"The Jazz Singer" brought sound to the movies. "Becky Sharp" did the same for color. Now "Monsters vs. Aliens" is accelerating Hollywood's 3-D revolution. The surging popularity of 3-D movies, dramatized recently by the $59.3 million opening of "Monsters vs. Aliens" - the biggest for a 3-D movie - has directors and studio executives reconsidering which, and how many, of their projects can be reworked into the medium. ...more

April 7, 2009

MOVIE TIMES Movie listings are submitted by Bay area theaters. They are subject to change without notice. These listings reflect only today's movie times. ...more

April 2, 2009

MOVIE TIMES Movie listings are submitted by Bay area theaters. They are subject to change without notice. These listings reflect only today's movie times. ...more

April 1, 2009

MOVIE TIMES Movie listings are submitted by Bay area theaters. They are subject to change without notice. These listings reflect only today's movie times. ...more

March 28, 2009

MOVIE TIMES Movie listings are submitted by Bay area theaters. They are subject to change without notice. These listings reflect only today's movie times. ...more

March 27, 2009

I spent a few days recently reacquainting myself with the sensation of being unemployed. I didn't much like it. ...more

March 27, 2009

By approving one amendment and voting down another, the people have decided to ban same-sex marriages and leave the language of the constitution alone, even when some lawmakers think it is culturally insensitive. ...more

November 6, 2008

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November 2, 2008

I never believed in a "generation gap," even though I was brought up in the '60s when all the teens were pot-smoking flower children compared to their parents who fought the Hun and made the world safe for everyone. ...more

July 15, 2008

With illegal immigration and undocumented workers being among the hot-button issues of the day, there's no telling when the government might decide it's time for a crackdown. Whether a business owner thinks "illegals" are that big of a problem, no business owner wants it to become their problem. "This is one of the issues they're talking about in Congress," a local business law attorney, Debora Ann Diaz, said. "Maybe we don't have an illegal alien problem, maybe we just need to enforce what we have in existence." ...more

February 2, 2008