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By Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders Published:
May 6, 2009
In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a dual degree in theater and...
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Threadlike strips of creamy paper support the moon, or the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or possibly Devendra Banhart, in the work of Tahiti Pehrson. At “Nature’s...
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She stood at the lectern and said this: “I know there’s something better down the road./We need to find a place where we are safe.” In front of her, two million...
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A delicate femininity pervades Alela Diane's songs. But unlike her forebears in the 1960s folk revival — Judy Collins, Joan Baez, or Vashti Bunyan, for whom she's opened...
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Notwithstanding the dweebs who claim to have found religion watching Star Wars, spirituality and the cinema don’t go particularly well together. Faith is a difficult...
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From dancers performing on cable cars to sculptors building Burning Man shrines in city parks, Bay Area artists have long produced their work in unorthodox settings. Outdoor...
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Hand-drawn animation — at the going rate of 24 cels per second — may be the most labor-intensive form of filmmaking ever concocted by man, but stop-motion is right up...
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Today you can bike around the city and listen to stories of old people — we mean historic people — having sex. That’s the idea behind the Sex Work on Wheels...
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Fashion magazines consistently serve up flimsy articles about "positive body image" next to parades of dangerously thin models and ads for antiwrinkle creams made with...
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We have a tendency to overlook San Quentin — did you know that on April 16, a 15-minute riot broke out among inmates in the dining hall, which 100 officers had to coat in...
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Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match is part open mike night, part talent show, and part scandalous one-upmanship. Sure, well-known authors read from their work, and that's...
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In 1974, 18 years before MTV first assembled a group of comically mismatched twentysomethings and videotaped them being real, the choreographer Michael Bennett gathered 22...
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Local comedy troupe the Freeze throws a bass, a drum kit, and five MCs on the stage to play a musical round of “Can you use that in a sentence?” It’s not a...
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Jim Jarmusch's anonymous antihero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as the Lone Man, exists only in...
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In 1972, the American dream was coming apart at the seams. Watergate, Vietnam, and the Manson Family murders had ushered in an era of unapologetic brutality and deceit —...
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Enrique Chagoya is a giant in the art world, known for skill, heart, and wit. Maybe that's why he feels he can poke fun at the gods. At "2012: Super-Bato Saves the World,"...
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Is language the last frontier of globalization — or the last straw? Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider’s documentary tracks a year in the life of four kids in San...
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Tenderloin alleys are disgusting. It’s kind of their thing. Rule of thumb: If you find yourself in one after midnight, stop whatever it is you think you are doing, go...
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The jungle holds many secrets ... delicious secrets. Where would society be without, oh, say, chocolate and vanilla, which are both tropical plants? Contemplating a chocolate-...
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Today's the last chance to see Sita Sings the Blues -- in a theater, anyway. You can watch Nina Paley's breathlessly reviewed animated mythology mashup anytime you want, since...
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