Vladimir Lenin

"Travesties": Tom Stoppard's brainy getaway at Marin Shakespeare

Arthouse movie listings for December 30, 2009-January 5, 2010

SF Gov't InAction: The Yacht Club's in trouble! San Francisco is the Bermuda Triagle of cash! AND the Supes think street artists have disposable income!

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

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Travesties

Energetic and witty, this talky Stoppard might leave you feeling dumb

Un-Stoppard

Energetic and witty, this talky Stoppard might leave you feeling dumb

Most Valuable Teammate

What team more than the Giants needs a morale booster and respectful team player? They got one in Mark Sweeney.

Art of Rebellion

The Edukators terrorize the rich by ... rearranging their furniture

Reps Etc.

The Edukators terrorize the rich by ... rearranging their furniture

Encore

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Literary Sampling

What Tom Stoppard did in this 1974 play would be too expensive to try today

Musical Theater

A striking performance

Reps Etc.

A striking performance

Reps Etc.

A striking performance

Georgia on My Mind

In the former Soviet republic, chaos reigns Since Otar Left

Secret Rivera

Four decades after it was rescued from a storage shed, Diego Rivera's magnificent City College mural remains a hidden treasure

Best East German Restaurant

Walzwerk

Berlin by the Bay

Fine German fare sandwiched between two viewings of the fine German photographs of August Sander

Municipalizing Bruce

Since Bruce Brugmann is so enamored of public ownership, maybe voters should take control of the Bay Guardian

Future Speak

The Long Now Foundation wants to assemble every human language on one nearly indestructible disk -- and, maybe, to last forever

Left in the Lurch

In jingoistic times, Steve Williams exhibits precisely the kind of faux progressivism we don't need in a city attorney

Survival

When the captain brought the journalist along on the whale hunt, the elders predicted trouble. The elders were right. The whale tried to kill them all.

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 ...

Letters to the Editor

Letters from February 28, 2001

Summer of Ham

Some outrageous fortune has made this open season on Hamlet

Postscript

Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

Letters

Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

Dog Bites

Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

The S.F. International Film Fest, Week 2

Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

Country Rogue

Mendocino publisher Bruce Anderson is smart, sophisticated, and savage

Letters

Mendocino publisher Bruce Anderson is smart, sophisticated, and savage

Beat the Press

Mendocino publisher Bruce Anderson is smart, sophisticated, and savage

Wordplay

Dark Rapture explores language without involving us dramatically; Slavs! eavesdrops on a nation involved in a deeply searching dialogue

Barron Storey's Life is an Open Comic Book

The demons -- personal andfantastical and pop cultural -- that have shaped the art of a San Francisco illustrator