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Voltaire

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Peeing Frenchman Pissed at Google Over Street View Image

    ​The French love to laugh at Americans, so we wouldn't want to miss this opportunity to laugh at them.It seems Google unwittingly humiliated a Frenchman when the Bay Area company captured an image of the man pissing on his own garden in his French village. The man was reportedly taking a leak when ... More >>

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    January 18, 2012

    The Sweet Spot: Regarding the Vagina, "Tend to Your Own Garden"

    Regular and rampant orgasms are good for the body in all kinds of ways. Oh, to great and glorious sex. And lots of it. It burns calories and tones the thighs. It makes our hair shinier and our skin sweeter. It can cure anxiety, depression, acne, and the occasional headache. In short, good sex is a c ... More >>

  • News

    August 25, 2010

    SF Weekly Letters

    Regular and rampant orgasms are good for the body in all kinds of ways. Oh, to great and glorious sex. And lots of it. It burns calories and tones the thighs. It makes our hair shinier and our skin sweeter. It can cure anxiety, depression, acne, and the occasional headache. In short, good sex is a c ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 2, 2009

    Stage Sage

    Speculating about this season's theatrical experiments.

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    SFPD Reports Bernal Heights Robbery/Fight On Moving Car Straight Out of "T.J. Hooker"

    It was Candide's grating mentor Pangloss who opined that our noses are shaped as they are so as to better accommodate our eyeglasses. If Voltaire had been writing American cop shows in the 1970s instead of French social satire in the 1750s, Inspector Pangloss would have put it this way: Car hoods ar ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 20, 2009

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

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    May 13, 2009

    Candide, or Optimism

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

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    May 6, 2009

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    April 29, 2009

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    July 30, 2008

    Roger Rees reps Shakespeare at A.C.T.

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Music

    May 14, 2008

    The Dirtbombs Surround Us with Sirens

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2008

    The Lost Art of Lampoonery

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • News

    March 14, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of 3-14-2007

  • Film

    December 21, 2005

    Beautiful Dreamer

    An adopted transvestite searches for Mom but runs into everything else

  • Culture

    May 21, 2003

    Dead Heads

    A promising mix of genres that strains to tie things up at the end

  • Music

    May 1, 2002

    House Of Tudor

    Compulsive Numbers, retro-refracted Flaming Stars, and filmmaker Peter Sempel

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    Too Close for Comfort

    The weird coincidences between last week's terrorist attacks and David Hagberg's novels have been keeping the author up at night

  • Music

    August 15, 2001

    Rebel Yell

    For over 20 years Detroit icon Mick Collins has been rebelling against everything -- including rebellion

  • Culture

    September 27, 2000

    Garden of Earthly Delights

    Can't you make fun of tech industry greed without resorting to fairy tales?

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    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

  • Calendar

    January 21, 1998

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

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

  • Calendar

    November 13, 1996

    Unspun

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

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