "In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them." A man like Fritz Maytag, who resurrected S.F.'s Anchor Brewing in 1965, is the former. A man like ... More >>

Couple Biking from Alaska to Argentina Make San Francisco Stopover To Assemble Pot Pies

Roland and Belinda Hinmueller ​​At the central Salvation Army kitchen in SoMa Wednesday morning, two line cooks wore cycling jerseys along with their hairnets. You could consider kitchen hands Roland and Belinda Hinmueller a type of extreme migrant worker: a New Zealand couple pedaling from Alas ... More >>

The Last Picture Show: Beloved Parkway Theater -- With Pizza, Beer, Second-Hand Couches -- Goes Dark

Show's over The Parkway Theater -- the second-hand movie paradise known for its embrace of coupling beer and cinema while seated on a Salvation Army couch -- has long been one of the only destinations that can induce San Franciscans to gleefully leave the confines of the city and head east to Oakl ... More >>

One-Scene Wonder

In Doubt, Viola Davis once again proves that there are no small parts.

Budget Rock by the alphabet

Vince Vaughan's Bad Santa Bro Targets Teens in Fred Claus

The Soothing Uncompromising Experience

Sex&Murder

Joe Konopka was an anti-drug crusader. Terry Frazier was a bondage escort with a drug habit. Two months ago, their lives collided.

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Happy End

Happy End

Gangster movie meets musical theater in the back room at Original Joe's

Street Scavenging

Go for the gold

Gang Today, Hair Tomorrow

The Suey Sing Boys of Oakland were a bunch of low-level Chinese-American thugs. Then 10 of them became high-fashion hairstylists.

Bootyology 101

Discussing chest-buns, the Baboon's Ass, and furniture moving at the Monkey Club

Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Bertolt Brecht does George Bernard Shaw, badly

Reclamation Project

Pirates and other hooligans retake Haight Street for the only cause that matters -- love

Surprise!

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

Promises, Promises

In which the boy mayor shows off his basketball, um, prowess, while his wife just shows off

Karmic Chameleon

Kelley Stoltz's Antique Glow shines with a voice both familiar and unique

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Sugary Dreams

You want one. You know you do.

The Tired Nut

The last days of San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker as we know it

LiLiPUT/Kleenex

LiLiPUT (Kill Rock Stars)

Tom Waits' Variations

Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

Disaster Corts the Mission

Reviews

Night+Day

Traveling at the Speed of Sound

An aural activist hears the future

Logic Boards, Not Blackboards

The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

Final Deadline

David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

Mercury Falling

For 11 years, Markus Cook was synonymous with Bay Area bike messengers. But he didn't live to see his dream come true -- the Cycle Messenger World Championships held here in San Francisco.

Spirit of '77

Sin and salvation with Rancid

Paper Trails

Samples

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

Matrix's Happy Face

New statistics contradict Jordan's spin on homeless crackdown