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Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money...
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It's Saturday night at Koko Cocktails in the Tenderloin, and Adam Tadesse is on the decks, spinning a bouncy late-'60s tune by Jamaican pioneer Prince Buster. It's a reggae...
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It's been a rough couple of months for Northern California's native cooking vernacular, ever since David Chang called bullshit on local chefs. The chef of Manhattan's Momofuku...
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The money is on the screen in Avatar, James Cameron's mega-3-D, mondo-CGI, more-than-a-quarter-billion-dollar baby, and, like the Hope Diamond waved in front of your nose, the...
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In Search of Beethoven plays like a good, if necessarily condensed critical biography. Drawing from archival letters, interviews with contemporary musicians and historians,...
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"Everything’s already happened to me," admits Harry Caine, the blind, middle-aged filmmaker in Broken Embraces. "All that’s left is to enjoy life." ¡Sí!...
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Marketed as a guitar summit between The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White, Davis Guggenheim’s affectionate, intermittently insightful behind-the-music doc is more electric...
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As a former Ringling Bros. clown, David Magidson is a highly accomplished and dedicated performer. He's the clown you're looking for. He's the clown to beat. He's the clown...
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In the animated short Western Spaghetti, a cook slices up a Rubik’s Cube to season a sauce of pin cushions and aluminum foil, simmering over flames of candy corn. Sliced...
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In the beginning it was, of course, Ohlone Indian. Then it was Spanish-Ohlone. Were there Russians? It was Italian. Then it was Irish and German. As far as we can tell, the...
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Whether you mix peppermint schnapps in your cocoa or prefer your chocolate straight and cold with a sidecar of cookies, it’s a good guess you don’t often pose the...
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As holiday traditions go, getting tipsy on red wine and slurring the words to The Golden Girls theme song with a roomful of strangers in a darkened theater beats watching the...
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It’s late, you’re tired, your perspective is shot, you’re thinking Tim Allen was on to something with The Santa Clause — Christmas hokum is winning the...
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Christmas is a time for holiday specials: I Walked with a Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Zombie, Braindead, Wild Zero. What, you think zombies don’t...
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Squirrel Nut Zippers were always a bit too weird for the swing revival. The North Carolina troupe was also incredibly well-studied, flitting among decades-old sounds with an...
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Uncle Walt, like many a kindly relative, concealed some untoward secrets behind his benevolent smile and neat mustache. Yet his household name maintains its...
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Illumination appears in the strangest places sometimes. We were watching the train wreck of our hometown television show Trauma a little bit ago, hating it, but wanting to see...
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Local artist and activist Sara Thustra is well known and well loved for making paintings and street art. Trippy geometry, text bits, and a neon-meets-Earth color palette are...
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He’s a slashie, but he’s no model/actor: He’s Jon Lovitz, actor/comedian/singer, a man of cultivated talents. We have fond memories of his performance as...
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Something about the holidays makes people want to see men in tights and women in bizarre shoes. It’s just a fact. At the Smuin Ballet company’s The Christmas Ballet,...
