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There are plenty of reasons people might hate Andrew Bird. For one, he seems kind of gimmicky. Remember the Squirrel Nut Zippers, who spent the late '90s re-creating old-time...
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Tommy Hall is nursing a Coke at a corner table at the Hemlock Tavern, a Polk Street music dive. The guru of '60s psychedelic rock doesn't drink alcohol. Booze brings you down,...
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It's difficult to visit a restaurant for the first time without having a preconceived notion of what it's going to be like — especially in this age of multiple Internet...
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter the hell of images. Filipino director Brillante Mendoza's Serbis (Tagalog for "service") is entirely set in and around a candidate for the...
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If we needed any more proof that there are a lot of great artists in the Bay Area, we got it while judging this year's Masterminds contest. We received more than 70 submissions...
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Several months ago, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu was a lawyer and entrepreneur whose highest government office was a seat on the San Francisco Small Business...
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No matter how much you've got it all figured out, your first encounter with the androgynous leader of the exquisitely sincere chamber-pop outfit Antony and the Johnsons could...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Bruno's: 1375 Fillmore (at O'Farrell), 563-6300. Fillmore. Italian and pizza.
City...
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Two years after winning the first season of Project Runway, flamboyantly charismatic fashion designer Jay McCarroll still hadn't launched his first clothing line, the pressure...
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Oakland author Yiyun Li's debut novel, The Vagrants, begins with a man and his wife lying awake on the morning of their daughter's public execution, which also happens to be...
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25 Random Things
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 9:37 a.m.
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things or facts about you. At the end,...
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Nothing spells controversy like combining kids and pornography — and apparently San Francisco's Armory is about to have a whole lot of both.
When alternative...
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Adultery remains hazardous to your health in "psychological thrillers," even in Scandinavia, and even when your affair begins as a magnificent obsession. Schlumpy Jonas (Anders...
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Thursday, Feb. 19
Wait, so is Jeff Jarvis saying that Jesus already has come back, as a search engine? In Jarvis' new book, What Would Google Do? (Collins Business, $26.99),...
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On Feb. 9, defense attorneys disclosed part of an innovative strategy they plan to use to defend Down Below Gang leader Emile Fort, who is accused of 30 federal crimes,...
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Last week, an independent report found that the San Francisco school district is frequently failing to hire the most qualified teachers. What can the district do...
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Music fans long ago lost patience with passively observing musicians. We want to download a song from one site, research band details from another, and get musicians' status...
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Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: Open mike for filmakers. Thu., Feb. 19, 8 p.m. $5. Chant d'Amour: Jean Genet's short film and several other silent shorts,...
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Burn the Floor. It's been said that true moments of joy come mostly through two acts: sex and dancing. Burn the Floor combines both, as 16 hard-bodied, high-energy performers...
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Bread and Gutter
Rap on the knuckles for Jamison: Peter Jamison's article on direct services to the poor in the Tenderloin ["Their Daily Bread," Feature, 2/4] shared a sadly...
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