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During the past seven years, incoming San Francisco police chief George Gascon has, in some respects, operated as an up-to-date version of the kind and composed, wise and wily...
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Ex-Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker recently allowed scientists to measure the physical effects playing music has on his body. He performed with onetime bandmate Richard Hawley for...
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Naming an Italian restaurant Flour + Water is a bit of a dare, as if to say, "Look what we can do with the humblest and simplest of ingredients." Owners David White, a veteran...
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In the Loop doesn't necessarily mean you're in the know. In Armando Iannucci's movie, a satire of the run-up to war with a Middle Eastern country, it means that all the poor...
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How we view the relationship between traditional and new media should forever be changed by Danish filmmaker Anders Ostergaard's terrific documentary about a loosely organized...
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Abu Raed (Nadim Sawalha) is an elderly widower who works as a janitor at the international airport in Amman, Jordan. He’s well-read, philosophical and given to moments of...
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Retooled noir with less pulp than its original source, Christian Petzold’s Jerichow wryly riffs on The Postman Always Rings Twice for late-capitalist Deutschland. Mostly...
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This deliriously foul-mouthed political satire is set sometime between 2002 and the day after tomorrow; hard to say, given that the country with which U.S. and U.K. pols want...
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One of the most powerful aspects of live theater is its ability to make us sit through abnormal human behavior. When the recipe is right, the discomfort we feel while...
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Even among San Francisco fetish fetes, the Up Your Alley street fair stands alone. The raunchier and more gay-centric cousin of the Folsom Street Fair is a huge event on the...
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Bobby Ray Simmons' recent mixtape B.o.B. vs. Bobby Ray pits his thugged-out, gritty persona, B.o.B., against his introspective, more tuneful one, Bobby Ray. Alternating singing...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Bistro 24: 4123 24th St. (at Castro), 285-2400, www.bistrosf.com. Noe Valley. New...
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Joshua Leonard came undone at Cannes. It wasn't just that Humpday, the film in which he stars, had made it into the festival's prestigious Directors' Fortnight — unlikely...
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A View from the Bridge is the most Greek of Arthur Miller's tragedies, featuring an intractable hero (Richard Harder) whose hubris lies in the delusion that his house is his...
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Last week, the rich and powerful members of San Francisco's fabled Bohemian Club flocked to the woods above the Russian River to act like frat boys for a couple of weeks....
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Jesy Fortino is a shy musician. She prefers to sit quietly in a corner rather than take command of a room. This quickly became an issue in her early live performances, when...
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In the lushly produced but dispiriting new comedy The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl stars as Abby Richter, a successful but hopelessly uptight TV producer who is also perpetually...
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"Bitter" may be the first word spoken in Yasmina Reza's ruefully comic strangers-on-a-train duet, but the lasting aura is of disarming geniality. Reza's text, as translated...
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Last week, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that the corporate headquarters of Levi Strauss & Co. will remain in San Francisco at least through 2021. What promises did the...
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Last week was a holy one in segments of the music community, a time to celebrate the passing of a giant to whom followers have pledged loyalty for decades. It was a moment for...
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