Subject: World War II

• Master of Puppets

  March 11, 2009

• Farewell, Ferry Queen

  July 24, 2008

• Toronto International Film Festival: Day 2

  September 14, 2008

• The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

  An interview with Valkyrie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer.

  December 24, 2008

• Very Minor Miracle

  No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

  September 24, 2008

• Disney & Deutschland

  February 13, 2008

• War Photographer

  January 2, 2008

• Harry Belafonte, Patriot

  December 5, 2007

• War is Hell

  September 12, 2007

• USS Iowa, Any Takers?

  Will $250,000 hole in the water stay afloat or be scrapped for target practice?

  September 12, 2007

• Rose

  It's a shame that this sweeping journey across the life of one woman is a bit too long

  January 17, 2007

• Jingle Hell

  March 8, 2006

• Bird Droppings

  August 17, 2005

• Pièce de Résistance

  July 6, 2005

• People & Places

  May 11, 2005

• Best Classic Murals

  May 11, 2005

• Out Like a Lamb

  March 9, 2005

• Paper Machine

  October 20, 2004

• Best Fortune Cookie

  Japanese Tea Garden

  May 19, 2004

• Best War Relic

  May 19, 2004

• Of Thee I Sing

  April 7, 2004

• Talking With Angels

  January 14, 2004

• Secret Rivera

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

  December 17, 2003

• Brains and Braun

  August 27, 2003

• Disease Detective

  Deborah Hayden's new book, Pox, pulls the covers off famous people with syphilis. That's right: syphilis.

  January 15, 2003

• Nocturne

  January 1, 2003

• Best Local Version of Machu Picchu

  Batteries Chamberlain, Crosby, Cranston, Marcus Miller, and Boutelle

  May 15, 2002

• The Chess Man of Market Street

  March 6, 2002

• Spy, But Why?

  Charlotte Gray went to war, and all she came back with was this lousy movie

  January 9, 2002

• The Babes of War

  December 19, 2001

• War on War Books

  Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

  November 21, 2001

• Custody Battle

  Marvel Comics isn't going to give up Captain America without a fight

  April 18, 2001

• Love Among the Ruins

  Aimée & Jaguar tells the intriguing story of two women drawn together in wartime

  August 23, 2000

• Unsettling History

  September 29, 1999

• Night & Day

  April 14, 1999

• Local Rites for Universal Rights

  December 9, 1998

• Cothran

  December 9, 1998

• Life During Wartime

  July 22, 1998

• The Invisible Veterans

  Thousands of Filipinos fought and spied and suffered and died under American command to help us win World War II. The U.S. government says the soldiers who survived -- now elderly, often living in poverty -- aren't worthy of military benefits. Four storie

  July 16, 1997

• Boot Camp; or 280 Meters Under the Sea

  April 2, 1997

• Once (and Future?) Landmarks

  December 11, 1996

• Suspicious Minds

  October 23, 1996

• Japantown Asks "Y"

  October 16, 1996

• Beating Swords Into Tourist Shares

  S.F. tries, tries again to bring the USS Missouri "home"

  August 21, 1996

• "Susan O'Malley: You Are Exactly Where You Need to Be"

  June 24, 2009

• "Susan O'Malley: You Are Exactly Where You Need to Be"

  June 17, 2009

• Diz and the Gang

  August 12, 2009

• Miyo's Dance of the Dead

  September 9, 2009

• South Pacific

  September 30, 2009

• Court Ruling: Man Officially a Dick For Giving Nazi Salute at City Council Meeting

  Welcome to Santa Cruz...​A legal case lasting longer than America's involvement in World War II has ostensibly culminated with the following conclusion: A man who felt the need to give the Nazi salute during government meetings deserved the Stalingrad treatment he got.A Santa Cruz man named Robert Norse twice gave the Sieg Heil to members of that city's government, in 2002 and 2004. Following his '04 ejection, he sued the city for abrogating his First Amendment rights. That case made it all th

  November 6, 2009