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The Adventures of a Videogame Rebel: Tim Schafer at Double Fine

Unmasking the Anarchists: Occupy Oakland Returns

The High Road

Growers who cashed in on illegal pot now welcome legalization and taxation.

The Radio Pirate Goes Legit

Now Pirate Cat Radio is following the rules.

Masterminds 2010

Meet the talented Bay Area artists competing for our $2,500 grants.

Out of the Wild

Iso Rabins' foraged food is the toast of San Francisco's gourmet set. Health inspectors and environmentalists aren't so thrilled.

Homeless SF State students struggle to stay in school and stay loaded

Iso Rabins' foraged food is the toast of San Francisco's gourmet set. Health inspectors and environmentalists aren't so thrilled.

Camper Van Beethoven at 25: from warm beer to funny ideas

Iso Rabins' foraged food is the toast of San Francisco's gourmet set. Health inspectors and environmentalists aren't so thrilled.

Free Parking for Sale

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin's Message to Newsom: Quit Attacking Me!

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

Rick Rubin Digs Howlin Rain's Distorted View of the '70s

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

Freight and Salvage Begins Year-Long Multi-Million Upgrade

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

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Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

Slacker Guys and Striver Girls

When lazy men become projects for career women

Political Artist Julia Page Waits for Godot to Bring Peace to Middle East

When lazy men become projects for career women

Forgiving the past through Elliott Smith

When lazy men become projects for career women

No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

Ethnic Warfare

A bitchy academic fight within SFSU's College of Ethnic Studies puts the future of the program in question

Meow Mix

Tune in, turn on, say "fuck": This is the story of a man named Monkey and his very special Pirate Cat Radio

Superstar Avatar

A real-world game of life and lust at the social frontier

Obsessive Pursuit

Years after her brother was murdered in Chile's "dirty war," a diminutive former professor went after the killer

Nice Guys Finish First

The Positive Coaching Alliance asks hard-bitten coaches to fill out workbooks and recite management jargon. It also has them saying things like, "I want to go back and relive my childhood and be coached like this."

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 Anarchist Knitting Circle

Mike Benham is a young man searching for community. And searching. And searching.

Immigrant Songs

The Skyflakes -- and the piNoisepop Festival -- put Filipino-American indie music on the map

Hold On a Minute!

Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony save the whale campaign

Conundrum

At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

Globs and Monsters

After 18 years, Crawling With Tarts is still throwing musical elements at the wall to see what sticks

Raw Footage

To help keep at-risk teens out of trouble, a Tenderloin nonprofit gives them cameras to make films about their lives. The movies win awards, but do they keep kids off the street?

Shine a Light

The Shimmer Kids Underpop Association may be ready to go aboveground

Fallout

Newly released documents indicate the Navy dumped far more nuclear waste than it's ever acknowledged in a major commercial fishery just 30 miles west of San Francisco. Why won't the government even study the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Site?

Psychotic Reaction

With a mind-boggling debut album, the Lowdown proves how to love pop music -- to death

That Was the Wit That Was

Decades after he left the stage to teach math in Santa Cruz, the voice of legendary satirist Tom Lehrer still echoes

Spiritual CULTivation

In China, Falun Gong practitioners are beaten and persecuted, so the U.S. is granting them asylum. But is this movement as harmless as it seems?

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Greg Kihn

Demonstrating Exploitation

A Latino activist group has gained largely positive media coverage for organizing student walkouts to protest government social policies. But how admirable is it, really, to endanger young children for political purposes?

Ol' Blue Screen

New software lets anyone sing like Sinatra or compose like Mahler. But do we really want computers that make country-and- western stars croon on key?

SF Weekly's Wammies '98

New software lets anyone sing like Sinatra or compose like Mahler. But do we really want computers that make country-and- western stars croon on key?

Net Loss

How LatinoNet -- the poster child for Washington's attempt to empower the poor with technology -- wasted money and networked almost no one

Planet Wars

Last year, two Bay Area astronomers said they had discovered planets outside our solar system and became instant media celebrities. Now, Paul Butler and Geoff Marcy face prominent scientific challengers who contend some of the new planets are nothing but

Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?