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Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Asks Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

It's hard to overstate how much the politics of sexuality have changed in the past 20 years. In the 1980s and '90s, coming out of the closet was a radical act. In 2011, gay men and lesbians are so cute and cuddly and downright marketable in popular culture that even Archie and Jughead hang out with ... More >>

SFO Travelers Leave Behind $15,908.02 in Loose Change

​We all know that flying is a painful experience -- the security lines and baggage fees, capped off by the overall unpleasantness of your fellow travelers. To make matters worse, we're tossing free money at the airports to help fund our utterly miserable experiences. USA Today found that in 2010, ... More >>

Blue Angels Are Awesomely Divisive: SF Weekly Called 'Liberal Doosh'

​The only thing more entertaining than lamenting the very loud roar of the Blue Angels is the hate you earn for doing so. On Friday, we penned a diatribe against the "seagulls from hell" interrupting newsroom activity at the SF Weekly office from our front-row seat of the deafening Fleet Week ... More >>

John Cameron Mitchell, of Hedwig and the Angry Inch Fame, Is DJing in S.F. This Sunday

John Cameron Mitchell​There's a scene in the seminal rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in which Hedwig, as a young boy growing up in East Berlin, shows how he used to lie with his head in the oven, listening to the likes of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and David Bowie on the American Armed Forces ... More >>

It’s Here, It’s Queer, It’s Really Big

John Cameron Mitchell​There's a scene in the seminal rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in which Hedwig, as a young boy growing up in East Berlin, shows how he used to lie with his head in the oven, listening to the likes of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and David Bowie on the American Armed Forces ... More >>

Army: Show Preview

John Cameron Mitchell​There's a scene in the seminal rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in which Hedwig, as a young boy growing up in East Berlin, shows how he used to lie with his head in the oven, listening to the likes of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and David Bowie on the American Armed Forces ... More >>

“The Tillman Story”: A furious documentary on a craven cover-up

John Cameron Mitchell​There's a scene in the seminal rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in which Hedwig, as a young boy growing up in East Berlin, shows how he used to lie with his head in the oven, listening to the likes of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and David Bowie on the American Armed Forces ... More >>

The War Area

John Cameron Mitchell​There's a scene in the seminal rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in which Hedwig, as a young boy growing up in East Berlin, shows how he used to lie with his head in the oven, listening to the likes of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and David Bowie on the American Armed Forces ... More >>

Album That Time Time Sort Of Forgot: Desaparecidos' 'Read Music/Speak Spanish'

Bill Sitzmann​Today sees the stateside release of the Arcade Fire's third full-length album, The Suburbs, which supposedly kicks ass. Not having heard it, I will instead ruminate on another album about suburbs: Read Music/Speak Spanish, the first and only record by Omaha's Desaparecidos. The ye ... More >>

Will SFPark Encourage Earth to Rise Up Against Its Human Foe?

Mother Nature Fights Back​As noted earlier on this page, San Francisco today launches a large-scale test of a new parking system whereby pavement-embedded sensors communicate with each other, a central computer, and parking meters in order to be able to raise prices when empty spaces become scarce ... More >>

Restrepo

Mother Nature Fights Back​As noted earlier on this page, San Francisco today launches a large-scale test of a new parking system whereby pavement-embedded sensors communicate with each other, a central computer, and parking meters in order to be able to raise prices when empty spaces become scarce ... More >>

M.I.A.'s diluted politics

Mother Nature Fights Back​As noted earlier on this page, San Francisco today launches a large-scale test of a new parking system whereby pavement-embedded sensors communicate with each other, a central computer, and parking meters in order to be able to raise prices when empty spaces become scarce ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Anti-Immigration Laws Bad, Anti-Gay Laws Good

Your future drinking accomodations. ​ I'm just going to say this once - up front - and then I'm going to move on: The furor raised over the Arizona illegal immigrant law is interesting to watch from my queer perch. I understand the outrage. The nerve of one state threatening to restrict the ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Don't Ask, Shut the Fuck Up

