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Californians Don't Hate Each Other as Much as They Used To

Well, this might help explain last year's mass exodus to Texas.The California Attorney General's Office released some uplifting stats that show Californians have less hostility -- or at least they're not acting on it -- than in previous years. The AG welcomed the numbers which show an over ... More >>

Fucked Up vs. Katy Perry: The Top Five Most Offensive Videos That Glamorize War

Fucked Up's gloriously unhinged frontman Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham got all righteous on Katy Perry's ass this week after apparently viewing the video for her "Part of Me" single. First he Tweeted: "Seeing Katy Perry as a soldier in the video for 'Part of Me' really makes me think that we need to st ... More >>

Bouncer Gets a Pre-Flight Glass of Reality at SFO's Vino Volo

Fucked Up's gloriously unhinged frontman Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham got all righteous on Katy Perry's ass this week after apparently viewing the video for her "Part of Me" single. First he Tweeted: "Seeing Katy Perry as a soldier in the video for 'Part of Me' really makes me think that we need to st ... More >>

Top of the Mark's "Magical Holiday Tea" for the Children of the One Percent

​What: Magical Holiday Tea Where: Top of the Mark When: Fri. and Sat., December 9 and 10, Fri. and Sat., December 16 and 17, 12:30-2 p.m. Cost: $48.00 The rundown: Want to take your kids to something they totally won't appreciate and spend tons of money while doing it? Good news! Top of the ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

​What: Magical Holiday Tea Where: Top of the Mark When: Fri. and Sat., December 9 and 10, Fri. and Sat., December 16 and 17, 12:30-2 p.m. Cost: $48.00 The rundown: Want to take your kids to something they totally won't appreciate and spend tons of money while doing it? Good news! Top of the ... More >>

Overheard in S.F.: Woman Demands Street Preacher Stop Damning Sailors

​What: Magical Holiday Tea Where: Top of the Mark When: Fri. and Sat., December 9 and 10, Fri. and Sat., December 16 and 17, 12:30-2 p.m. Cost: $48.00 The rundown: Want to take your kids to something they totally won't appreciate and spend tons of money while doing it? Good news! Top of the ... More >>

Leatherneck Steakhouse: Veterans' Club Serves Classic American Fare

​What: Magical Holiday Tea Where: Top of the Mark When: Fri. and Sat., December 9 and 10, Fri. and Sat., December 16 and 17, 12:30-2 p.m. Cost: $48.00 The rundown: Want to take your kids to something they totally won't appreciate and spend tons of money while doing it? Good news! Top of the ... More >>

Leatherneck Steakhouse Is Hidden 12 Stories Above You

Lara HataLeatherneck Steakhouse's New York strip and house-made Tater Tots.​Luckily, I called Leatherneck Steakhouse -- the restaurant on the 12th floor of the Marines Memorial Club & Hotel, and the subject of this week's full-length restaurant review in print -- a few hours before setting ou ... More >>

Leatherneck Steakhouse: Just the Tip of the Marines' Memorial Club

Marines' Memorial Club​When I called MaryAnn Hatlan, director of food and beverage at the Marines' Memorial Club and Hotel, to ask her a few background questions about its Leatherneck Steakhouse -- the subject of this week's full-length restaurant review -- she ended up telling me about the hi ... More >>

Blue Angels Noise Level Is Somewhere Between Annoying and Buzz Saw -- Are You Deaf Yet?

​Our view here at the SF Weekly office usually offers a calming view of Alcatraz, sailboats cutting through the surf, and the Yang Ming cargo ship making its way into the bay each afternoon. Coworkers have mentioned the dramatic view could be mistaken for a giant screensaver. But this week, o ... More >>

Five Things We Won't Miss About Southern California

When we read the news this morning that one California lawmaker is attempting to break the state in two (for the umpteenth time), we couldn't help but laugh ... and then dream.How great would it be if we didn't have SoCal conservatives weighing us down? At least we know gay marriage would be legal. ... More >>

Congressman Jared Polis Wants to Hear Your "War on Drugs" Horror Story

Lay it on him​Not every drug user's encounter with police is bad. SF Weekly readers might recall the story when the San Francisco Police Department returned several pounds of marijuana to a medical grower last year. But for every story like that, there's a Clark Freshman -- the UC Hastings law pro ... More >>

