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On the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 12, consultant Paul Fenn stood in a hearing chamber before San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) — an obscure but...
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Berkeley has 924 Gilman. Seattle has the Vera Project. Los Angeles has the Smell. Each of these dedicated all-ages spaces has provided more than just a place to see cool bands...
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There are more than 4,000 varieties of crab in the world, but the Dungeness has its own unique cachet for San Franciscans. Found along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska,...
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Steven Soderbergh tends to travel light — even when he has a movie camera tucked inside his suitcase. That's how the filmmaker set off on a recent Japanese press tour...
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Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the first film George Tillman Jr. has directed since 2000's Men of Honor, about a...
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The Wim Wenders Tribute at the Berlin and Beyond film festival comprises two films: Marcel Wehn's documentary One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years, in which the director...
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Punk illustrator Cristy Road writes from experience in Bad Habits: A Love Story. The author is, or was, one of those feral kids, dangerous mostly to themselves, and her art...
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Promo copy for performances of butoh, the ever-evolving, highly experimental Japanese dance form, can be notoriously vague. “The human body, like a flower, sprouts to...
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The current blitz of American and British movies with Nazi themes confirms one thing: Nobody in the world understands fascism like German filmmakers. In Dennis Gansel’s...
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When right-wingers say that liberals are "arugula eaters," we have to imagine they're just jealous. (Same with people who use "gay" as an insult, oui? Crybabies.) San Francisco...
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In June, the Ethnic Dance Festival arrives in town, a heartwarming month of dance celebrating cultural traditions and the roots that connect us all. Today, however,...
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William Shatner's Butt Girls host the Women on the Way Festival Benefit Performance and Party. The Butt Girls, aka Lene Taylor and Jungle Kitty, geek their way through dirty...
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Why Che Guevara, and why now? Unlike The Motorcycle Diaries and 20th Century Fox’s long-ago debacle, Che!, Steven Soderbergh’s two-part, four-hour Che is neither...
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It's real, starting today: The United States of America has a black president. We're sure most of the country can be considered one big inauguration party this week, but here...
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“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” the prescient speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the eve of his assassination in 1968, was like an oratory bookend...
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Smart people use the "Fridrich Method" instead of a hammer to solve the Rubik's Cube. Developed by Jessica Fridrich, it requires people to identify and use the correct...
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Many rock posters are better than the shows they promote. For example, take Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan’s poster promoting Bush’s 1997 gig at the Maui Cultural...
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The queer body, however the hell you conceive of it, is a treasure trove of visible and invisible experiences. "Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits"...
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By our unofficial count, exactly one actor performed in a movie in blackface in 2008. Tropic Thunder may have seemed like just another wacky-brave escapade in the fascinating...
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Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher sets his fledgling feminist film at a Jewish seminary in Safed, where students Noemi (Ania Bukstein) and Michel (Michal Shtamler) form an unlikely...
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