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On Dec. 22, 2008, Deputy City Attorney Jerry Threet sent a sternly worded letter to one of the owners of a strip club at 220 Jones Street in the Tenderloin. Operating under...
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When it comes to recording an album, where and with whom you work is every bit as important as the instruments you use. A perfect case study is Explode from the Center, the...
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On one visit to the Tipsy Pig, early in the evening and in the week, it seemed a fairly quiet neighborhood restaurant and bar with uneven food. On a subsequent visit on a...
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"Heterosexuals can't understand camp because everything they do is camp," opined an associate of the old Playhouse of the Ridiculous, a New York theater known for its...
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Tatia Rosenthal’s stop-motion animation $9.99 adds a measure of stolid creepiness to co-writer Etgar Keret’s brand of dark whimsy. Like Jellyfish—the live-action...
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Do you remember Zak Smith? He's the stylish, scary-smart punk artist who did Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow. He also did...
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Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor’s engaging new philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays. A purveyor...
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Tilda Swinton doesn’t merely act the title role in French director Erick Zonca’s Julia—she devours it, spits it back up, dances giddily upon it, twirls it in the...
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Visual art usually isn't, or shouldn't be, or wasn't meant to be, funny. On the other hand, Jacob Dahlgren's conceptual installations — or in this case, hike/faux...
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People (okay, Pitchfork) say the same dumb shit about Paula Frazer as they say about Penelope Houston — essentially, "she used to be punk and now her music is...
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Where have all the child stars gone? Damaged, disappeared, and prematurely dead — that’s the typical trajectory for starlets and singers exposed to an overdose of...
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Uh-oh: A recent poll shows people in the U.S. don’t think AIDS is a very serious public health problem anymore. So, um, hey! IT IS! Now you know. Today’s (23rd annual...
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Lovers of both early- and late-19th-century symphonic drama en plein air, start your picnic blankets. Grassy knolls and tormented classical music being two luxuries that play...
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We know of ages when intellectual discourse was considered the height of fashion, and so it seems, after years of slacker-ennui and delirious self-gratification, we are hungry...
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Richard Avedon made his rep as a fashion photographer, then segued naturally into a parallel career taking celebrity snaps. His palpably alive portraits comprise a big chunk of...
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San Francisco is a shopper’s paradise. Grizzled merchants stand on every street corner, hawking limited-edition frocks, canteens of amyl nitrate, and freshly caught trout....
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Art on a massive scale is what YBCA architect Fumihiko Maki had in mind for the rooms in which “Wallworks” appears — the place was built specifically to...
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The story of the Crucible is a bit like an urban fairy tale. In 1999, it opened its first class with a paltry $1,750 grant and staged the earliest Fire Arts Festival. From that...
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Loud, fast, and macabre: that seems to be the mantra of Austin’s Hex Dispensers, an underrated act with a Halloween-themed wit and the rapid pacing of a slasher flick. The...
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Bicycling has its share of classic films, but it’s a small share — A Sunday in Hell, Road to Roubaix, and Breaking Away if you’re into Dennis Quaid's...
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