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On a wet September morning about an hour after the sun rose over San Francisco's Hyde Street Harbor, two men carried a kennel onto the Kitty Kat, a tour boat bound for the...
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Professor, DJ, and journalist Michael Stock takes music-nerd obsessiveness to new levels. In 1999, when researching a film about Joy Division leader Ian Curtis, he not only...
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The first meal I had at Starbelly — a delightful lunch during which two of us shared seven dishes and wished we had room for more — colored every other restaurant...
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The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a dybbuk — is pretty clumsy,...
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The shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie—Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a Dybbuk—tips its hat to the great...
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Soul Power documents the three-day music festival that accompanied the iconic 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing match in Zaire. Culled by...
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The wave of mime-hate that swept the nation in the early 2000s has subsided, but mimes and clowns still get a bad rap sometimes. Nobody seems to realize that every actor, no...
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In the camcorder and YouTube age, we will all truly get our 15 minutes in the spotlight. (Don’t worry, your time is coming.) Take the flamboyantly felonious family...
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As a self-described "logical extension of a free public library," our local free walking-tour company is, like most libraries, a fascinating mash of nerdy and white-hot rad....
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It was bound to happen eventually. One day, some Brazilian musicians woke up and thought, "Hey, you know, Os Mutantes were a pretty cool band." So they threw away all their...
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All mathematicians need to work their magic is a pen and paper. Take away the pen and you get Dr. Robert J. Lang, a pioneer in the field of math-infused origami. If you...
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Everybody’s favorite historic gay movie house pumps up the local laugh quotient this month, unveiling a new monthly series of live comedy programming, complete with...
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From the damaged grind of 1987’s classic album Locust Abortion Technician to 1996’s Beck-like fluke single “Pepper,” Butthole Surfers have veered from...
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Curry is hard to pin down, like mole and salsa and drinks mixed by a college student. It exists in so many forms, in so many countries, that many of us never move beyond red,...
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In the early 20th century, Futurism was sexy — motorcars! Cement mixers! Buildings taller than 20 stories! Advances in technology were easy to wrap your head around, in...
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At "Bellwether," nonprofit art center Southern Exposure celebrates its new home with sensitive airplanes, grand collaborative processions, and illegal art-liquor. The theme...
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"The Future Project: Sunday Will Come" is a collaboration among many people, mainly actor-writer Sean San Jose and dancer Erika Chong Shuch. The performance involves...
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People who ghostride the whip, or their parents' Chevy Aveo, are pioneers in daredevil car-body movement. We wish they would stop. Much better to leave it to the professionals...
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Even the most fervent adherents to a cause or country grow weary of polemics. So the challenge for Palestinian filmmakers is to find fresh ways to talk about the occupation...
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In 1987, The Princess Bride was released in theaters; an entire generation of children has lines from the eminently quotable film seared into their brains. One of those lines...
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