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The mother had been waiting at the Oakland airport for a very long time, and was beginning to worry. The flight had landed nearly an hour ago. She scanned the faces of the...
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Mexican pop star Juan Son has a vision for his new music video, but the fish markets in Guadalajara aren't cooperating. "We're trying to find lobsters that are alive, but...
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San Francisco is not a great steakhouse town. It has neither the legendary steakhouses of New York (Keen's, Sparks, Old Homestead, Peter Luger) nor the sexy new steakhouses of...
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On the surface, (500) Days of Summer really is no different than, oh, let's say, The Proposal, in which Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock spun box-office gold from romantic...
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Humpday opens with a pair of breeders in bed. A youngish married couple, Ben (mumblecordeon Mark Duplass) and Anna (Alycia Delmore), confess that they’re too tired to...
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Andy Vogt is obsessed with lath. People without this obsession may not know of the grand tension, the sense of the very Earth turning on its axis in space indicated by the...
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Some people think the future of agriculture is in the marriage of organic farming and genetically engineered food. Two of those people are Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer,...
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Thirty years have elapsed since the Mekons fired their first missive, “Never Been in a Riot,” across the bow of the music industry. That single, a plucky, jagged...
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A wise, ancient Roman shut-in once said: “Beauty is skin deep, but a cheap tranny is forever.” Benjamin Franklin said: “Cheap trannies and folly are old...
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Hope you've been practicing — The New York Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off is the chance you've been waiting for your entire young life. A dance competition needs...
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Taxonomy is a bitch: Turns out a tomato isn't even a fruit. It’s a berry, a true berry, unlike a strawberry, which isn’t a berry at all but a compound fruit. Why?...
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Contrary to the narrow Biblical definition embraced by Israel’s Orthodox rabbinate — or the ethnocentrism of assimilated Americans descended from the Ashkenazi Jews...
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Urban developers can dress her up and change her name, but the Tenderloin’s preferred eau de parfum will always be fortified wine and a quick buck — history and...
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William Shatner has bravely gone where no man (except George Hamilton) has gone before — beyond parody, beyond self-parody, into the farthest realm of self-defined cool....
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From a legal perspective, Girl Talk is remarkable — he isn't in jail. To us, it means copyright laws will never be the same, that they have in fact already changed and...
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We all know the type: unshaven, shifty-eyed, lovable scoundrels, sitting on park benches and babbling to themselves, saying things like “I’m gonna stomp your...
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What’s going on over there? We’ve seen so many Iranians, angrily marching in the streets, getting pelted and baton-whipped and killed and arrested — yet they...
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In these cash-poor times, “staycations” are all the rage, and the San Francisco Public Library is no stranger to the phenomenon. Your bank balance may be meager, but...
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Some films, like Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, hit cult status by the time the first scene trips over itself and tumbles to a close. Others, like The Big Lebowski, take a...
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Sonya Philip's "Monster Series" of felt creatures is a set of handmade, um, items (they bring to mind tiny stuffed animals, but they're not stuffed) with solemn-looking teeth,...
