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As one of San Francisco's most affluent neighborhoods, the Marina doesn't have a ghetto. It just has the Bridge Motel, a tilted, reeking monument to neglect whose proprietors...
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Longtime Morrissey fans know the drill. Reports of a new album prompt cautious optimism about a return to his Smiths and/or early solo form, which is soon replaced by the...
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It feels like some distant corner of the terminal at Reno International, a concrete box with exposed mechanicals and an awkward step-down to seating near a scuffed-up open...
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Don't be misled by the cheesy, generic poster for Kirk Jones' Everybody's Fine, in which a grinning Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, and Kate Beckinsale pose with Robert De Niro...
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The zombie movie—that evergreen vessel for all manner of social and political allegory—gets stripped down to its “Holy shit! Zombies! Run!” chassis in this...
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Every year, Glide Memorial United Methodist Church needs hundreds of volunteers to help serve thousands of meals throughout the holiday season. Think they have trouble filling...
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The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s first play was a blackface minstrel show, in 1965. The most racist kind of theater ever for the most left-wing theater company in the...
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We all have a mental image of a bartender of yore — dapper, professional, quick to make it a double, able to relay a message from Jay Gatsby to Boss Tweed without moving...
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The Bocuse d’Or is considered the Olympics of food, and for such a laurel, teams train by setting fire to money. The American entrant Timothy Hollingsworth, for example,...
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Moody country with a warm, sweet feel is Two Sheds’ stock in trade. A shuffling beat, philosophical lyrics, and ringing guitars plus string instruments and maybe a Rhodes...
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A commitment to “using video, performance, art, and education to progressing culture and community” inspired the founders of Artists’ Television Access back in...
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In honor of Perez Hilton publishing a book, we finally went to his site. Sweet Jesus! All that pink! NSFW! If we understand it correctly, Hilton draws (penises?) on celebrity...
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Twenty years ago, San Francisco–based performance artist Keith Hennessy debuted an interdisciplinary work beneath a freeway South of Market. The piece confronted AIDS at a...
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It’s a dismal sign of the times that “altered states” has been supplanted by “alternate realities.” Instead of drug experimentation and expanded...
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A lo-fi, behind-the-scenes–style YouTube video by local improv troupe Technically Virgins shows the comedy crew taking their artistic duties very seriously. Congregating...
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Among the legions of innovative directors of the silent era, D.W. Griffith (The Birth of a Nation), Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments), and Abel Gance (Napoleon) reign...
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Once easily pigeonholed as old-timey or twee, the Ditty Bops have thrived this decade without altering their peculiar formula: airy arrangements, timeless acoustic...
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Should you drag your eyes off the wonderful, bonehead sausage party over on FuelTV and explore other regions of your brain, get thyself to "Cold, Hard and Wet," Conrad...
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It was said that Vaslav Nijinsky inhabited midair and hung there, shimmering, before he disappeared: His role in the ballet Le Spectre de la Rose was world-famous in 1911. It...
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If any junk turns up at today’s craft fair, don’t blame the artists — what you consider crap might very well be, to a middle-aged Midwestern dad on a soul...
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