U.S. Secret Service

The Wine Detective: Maureen Downey Reveals Forged Bottles

Fear and Loathing in Tampa: A Guide to the Republican National Convention

Whitney Houston: Surveying the Great Diva's Checkered Film Career

See Jelly Belly Portraits of Your Favorite Historical Figures

We were in the proximity of the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield over the weekend and stopped by ostensibly to stock up on the cheap two-pound bags of misshapen "belly flops." But we really wanted to visit the weird and wonderful folk art portraits of famous historical figures like Benjamin Franklin ... More >>

Sen. Leland Yee Is Getting Threats Over His "Un-American" Gun-Control Bill

State Sen. Leland Yee has riled up conservatives again, and not exactly the kind of right-wingers you want to make mad. CBS reports that Yee's office has been fielding threats from gun enthusiasts who have launched a vicious campaign against the San Francisco Democrat's proposed gun-control bill. Se ... More >>

Del The Funky Homosapien on His Favorite Old-School Rappers, New Album Attractive Sin, and His Very First Live Show

It's a weekday afternoon, and Del the Funky Homosapien's mom has just left his house. She was passing through to pick up an iPod the rapper had bought for her -- but left empty-handed, as she wasn't confident about being able to use Apple's dinky little music player. "She's gonna come back in a coup ... More >>

How To Be a Sound Guy (Without Electrocuting Anyone)

So you wanna be a sound guy? Get paid to go to all those shows? Control how everyone in the room hears the band? Sounds pretty sweet, huh? Bay Area native Nick Malgieri has been doing sound since he was 15 years old -- for clubs, festivals, conferences and, oh, yes, churches. He currently works as a ... More >>

Rageit Almurisi, Passenger on SFO-Bound Flight, Bangs on Cockpit Door, Wrestled to the Ground

Another crazy passenger​This is any passenger's worst nightmare a week after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Passengers on a San Francisco-bound flight last night had a scare when a 28-year-old man with a Yemeni passport for no reason started yelling and banging on the cockpit door. Media outlets ... More >>

Obama, Brown Receive Death Threats on President's Day

Photo by Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyThis will go down in history ​An unknown tagger decided to use the President's Day holiday as a time to threaten elected leaders.Southern California authorities are investigating more death threats that were found scrawled on a wall in Santa Ana early Monday ... More >>

Suspected Ponzi Scheme Fugitive Alan May Arrested in San Francisco

​Alan May ran, but he couldn't hide in San Francisco. The 45-year-old, wanted by the U.S. Secret Service for defrauding folks of more than $7 million in an oil and gas scheme, had traveled here from Cypress, Texas and taken on multiple identities. He rented an expensive apartment and was throwing ... More >>

Secret Service to Investigate Palin-Inspired Threats Against Leland Yee

Threats directed against state Sen. Leland Yee after he began asking questions about how much Sarah Palin is being paid to speak at California State University Stanislaus have been turned over to the California Highway Patrol and U.S. Secret Service for investigation, a state senate security officia ... More >>

Dandy Rotten Scoundrel

Michael Manos was living the same lie that he peddled across the country. But in San Francisco, the truth caught up with him.

S.F. activist Suzi Chang seeks to give Bush pink slip

Michael Manos was living the same lie that he peddled across the country. But in San Francisco, the truth caught up with him.

Vantage Point Blocks View of a Good Terrorism Movie

Michael Manos was living the same lie that he peddled across the country. But in San Francisco, the truth caught up with him.

On Deck

Something to look forward to in 2008: Clint Eastwood's Changeling

The Bus Stops Here

Mistah F.A.B. picks up where hyphy left off

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?

Repertory Film Listings

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

Repertory Film Listings

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

Don't Pu Pu It

Sneaky Tiki has great service and a fun atmosphere, but we'd rather sneak past the food

Class Act

Falling in love again with Rubicon, still at the top of its game after a decade

Lost in Translation

All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

Best Vintage Web Site

Kittygirlvintage.com

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Letters and the Editor

Messages from a repellent AIDS "activist" and other items of interest, put in self-serving context by Weekly Editor John Mecklin

Slippery When Wet

Finding a hidden gem in a Chinese restaurant

Liberty for None

Mandy Moore's likable enough; wish we could say the same about her movie

Capital Rap

From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

Big Doctor Is Watching

As of April 14, the national security police can monitor your medical records without your knowledge. So can the local police.

The Price of Citizenship

A quirk in immigration laws, and tougher security rules, demand a terrible choice from Filipino baggage screeners at SFO: their jobs or their families

Hail to the Ex-Chief

Clinton gets the rock star treatment at UC Berkeley; Chron Covers Enron-Size Bust

The Spybots Among Us

How the NSA tracks terrorists in the United States through the Internet

Fresh Eats

The Muscle Behind Masa's

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?

Pop Philosophy

What Bush's choices for inauguration music say about the next four years

The President's Dilemma

What Bush's choices for inauguration music say about the next four years

36,000 Feet Under the Sea

The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

Night+Day

The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

Unspun

The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

Letters

The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

Chinese Peaches

The Chinese New Year brings firecrackers, the parade down Kearny, and the Miss Chinatown USA Pageant

Down by Law

Tom Waits raises dough for pal Don Hyde's defense

Blakk Power

San Francisco drag queen Joan Jett-Blakk aims for the presidency