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2009 Stories by Jonathan Kiefer

• The 39 Steps

  published December 30, 2009

  This production being a Broadway import, you might expect just another generic and generally unchallenging extravaganza. Arguably, it is, but how... More >>

• Also Playing

  published December 30, 2009

  Cirque du Soleil: Ovo. Cirque du Soleil's worldwide success has fed its dilemma of needing to invent something original with each... More >>

• The 39 Steps

  published December 23, 2009

  This production being a Broadway import, you might expect just another generic and generally unchallenging extravaganza. Arguably, it is, but... More >>

• Also Playing

  published December 16, 2009

  Jubilee. With the storm clouds of revolution apparently gathering just beyond their gates, and the doldrums of decorum weighing... More >>

• Jubilee

  published December 9, 2009

  With the storm clouds of revolution apparently gathering just beyond their gates, and the doldrums of decorum weighing heavily on their souls, a... More >>

• Jubilee

  published December 9, 2009

  With the storm clouds of revolution apparently gathering just beyond their gates, and the doldrums of decorum weighing heavily on their souls,... More >>

• Also Playing

  published December 9, 2009

  The Bald Soprano. In 1948, the French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco set about learning English. He didn't succeed. He... More >>

• December Book Events: "Is the Book Dead? High Tech and the Written Word," Michael Medved, Norman Podhoretz, Dave Eggers, San Francisco Panorama, Writers with Drinks at the Make-Out Room

  published December 2, 2009

  Thursday, Dec. 3 If panel discussions aren't dead, then neither are books, dammit. Consider "Is the Book Dead? High Tech and the... More >>

• A killer style: The Moment of Psycho

  published December 2, 2009

  In The Moment of Psycho, David Thomson sets a dangerous precedent. Not for pointing out that Alfred Hitchcock's shocking little... More >>

• Also Playing

  published December 2, 2009

  The Bald Soprano. In 1948, the French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco set about learning English. He didn't succeed. He... More >>

• Fat Pig

  published November 25, 2009

  Neil LaBute's 2004 play explores what happens when an average American yuppie milquetoast (Jud Williford) finds himself with a plus-sized... More >>

• Erotic City: How S.F. went from prudish to porn capital

  published November 4, 2009

  In obvious ways, and in ways less obvious, sex shapes city living. That's true in all cities, of course, but in San Francisco — well,... More >>

• November Book Events: Howard Junker, Joshua Clover, Lierre Keith, and William S. Burroughs

  published November 4, 2009

  Monday, Nov. 9 If the name Howard Junker sounds at all familiar, it's probably because he edits ZYZZYVA, the... More >>

• Robert Crumb

  published October 28, 2009

  The Book of Genesis illustrated by R. Crumb may sound like some oft-quoted zinger from a vintage Woody Allen movie, but it's a real book (Norton,... More >>

• Barbara Rose Brooker

  published October 14, 2009

  Even with Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries, Stephen Elliott's Adderall Diaries, and my own forthcoming Flintstones Vitamins... More >>

• October Book Events: October Book Swap, Barbara Rose Brooker, Tamim Ansary, John Freeman & R. Crumb

  published October 7, 2009

  Friday, Oct. 9 So maybe you went hog wild at that ginormous Fort Mason benefit book sale last month for the San Francisco Public... More >>

• Author's debut novel is by necessity schizophrenic

  published October 7, 2009

  It used to be called multiple personality disorder, but now the official clinical term is dissociative identity disorder. Is that better? It's... More >>

• Also Playing

  published September 16, 2009

  The Comedy of Errors. Free Shakespeare in the park. It's such a heart-warming proposition, a fine idea whose public value... More >>

• The Comedy of Errors

  published September 9, 2009

  Free Shakespeare in the park. It's such a heart-warming proposition, a fine idea whose public value endures; with this production, SF Shakes... More >>

• HUM525: Hitting the Books

  published September 2, 2009

  Instructor: Jonathan Kiefer OFFICE HOURS: None. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Through close reading of several new or... More >>

• Rebecca Solnit argues that disasters bring out the best in humanity in A Paradise Built in Hell

  published September 2, 2009

  Not long after the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit felt a strange, surprising sensation. It was, she... More >>

• Also Playing

  published September 2, 2009

  The Farm. Shotgun Players and director Jon Tracy have radically "remixed" George Orwell's Animal Farm into a seething... More >>

• Also Playing

  published August 12, 2009

  Helluva Night: No Exit and Tape. This is one lopsided double bill. Expression Productions' Helluva Night offers two... More >>

• August Book Events: Joyce Maynard, Goth Hop, Hillwide Garage Sale, Melanie Gideon, Josh Healey

  published August 5, 2009

  Thursday, August 6 Best-selling local author Joyce Maynard's new novel, Labor Day (HarperCollins, $25), tracks six... More >>

• Wired editor Chris Anderson argues that free is a legitimate business model in Free: The Future of a Radical Price

  published August 5, 2009

  Talk always has been cheap, but transistors have gotten cheaper. That changes everything. Why? Because information wants to be free. For... More >>