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Twenty San Franciscans who moonlight as producers on public-access TV strode into the Market Street studios on a recent Wednesday night, ready for a fight. It's a crowd that...
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Tanya Tagaq's new album, Auk/Blood, is a portrait of a primeval past that is also quite futuristic. Animalistic grunts and howls mix with beatboxing and sensual gasps, the...
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More surprising than the fact that the address of 54 Mint is actually 16 Mint Plaza is that there's a new Italian restaurant in town that not only doesn't specialize in pizza...
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The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp's fast and furiously inventive District 9, their huddled masses long ago...
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Jim Jarmusch's anonymous antihero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as the Lone Man, exists only in...
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Director James Toback’s documentary about former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson isn’t a traditional nonfiction portrait so much as a feature-length interview, in...
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The Fruit Bats' new album, The Ruminant Band, further proves that Sub Pop has a nefarious desire to turn back the clock. One of the tracks on the record, "Singing Joy to the...
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This is big. The Jazz Mafia is a coordinating, cooperating conglomeration of bands equaling roughly 50 people. Its prolific, inspired mix of jazz and hip-hop led to the...
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In 1965, the year of the Watts riots and the murder of Malcolm X, and goaded by Charles Schulz, Oakland’s Morrie Turner unveiled Wee Pals, the first fully integrated comic...
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In the video created for “Un Día” — the title track from Juana Molina’s exquisite fifth album — the face of the Argentine singer appears in...
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Television clip shows are notoriously unwatchable, except for The Soup and, if you hate yourself, TMZ. Television clip shows that focus on Internet clips, however, are the hot...
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Newspapers may go the way of the buffalo as future generations of children begin communicating through indecipherable tweets alone, but rest assured: Independent-minded...
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Everyone loves to eat food in the street lately. City people everywhere can be seen nibbling on fricasseed frog legs from the backs of trucks, sitting on abandoned loading...
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He has always been a writer, but Peter Coyote became a movie star and a notorious hippie before he got around to publishing a book. Sleeping Where I Fall is the autobiography...
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Say what you will about Mel Gibson, but he’s one of the few directors with a real appetite for human sacrifice (The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto). He always couches...
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The U.S. has two major traditions in tap dancing, as far as we can tell: the corny one, and the one that's fun to watch. Little girls wearing bow ties, ruffled butt fabric, and...
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True artists refuse to keep repeating themselves, no matter how lucrative the style or formula happens to be. Experiment and grow, or copy and die — those are the choices....
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Dan Hoyle wondered, as we all do: What's wrong out there? People in the flyover states have bad fashion, and pretend they're not gay. Why why why? Unlike most of us, however,...
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Josh Healey is one of the Bay Area's, not to mention the country's, most active spoken-word poets, with loads of accolades, community work, and teaching jobs. His delivery is...
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Moontel Six, Part 1 has much to recommend it: The play was written for teens by Constance Congdon, the talent behind many intergalactic scripts as well as her adaptations of...
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