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Chicken Little would have plenty to scream about if she were watching the recent trajectory of the music business. CD sales have dropped off precipitously as the ease of...
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You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that the Bay Area has fallen in love with street food. There's the legal kind, sold from licensed trucks as well as from...
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Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of 1999. The two movies were always...
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Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell director Sam Raimi defaults to the horror romps that made his name (namely, the...
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What's remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's seventh feature film, is that the familiar comes across as fresh. Despite recycling potential...
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Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army,...
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The Mission District remains a hotly debated locale — a place that some people call hip, some people call home, and some people just call all sorts of nasty names —...
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With a single tongue-in-cheek image — a naked, tattooed couple sharing an oversized pair of boxers — the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films poster...
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This Labor Day, more than 220 Eat-In potlucks take place nationwide to support Slow Food USA’s Time for Lunch Campaign, which hopes to put better food in the mouths of...
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Erik von Markovic has given peacocks a bad name. Better known to television audiences as Mystery, the pickup artist who teaches inept gentlemen how to more effectively pester...
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Thank the traditional performing arts of the Indonesian islands for this afternoon of colorful Balinese fancy-dancing and Sundanese gong-bonging galore. Gamelan Sekar Jaya...
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The Dry Creek Valley in Sonoma County is home to more than 60 wineries and one peach farm. We’re partial to the peach farm. For the past 50 years, Dry Creek Peach and...
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Food festivals, street fairs, and giant white commemorative T-shirts are all effective ways to celebrate the neighborhoods of San Francisco, but an art show is capable of...
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Back in 2006, Rogue Wave drummer Pat Spurgeon's kidney did what few bodily organs can do: It made national headlines. The East Bay–based musician was actually born with...
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Who would write a book that practically begs geeks to challenge its accuracy? Who wants to go up against fanatics? Frank Portman, is that you, waving your hand and pleading...
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Local multi-instrumentalist Ralph Carney is well-versed in countless styles, from pop to jazz to experimental, but he can make beautiful music out of pretty much anything that...
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It’s easier to describe Reggie Watts’ appearance (imagine if Lisa Bonet and Zach Galifianakis had a child) than his broad range of talent. Here’s a shot: He can...
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With a main character who can't hear, see, or speak, who must emote to the back seats without stumbling into a chair or into some slapstick, staging Helen Keller can be...
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Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment—rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. It's also...
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Mary Van Note comes from the awkward-silence school of humor, meaning she’s the kind of comedian who gets labeled "Andy Kaufman-esque." She also makes wince-inducing...
