World Trade Center

Remembrance of Things Dreary: Welcome Back to 1993

Ten Years Gone

Five EDM Tours that Paved the Way for Identity Festival

Colin Young-WolffWe've seen this before...​ The good folks of Identity Festival, which comes to Shoreline this Saturday, don't want to lie to you. Yet despite what they've claimed, they're not the first-ever electronic touring festival ever seen in America. It's merely the first electronic-onl ... More >>

The Coup's Boots Riley on His Next Record, Hip-Hop for White Kids, and Loving Battlestar Galactia

The Coup's Boots Riley​ It's been almost a decade since 9/11 -- which means (among other things) that it's been 10 years since Boots Riley was seemingly everywhere, coolly responding to outrage over some extremely ill-timed album art depicting explosions at World Trade Center. It's also been f ... More >>

The Franchise Episode 1: Promising Rookie Looks a Little Raw

UCinternationa​When Showtime aired a preview for The Franchise in April, the Giants were only two weeks into the MLB season and still riding high in defense of their World Series title. Back then, the show looked like a window into the lives of baseball players, rather than a rough-and-tumble vie ... More >>

"Super 8": Big Explosions, Big Fun in J.J. Abrams' Newest

UCinternationa​When Showtime aired a preview for The Franchise in April, the Giants were only two weeks into the MLB season and still riding high in defense of their World Series title. Back then, the show looked like a window into the lives of baseball players, rather than a rough-and-tumble vie ... More >>

Accused Embezzler Maria Dionisio Claimed $450K Salary for Unemployment Insurance

Maria Lourdes Dionisio allegedly violated one of the first rules of embezzlement -- you're supposed to keep it a secret​A pair of women accused of ripping off their San Francisco software company for a cool $2.6 million may go down as the most inept thieves of all-time. Maria Lourdes Dionisio, 46, ... More >>

Seen in Modesto: Birther Idiocy Creeps Closer to Bay Area

But we've still got plenty here​Notwithstanding a barrage of intemperate comments on our recent post discussing the comparative claims to insanity of the "birther" and "truther" movements, we here at The Snitch had thought that adherents of these conspiracy theories were comfortably removed from t ... More >>

We praise the Julia half of Julie & Julia

But we've still got plenty here​Notwithstanding a barrage of intemperate comments on our recent post discussing the comparative claims to insanity of the "birther" and "truther" movements, we here at The Snitch had thought that adherents of these conspiracy theories were comfortably removed from t ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Jonathan Toubin

 San Francisco's got nothin' but soul--lots and lots of soul nights, soul record stores, and plain ol' soul aficionados.New York's also got a lotta soul--thanks, in part, to DJ Jonathan Toubin, who believes all good tunes can be traced back to punk and soul. He's the conductor of New York Night ... More >>

High Wire Act

 San Francisco's got nothin' but soul--lots and lots of soul nights, soul record stores, and plain ol' soul aficionados.New York's also got a lotta soul--thanks, in part, to DJ Jonathan Toubin, who believes all good tunes can be traced back to punk and soul. He's the conductor of New York Night ... More >>

A Wiry Guy

 San Francisco's got nothin' but soul--lots and lots of soul nights, soul record stores, and plain ol' soul aficionados.New York's also got a lotta soul--thanks, in part, to DJ Jonathan Toubin, who believes all good tunes can be traced back to punk and soul. He's the conductor of New York Night ... More >>

Photos: 9-11 Tribute at AT&T Park

 San Francisco's got nothin' but soul--lots and lots of soul nights, soul record stores, and plain ol' soul aficionados.New York's also got a lotta soul--thanks, in part, to DJ Jonathan Toubin, who believes all good tunes can be traced back to punk and soul. He's the conductor of New York Night ... More >>

The Contemporary Jewish Museum: What’s Inside Libeskind’s Box

 San Francisco's got nothin' but soul--lots and lots of soul nights, soul record stores, and plain ol' soul aficionados.New York's also got a lotta soul--thanks, in part, to DJ Jonathan Toubin, who believes all good tunes can be traced back to punk and soul. He's the conductor of New York Night ... More >>

Disaster Ahead

Cloverfield is a big dumb monster movie about nothing

Neglected Treasures

A famed Mexican artist painted six murals for the 1939 World's Fair in S.F. One famously disappeared. The others have practically been ignored.

'The Kingdom' Posits CSI: Riyadh with a Jamie Foxx Twist

Peter Berg sends Foxx to fight the enemy over there

Bang Bang, Game Over

New play explores whether violent videogames create killers

Farce of a Champion

New play explores whether violent videogames create killers

Blood Business

Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

Damaged Goods

From masturbation to vomit, Makoto Aida plumbs Japan's cultural depths

Torah! Torah! Torah!

Protocols of Zion takes a hard look at those who fear Jews

Gross Encounters

Spielberg's War hikes up the gore, and that ain't a bad thing

The Paminator

DJ "I rule the school"

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

DJ "I rule the school"

Capital Rap

From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

You, Spy

Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

The Falling

Emotional correctness dominates this interview-turned-play about 9/11

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Emotional correctness dominates this interview-turned-play about 9/11

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Emotional correctness dominates this interview-turned-play about 9/11

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Emotional correctness dominates this interview-turned-play about 9/11

She's Back

Performance artist Karen Finley, that "chocolate smeared woman," is back in S.F.

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Hear This

The sultry power of the Afro-Peruvian singer Susana Baca

Rude Awakening

Major news organizations need to snap out of 9/11 emotionalism and ask impolite financial questions about Saudi elites and President Bush

One Man's Trash

The guilty pleasures of vintage posters from classic exploitation flicks

Speak To Me

Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam brings hip hop home

Chump Changes

Journalists are playing into the hands of George Bush when they unthinkingly insist that everything is different since Sept. 11

The Perfect Crime

As we're now finding out, Gov. Davis may be the only one who won't have to pay for his mishandling of the energy crisis

Acid Reign

From the Bush administration's assault on the Constitution to San Francisco's election fiascoes, core American values are being corroded

New Yakkers

Edward Burns' Sidewalks does more talking than walking

Osama Was Here

To show the value of pundits in the Terror Era, our columnist tells the CIA where bin Laden's been, President Bush where to go

Pop Philosophy

Street closing; not enough coffee, man

Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

By Dan Kurzman (William Morrow & Co. , 2001, $25)

Earlier Warning

Hijacking on the East Coast. It was predicted.

The Dilemma of Sara Jane Olson

With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

Night+Day

With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

Night+Day

With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

Recordings

With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.