At ease, soldier​On Thursday, the U.S. military announced that it plans to be less dickish about enforcing the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy that prohibits gay people from serving in the armed forces. I'm not sure why this new plan is supposed to be exciting. The gist of it seems to say, "He ... More >>

We Predict Movie

At ease, soldier​On Thursday, the U.S. military announced that it plans to be less dickish about enforcing the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy that prohibits gay people from serving in the armed forces. I'm not sure why this new plan is supposed to be exciting. The gist of it seems to say, "He ... More >>

Think Pink

At ease, soldier​On Thursday, the U.S. military announced that it plans to be less dickish about enforcing the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy that prohibits gay people from serving in the armed forces. I'm not sure why this new plan is supposed to be exciting. The gist of it seems to say, "He ... More >>

Tôkyô Sonata

At ease, soldier​On Thursday, the U.S. military announced that it plans to be less dickish about enforcing the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy that prohibits gay people from serving in the armed forces. I'm not sure why this new plan is supposed to be exciting. The gist of it seems to say, "He ... More >>

Play Me the Music

At ease, soldier​On Thursday, the U.S. military announced that it plans to be less dickish about enforcing the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy that prohibits gay people from serving in the armed forces. I'm not sure why this new plan is supposed to be exciting. The gist of it seems to say, "He ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

At ease, soldier​On Thursday, the U.S. military announced that it plans to be less dickish about enforcing the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy that prohibits gay people from serving in the armed forces. I'm not sure why this new plan is supposed to be exciting. The gist of it seems to say, "He ... More >>

Chevron's Prince of Darkness

By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

Examiner Swims Against Local Tide

By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

This Week in the Wacky World of Food

By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

Worst Mix Tape Ever: The Torture Playlist

By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

Berkeley to Marine Recruiters: Oops.

By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

SF Ghettos Re-Zoned for More Booze? It's: SFGovernmentInAction!!!

By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

Surge This

Breaking out of the pack of Iraq War docs, No End in Sight devastates

Auto-Chaotic

As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

Letters to the Editor

As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

"The bad guy squealed like a pig and hit the ground like a sack..." -- 20 seconds in Hell

As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

The Pentagon's 'Gay Bomb'

As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

Inside the Savage Nation

He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

All Gave Some

Sir! No Sir! recounts the GIs who refused to ride the killing machine

Over a Barrel

The role of oil in U.S. policy: A new documentary goes behind the headlines

Political Puppets

Napkins, chopsticks, and teapots bring a Japanese internment camp to life

Bombs & Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

What the Left Got Wrong About Iraq

Anti-war activists ignored Saddam Hussein's horrendous crimes against ordinary Iraqis. Do they have anything -- beyond anti-Bush demonstrations -- to offer the oppressed in Iran and Syria?

True Lives

Is it real or is it magic? Decide at the S.F. Documentary Film Festival.

Don't Fence Me In

One Window looks beautiful and makes us think, but its emotions fail to stick

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 15, 2004

Artbeat

Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 15, 2004

Technolust

Gallery goes game-crazy

Remembrance of a War Past

An unfond look back at Freedom Toast, TV jingoes, and a pro-war bully called Tony Hall

Asking, Telling

The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

Saving Private Mad Max

Mel Gibson stars in The Patriot

South to the Future

Military to Form PC Corps

Zoom Lens

Military to Form PC Corps

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Military to Form PC Corps

The Invisible Veterans

Thousands of Filipinos fought and spied and suffered and died under American command to help us win World War II. The U.S. government says the soldiers who survived -- now elderly, often living in poverty -- aren't worthy of military benefits. Four storie

Night+Day

Thousands of Filipinos fought and spied and suffered and died under American command to help us win World War II. The U.S. government says the soldiers who survived -- now elderly, often living in poverty -- aren't worthy of military benefits. Four storie