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Last week was my first full week of my sophomore year of college and thus, as you can probably imagine, pretty busy. As busy as I was, though, I still found the time to honor two prominent historical anniversaries.

In the coming week, Bay Area movie goers will have the rare opportunity -- in fact the first in nearly a century -- to see a film widely considered one of the most emblematic of the Bay Area's long-forgotten movie making...

Dane Cook summed up the peril of the public restroom in a great stand-up bit that questions everything from the perpetual puddles to the writing...

Cyndi Lauper wants the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community to know that her love truly shows no bounds. Having already served as a...

In a time of division, on the brink of one of the most divisive elections in our country's history, and in a country where the gap between rich and poor has hardly been greater, Africa's Hope is not just a story of heali...

For all the forgers' mastery of art, there remains the troubling issue of morality. What does it mean to turn such a phenomenal skill toward criminal ends? And just how criminal is it, really?

The Museum of Modern Art will pay tribute to Andrew Sarris (1928-2012), titan of film criticism, in a memorial screening of an Ophuls' classic. Plus, Warhol's Screen Test and two rarely seen documentaries, featuring the ...

Julian Tepper's whimsically titled debut novel, Balls, tells the story of Henry Schiller, a 30-year-old songwriter and lounge-player, who is in love with a younger and more musically talented woman, a careerist with a wa...

The following is an excerpt from "This Is Improbable" [Oneworld, $15.95]: Philip M. Parker is the world’s fastest book author, and given that he had...