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U.S. Armed Forces

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    History Overlooked: Actress Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent Valuable Radio Technology

    Hedy Lamarr may be best remembered as the glamorous, scandal-plagued star of such hits as White Cargo and Samson and Delilah. But there's a largely forgotten aspect to Lamarr's life that's much more compelling: The Austrian-born actress, alongside avant-garde composer George Antheil, invented what ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 25, 2012

    Obscured by Fame

    Hedy Lamarr may be best remembered as the glamorous, scandal-plagued star of such hits as White Cargo and Samson and Delilah. But there's a largely forgotten aspect to Lamarr's life that's much more compelling: The Austrian-born actress, alongside avant-garde composer George Antheil, invented what ... More >>

  • News

    October 19, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    Hedy Lamarr may be best remembered as the glamorous, scandal-plagued star of such hits as White Cargo and Samson and Delilah. But there's a largely forgotten aspect to Lamarr's life that's much more compelling: The Austrian-born actress, alongside avant-garde composer George Antheil, invented what ... More >>

  • News

    September 28, 2011

    Prelinger Archives Show How San Francisco Has Always Struggled with Change

    Hedy Lamarr may be best remembered as the glamorous, scandal-plagued star of such hits as White Cargo and Samson and Delilah. But there's a largely forgotten aspect to Lamarr's life that's much more compelling: The Austrian-born actress, alongside avant-garde composer George Antheil, invented what ... More >>

  • Film

    July 20, 2011

    "Captain America": Hokey, Hacky Exercise in Franchise Building

    Hedy Lamarr may be best remembered as the glamorous, scandal-plagued star of such hits as White Cargo and Samson and Delilah. But there's a largely forgotten aspect to Lamarr's life that's much more compelling: The Austrian-born actress, alongside avant-garde composer George Antheil, invented what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Today in Internet Cat Worship: Adopt a #BASED Cat Like Lil B's

    It's never not a good day for cats on the Internet, but today is a particular boon for that post-cinco de Mayo hangover. (Also, we have a contractual obligation to report on everything Brandon McCartney does.) Ladies and gentlemen, meet Keke:​Lil B adopted this she-beast at least a year ago, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Nationalist Anarchists to Burn at Least One Koran

    About to create a furor again. ​The leader of the Bay Area Nationalist Anarchists, the white nationalist group that got beat down by black bloc anarchists at an immigrant rights march last year, will join the right-wing furor over Sharia law by burning a Koran on Friday at a to-be-disclosed locati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Friday Night: Roger Waters Turns The Wall Into A Rallying Cry at Oracle Arena

    Christopher VictorioRoger Waters performed The Wall at Oracle Arena Friday night.​Roger Waters' 'The Wall' December 3, 2010@ Oracle Arena Better than: A hippie-dippy stoner protest. We don't need no education We don't need no thought control We sang the anthem as school kids. In bong-fuele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Filipino WWII Vets, in S.F., File Suit Seeking Recognition, Compensation

    Taylor FriedmanRomeo de Fernandez, 91, survived the Bataan death march. But now, he says, his own government is shortchanging him.​Philippines-born Romeo R. de Fernandez, 91, served in the United States military and defended Manila during World War II. In 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army took him ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    M.I.A.'s Shock Tactics Dilute Her Politics

    Image Courtesy of: Grant Gilliland​ M.I.A. thrives on misinterpretation. Her debut album, Arular, was named after her Tamil Tiger dad and released in the midst of the War on Terror with a lead track taunting, "I've got the bombs to make you blow." Her antagonistic resolve arrived at a time when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: City Brings Hammer Down on Anti-Prostitution Program, Then Forms a Glee Club to Sing Social Services to Sleep

      I've had a really busy few weeks, and I haven't been able to catch up on any of the new fall shows yet. So I tried to cram a lot of television in this weekend while writing SF Gov InAction. Just so you know. Monday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee Somebody has to sa ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2009

    Outside the bedroom, BDSM practitioners can't take punishment

      I've had a really busy few weeks, and I haven't been able to catch up on any of the new fall shows yet. So I tried to cram a lot of television in this weekend while writing SF Gov InAction. Just so you know. Monday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee Somebody has to sa ... More >>

  • Film

    March 25, 2009

    Tokyo Sonata

    From crisis, hope.

