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The Psychic World of Stanley Krippner: A quest to document ESP

John Hodgman Explains the Beauty of the Internet

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Taking in Richard Serra's Arresting Drawings

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

June's Literary Events

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Nudists find opposition in an unlikely place: The Castro

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Masterminds 2010

Meet the talented Bay Area artists competing for our $2,500 grants.

Republican Senator Wades Into UCSF Financial Morass; Echoes Complaints of Fired Dean Profiled By SF Weekly

Dr. David KesslerOur paper's regular readers may recall a gem penned in April of last year by Ron Russell, in which he profiled Dr. David Kessler, the former dean of U.C. San Francisco Medical School ousted after years of complaining about "alleged financial malfeasance at the institution he was hir ... More >>

Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

Dr. David KesslerOur paper's regular readers may recall a gem penned in April of last year by Ron Russell, in which he profiled Dr. David Kessler, the former dean of U.C. San Francisco Medical School ousted after years of complaining about "alleged financial malfeasance at the institution he was hir ... More >>

Cowboy Up: 'Hottest Senate Candidate' Inspires Sudden S.F. Interest in Nebraska Politics

Dr. David KesslerOur paper's regular readers may recall a gem penned in April of last year by Ron Russell, in which he profiled Dr. David Kessler, the former dean of U.C. San Francisco Medical School ousted after years of complaining about "alleged financial malfeasance at the institution he was hir ... More >>

Richard Thalheimer, Founder of Sharper Image, Talks for the First Time About His Ouster

Dr. David KesslerOur paper's regular readers may recall a gem penned in April of last year by Ron Russell, in which he profiled Dr. David Kessler, the former dean of U.C. San Francisco Medical School ousted after years of complaining about "alleged financial malfeasance at the institution he was hir ... More >>

Leno's Hemp Screen

Just say "no" to more hemp. Focus on the weak dollar and apocalypse tomorrow!

Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

The painter, the landlord, and the $80,000 dispute over a life's work

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Smart Cookie

Heather Gold clearly likes the people who come to see her bake, and they respond in kind

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

The second edition of this modern classic is an even more thoroughgoing amalgam of history, science, literature, and cooking tips

Ben Franklin: Unplugged

Josh Kornbluth looks like Franklin -- and has concerns about his own Founding Father

Merchants of Passion

A Bay Area company moves the dildo into the national mainstream -- one housewife at a time

Electra-fied

John Kerry's high school garage band tells all!

The Misadventures of Spike's Dykes

We love lesbians, and we love movies, so why don't we love Spike Lee's lesbian movie She Hate Me?

Greek Out

Distributors still don't honeymoon with small romantic comedies

A Long, Strange Trip

Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle concludes with three hours of outrageousness and unfamiliarity

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

Collect Calling

Since selling his world-famous film archive to the Library of Congress, Rick Prelinger's been busy saving 40,000 magazines, newspapers, and government documents from history's dustbin. He wants you to take a look.

Future Speak

The Long Now Foundation wants to assemble every human language on one nearly indestructible disk -- and, maybe, to last forever

He's Gotta Have It

Local filmmaker Caveh Zahedi's career was waylaid by his addiction to prostitution and porn. Today, his sexual compulsions could be the source of his comeback.

The Pimp of Drama

Actors who love Hamlet too much, and the playwright who laughs at them

Missed Interpretation

Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

Cult of Personality

Design guru Edward R. Tufte's one-day courses break his own rules

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

General Excellence

Groundbreaking programs at San Francisco General Hospital may well change the way the entire U.S. health care system deals with domestic violence. To understand why, you have to understand Dr. Beth Kaplan.

Holy Madness

Frank Wortham has fun with his gallery of frantic, bug-eyed eccentrics

March Madness

Demonstrating may soothe the psyche, but it won't save San Francisco's arts scene

Night Crawler

Bless Me Father, For I Have Driven

High School Unhinged

Bless Me Father, For I Have Driven

Reversing Course

A broad repudiation of Prop. 209 surfaces at Berkeley

Silver Mining

Digging for the genuine article at the Telluride Film Festival's 25th anniversary celebration

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Digging for the genuine article at the Telluride Film Festival's 25th anniversary celebration

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Digging for the genuine article at the Telluride Film Festival's 25th anniversary celebration

Conscientious Injectors

The enforcement of drug laws should be less hurtful than the dangers inherent indrug use itself, say the "harm reductionists" at Prevention Point, who practice what they preach by distributing 1.5 million needles to the city's drug users

Diminished Expectations

Jerry Brown decamps his Pacific Heights firehouse for the East Bay