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As one of contemporary R&B's brightest stars, John Legend possesses Grammys and hits galore. But could he be any blander? His twinkling tunes about love and relationships are...
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At night, the shiny new California Academy of Sciences is locked up tight, but there's no signage for the Moss Room, its fancy dining room downstairs. If you wander around the...
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San Francisco is a city that enjoys being scratched behind the ears by an adoring world. And the city was certainly purring a little more than a year ago when it banned plastic...
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It's hard to think of two manifestations of the Western cultural imagination less alike than Macbeth and Project Runway. Yet the people behind Shotgun Players' production of...
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Outlandish
Free parking: Oh, please. San Francisco is supposed to give promoters space in Golden Gate Park to make money ["Outside Lands Ouster?," Peter Jamison, Sucka Free...
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We hate to be the critic who laments the present, but it must be said: The music zeitgeist is suffering through its own recession these days. After 2008 hit with the thud of a...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Cafe Mystique: 464 Castro (at 17th St.), www.cafemystiquesf.com. Castro. North...
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Ari Folman's broodingly original Waltz with Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature.
Folman, whose magic-realist...
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For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works, in its way, as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new contestant in its pageant of cold-sweat...
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The art world's preoccupation with authenticity seems to ebb and flow with the tides of the economy. In an uptick, artists can be cynical about whether their work connects;...
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Anyone with cable television or an Internet hookup knows all too well that this is the dawning of the age of the douchebag. While the term for a feminine hygiene implement...
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What's that really long tome everyone says they've read but no one does? No, not Ulysses. In San Francisco government, it's often an Environmental Impact Report — and...
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Public-access television has long been a way for offbeat music to reach the homes of appreciative weirdos around the country. I remember checking out Virgil Porter's Burn My...
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Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party. The core conceit of Aaron Loeb's ambitious, hilarious, and dramaturgically hairy comedy is that the audience gets to vote on which order...
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Correction
Matt Smith's Jan. 7 column, "Artist Con," stated that art dealer Nancy Wandlass pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement charges. In fact, Wandlass pleaded guilty only...
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Scotland's Glasvegas is the latest in retrofuturism. The band's self-titled debut combines its hometown heroes Jesus and Mary Chain with My Bloody Valentine's shimmering walls...
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Like geodes, those hollow rocks lined with crystals that enchant children of all ages, San Francisco artist Darren Waterston's prints, watercolors, and oil paintings give a...
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While you can still start an argument as to whether the Rebirth Brass Band is as big worldwide as the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, you can't question its New Orleans musical...
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Artist and curator Brion Nuda Rosch's Hallway Bathroom Gallery is pretty much what its name implies: a long skinny gallery area with an appended pair of bathrooms. The intimate...
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• Get away with murder. What's the SFPD going to do, catch me?
• Crush Mayor Gavin Newsom by talking about San Francisco for nine hours straight.
• Remember...
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