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Winston Churchill

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Deconstructing Adele's Sanity-Preserving Video for "Someone Like You"

    It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

  • News

    July 20, 2011

    Good Scout, Bad Boy: Examining the Virtues of Leland Yee

    It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

  • Music

    July 13, 2011

    Bouncer Tries to Sort Out the Crowd at Churchill

    It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

  • Film

    December 8, 2010

    "The King's Speech": Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter humanize the House of Windsor

    It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 1, 2010

    This month's literary events

    It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    The Machine Meets The Terminator

    In which the Governator asks Brian Wilson to be on his Brain Trust​We noted earlier that even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- who grew up in an era before baseball expanded past the Mississippi (and to Austria) -- is hip to "The Machine." Schwarzenegger is also our favorite political user of Twitpic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Cops Promise To Be Scourge of July 4 Weekend Drunk Drivers

    V for sobriety. Wait a minute...​With aggressive language bordering on Winston Churchill's grim 1940 exhortation that his countrymen "defend our island whatever the cost may be," local law enforcement officials promised a "saturation" to root out every last drunken sod who sees fit to slip behind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Last Night: Gil Scott-Heron at Yoshi's

    Image Courtesy of: Mischa Richter​Gil Scott-Heron
 Tuesday, March 16, 2010 
Yoshi's 
Better than: Anything on TV Gil Scott-Heron is old. For those born in the 1980s, you might have heard his "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" for the first time in a Nike commercial, which ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 3, 2008

    Pocketbook Environmentalism

    Activist Van Jones shows that being green can appeal to your pocketbook as well as your conscience.

  • Culture

    October 17, 2007

    Philip Glass' Appomattox a Civil Bore

    Activist Van Jones shows that being green can appeal to your pocketbook as well as your conscience.

  • Culture

    August 1, 2007

    Tailored for San Francisco

    Will Franken pokes fun at Bay Area values, but in a city of misfits, he fits right in

  • Home Entertainment

    February 21, 2007

    Chick Flick

    Will Franken pokes fun at Bay Area values, but in a city of misfits, he fits right in

  • News

    January 10, 2007

    Battleship Down

    The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Election Leftovers

    The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  • Music

    October 11, 2006

    All-American pride at the student union Pub

    The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  • Film

    September 27, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  • Film

    November 9, 2005

    Repertory Film Listings

    The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  • Culture

    March 16, 2005

    Notes From Underground

    Listening to letters read onstage isn't as compelling as reading them yourself

  • Film

    January 26, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Listening to letters read onstage isn't as compelling as reading them yourself

  • Dining

    April 30, 2003

    Say My Name

    When news anchors call the former Iraqi president "Saddam," are they name-dissing?

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    Guesses Over Guinness

    The regulars love to subvert the contest. It's yet another twist to the city's toughest pub trivia night.

  • News

    October 6, 1999

    ¡Holy Cohiba!

    Federal agents smoke out an insidious Bay Area smuggling ring as part of their ceaseless efforts to keep our streets safe from illegal Cuban cigars

  • Calendar

    July 21, 1999

    Cothran

    Federal agents smoke out an insidious Bay Area smuggling ring as part of their ceaseless efforts to keep our streets safe from illegal Cuban cigars

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    The Jammer's the Thing

    The artistic scope of fin de siecle roller derby makes Beckett's drama seem transparent

  • Culture

    April 30, 1997

    Stage

    The artistic scope of fin de siecle roller derby makes Beckett's drama seem transparent

  • Calendar

    April 16, 1997

    Night+Day

    The artistic scope of fin de siecle roller derby makes Beckett's drama seem transparent

  • News

    December 25, 1996

    Buttheads

    A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

  • Music

    October 23, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

  • Culture

    January 24, 1996

    The Lady in Question

    Sara Felder's screwball comedy mixes conventions and convictions, with mixed results

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