Wyoming

Drugs and Marijuana Dominate Nation's Arrests -- As Usual

Yes, America is the world's most incarcerating nation. But take solace in this: Fewer people are arrested in America every year, according to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Reporting data. They just keep getting arrested for the same few things. Exactly 9,536,787 people made up the 12.4 million ... More >>

Shoplifting Mom Ditches 10-Year-Old Daughter to Take the Blame for Stolen Groceries

Police are looking for a mother who allegedly packed a cart full of food at a Morgan Hill Safeway, then abandoned her own kid at the store to take the heat from the cops. According to news reports, Marcy Keelin went to the Safeway store with her 10-year-old daughter about 5 p.m. on Wednesday. The tw ... More >>

Rick Santorum, 1975 Loretta Lynn Has Something to Say to You

This morning, a Wyoming gasbag who backs Rick Santorum puked up some ridiculous words on TV news for all us Internet people to laugh at. (This is what TV news is for.) Big-money Santorum super PAC donor Foster Friess told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell: Back in my days, [women] used Bayer aspirin for con ... More >>

Best Practices for Writing End-of-Year Food Trend Lists

​It's that top-ten time of year. All of us food writers are busily compiling "Top 7 Foods We Don't Want to See Covered in Truffle Butter in 2012" and "15 Gadgets We Won't Live Without in the New Year." What can we say? We're in our parents' living room, bombed on egg nog a sucker for lists, an ... More >>

Magicians Walking Across United States Finally Make it to New York City

Courtesy of the Great American Walkabout An easy stroll through Pennsylvania ​SF Weekly readers might recall the offbeat story about a few magicians who were on a random quest to walk the nation. When we caught up with them as they started their journey in San Francisco in March, they told us that ... More >>

Saturday: Two Gallants Make a Poignant Homecoming at the Independent

Two Gallants at the Independent Saturday night. ​ Two Gallants Sept. 24, 2011 The Independent Better than: Holing up in a cheap motel with a fifth of Old Crow and a shotgun. San Francisco hometown heroes Two Gallants wrapped up a massive summer tour that took the duo all the way to Madrid by ... More >>

Michael Glatze, Former Reporter for Gay Magazine XY Decides He's Not Really Gay

Michael Glatze, left, in the gay days. ​Back in the 1990's, Michael Glatze was a writer for the now-defunct Castro-headquartered gay magazine XY. Glatze had started what would become a 10-year relationship with a man he met in a Castro coffee shop; he attended gay-rights rallies; and he was obsess ... More >>

Early Summer Movie Guide: What to See, When to See It

What It's Really Like To Be in a Band, Starring Seattle's Moondoggies

​Headlining the Independent tonight is a Seattle folk-rock band by the name of Moondoggies. Maybe you have heard of this band, or its rich, rocking, Neil Young-indebted sophomore album Tidelands, which was released on the Hardly Art label last year. Or maybe not.Maybe you imagine that because the ... More >>

Newsom Baby No. 2: The 25 Worst/Least Likely Names

Jim HerdThis one's mine. Get your own.​It seems Mayor Gavin Newsom will soon have something else to distract him from elected office: Another kid on the way! It's impossible to guess the naming propensities of a couple who saw fit to christen their first child "Montana." But we offered the 25 wors ... More >>

Broken, Not Shattered: Adam Stephens and his band celebrate life after a tour accident

In Print: Adam Stephens' Near-Catastrophe, and the Soulful Holiday Sounds of Grillade

​From SF Weekly's latest print music section:Broken, Not Shattered: Adam Haworth Stephens awoke to shouts. His drummer, Omar Cuellar, was at the helm of their tour van, yelling that the vehicle carrying Stephens' band and its gear was sliding out of control on ice and snow somewhere on Inters ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

After Van Crash, Adam Haworth Stephens Needs Your Help

Adam Haworth Stephens' tour van, after the Wyoming crash.​We told you last week about the horrible, horrible tour van crash in a Wyoming snowstorm that dislocated S.F. troubadour Adam Haworth Stephens' shoulder, and broke some of bandmate Omar Cuellar's vetebrae, along with his hand.Well, there's ... More >>

Two Gallants' Adam Haworth Stephens and Bandmate Injured in Tour Van Crash

Adam Haworth Stephens​On the heels of today's news about S.F. trio Weekend -- whose busted van chassis hasn't stopped its tour -- comes a report of another crash this past Sunday involving S.F.-based Two Gallants frontman Adam Haworth Stephens in Wyoming. And, sadly, this story doesn't end as well ... More >>

Swingless Golfers Strike In Court

via flickr by chris.corwinNever win​The saga over the patent rights and trade secrets of the swingless golf club continues in a San Francisco courtroom.A federal judge in San Francisco today permitted some counterclaims accusing a Wyoming-based company and two directors of tricking the former owne ... More >>

Taking flight, back to the nest

German stereotype engineering at Schroeder’s

We Won! Feinstein, Boxer Top 2009 Earmark List

To paraphrase Peggy Lee, Barbara Boxer brings home the bacon, and Dianne Feinstein fries it up in a pan, according to the most recently updated list of senatorial porkmiesters and mistresses compiled by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington advocacy group. According to the list, California's ... More >>

34th Telluride Film Festival Day Two: Greil Marcus and writing with one eye

Cowboy vs. Samurai

Getting It On

Is Sexual Perversity still relevant?

Department of What the Fuck?

What does the ghost of INXS's Michael Hutchence think of his band's reunion?

Homo on the Range

Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain

Grizzly Man

Redford grows old gracefully in An Unfinished Life

The Storm of the Teeth

The ever-overreaching Human Rights Commission launches an official investigation of ... a barroom display of a few Indian teeth

Keeping Up With the Jones

A play that tries to explain the lure of Jim Jones' infamous People's Temple

Megawestern

The Heaven's Gate boondoggle, revisited

The Politics of Burning Man

Burning Man and the Republican convention coincide. Where's a good progressive to go?

A River Doesn't Run Through It

In the heart of the urban jungle, and angler's oasis

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 5, 2003

Preaching to the Disconcerted

Local artist, label honcho, and festival organizer Ernesto Diaz-Infante sings the gospel of the experimental scene

Skip It

Why the best teen movie of the year, based on a beloved novel, won't be in theaters

Survival of the Fittest

June Watanabe uses dance to heal painful memories

The Plot Thins

Yes, SF Weekly has been secretly trying to rid the city of artists. It's working pretty well, don't you think?

What's Come Around

'Tis the season for Cosmic Justice for Japanese whale eaters, and many, many S.F. politicos

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

Against the Grain

Map of Wyoming's Dale Duncan learned everything he needed to know about music in the woodshop

Reading Aloud

Annie Proulx passes Word for Word's storytelling test

Wyoming

Barry Gifford's new play

The House of Tudor

The Holy War Over Gay Marriage

Eighty Methodist pastors from Northern California plan to challenge church law by co-officiating at a lesbian wedding. It's an act of conscience that could sunder America's second-largest denomination -- and bring gay marriage to the center of national co

Riff Raff

Letters

Local Yokels

Night + Day

The Full Treatment

Is TV ready for the Web?

Slap Shots

Logic Boards, Not Blackboards

The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

Slap Shots