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Dancing with Words
Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch imagines a strange future.

By Nirmala Nataraj

Wednesday, September 03

Erika Chong Shuch and her much-lauded company, the Erika Shuch Performance Project, have been making dreamlike, profoundly theatrical pieces that... More >>
Dance Events to Check Out This Fall

By Nirmala Nataraj

Wednesday, September 03

Inbal Pinto Dance Company Seeing an Inbal Pinto Dance Company show is akin to experiencing Cirque du Soleil without all the commercial... More >>
Not Your Parents' Jazz
This year's San Francisco Jazz Festival rings in the new.

By Eric K. Arnold

Wednesday, September 03

Jazz began as a live soundtrack for East St. Louis brothels and accompaniment for New Orleans funerals. Along the way it has engendered... More >>
Classical & Opera

Compiled By John Graham

Wednesday, September 03

Classical New Century Chamber Orchestra Music director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg starts the ensemble's season with "Nadja Plays Piazzolla," a... More >>
Relics Revisited
Art lovers, history buffs, and science geeks get their fill this fall.

By Traci Vogel

Wednesday, September 03

I Feel I Am Free But I Know I Am Not Sept. 4–Nov. 20 at SF Camerawork, 657 Mission (at New Montgomery), S.F. Call 512-2020 or visit... More >>

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Broward - Palm Beach

There Goes the Hood

A legendary underground filmmaker from Sistrunk surfaces to make a movie about Florida homeboys

By Deirdra Funcheon

Don't make like this is Beverly Hills. This is the real goddamned hood. The motherfuckin'... More >>

Dallas

Six Pac

The Cowboys are counting on NFL outlaw Pacman Jones to pop the top on their sixth Super Bowl.

By Richie Whitt

Father murdered. Mother imprisoned. Drugs. Fights. Guns. Lies. Suspensions. Handcuffs.... More >>

Denver

William Orr's quest for better, cheaper gas left him facing prison time

By Alan Prendergast

Few dreamers believe in their dream the way William Orr did. He chased his idea, a search for... More >>

Houston

Hope for the Houston Texans?

Gary Kubiak and team search for their first winning season

By Richard Connelly

The Houston Texans are about to embark on their seventh NFL season. In only one of the previous... More >>

Kansas City

Home Sweet Parking Lot

When a workingman doesn’t have a home in Johnson County, a Wal-Mart parking lot is the next best thing.

By Nadia Pflaum

Times are tough all over. Today, several families are visiting the office of Catholic... More >>

Miami

Skateboard Film Pits Overtown Against Sistrunk

Go behind the scenes of this hood war.

By Deirdra Funcheon

"Don't make like this is Beverly Hills. This is the real goddamn hood. The motherfuckin'... More >>

Minneapolis

Tim Pawlenty: Jilted for Sarah Palin

The Minnesotan governor now knows how Carol McCain feels

By Jonathan Kaminsky

Wearing a striped polo shirt and a forced smile, Gov. Tim Pawlenty last week handled the... More >>

Phoenix

Warring US Airways and America West pilots have the merged company in a real tailspin

By Sarah Fenske

David Braid doesn't look like a gangster. A pilot for US Airways, Braid has the friendly... More >>

St. Louis

Perverts Beware: St. Louis area police have your number

By Kathleen McLaughlin

Earlier this summer, Roderick McArthur shuffled into a courtroom at the Thomas F. Eagleton... More >>

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News & Booze Friday Edition - Absentee Mayor Puts ID Program on Hold, is Gavin Newsom Breaking Up with Us?

Fri Sep 5, 1:09 PM

Let's be honest, San Francisco: Any day now we're all going to get a text message from one of Gavin's aids saying "Im br8kng up w U." The next day a press release will explain that he's taking our sanctuary... More >>

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Columns

Matt Smith
Double Bogey
Muni's bogus tax shelter and theGuardian's bogus lawsuit.

By Matt Smith

Wednesday, September 03

How many people in San Francisco are involved in multimillion-dollar illegal tax shelters? Would you believe: more than 200,000? That's how many... More>>
Sucka Free City
Unhealthy S.F.
Alleged violation of S.F.'s universal healthcare law exposes its limits.

By Lauren Smiley

Wednesday, September 03

A shop for the polite and etiquette-conscious, the Crane and Co. stationery boutique in the Financial District is now the first company to face... More>>
Sucka Free City
Identity Plagiarism
A blogger steals someone else's life story and calls it her own.

By Ashley Harrell

Wednesday, September 03

There's a new member on the popular San Francisco–based online sex forum AskIsadora. Her name, apparently, is Jo. She purportedly joined to... More>>
Letters
SF Weekly Letters

Wednesday, September 03

Academy of Art Jeer-Leader Pump up the volume: I'm always interested in the Academy of Art's antics, and this is pretty amazing ["Going for... More>>

Letters

SF Weekly Letters

Wednesday, September 03

Academy of Art Jeer-Leader Pump up the volume: I'm always interested in the Academy of Art's antics, and this is pretty amazing ["Going for... More >>