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Eleven instructors of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps shuffled into the school board meeting in late March like men on death row who might be handed an 11th-hour...
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German label Kompakt tends to release what nonfans call "IKEA techno" — pleasant, faceless music that's sort of ambient, sort of danceable, but never too demanding of...
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It isn't easy finding a platter of honest-to-God soul food in this town. A lot of what is passed off as the genuine article may be Creole cuisine or Texas barbecue or...
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Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one would pay a cent to see them. That's...
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Toy company design work and street graffiti inform the work of manga-driven artist Hush. At "Veiled Beauty," the Hong-Kong-by-way-of-the-U.K. painter shows some of his famous...
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Young people! It is understandable that you assume black and white movies are boring. Youth equals stupidity, after all. No, srsly: If you have not seen My Little Chickadee,...
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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the most clichéd genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting, and visual beauty. Half Nelson—their...
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You remember George Takei — he’s the guy who was parodied on the Soup for nearly all of 2008 simply for having a nice baritone and a limitless laugh. He was also Mr....
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Not touching the art is one of our most hallowed traditions. But who hasn’t wanted to press a finger against a canvas to see what, say, mid-'50s abstract expressionism...
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You wouldn’t think a movie about wild pig hunting would play well in the city, but we happen to be surrounded by hills filled with 200-pound, tusk-sporting boar....
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Author Lyman Frank Baum claimed The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was simply “a modernized fairy tale” for children but, even in 1900, the story resonated deeply with...
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Joy Jones is cute and funny. She writes, “An artist can change lemons into lemonade/Gators into Gatorade/An escape into an escapade.” Jones, a local poet and...
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In the ’30s and ’40s, urban sophisticate Ernst Lubitsch turned a corner of the Paramount lot into Old Europe for his masterful romantic comedies Ninotchka, The Shop...
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Vancouver-based guitar and vocals twosome Mecca Normal has always had a political bent. Sure, the band serves up smartly written songs and obstreperous guitar rock, but its...
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Kayakers are like surfers. They get started, and the next thing you know, other parts of their lives begin to fall by the wayside. They try to get you to go with them. And no...
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Forty million American singles can’t be wrong! Take a personality test! Rank your matches! Find out which member of Dethklok you are! Send a wink or a woo! Strings of...
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Constraining the creative process is all the rage: Two-days-to-make-a film festivals, monthlong novel-writing events, and now this: "ShortLived 2.0", a three-month-long...
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Behold a passel of talented comedians at Far Easter 4: There's the usual sampling of television appearances: MadTV, Last Comic Standing, Family Guy. Dat Phan hit the stage of...
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You’re unlikely to find Andrea Echeverri and Hector Buitrago, the duo behind folk-rock group Aterciopelados (“The Velvety Ones”), selling out stateside stadiums...
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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have become such a dependable fixture in the San Francisco fund-raising and social landscape, we sometimes forget they’re festooned in...
