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Gavin Newsom is a handsome and charismatic enough speaker that he could grab a microphone and spend 10 minutes detailing the meteorological conditions affecting British...
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The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir about the crash course she received in the “university of...
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Like her appealing first feature, La petite Jérusalem, Karin Albou's The Wedding Song probes the threats to an intimate bond between two Semitic women. Here, World War...
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Even with Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries, Stephen Elliott's Adderall Diaries, and my own forthcoming Flintstones Vitamins Diaries (just you wait) on the scene, the topsy-turvy...
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Bright, toothpick-scale architecture crawls up broken banisters at “The Collaspe.” Local art superstar Michael Arcega’s new show grins pragmatically at a...
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We love all manner of film geek, from the guy who always finds a way to say “Truffaut” in public to the woman who haunts the night in front of flickering silent...
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Soul and extreme technicality are rare companions in the art world, perhaps because the brain and the gut speak fundamentally different languages. There exist some rare...
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Every fall for more than 20 years, the Film Arts Foundation showcased the best new work by Bay Area filmmakers in one ferociously crammed weekend. The venerable organization...
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Factory farming’s days are numbered. Michelle Obama’s organic garden at the White House is pissing off chemical pesticide companies. Sometimes, it seems we’ve...
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San Francisco is known as a city of neighborhoods, but people can live here for decades and draw a total blank on the words West Portal. Some of us let years pass between North...
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As another enduring San Francisco warm season filled with gay-ish festivals draws to a close, party people hang up their threadbare technicolor tanktops, their adventurous jean...
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Finding a comedian who accessorizes with a couple of highballs these days requires socializing at a venue called a country club. But if you're not ready to crawl out of your...
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Context is nothing. At least, that’s the idea behind “Snippets,” local artist Lori Gordon’s ongoing exhibit. She takes phrases that have a bite-size meaning...
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People who celebrated the glory days of Halloween in the Castro can call up any number of memories, from “I puked all over Hartford Street” to “I got shot.”...
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Based in the same Idaho stomping grounds that spawned Built to Spill, boy-girl-girl trio Finn Riggins has been invited to join that band on tour next month. It’s a huge...
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"Indie film" can mean anything, from a philosophical Super-8 production shot by someone with a love of self-expression and 50 clams to a multimillion-dollar Lionsgate...
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Selene Luna is a real nice lady. Never mind that she takes her clothes off in public, tells dirty jokes onstage, and makes mean fun of bigots. What makes her nice is that she...
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Jonathan Lethem's last two novels — 2003's Fortress of Solitude and 2007's You Don't Love Me Yet — steered away from the sci-fi leanings of his early work. The...
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Are white vinyl walls with embedded speakers friendlier than plain white walls? Or are they merely more 2001: A Space Odyssey? Jacqueline Gordon's space-age soft sculpture has...
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Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion’s Bright Star recounts the love affair between a tubercular...
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