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Wednesday Photos: Parade of Sail

    From crisis, hope.

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2008

    Naked Yoga Guy Arrested for 6th Time

    From crisis, hope.

  • News

    April 16, 2008

    SF's Most Maddening Final Four

    From crisis, hope.

  • News

    April 2, 2008

    SF's Most Maddening Final Four

    From crisis, hope.

  • Film

    January 16, 2008

    Disaster Ahead

    Cloverfield is a big dumb monster movie about nothing

  • Film

    December 19, 2007

    Moolah for Mullahs

    All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2007

    SF's Needs to Kill Its Armenian Genocide Resolution

    All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

  • News

    June 20, 2007

    An Army of Uno

    Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

  • News

    January 10, 2007

    Battleship Down

    The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  • News

    November 1, 2006

    Patriot Act

    The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  • Culture

    July 26, 2006

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

    The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  • Film

    June 21, 2006

    To Hell and Back

    Michael Winterbottom puts a face — and a hood — on the suffering at Guantanamo

  • Home Entertainment

    December 14, 2005

    Virtual Quagmire

    The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire

  • News

    April 13, 2005

    Asymmetric Warfare: The Game

    Advances in ultrarealistic simulation let soldiers experience the war in Iraq -- before they go

  • Culture

    April 6, 2005

    Play as Weapon

    Discussing Guantánamo in terms of its theatrical merits is beside the point

  • Music

    October 20, 2004

    Hear This

    Drive By Truckers deliver Southern-fried rock; get high on Leftover Crack

  • Film

    September 22, 2004

    The Wrong Side

    A seminal anti-war documentary exposes the horrors of the United States' presence in Vietnam

  • Film

    October 22, 2003

    Dirty Dancing

    The dark side to every guy's secret dream job: stripper

  • News

    October 22, 2003

    Rolling in War Bucks

    How the state public employees' retirement system and the politically connected Carlyle Group profit from defense

  • News

    October 1, 2003

    Glowing Review

    The Navy says radiation levels are within federal safety guidelines, but are higher than what is legally acceptable for the property to be transferred

  • Film

    September 17, 2003

    Living Like a Refugee

    Michael Winterbottom and Tony Grisoni deliver the tale of two boys lost In This World

  • Film

    July 2, 2003

    What Dreams May Come

    Life after Party of Five, training for Latin American military officers, and the "Godfather of Gore"

  • News

    May 14, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of May 14, 2003

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2003

    Open Your Eyes

    A month of public art and community programs

  • News

    April 16, 2003

    Culture Klatsch

    When the Burning Man folks met the Air Force guys, the desert camping tips flew

  • News

    October 30, 2002

    Street Justice

    Marching for peace -- and voting for change -- means matching the solution to the problem

  • News

    October 9, 2002

    Caught on Tape

    The first Duct Tape Festival displays the many uses of adhesive strips of rubber, cloth, and plastic. Bowling, anyone?

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of September 18, 2002

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    Project Censored

    Lefty weeklies are always bitching about the mainstream press. Here're some rotten chestnuts we wish the alternative press would quit serving up.

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    The New Defenders

    An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?

  • News

    January 2, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Cyberspies; Fathers and Sons

  • News

    July 15, 1998

    The Truth Is in Here

    Secret voice mails reveal Chiquita plot to bomb Latin American dictators with GM pickup trucks bearing CNN's nerve gas

  • Culture

    February 25, 1998

    Stage

    Secret voice mails reveal Chiquita plot to bomb Latin American dictators with GM pickup trucks bearing CNN's nerve gas

  • Calendar

    February 11, 1998

    Night + Day

    Secret voice mails reveal Chiquita plot to bomb Latin American dictators with GM pickup trucks bearing CNN's nerve gas

  • Culture

    March 26, 1997

    Stage

    Secret voice mails reveal Chiquita plot to bomb Latin American dictators with GM pickup trucks bearing CNN's nerve gas

  • News

    October 16, 1996

    Going Ballistic

    Secret voice mails reveal Chiquita plot to bomb Latin American dictators with GM pickup trucks bearing CNN's nerve gas

  • Culture

    March 6, 1996

    Combat! Zone

    Though impressively entertaining, John Fisher's latest work often battles its own polemics

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