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Peter HartlaubPop Culture Critic

Peter Hartlaub is a Bay Area native who has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle since 2000. He was also a Chronicle paperboy from 1982 to 1984. As pop culture critic, he reviews movies and video games, writes feature profiles...

Peter Hartlaub is a Bay Area native who has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle since 2000. He was also a Chronicle paperboy from 1982 to 1984. As pop culture critic, he reviews movies and video games, writes feature profiles and covers local entertainment. One of the first bloggers at The Chronicle, he co-founded the parenting blog The Poop and the local culture blog The Big Event. His journalism background includes entertainment legal reporting in Los Angeles in the 1990s. He lives in Oakland.

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A still from "Super Troopers 2": L-R: Writers and stars Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske, with a furry co-star.

‘Super Troopers 2’: Comedy sequel stalls at the side of the road

April 20, 2018

'Troopers' stays dumb

April 20, 2018

Kiefer Sutherland performs at Great American Music Hall on May 4, 2017 in San Francisco

Kiefer Sutherland brings country act to Petaluma

April 17, 2018

Del The Funky Homosapien raps with Deltron 3030 with the 3030 orchestra performs at the Towers of Gold stage during the second day of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park Oct. 4, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. The free festival offers three days of music with over 80 artists on six different stages.

Del the Funky Homosapien releases ‘Gate 13’ at Berkeley event

April 17, 2018

Comedian John Mulaney who is on his Kid Gorgeous Tour

Clusterfest 2018 adds John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Wu-Tang Clan and more to lineup

April 17, 2018

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 10: Inductee Nils Lofgren of the E Street Band appears onstage at the 29th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on April 10, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

E Street Band member Nils Lofgren returns to Yoshi’s in Oakland

April 10, 2018

Julian Feder, Tituss Burgess and Tom Everett Scott star in "I Hate Kids."

Traina’s screenwriting debut, ‘I Hate Kids,’ premieres at Castro

April 4, 2018

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2015 file photo, actor Ken Jeong poses for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Jeong says that much of the inspiration for his memorably angry Mr. Chow character in "The Hangover" movie was a reaction to his wife's fight against breast cancer at the time. He explained in a short film to accompany the upcoming PBS documentary, "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies," that he was caring for his wife, Tran Ho, and their one-year-old twins as she was undergoing chemotherapy. "Tran encouraged me to do it," Jeong said in an interview. "She thought I was suffering from caregiver burnout." (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)

Comedian Ken Jeong adds extra show to Cobb’s Comedy in SF

April 4, 2018

Comedian Johnny Steele

Johnny Steele, Will Durst and more fill the bill for Not the April Fool’s Day Show

March 28, 2018

Morris Day and the Time play in San Leandro

March 28, 2018

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