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Soup to Nuts: Crazy Food Taxes Penalize the Poor, Benefit the Rich

49ers: Lucky or Good? Mathematician Weighs In

​San Francisco 49ers fans still in search or a silver lining, take heed: Rather than be blinded with science, embrace it! Matt Lane, an S.F. native and alumnus of University High, is now a doctoral student in mathematics at UCLA. On his Math Goes Pop! blog, he recently pondered whether the 49 ... More >>

The Amazing Stories of Mayoral Candidate Tony Hall

​San Francisco 49ers fans still in search or a silver lining, take heed: Rather than be blinded with science, embrace it! Matt Lane, an S.F. native and alumnus of University High, is now a doctoral student in mathematics at UCLA. On his Math Goes Pop! blog, he recently pondered whether the 49 ... More >>

Premium pay nets city workers millions in bonuses for just doing their jobs

​San Francisco 49ers fans still in search or a silver lining, take heed: Rather than be blinded with science, embrace it! Matt Lane, an S.F. native and alumnus of University High, is now a doctoral student in mathematics at UCLA. On his Math Goes Pop! blog, he recently pondered whether the 49 ... More >>

Judge Vaughn Walker Targeted for Impeachment

Judge Vaugn Walker is not universally popular these days​ In an effort to undermine his Prop. 8 ruling, the American Family Association is leading a campaign to impeach Judge Vaughn Walker. The right-leaning pro-family organization states in a letter on its website that Walker should not have been ... More >>

Alleged Shooter ID'd in Castro Rampage that Killed Stephen Powell

​The man San Francisco Police believe is responsible for loosing a barrage of gunfire Saturday in the Castro that killed Stephen Powell, wounded two others, and sent Gay Pride revelers ducking for cover is 20-year-old San Franciscan Ed Perkins.

It's Your 2010 Women's Pro Soccer Fashion Show!

Last season, we channeled our inner Mr. Blackwells and critiqued the uniforms worn during the initial year of the San Francisco-based Women's Professional Soccer league. This year, the league asked us to do it again -- no joke. So, what the hell. We're getting the band back together! Everybody ... More >>

Gray Area's new gallery hopes to cast light on an underserved neighborhood

Last season, we channeled our inner Mr. Blackwells and critiqued the uniforms worn during the initial year of the San Francisco-based Women's Professional Soccer league. This year, the league asked us to do it again -- no joke. So, what the hell. We're getting the band back together! Everybody ... More >>

Papa Coppola returns, successfully, to the clan in Tetro

Last season, we channeled our inner Mr. Blackwells and critiqued the uniforms worn during the initial year of the San Francisco-based Women's Professional Soccer league. This year, the league asked us to do it again -- no joke. So, what the hell. We're getting the band back together! Everybody ... More >>

Going for Gold

Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

Last Night: Sara Bareilles at the Fillmore

Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

Harvard Professor: Guardian’s Theory “Irrational”

Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

The War On Gangs

With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

Just Say No

Conventional wisdom says psychiatric drugs save lives, but for some San Franciscans the pills are a prescription for disaster

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

The Little Tribe That Could

As descendants of San Francisco�s aboriginal people, the Muwekma Ohlone Indian tribe seldom gets much respect. But that could be about to change.

Just Duet

A novel slow jam connects Joshua Klipp's past and present

Letter Perfect

Akeelah spells out a fantasy that feels wonderfully real

Disco Braniacs

Matmos slides a healthy dose of funk into cryptic compositions

Separate and Unequal

Hidden in the city's special day classes, like the roots of San Francisco's segregation itself, are disproportionately high numbers of African-American and Latino kids.

Pretty Rowdy in Pink

How some ladies from S.F. will harass Hillary Clinton into being the tipping point against the Iraq War

Remote Controlled

Will a new generation of curbside sensors end our parking problems -- or help the government monitor our every move?

Kees to the City

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

Reps Etc.

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

Reps Etc.

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

Making Their Own Luck

Guerrilla marketeers hit the streets to push a new film about Asian-American high schoolers gone bad

Land of the Lost

After 13 years, Savage Republic returns to find its Middle Eastern post-punk world largely intact

After the Series, Mumm's the Word

Bubbly and baseball, plus a quirky collection of 78 RPM records

Fun Down There

Sex without death in gay director Todd Wilson's Under One Roof

Mind Games

Fellow Travelers Performance Group wants to crawl around inside your head

Rural Cleansing

Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

Smoking Gun

Tobacco industry documents expose an R.J. Reynolds marketing plan targeting S.F. gays and homeless people. Its name: Project SCUM.

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 Old New Media Blues

The singer-songwriter hasn't died. He's just gone online.

Dancing Outside

Anna Halprin's 80th Year Retrospective

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Anna Halprin's 80th Year Retrospective

Riff Raff

Anna Halprin's 80th Year Retrospective

Karen Morley: Still Sexy After All These Blacklisted Years

Anna Halprin's 80th Year Retrospective

No Score

Anna Halprin's 80th Year Retrospective

Reversing Course

A broad repudiation of Prop. 209 surfaces at Berkeley

Dog Bites

A broad repudiation of Prop. 209 surfaces at Berkeley

Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Night+Day

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Night+Day

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Seismic Punt

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

State Ballot Measures

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

Give Me Your Healthy

The immigration crackdown has Latinos fleeing mainstream medicine

Klump, Gump, and Chump

The Nutty Professor Directed by Tom Shadyac. Starring Eddie Murphy and Jada Pinkett. Phenomenon Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Starring John Travolta and Kyra Sedgwick. Purple Noon Directed by Rene Clement. Starring Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet.

In Sickness and in Wealth

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

Rock of la Raza

Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalape�o Band celebrates the history of Latin American music