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The first few months of 2009 have been among the most auspicious for stem-cell research since the field's inception. In January, the Palo Alto–based biotech firm Geron...
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As William, a taciturn senior who seems to be planning for his final days, veteran character actor and former Elvis Presley bodyguard Red West takes center stage in Goodbye...
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Produced for what was likely a day’s Botox budget on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, the auspicious Oz import, The Black Balloon—the debut feature of director Elissa...
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Unless you're fluent in French, Marianne Dissard's new disc, L'Entredeux, won't mean as much to you as other break-up albums like Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Beck's Sea...
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Unemployed transfolk: Good news! The good old LGBT Center has something just for you today. The rest of you: Take a minute, one little minute, to picture what it's like to...
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It’s not clear whether fantasizing about opulence or grimly economizing is the prevailing approach for the people of San Francisco, but maybe we can do both at once. The...
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If you’re a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society, it helps to live among them. Charlotte Kay lives 200 feet above the already high Russian Hill on the 22nd floor of an...
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Ah, spring. When flowers bloom, baby deer take their first wobbly steps, and giant squids sail languidly past mountains of delectable tamales. Every year, the Pacific...
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After the days of Bolivian Marching Powder, Jay McInerney started drinking wine. Then he started writing about wine, got a column about wine (House & Garden magazine), wrote...
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Monique Jenkinson stunned the world when her drag alter ego, Fauxnique, won the Miss Trannyshack title in 2003. She was the only person born a woman to ever have made it to the...
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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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Ed Begley Jr. is in all your favorite TV shows, every last one. The guy goes from Boston Legal, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Veronica Mars right on through to Six...
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No way did Entertainment Weekly think its judgment on The Room -- “the Citizen Kane of bad movies -- would kick off the film’s press materials. But, there it is. And...
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The staging of De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association's Son de los Diablos at the Ethnic Dance Festival earlier this year involved intense, exacting costumes, full-out musical...
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Liz Hickok’s gelatinization of San Francisco -- in which she molds the city out of Jell-O, shines lights on it, fashions backdrops, then lets the whole shebang liquefy...
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If you’ve ever wondered what Poulenc’s organ concerto might sound like parsed through metal guitar riffs, spiraling synths, and hard rock drums, Davies After Hours is...
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When people see Kellita Maloof of Hot Pink Feathers, they're usually pretty happy to follow her. Does that sound crass? Let's just say the leader of the popular samba/showgirl...
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Tracy Morgan is a man whose mind continuously forges forward, mining the bizarre and wickedly funny, dropping a nonsensical comment into conversation, then playing the laughs...
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In salsa, it’s easy to separate good bands from bad, but explaining what divides the better from the best takes some work. Is it energy, ability, or technical proficiency?...
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Ray Ferrer headlines Harvey's Funny Tuesdays this week, which is great! He's very funny. So are the other comics on the bill at this long-running queer comedy night: Mary Van...
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