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Before the auctioneer could begin the first trustee sale bid on the Bay Point property that sweltering June afternoon, Andy Narraway handed him a flyer: "This foreclosure sale...
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Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson, the duo behind Sunn O))), embody the doom-drone aesthetic wholly within the folds of their druid robes. Read any article about the band,...
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M.F.K. Fisher once said never to eat dinner in a room with a dance band. Since din with dinner is not our preference, we've tended to avoid places that tout music and live DJs....
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It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There's half of a great movie in Julie & Julia — but since Meryl Streep has already starred in one...
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Finally, there’s a vampire movie worthy of the title The Hunger—even if it arrives under a more potable name. Carnal appetite, not a parched palate, is the accelerant...
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Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That’s just one of the tasty tidbits in Aviva Kempner’s celebratory but...
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Rettig has invented a novel way to capture light: He loops strips of paper and metal into biomorphic teardrop and petal shapes, which he then covers with acrylic resin. Hung on...
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At "El Grito de la Misión," teen artists show their work — you know how rare teen artwork is these days? It's about as common as a Mensa birther. Art instruction in...
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Without Björk and Grey's Anatomy, there would be no Lykke Li or Bat for Lashes or Emiliana Torrini. The world would not be safe for cuckoo girl singers who know a thing or...
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One of the comedians at the new Barbary Coast Comedy night is from Santa Cruz. At first glance, we figured the Santa Cruz connection automatically meant that Grant Lyon would...
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The big-screen release of a new mood-enhancing Hayao Miyazaki film (such as this week’s Ponyo) is big news to the growing cadre of Japanese animation aficionados, who...
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Let’s mix metaphor: In The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s most misogynistic masterpiece, a small, long-nosed mammal named Katherina Minola ties her sister to a...
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Theater nerds will know what we mean when we say that In My Corner is a manly-man version of A Chorus Line. It's as if the Al, Paul, and Mike characters from that beautiful...
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The puns fly fast and hard at the S.F. Drag King Competition, aka the Oscars of the male impersonation world. The names alone take some cakes: “Papa” Don Preach (the...
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Tattoos are irresistible to look at, unless they’re on a sorority sister’s ankle. But it's impolite to stop people on the street and ask to look at their neck art for...
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Last year, when beach volleyball was all over the television during the Olympics, we wondered: Do people really like this much beach volleyball? Or is it because the...
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There was something a little uninviting about the dancefloor during the mid-'90s. Not that swing dancing didn’t look like fun, but if white jazz wasn’t your bag and...
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If the macabre, joyless pageant that passed for Pride this year left you disappointed — that is, if you would’ve rather celebrated vibrant music and art instead of...
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The realm of specialty drink crafting needs you. In case you aren’t intuitively dialed in to unexpected flavor combinations (we’re way beyond strawberries and...
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In this country, if people amble around while singing to themselves and telling random stories, they're called crazy or homeless or both. In West African states such as Guinea,...
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