University of California-Santa Barbara

Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

Night+Day

Living Without LeRoy

With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

The USF Dons Have Gone from National Champs to National Chumps

With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

SF Weekly Letters

Life Imitates Apatow; Moped Bitches Lash Out

Here's the Good Noise

Musician summit challenges the borders between sound and music

The Waterboys

Neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night can stop indie-rock hopefuls Birdmonster

Award Show Guide

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

Horse Pay

An enterprising volunteer gives Sonoma State University a unique solution to its athletics-funding problem: a stable of thoroughbreds

Bad Vibrations

Surfers battle enviro-surfers over a proposed jet-ski ban that would protect wildlife -- but threaten big-wave surfing at the legendary break known as Maverick's

The Spirit of San Francisco

Wounded by the dot-com implosion, a copywriter becomes a screenwriter

Pleasant Confusion

The Mission's stories come alive in this clever but distracting puzzle of a play

Going for Broke

Broker/Dealer scores a tidy windfall with its minimalist brand of techno

Preaching to the Disconcerted

Local artist, label honcho, and festival organizer Ernesto Diaz-Infante sings the gospel of the experimental scene

Peace Wars

The bitter battle over piloting a campus peace movement that hasn't even left the ground

Reel World

Screenwriter Steve Sobel says his latest work, Resin, a look at the horrors of drug laws, could only have been written in San Francisco

The Dilemma of Sara Jane Olson

With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

The Adventures of Capt. GayMan

The Bush administration has released the first- ever Army training manual on homosexual policy -- as a comic book

Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

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?

Reel World

Night and the City; Nightfall; The Night of the Shooting Stars

Grievous Angels

The Court and Spark might be the Bay Area's best new country band, if only it played country music

Bluesman's Blues

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

The Merger's Tangled Web

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

Dish

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

Art Review: At "Teen Age" adults help teens expres their angst

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

Go Fish: S.F.'s Coastal Foraging King Shows How to Fish (and Eat) Locally

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

Friday: Gardens & Villa Set off an '80s Revival at Cafe Du Nord

Gardens & Villa at Cafe Du Nord on Friday​ Generationals Gardens & Villa HIJK July 15, 2011 @ Cafe du Nord Better than: Building yourself a Delorean and going Back the Future with Doc Brown. Actually, that may not be true. "What're you taking notes for?" the lanky dude in the over-sized fedo ... More >>

College Guys Are Hotter Than College Girls, Newsweek says

Smart girls ​More women than men are getting their college degrees, but all that time they spend studying means less time for primping.At least, that's what Newsweek and The Daily Beast would have us think after releasing their "Most Beautiful" list.This fear of being surrounded by unsightly coeds ... More >>