Reality Pipes: Keystone Project Kicks Up Sand

Will Obama give oil pipeline the green light?

"...what appears to be happening, as the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline is well on its way to reality...."

Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

The Hightower Report: The Keystone XL Flim Flam

"...for lashing Obama's January decision to reject the infamous Keystone XL pipeline...."

March 9, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

More Coverage on Keystone XL Pipeline

"...protests surrounding the construction of the portion of the Keystone XL pipeline within the state of Texas. Not only..."

Dec. 16, 2012 Postmarks

Keystone Kriminals Kaught

Burglars sing like birds to Sheriff's Office detective

April 13, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Keystone Kriminals

Burglars break into buidings under construction, leave digital photos of themselves behind

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Keystone Kops Hunt Killer D's

The Dept. of Homeland Security barely breaks a sweat investigating its own role in the May manhunt

July 11, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Everything Must Go

Will Ferrell stars in this offbeat drama that's based on a Raymond Carver short story.

"...Nick's got to pull his head out of the Keystone Light before he can find the key or the..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Memories of Murder

This Korean cop film is based on the country's first real serial-killer case in 1986, a case that flummoxed the police along with everyone else.

"...are viewed as self-serving cretins barely smarter than the Keystone Cops, unable to even theorize about the identity of..."

May 13, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Friday After Next

"...with making fun of the hood rats, gangbangers, and Keystone Kops-style law enforcement than in critiquing the status quo...."

Nov. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: Shindig on Effie Street

The silent film comedians at Keystone Films lived their art

"...that is also in later photos of Mack Sennett's Keystone Pictures Studio. The same attic, the same windows. The..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Of Mayhem and Delight

The Keystone films, especially those of Charles Chaplin, reflected the present and heralded the future

"...It was released 96 years ago under the rubric "Keystone – A Farce Comedy." Rare prints survived here and..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: February 1914

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought

"...is only available in the 2010 box, Chaplin at Keystone...."

Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: A Century Since 'The Water Nymph'

On September 23, 1912, Keystone Films released its first comedy, which starred Mabel Normand

"...photos was a word spelled vertically, like a pole: Keystone. The pole rested on a base-word: Films...."

Sept. 21, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Talking Down the Pipeline

Austin hearing highlights debate over tar sands pipeline

"...As the Chronicle went to press Wednesday, the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline was under debate at..."

Sept. 30, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Kickstart Your Weekend: 'Freedom Fighters' and 'Above All Else'

Crowdsourcing gets political in this week's projects

"...What does Keystone XL mean to you? What about TransCanada pipeline?..."

May 10, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Hightower Report

An ugly surprise from Big Oil

"...Congress barked at Obama that he must approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast because..."

Jan. 27, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

Coronavirus and the Threat to Those Recovering From Addiction

Maintaining connections – at a distance – to stay sober during the pandemic

"...helps achieve sobriety at University High School and the Keystone Alternative Peer Group have been able to maintain a..."

May 15, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Aquarela

Incredible documentary is a song of the power of water

"...of elemental wrath. The opening sequence – an almost Keystone Kops sequence of locals in Greenland trying to rescue..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Late Night

Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling spark and bond in this timely and charming media satire

"...(there's one moment that falls straight out of a Keystone Cops short, with the writers' room tumbling over each..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Collide

A backpacker and drug smugglers clash on a high-speed highway

"...Casey, along with pal Matthias (Kenzari), is thus the keystone to wealth, health, and Sir Hopkins’ smoke break from..."

March 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago

On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup

"...4, 1914, a bemused sort of person entered "the Keystone," as Mack Sennett's lot was called. She was 16,..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Civics 101

"...PRESENTATION ON KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE Dr. Stephanie Germaine explains the environmental threat...."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Column

Much Ado About Nothing

With Shakespearean language tripping off their contemporary tongues, the actors are more than game for Joss Whedon's informal, black-and-white take on this classic comedy.

"...looking like second-string Secret Service agents and behaving like Keystone Kops – reveal the treachery that threatens to spoil..."

June 21, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Civics 101

Calendar of civic events, Sept. 22-29

"...PIPELINE HEARING Speak out against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from Canada to Texas at..."

Sept. 23, 2011 News Column

Eco-Currents: Reading the Bones

Gluing frogs onto storm drains and other civic duties

"...the Department of State's draft Environ­mental Impact Statement, the Keystone XL pipeline will cross environmentally sensitive waterways – including..."

May 28, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Letters at 3AM: The Dragon on Sennett's Hill

Hollywood is an electric dragon

"...a plaque that marked the site of Mack Sennett's Keystone lot, circa 1912-1930 – a studio that, at its..."

March 12, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10

An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008

"...exotic comedienne Normand is very much undertold. She was Keystone Comedies' Mack Sennett's longtime on-again, off-again girlfriend, and she..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

An authoritative film study of the career of the Little Tramp by the esteemed journalist Richard Schickel.

"...90 since his first onscreen appearance (for Mack Sennett’s Keystone Films) in the obscure short "Making a Living," but..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shanghai Knights

"...which are amazingly inventive in Shanghai Knights. While a Keystone Kop-inspired tussle early in the film seems half-realized, a..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

That Thing You Do!

"...like them. Even if you don't hail from the Keystone State...."

Oct. 4, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

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