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On the night of Feb. 16, 1970, Brian McDonnell was sorting through bulletins on the Teletype machine at Park Police Station in the Upper Haight. The respected 44-year-old...
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While San Francisco has no shortage of music fests, the artists performing at this weekend's On Land Festival are an especially unusual, esoteric bunch. Over the course of...
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At Aicha, a modest new Moroccan restaurant on Polk Street, you'll get all the highlights you'd find on the menus of fancier North African places around town — garlicky...
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As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland biochemist exec turned crooked...
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The bold environmental project Colin Beavan began in the fall of 2006—to expunge his carbon footprint by giving up material consumption, electricity, non-local foods, and...
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The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian-Jordanian raised in the United States. Divorced,...
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Choreographer Amy Lewis is a smart cookie. Her 2006 piece Conversion, in which five dancers performed a visual version of the complex musical fugue form in total silence, was a...
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Cédric Klapish's new feature film looks a little saccharine. It's a chick flick, to be sure. A feel-good movie. Tisn't going to advance the art of cinema. But what of...
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Kim Cogan paints the best cityscapes of San Francisco we’ve ever seen. Also the best storefronts, alleyways, rooftops, etc., especially when he bathes his hard exteriors...
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Before Wayne Wang was a famous director, he was an art-school punk who made Chan Is Missing, one of the scrappiest and greatest San Francisco films of all time. A screening of...
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David Goodis rode a bumpy rocket to hell. Fresh out of college, he published his first novel in 1939. Universal threw him a wad of cash to pen a screenplay, and magazines...
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Thanks to pioneering Bay Area film artists Bruce Conner and Craig Baldwin, as well as the less sophisticated wits behind the subtitled variations on Hitler’s Downfall rant...
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Local gallery/school/literary incubator the Kearny Street Workshop is dedicated to encouraging Asian Pacific American creativity. It does such a good job that there isn't...
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Thanks to the Extra Action Marching Band, our city has the alternative marching band thing dialed. So does Portland, Oregon, with its MarchFourth Marching Band. Which ragtag...
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Trannyshack may have closed its doors as a weekly club after more than a decade of blending high and low art in pantyhose, but that doesn’t mean mistress of ceremonies...
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José Montesinos’ trailer for his unfinished film Hell’s Kittens had us all rolling on the floor laughing, so SF Weekly forked the local filmmaker some dough...
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The annual Folsom Street Fair is always a lively spectacle, with fetish-wear-flaunting and freak-flag-flying the order of the day. Even the most jaded of voyeurs can’t...
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People are likely to say the worst: Ask anyone with a "funny" name, or an obvious ethnicity, or one arm, or whatever. When you first meet people, they generally don't take the...
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Hot cowgirls: Are there ever enough? Digital artist Deborah Oropallo rustles up a herd of them at "Wild Wild West.Show," in the form of her signature glossy-ghost figures, here...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto plays with fire in the presence of flammable chemicals. At "Lightning Fields," the photographer's process recalls Benjamin Franklin's kite-flying, as he uses a...
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