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The Real Life Superhero Files: Mutinous Angel

Mutinous climbed a wall on our photo shoot. For real. ​In this week's cover story, we presented The Ray, a Target employee from Antioch who was arrested in the General Strike in Oakland last month while acting as a Real Life Superhero. The Ray is far from the only civilian-turned-comic book hero f ... More >>

SF Dispensary Run By Former Marine Is Feds' Latest Medical Marijuana Target

​There are few places Michael Welch can go and feel welcome; there are even fewer places where he can go and survive. The South Carolina native is a former Marine. He is also a 45-year-old gay man with AIDS who uses medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of his antiretrovirals. This puts ... More >>

Today Is Billy Sipple Day: Honoring Gay Ex-Marine Who Saved Gerald Ford's Life

Sipple in action​Today is Oliver W. Sipple Day in San Francisco, which honors the man who in 1975 lunged to grab the arm of Sarah Jane Moore when he saw her aiming a 38-caliber pistol at Gerald Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.No, S.F. is not gaga over the half-term president. I ... More >>

Merle Haggard vs. San Francisco: Five Songs in Which Country's Best Works Through His Issues With the Bay

The Hag will make you eat that gee-tar, hippies​Merle Haggard may contain multitudes, but he tends to feel just one of those multitudinous things at a time - and to feel it so hard and pure that he seems to have forgotten all the previous things he's felt that might not square with it. Perha ... More >>

The Hammer Drops: New York's Steve Schneider Tends Bar at Beretta, Delarosa

Hammer time: Steve Schneider.​This week San Francisco welcomes two hammer-wielding warriors: Thor, the god of thunder, and Steve Schneider, the god of crushed ice.Schneider, from New York's Employees Only bar, will be guest bartending at Beretta and Delarosa. The 27-year-old's story could easily b ... More >>

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JROTC under fire in S.F. schools

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Reduced Expectations

The Reduced Shakespeare Company brilliantly anticipated society's chronic case of attention deficit disorder. But now the idea is getting old.

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Blue Angels, Broken Eardrums

Another Fleet Week has come and gone in San Francisco. Was it an intrusive distraction or a welcome reminder of our country's military might?

One Day in September

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in the rubble of the Twin Towers

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.

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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.

Our critics weigh in on local theater

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.

Our critics weigh in on local theater

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.

Our critics weigh in on local theater

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.

Our critics weigh in on local theater

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.

Our critics weigh in on local theater

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.

He Will Bury You

Tommy Lee Jones keeps his promise to Melquiades Estrada

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Tommy Lee Jones keeps his promise to Melquiades Estrada

Asymmetric Warfare: The Game

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

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Grand Old Partying

Infiltrator joins the Young Republicans to experience the blue suits, big hair, and free beer of the Republican state convention

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Letters to the Editor

Week of April 9, 2003

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Week of April 9, 2003

Charley Patton

Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues (Revenant)

Still a Beautiful Mess

Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

Coal Miner's Son

Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

No Fishin'

The Coast Guard busts skippers for angling next to Hunters Point

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Country Rogue

Mendocino publisher Bruce Anderson is smart, sophisticated, and savage

Paper Trails

Mendocino publisher Bruce Anderson is smart, sophisticated, and savage