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Nate Silver's Forecast Is Very Optimistic About Same-Sex Marriage

Nate Silver is less than a god but more than a man. After November's presidential election, the bossman at the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog became best known for correctly predicting the electoral outcomes of all 50 states. His forecast models became legendary. Of course, he had previousl ... More >>

Drink 2013: Nightlife Listings

San Franicsco Just Isn't Gay Enough for Oaklanders

We have yet to recover from the injury last year when we were told that the God-worshiping city of Salt Lake City, Utah was gayer than San Francisco. Now, the gay universe is adding insult to injury when it decided that Oakland, the place San Franciscans love to hate, is gayer than gay. Using thi ... More >>

Puck Yeah: Taking the Ice with the S.F. Bulls

Marijuana Sweep: Feds Mostly Ignore "Emerald Triangle"

Another year, another fleet of helicopters hovering overhead and federal agents tramping through the publicly owned woods in search of illegal marijuana plots and the (Mexican) people who grow them.In 2011, there was Operation Full Court Press; in 2012, we had Operation Mountain Sweep. This year, be ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings July 11-17, 2012

Live Review, 6/9/12: Corrosion of Conformity and Torche Swoop Through Slim's

By ALEE KARIM Corrosion of Conformity Torche Black Cobra Gaza June 9th, 2012 Slim's Better than: Squatter house rock, save for the $5 12-oz beer. In the '90s, the two most significant big-ups available to an underground band were a drubbing via Beavis and Butthead and a "Phil-ing," wherein Phil A ... More >>

Lost in the Night: The Three Kings of House Invoked God at Mighty, and It Was Good

3 Kings of House: Louie Vega, David Morales, and Tony Humphries Mighty April 28, 2012 Better than: A simulacrum of house. It was like something out of a historical account of club culture. You know, the kind of thing that seems so idealized that it comes off as fiction. Our taxi came to a stop in ... More >>

Lost in the Night: Back 2 Back Provides a Wicked Good Time at Mighty

Back 2 Back Seven-Year Anniversary Mighty Feb. 10, 2012 Better than: Mr. Peabody's time machine. San Francisco has a long history of nightlife and vice. Take a walk through the city, and the architecture seems to call out at you with images of days gone by and long-changed ways of doing things. Th ... More >>

Ron Paul Says He Didn't Create Offensive "China Jon" YouTube Video

GOP presidential hopeful has done some crazy shit in his past, as we've noted here before, but his campaign claims he never released this offensive YouTube video about ex-Utah Gov. Jon Hunstman, showing him dressed as the Communist leader Mao Zedong. Paul's campaign filed a lawsuit in San Francisco ... More >>

San Franciscans Are Not Googling "the N-Word"

Hey Barry! Guess what my constituents haven't been Googling!​In 2008, Barack Obama was the rising tide that buoyed all San Francisco ships -- at least the ones that floated a bit to the left. A massive turnout for "Hope" and "Change" -- 84 percent of a swollen turnout voted for Obama -- also led t ... More >>

How to Drink Your Way To Wednesday

Lou BustamanteA Kopstootje or Dutch Headbutt​It's an especially busy week of drinking, so we're brining you the first of two guides for where to go for your cocktail needs, from drinking like it's the 1980's to an evening filled with more spirits than you would dare to try. Management Request ... More >>

The Blank Tapes on Loving S.F., Writing Too Many Songs, and Getting Busted in Colorado

​Otherwise known as the Blank Tapes, Matt Adams is a bit of a music machine -- since 2003's Country Western Honky Tonk Saloon Blues, he has released over 100 songs and played almost all of the instruments on each one. Adams has toured the country, written music in a van -- well, sort of -- an ... More >>

Google Maps Says It's Not to Blame for Pedestrian Hit by Car

Google the phrase "common sense"​If Google maps led you off a cliff, would you jump?Well, if you did make the plunge and got hurt in the process, the Bay Area media giant claims it wouldn't be at fault. Google is finding itself at the center of a bizarre and never ending lawsuit where a pedestria ... More >>

Rock, Meet Hard Place

Rock, Meet Hard Place

Rock, Meet Hard Place

"127 Hours": James Franco saws his arm off in Danny Boyle's new thriller

SF Weekly Appeal Finally Heard, But No Decision Yet from the Court

​ Twenty-seven months after a San Francisco jury levied a gargantuan $16 million judgment against SF Weekly and its parent company for allegedly trying to "injure" the Bay Guardian, the California Court of Appeal heard oral arguments in the case Friday morning. The brief session before a thr ... More >>

Best Worst Movie

Fresh Eats for the week of April 28-May 4, 2010

Fresh Eats for the week of April 21-27, 2010

Republican Meg Whitman's secret past as a porn-peddling CEO at eBay

Yats Says See Ya to Jack's Club Wednesday

Luis C./YelpYats is movin' on out of Jack's Club.​When Yats' New Orleans Original Po Boys moved into the drab little kitchen of Jack's Club (2545 24th St. at Utah), at the time, our favored neighborhood dive, we were skeptical. A few unsuccessful forays into cuisine had already arrived and swi ... More >>

Kim Kardashian's Ass, Jessica Sierra's Sextape - The Best and Worst of Sex in 2007

Ride the Legend

The World's Fastest Indian is powered by Anthony Hopkins

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World's End

Frank Garvey has a vision

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Minuteman's 15 Minutes of Fame (Minute 14.5)

At the Arizona border, Infiltrator checks in with Americans who help the government look for illegal aliens

Best Coaching Legacy

Mind Games

Shane Carruth's Primer goes back to the future, and it's a weird, wild ride

Water Pirates

The politics of Thirst at the Roxie

A Deep Drink

Beer plus friends equals art

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Club Directory

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Fright Flight

"We're going to the winner's circle or the hospital," declares one entrant

San Francisco

House Of Tudor

Insomniac authors, poignant performance artists, and Viennese lounge lizards.

Reel World

San Francisco was the birthplace of American Astronaut, a quirky, ultra-low-budget space western

Through a Different Lens

We don't need more pretty pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge. So why is one of the country's finest documentary photographers taking hundreds of them?

Dance to the Music

Two local choreographers bring the songs onto the stage

Manifest Mythology

"Native to the Land: Photography and the North American Indian, 1870-1930"

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REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Night+Day

Mulch

Off-Base (Part II)

The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es