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In sports, they call it "being in the zone." It's that magical, mystical place where athletes say the game slows to a standstill, the planets align, and the impossible suddenly...
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In the beginning of our city's love affair with odd ducks, there was Emperor Norton. A businessman in Gold Rush San Francisco who lost his pants on an investment in Peruvian...
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Amid the upscaling that has swept nearly every Asian cuisine into a wave of fusion-heavy small plates, Korean food has been the exception in San Francisco, remaining stubbornly...
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The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis as the...
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Okay, so perhaps Elvis Costello has become a bit precious over the years, preferring to dabble in “grownup” genres of jazz, standards, and classical music rather than...
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Katsudo benshi were a class of artists in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s who live-narrated silent movies. They were celebrities, with their own fans, and didn't stop at rehashing...
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We have not read local author Jennifer Sey's book Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams....
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Although fire-art exhibits have lost some of their sparkly fascination, fire-art apocalypses remain a potent lure. The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival, set in a parking lot...
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Some believe Stonehenge was built as a massive analog computer to forecast coming eclipses, in essence a very long-term clock. But to maintain accuracy, the great stones would...
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For her New York solo show last March, dancer Nora Chipaumire (part of the renowned Urban Bush Women) stormed around unusual objects hanging from the ceiling -- gourds -- that...
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You probably haven't heard of Matt Archbold, and here’s why: He was a surf phenom from San Clemente, way down in Orange Country, 20 years ago. So why is Henry Rollins...
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Thanks to the resurgence of small-batch DIY knitting and stitching among artists, we no longer have to bow down to the man when buying crafts. The Renegade Craft Fair, which...
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This is not the worst locally produced zombie movie we've ever seen. Although RetarDEAD takes itself too seriously to be really quality schlock, it seems as though the makers...
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They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Case in point: plastic grocery bags, banned by San Francisco last year from city grocery stores. That historic...
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Don't call Prairiedog a country band. It's "scrappy rock," says lead singer and songwriter Sarah Nelson. "The music is numb rock that you want to drink rum to." The cowboy...
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Ana Teresa Fernandez is interested in clean lines and double standards. Her paintings tend to show mysterious women in short black dresses and pointy heels, performing...
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Summer is a quiet time for classical music around here, what with most of the region’s chamber music organizations touring or taking a break. Besides the San Francisco...
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Photographer Sean McFarland does wonderful things to San Francisco. He takes countless photos of particular settings -- from buildings, parks, and streetscapes to freeway...
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The myth still persists in some circles that the silent film era was a bastion of primitivism, a tedious mime show of bathetic sentimentality and clumsy artistry. A single...
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You know you’re a real San Franciscan when the term “deviant sex” barely ratchets your blood pressure. By this late date in this no-holds-barred town,...
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