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First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of magical adventures experienced...
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Quick! Noël Coward—sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott’s deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of the satirist’s...
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A Wink and a Smile combines a survey of the underground burlesque resurgence, where the traditional striptease style is often subverted to ironic effect, with a look at the...
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Tim Barsky’s Kamikaze Heart is the story of a boy with a cumbersome mechanical heart who falls in love with a beautiful grantwriter, whose magical pen has earned enough...
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Like so many stories in the Bayview that end badly, Haggag Mohsin's
started with a gun. Yet the 9mm semiautomatic pistol with the loaded
magazine kept behind the counter of...
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Did you miss me? The Sackamenna kid certainly hasn't forgotten about
you, though the view has changed. Yes, you can now call it the
celestial three-dot lounge. The fingers...
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We all remember the moment in high school when we realized the goth
kids at the next lunch table — in trying to prove they were
oh-so-different by outfitting themselves...
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A staffer thrusts open the glass doors of the San Francisco Public
Library's Mission Bay branch, rushes toward the bike racks, and pleads
with a commuter who works in a nearby...
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Best Of Readers' Comments Roundup
In last week's Best of San Francisco 2009, SF Weekly picked
what we think are some of the best things about our fair city. Readers
made their...
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While Sila and the Afrofunk Experience were recording their second
album, Black President, in the Bay Area, tribal warfare was
threatening the safety of band leader Victor...
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Hey, Bay Area: Don't tell anyone, but Questlove thinks you're
special. According to the Roots' drummer, our music scene is unique in
fostering acts that cross genres the way...
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In the late '90s, indie-rock composer and writer Alan Licht wrote an
influential list of his favorite minimalist music, recontextualizing
the genre's small, repetitive...
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The livelihood of San Franciso's best-known all-ages venues is under
siege based on issues that have nothing to do with public safety, but
rather on archaic views of how a...
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Angelic or devilish: Will the real Annie Clark step forward? In the
studio as St. Vincent, the Dallas-raised former Polyphonic Spree
member is the proggy-sweet siren of...
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Born within months of each other, trumpeter Roy Hargrove and
saxophonist James Carter are Universal Jazz labelmates, but
musically they're miles apart. Hargrove's thoughtful...
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After a three-month hiatus, avant-bass promoters Surya Dub return
for a one-off event featuring DJ and producer Mala of the
vaunted South London dubstep crew Digital Mystikz....
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By the time Canadian DJ and producer Tiga broke globally in
2001 (with a bedroom-produced cover of Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at
Night"), he'd spent the past decade launching...
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Your days of wandering the streets in search of your perfect watering hole are over! Just take this handy quiz and find which bar best suits you by answering these 10...
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The restaurant Gary Danko opened in 1999, and in 2000 the James
Beard Foundation named it America's best new restaurant. It's always on
the short list of the best places to...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
54 Mint: 16 Mint Plaza (at Jessie), 543-5100, www.54mint.com. SOMA. Italian.
5A5: 244...