Hiding in Uniform

Lay it on him​Not every drug user's encounter with police is bad. SF Weekly readers might recall the story when the San Francisco Police Department returned several pounds of marijuana to a medical grower last year. But for every story like that, there's a Clark Freshman -- the UC Hastings law pro ... More >>

Love Underground

Lay it on him​Not every drug user's encounter with police is bad. SF Weekly readers might recall the story when the San Francisco Police Department returned several pounds of marijuana to a medical grower last year. But for every story like that, there's a Clark Freshman -- the UC Hastings law pro ... More >>

DADT Is Dead! Long Live DADT!

​On Saturday, following months of gyrations, the U.S. Senate repealed the military ban on open service by gays and lesbians known as Don't Ask Don't Tell.Sort of.This policy has been under heavy scrutiny since the end of President George W. Bush's second term, and promises to repeal DADT were made ... More >>

This month's literary events

​On Saturday, following months of gyrations, the U.S. Senate repealed the military ban on open service by gays and lesbians known as Don't Ask Don't Tell.Sort of.This policy has been under heavy scrutiny since the end of President George W. Bush's second term, and promises to repeal DADT were made ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for March 24-30, 2010

​On Saturday, following months of gyrations, the U.S. Senate repealed the military ban on open service by gays and lesbians known as Don't Ask Don't Tell.Sort of.This policy has been under heavy scrutiny since the end of President George W. Bush's second term, and promises to repeal DADT were made ... More >>

Top Ten Most Read Snitch Posts of 2009

It's almost the end of the year, and we're extremely grateful to the readers who visited our site in 2009. Here are the Snitch posts that garnered the highest readership, and reflect what is truly important to you: sex, crime, and weed. And serial killers.10. Lawsuit Alleges ER Doctor Let Man D ... More >>

Rock and Historical Roles

It's almost the end of the year, and we're extremely grateful to the readers who visited our site in 2009. Here are the Snitch posts that garnered the highest readership, and reflect what is truly important to you: sex, crime, and weed. And serial killers.10. Lawsuit Alleges ER Doctor Let Man D ... More >>

Hot! Horny! Wasted! Teens!

New research about young military recruits who smoke, drink, and screw too much.

U.S. Marine Corps an Orgy Palace of Stoned, Drunk, Horny Teens, New UCSF Study Suggests

By Matt SmithWhile doomsayers bemoan America's ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center may have turned up a brilliant silver lining.Thanks to desperate recruiting methods required to staff those wars, the U.S. Marines may be t ... More >>

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Hearts and Minds

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

Hearts and Minds

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

Berkeley's Marine Corp Hatred Not as Cheap as It Used to Be

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

Call of Duty 4 Kicks Ass Too Close To Home

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

Rory, JAG-off, and Amy: the Surprise 'Next Food Network Star, Season Three' Ending

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

Rory, JAG-off, and Amy: the Surprise 'Next Food Network Star, Season Three' Ending

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

An Army of Uno

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

Singin' in Pain

Were those Yale boys drunk on the magical elixir of musical theater?

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Print the Legend

Clint Eastwood strips away the myths surrounding the Greatest Generation

Rocky Waters

Annapolis salutes all the classic boxing clichés

Killing Time

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

Blown Away

A murderous cabal unspools onstage

Pugilist Specialist

A skillful, stylized protest against self-sabotage in the Middle East

Hey, Sailor!

Salty young dogs party on

Cocksucker: A Love Story

Though it goes out of its way to shock, it's merely amusingly tasteless

The Gulf Between

When these soldiers became writers, the pen became very mighty indeed

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 26, 2003

Nervous in the Service

As war looms in Iraq, some U.S. reservists are trying to get out of their military obligations

Letters to the Editor

In the Company of Angels; 'Toon Training; Image Problems; Stop Him Before He Critiques Again; Corrections

The Mix

Tender Is the Night

Letters to the Editor

Letters from February 14, 2001

Tapped Out

There're not enough buglers and honor guards to keep pace with dying vets

South to the Future

Military to Form PC Corps