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Kaushal Niroula, 26, aka the Nepalese Prince, aka Prince Little Stuff, enters a Palm Springs courtroom and offers to shake the judge's hand. Short and neatly dressed, with...
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The BBC documentary Hotel California: L.A. from the Byrds to the Eagles includes one particularly awesome (and really quite hilarious) scene with Graham Nash. He's looking...
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When I first dined at La Mar Cebicheria for a festive lunch a few months ago, I came away with decidedly mixed impressions. The location is killer — an enormous white...
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With the molded-rubber face of Telly Savalas, the basso profundo of Sylvester Stallone, and the name of an underdog gas alternative, Vin Diesel's already-dubious...
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Meryl Streep is arguably America’s greatest living musical-theater actress. Anyone who saw the two-time Oscar winner shamelessly mug and prance through the mindless movie...
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After years of hand wringing and looking the other way, Federal officials have officially allowed Maverick’s surfers to use wave runners, those noisy, polluting...
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This play, as its subtitle suggests, is a one-man Beckettlike riff about "nothing," written by the incomparable Will Eno. The script was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer...
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Before setting pen to paper, Sin Nombre writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga purportedly rode the rails in the company of real illegal immigrants traveling from Mexico to the...
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In this beaten-down economy, small art gallery shows feel more vital. Maybe that's because small galleries can't afford the distance of irony — earnest and close-up is...
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The officers of San Francisco's mounted police detail promenade through Golden Gate Park every day in the stateliest style as they watch for drug activity and lawless...
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It seems the only numbers rising at independent record stores these days are in the amounts of CDs being sold back to retailers who deal in used merchandise. Buy counters...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Cafe Altano: 621 Hayes (at Laguna), 252-1200. Hayes Valley. Mediterranean.
Cafe...
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Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers and knee socks clinging to lower...
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Maria Forde's touchingly awkward sketches of her friends, done in pencil and watercolor, people the walls at Needles & Pens. She began these portraits as a way to gather...
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Remember Greg Shade? He sure wants you to, only not in the way he's depicted in American Hero, a short documentary that screened at last year's S.F. Independent Film Festival....
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I am concerned about the long-term sustainability of Lily Allen's obsession with writing songs about her unsatisfying sexual encounters. For her own sake, I hope this is not...
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Established artists who've made midcareer leaps from gallery to movie house have not easily found their footing. Julian Schnabel's first feature was a flop; Robert Longo,...
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If Dean Smith ever takes a break, or even breathes, it's hard to tell from his meticulous, obsessive, painstaking pattern art. Like a human spirograph, he maps out abstract...
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Gavin Newsom now has more than 100,000 followers on Twitter. What are the most popular Newsom tweets?
• Don't tell anyone: I'm running 4 governor!!! It'll b our...
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What's most admirable about onetime X-Files producer R.W. Goodwin's Alien Trespass, a simulacra of the '50s flying-saucer flick, is its bypassing of the wink-wink...
