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In the days and weeks ahead, several tremendous (dare we say Oscar-caliber?) films will be arriving in Bay Area theaters. They're poignant, affecting, and moving. But one...
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You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come.
War,...
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The holiday madness is winding down. We're approaching that delicious hammock between Christmas and New Year's, during which we can indulge ourselves a little. Perhaps you'll...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the twilight of life and gradually regressing toward...
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When Mac Wellman debuted Sincerity Forever in 1990, the play won two Obie awards -- and a scolding by Congresswoman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). It was named an "outstanding...
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Ten years ago, swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret discovered a group of women who founded an anti-capitalist utopian community in the desert of southwestern New Mexico -- and by...
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Gay film slipped palatably out of Israel’s closet with the films of Eytan Fox, who, with his partner Gal Uchovsky, made Yossi & Jagger, The Bubble, and the subliminally...
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Rebar, the art and design collective that brought you Park(ing) Day, has come up with a creative new way to interact with the urban environment: Bushwaffle. Just as Park(ing)...
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Colter Jacobsen once said in an interview that looking at other people's old family photographs "can be like the excitement of meeting a stranger for the first time. They are...
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Last year, Jeff Raz took a year-long sabbatical from the Clown Conservatory, which he founded, to play the central role in Cirque du Soleil's Corteo. In the show, the clown...
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After Audrey Hepburn saw the finished Breakfast at Tiffany’s with Henry Mancini’s score and her rendition of “Moon River,” she wrote him a mash note:...
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The first few days of the year are go time for the folks at Kagami Kai: This small local organization is dedicated to making traditional Japanese New Year's sweets. Really....
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You’re primed to greet 2009 with a new attitude and a fresh plan; all you need is an inspiring role model. Consider the Tibetan iconoclast Gendun Choephel, who left his...
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The Joe Goode Performance Group typically makes contemporary dance that pays a lot of attention to music. That may sound like a big "duh," but company founder and artistic...
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The best movie we’ve seen about teen angst since Donnie Darko comes from Belgium? Ben X is also the best film about a bullied teen with Asperger’s Syndrome that...
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If you're feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sheer cuteness of the holiday season, if you feel you might explode if you see one more adorable snowman or peace dove, seek the...
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W. Kamau Bell brings top players from his ongoing Solo Performance Workshop to perform at two New Year's Eve shows. These two performances mark the third and fourth New Year's...
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In a blessedly inspired pairing of venue and program, Lon Chaney makes the heavy church bells chime twice tonight in the skyscraping religious landmark and tourist destination...
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After you've seen Milk, and who hasn't, you probably want to know more about that time, and Paul VanDeCarr's audio tour "Out of the Bars and Into the Streets" has lots more....
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It may be the "Cool Christmas," but don't worry, it's still ballet, all the way. "Graceful men lift lovely girls in white," as the song goes. (The song being "At the Ballet"...
