Whoopi Goldberg

The Vanguard Foundation's Great Con

Before Hip-Hop Squares: Eight Links Between Rap Music and TV Game Shows

A game show that people have ever cared about -- even a little bit -- can go down, but it will never truly be out. Know the Dick Clark version of Pyramid that started in the 1970s and continued throughout the decade? No? Well, you've probably encountered the Bill Cullen version (also from the '70s), ... More >>

"A Little Bit of Heaven": Kate Hudson Can't Resuscitate Plot

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson and the Rabid Right

"Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey": Sweet Documentary Remains Frustratingly Impersonal

Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney: Bullshit & Transcendence in This Week's Top Country Singles

Thing Toby Keith has never said: "Nah, man, that might be a little much."​On occasion, All Shook Down gives a listen to the music that is to real America what brine is to a cucumber. This is one of those occasions. Toby Keith, "Made in America" Chart Position: No. 5 Verdict: Fantastic, but ... More >>

A Punk Move: S.F. That Much Closer to Naming Street After Curmudgeonly Club Owner

Dirk Dirksen, seen here stomping the shit out of Frankie Fix of the band CRIME, will soon have a plaque honoring him on the street where his club helped establish West Coast punk. The city plans to later name this street in Dirksen's honor; can a sewer grate honoring Mr. Fix be far behind? Photo by ... More >>

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Repertory Film Listings

We've Got Issues

Community theater worth watching

Call the Cops

Stick it to The Man and avoid this slipshod, ugly mess

Still Hybrid After All These Years

Intersection for the Arts turns 40, right at home in the Mission

Sketching It Out

Poetry and its friends

Horse Senseless

Racing Stripes is strictly for kids. More precisely, it's not for them either.

Imposter Impersonator

Things get ugly when Infiltrator is unmasked at a celebrity impersonator convention, but all ends well when fake Arnold Schwarzenegger marries faux Shania Twain

Lazy Like a Foxx

Breakin' All the Rules packs all the fun of a mediocre sitcom

The Man Between

"When I decided to be an artist, I thought it was my license to investigate being alive."

OK Then

Holiday Highlights 2001

Holiday Event Lisitngs

Southern Discomfort

Travis Somerville's paintings have been called provocative, brilliant - and racist

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

South to the Future

Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000

The Prozac, Please

Girl, Interrupted

Theater of the Inevitable

Beach Blanket Babylon, Shear Madness, Tony n' Tina's Wedding

Riff Raff

O, Pioneers!, Lies! All Lies!, There Was a Riot Goin' On, But That's Over Now

Reel World

Just When You Thought It Was Safe ...

Night + Day

Fantasy Island

Night + Day

The House of Tudor

Quixotic Endeavors

Don Quixote and The Gordons Created and performed by Deborah Gwinn, Jim Cave, and Mark Gordon. At the Marsh, 1062 Valencia, 826-5750.

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

The Celluloid Closet ponders gay images in the movies

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

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