As a Matter of Fat
The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health
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The Curtain Slowly Rises
After years of delays and millions in public funds, Brava opened its inaugural season in a still unfinished theater
Tears of a Clown
With The Mission Is Not Impossible, local composer and instrument builder Peter Whitehead feels a neighborhood's pain
Death in Toon Town
San Francisco's digital animation district is foundering, and Duke may be down for the count
Pop Philosophy
Rehearsal spaces; Lucky Strike; song contest deadline
Dog Bites
Mercury News redesign; Chronicle rumors; Gavin Newsom
Artjournalism
Bruce Conner, the greatest artist you don't know, uses our Peter Byrne for image-honing purposes. We use Conner to get you to pick up…
Title Trouble
Restaurant etiquette
The Case for Ending Rent Control
In the political pantheon of left-leaning San Francisco, Joan Holden is an icon of radical respectability. Since 1968, Holden has written 30 anti-capitalist plays…
Girl Problems
The juvenile justice system is ignoring delinquent girls — and creating a social time bomb