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Arthouse Movie Listings May 16-22, 2012

Stanley Krippner: Amazing Stories That Didn't Make it Into the Story

Professor Stanley Krippner is an impossible man to pigeonhole. He's nearly impossible to encapsulate in a single cover story. Well, we did our best. But, we acknowledge, we've only scratched the surface of his life and work. On a milder note, we also left out a cartload of mind-blowing anecdotes. Kr ... More >>

"Big Miracle": Saving the Whales Doesn't Save Any Laughs

Professor Stanley Krippner is an impossible man to pigeonhole. He's nearly impossible to encapsulate in a single cover story. Well, we did our best. But, we acknowledge, we've only scratched the surface of his life and work. On a milder note, we also left out a cartload of mind-blowing anecdotes. Kr ... More >>

Shark's Fin — Understanding the Political Soup

Professor Stanley Krippner is an impossible man to pigeonhole. He's nearly impossible to encapsulate in a single cover story. Well, we did our best. But, we acknowledge, we've only scratched the surface of his life and work. On a milder note, we also left out a cartload of mind-blowing anecdotes. Kr ... More >>

January's Literary Events

Professor Stanley Krippner is an impossible man to pigeonhole. He's nearly impossible to encapsulate in a single cover story. Well, we did our best. But, we acknowledge, we've only scratched the surface of his life and work. On a milder note, we also left out a cartload of mind-blowing anecdotes. Kr ... More >>

Saturday Night: Paul McCartney at AT&T Park

Christopher Victorio​Paul McCartney July 10, 2010@AT&T Park Better than: Any live performance of Beatles songs by anyone alive. In between "woooos," "yeeee-hawws," "yay-yeahs," other assorted exclamatory noises, and turns gleefully thrusting his guitar or bass skyward, an energized Paul McCa ... More >>

Shakedown 20: Remembering the Loma Prieta Quake of 1989. Today's Edition: Mama Mia.

​For those who lived through it, it's hard to believe that, come Oct. 17, it'll be 20 years since sportscaster Al Michaels shouted "Tell ya what, we're having an earth...", triggering a massive earthquake that devastated the Bay Area. While professional journalism critics loathe the anniversar ... More >>

Total Downer

​For those who lived through it, it's hard to believe that, come Oct. 17, it'll be 20 years since sportscaster Al Michaels shouted "Tell ya what, we're having an earth...", triggering a massive earthquake that devastated the Bay Area. While professional journalism critics loathe the anniversar ... More >>

San Francisco CEO Accused of Importing Eastern Bloc Women as 'Sexual Playthings'

The last time Greg Shenkman took a turn in the national spotlight it ended awkwardly -- during a 60 Minutes profile of the San Francisco CEO's workaholic lifestyle, a mishap during his demonstration of how he watches the business ticker, scans e-mails, and answers the phone while in the shower resul ... More >>

Dr. Manhattan, Meet Dr. Hollywood

Whew! Tinseltown's go-to graphic novel guy didn't ruin Watchmen. But he doesn't get it, either.

Arthouse movie listings for February 11-17

Whew! Tinseltown's go-to graphic novel guy didn't ruin Watchmen. But he doesn't get it, either.

Arthouse movie listings for January 28-February 3

Whew! Tinseltown's go-to graphic novel guy didn't ruin Watchmen. But he doesn't get it, either.

Risky Business

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission.

Examiner Swims Against Local Tide

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission.

SF Weekly Letters

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission.

The High Price of Getting a Head: City Hall Busts Cost an Arm and a Leg

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission.

Arthouse Picks for the Week of April 9-15

Dueling divas and Dr. Strangelove.

SF Weekly Letters

Dueling divas and Dr. Strangelove.

Kim Jong-Il, Jesus, Watson and Crick, SF Rabbi Langer: the Snitch presents the "Top Ten Most Jaw-Dropping Bobbleheads"

Dueling divas and Dr. Strangelove.

Letters to the Editor

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Repertory Film Listings

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Repertory Film Listings

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Countdown to 12

A Salvadoran boy awaits the birthday that renders him a warrior

Reps Etc.

A Salvadoran boy awaits the birthday that renders him a warrior

Over a Barrel

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

Bombs & Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

Vlad the Mad

The hardest-working angry young russian comic in town

"Disappeared" No Longer

A Russian revolutionary returns

Eating at the Flea

There are bargains in comestibles as well as collectibles to be had at these Sunday markets

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 3, 2003

Reps Etc.

Week of September 3, 2003

House of Tudor

Modern-day torch songs, synth-pop sleaze, and Central Asian electro hybrids

Black Is the New Black:

With a new EP and an '80s vibe, Evening becomes eclectic

Reps Etc.

With a new EP and an '80s vibe, Evening becomes eclectic

Out of Africa

Lumumba delivers a thrilling, if necessarily simplified, history lesson

The FCC wants to shut down "Your Revolution"

The revolution will not be televised, or broadcast, or even relayed via smoke signals.

Fallout

How nuclear researchers handled -- and grossly mishandled -- the Cold War's most dangerous radioactive substances at a top-secret lab inside the Hunters Point Shipyard. The same shipyard the city wants to remake as San Francisco's newest neighborhood.

The View From Here

In the Cold War, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. saw "remote viewing" as a weapon. What about now?

Letters

Censorship Begins at Home, Aww! Dog Bites Blushes, Nursing Home Neglect, On the SFUSD Chain Gang, Informed Faith, Rave Purity

Stop the Spread of Nukes -- Legalize Dope

Alan Cranston and George Zimmer devise a bold strategy at the State of the World Forum

From Russia With Diamonds

In 1995, Golden ADA Inc., a San Francisco diamond-importing firm, collapsed, unveiling an international trail of theft and betrayal that embarrassed San Francisco luminaries involved with the company. Now, newly unsealed court files show that high-level m

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Night + Day

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Zoom Lens

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Night + Day

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Desperately Seeking Citizenship

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

Recordings

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

One World, Under Gorby (Part II)

Gorbachev foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

The Agony and the Entropy

A Place With the Pigs probes the hell of inertia; A Moon for the Misbegotten trips on its long-winded sincerity