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The Felton Street fire looked suspicious from the start. The two-story house in the Portola District that went up in flames in the early hours of Feb. 5, 2009, had no...
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It's tricky keeping a bead on Owen Pallett, the prolific composer who, until last month, recorded and performed solo as Final Fantasy. (He has since reverted to his own name...
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Navigating a city like San Francisco isn't so much a question of memorizing map grids as about cataloguing landmarks, making our way — often in a haze of habit —...
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The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and, addressing what used to be called "the German problem" while dodging...
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Detective stories imply that mysteries can be solved, or at least rationally explained, and confirm a universe in which guilt is determined and the guilty accorded just...
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Don Imus’s hateful, racist 2007 remarks about “nappy-headed hos” underscored the immense fear of and fascination with the hair follicles of African-American...
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The Alcoholic Beverage Control Web site defines a disorderly house as one which a) “disturbs the neighborhood” or b) "has many crimes ongoing inside." Neither one...
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President Barack Obama was supposed to be the Man with a Plan, not a kinder, gentler version of the Man. As the clamor grows for a jobs bill, another black hero — with...
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I'm Not There screenwriter Oren Moverman makes his directorial debut with The Messenger, a moving and nuanced drama about the home-front readjustment period for decorated Iraq...
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Nothing if not consistent, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess once again presents adolescence as a depressive, outsider experience; makes light of the...
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“The Cataclysm of 2008-2009: Lessons Learned, or Lessons Ignored” is a lecture by a expert on Wall Street crime. Here's a man with history of going after...
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Jamaican roots reggae singer Chuck Fenda recently changed his stage name to the Living Fire, which is also the title of his 2007 Greensleeves Records release and his...
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Michael Pollan’s new book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, is aimed not only at well-balanced foodies but also at those who have been struck dumb by it all: the...
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The Believer mag and McSweeney’s gang pull together for a new art installation and music thingamajig called “Ecotones.” Someone fills the loo with stuffed...
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If you had to guess the topic of the most expensive Swedish silent film ever made, you probably wouldn’t guess demonic possession and witchcraft. You almost certainly...
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It can be a challenge tracing the circuitous path of Sunnyvale’s Orange Peels. Leader Allen Clapp grew the band out of his solo work in the mid-’90s, although...
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Actors don’t need sets anymore — all they need is a screen and an Internet-enabled doohickey. In the International Theater Company’s production of The Nose, for...
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In classic picture books like The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Hapless Child, beloved author-illustrator Edward Gorey evoked offbeat fantasies in surrealist miniature for...
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First of all, let’s make fun of Elizabeth Gilbert. Her book is facile and she has no credentials to help anyone do anything. Hah! She’s ... oh, this is too easy,...
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Normally, we don’t endorse auditions. As 30 Rock reminded us recently, they can easily manifest as parades of human misery — and you can just go to the gym or watch...
