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City College Gets Money to Train Former Prisoners

San Francisco's City College scored upwards of $6 million from the Health Care Innovation Awards to help former prisoners become community health workers.The grant will be used to facilitate the Post-Prison Health Worker Certificate Program, which trains inmates to use their personal experiences of ... More >>

For Sex Week, Yale University Has to Borrow Several San Franciscans

How many of us fantasized about going to college in the Ivy League? To be thought of as among "the best and the brightest," and get a shot at opportunities most people don't have? When a few of my sex-positive colleagues said they were speaking this week at Yale University at something called "Sex W ... More >>

Get Some Tale at Bawdy Storytelling's First 2012 Show

​Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move, inspire, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex, where fear, shame, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Wed ... More >>

The 1952 Baton Twirling Magazine That Dared to Address the 'Sissy' Question

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Majorettes on Parade magazine Date: April, 1952 Publisher: International Baton Twirling Foundation Discovered at: Mission estate sale The Cover P ... More >>

No Boundaries

The Architect Speaks

Fall Arts: A few books of local interest

Against the Law

Elite College Hoaxer Showdown: Stanford Vs. Harvard

​News this week of Adam Wheeler, the 23-year-old who lied his way into Harvard and almost into Yale, brought back fond memories of Azia Kim, the dorm-squatter who was discovered posing as a Stanford student two years ago. We have to ask: Who's the better college hoaxer? TV movie-ready back st ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

March Literary Events

Have a Drink

Mission Artist Sendoff

Dirty Projectors continue to rise above

'At Least Iraqi Journalists Can Afford to Throw Their Shoes' and Other Silver Linings of Our President's Latest Misadventure

Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

Whistleblower

By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

Alchemical Art

My Love Is a 187

Singin' in Pain

Were those Yale boys drunk on the magical elixir of musical theater?

Like Herding Sheep

De Niro takes a loooong, sloooow look at the history of the CIA

Apocalypse Now

A sharp, revelatory multimedia show casts a blinding light on the tragic events of today

Our critics weigh in on local theater

"The Mystery Plays"

Two otherworldly (if overly stylized) works about sin and dark secrets

Gemini Descending

A coming-of-age comedy whose dramatic structure is less than engaging

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Never a Feckless Eater

Talking to R.W. Apple Jr. about Apple's America over lunch

What's a Coxswain?

Preppies gather in Redwood City

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Best (and Certainly Coolest) Cultural Figure

Rhodessa Jones

Movie Meals

A strategy for eating near the San Francisco International Film Festival

The Path Less Traveled

Singer/songwriter Jason Morphew's road to San Francisco -- and success -- takes some odd turns

House Of Tudor

B-movie actors, pop culture purveyors, and internationally minded folkies.

Love, Love, Love

Jumping gleefully into theater's favorite panacea

Pop Philosophy

Political Song Contest

Empty Head

Night & Day

Reel World

Night + Day

The House of Tudor

Letters

One Weird Church

A tale of faith, hope, and serendipity

Aisle Seat

Publish or Perish

War Junkie

Jacques Leslie revisits Vietnam,land of obsessions