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The Goldmine Hill Condominium Complex nestles in a warren of steep, quiet streets lined with pine trees near the top of Diamond Heights. When fog isn't blowing in from the...
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Ah, the music industry. Many a decent and rockin' band has been lured by the promise of its clarion call, only to be blown by the fickle winds of industry and dashed upon the...
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The Californication of Mexican cuisine has been a mixed bag. In trading fat for flavor and authenticity for familiarity, gutsy food tends to lose its soul — and its...
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The Road, Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize–winning, Oprah-endorsed postapocalyptic survivalist prose poem — in which a father and his 10-year-old son traverse a...
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For a moment last June, America's fascination with Iran shifted from nuclear to Twitter. The San Francisco–based microblogging company's role in Tehran's post-election...
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Stranger things than usual are afoot in the Artists' Television Access window display. Stephanie Mansolf has installed a diorama, complete with glowing clouds, tinfoil-capped...
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After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did not. The most expensive movie ever produced in the country and...
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The great ocean deep proves a natural canvas for Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away), whose latest feature riffs on Hans Christian...
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It’s a tad disturbing that the latest films by two of our more interesting midcareer directors, Spike Jonze and Wes Anderson, are adaptations of children’s books...
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While the less-successful experiments of Fidel Castro’s Cuba are well known, its state-run system for training dance professionals can hardly be counted among them. For...
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Arriving home from the weekend, we upload and post our pictures and video on social media, which sounds impressive to our parents. In reality, it’s just the latest form of...
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It wouldn’t be Christmas 2009 in the deeply immoral Bay Area without some unholy drag spectacle rolling into town to satirize the Holy Trinity and the birth of Jesus et...
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David Sedaris' writing seldom stays on topic. Thus, The Santaland Diaries is indeed about the pain of a grown man working as a department store elf — a pain sharpened by...
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If you could ask anyone to pick the best acts from the West Coast hip-hop–inspired performance scene, you'd ask Marc Bamuthi Joseph. "You're extraordinarily talented and...
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Seafood forecasters didn’t project a strong Dungeness crab season in San Francisco this year, but early reports, as well as our own extensive “research,” have...
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Shadow puppets for flood relief! Of the extensive and tireless benefit circuit in San Francisco (which we attend out of philanthropic interest, regardless of the new-school...
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In body music, barriers to entry don’t exist. You got a body? Done. Technique is wide open; clapping works, so does playing drums to Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” by...
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Old people who think young people are incurable lazybones who have so much time on their hands they can't do anything, not even fully wake up, are getting ammunition in a...
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With Ad Hoc at Home, it seemed that the Yountville champion of don’t-try-this-at-home cooking, Thomas Keller, was going soft on us, bowing to the trend of chefs dumbing...
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Ever since Ian Curtis shuffled off this mortal coil (4AD pun intended), gobs of acts have attempted to recreate his chilly post-punk aesthetic. The latest contenders, Cold...
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