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A middle-aged man trudges ponderously up Geary Boulevard, wearing large prescription glasses, disposable tinted eyeshades, baggy jeans, and a wrinkled gray T-shirt beneath an...
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Avant-garde composer and saxophonist John Zorn has been the object of ecstatic praise and furious outrage, much like his iconoclastic forebears Igor Stravinsky and Ornette...
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There has been one version or another of the Cliff House on its magnificent rocky site overlooking the Pacific since 1863. The first one burned to the ground on Christmas Day...
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"How do you define yourself?" It's not until its third act that Medicine for Melancholy's lead male character explicitly asks the question that's at this film's heart....
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Books are dead, we keep hearing: dead, dead, dead. And yet, like zombies that can discourse on both European philosophy and cat health, bookstores continue to shuffle on as...
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The most enduring image from America's last banking crisis 20 years ago depicts five U.S. senators meeting with a stubborn top banking regulator, ordering that he stop leaning...
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You can easily call Richie Havens a folksinger. He is, after all, an acoustic-guitar–playing Boomer. But you can't call him typical: His distinctive style couldn't be...
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Bruno's: 1375 Fillmore (at O'Farrell), 563-6300. Fillmore. Italian and pizza.
The Creamery: 685 Fourth St. (at Townsend), 896-1445. SOMA. Coffee and pastries.
Internos Wine...
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The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster nor total triumph. In filming...
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The cardboard box is such a humble object that it's hardly worth acknowledging. You store stuff in the box, it serves its purpose, and it ends up disintegrating out in the...
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Luminism was a term created to describe some attributes of the Hudson River school, that group of painters who idealized upstate New York landscapes in the mid-19th century....
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For 30 years, commuters have partaken of the unofficial and unadvertised tradition of the casual carpool to evade Bay Bridge toll costs en route to the city.
It's a symbiotic...
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As Dwight D. Eisenhower once observed, "Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before." But why? Is something better possible? Could there be another way...
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In early February, Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier met City Attorney Dennis Herrera for a cup of coffee. She was hoping to get him to reconsider a ruling from his office...
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The long history of musician residencies reaches into nearly every genre. From jazz giants setting up shop for multiple nights with various players to showbiz legends...
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Nine-year-old Phoebe (Elle Fanning) is every parent's dream and nightmare — a talented child for whom school presents few challenges, but also a troubled girl prone to...
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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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Two years ago, San Francisco real estate magnate Clint Reilly successfully blocked an attempt by the two companies that own almost every daily newspaper in the Bay Area,...
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Malking It
Worn-out pavement: I enjoyed reading Jennifer Maerz's article "The Noise Pop Network" [Let's Get Killed, 2/25]. Her critiques are right on. However, I was pretty...
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When BLK JKS formed almost a decade ago, the band took a lot of flak in its native Johannesburg. Rock 'n' roll was viewed as the music of the antagonistic West, and BLK JKS...
