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Who says love can only be found while dining on braised pheasant and Michelin stars with hedge fund analysts and when followed by a romantic high-speed drive in the most...
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In 1940s San Francisco, if you were trying to help a couple of swabbies intent on a little nightclub entertainment during shore leave, you might drop the name Dorothy Fong...
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According to music historian Juan Flores, author of the 2000 book From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, boogaloo or bugalú was house party...
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If you wish to unite a crowd, invoke exes. Everyone hates an ex, and poof, the crowd is united, in hatred. At the new Valentine's-themed comedy show Wegent and Page Draw the...
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Foolproof asshole litmus test: Person tries to be dismissive of Eve Ensler. Author, playwright, activist, performance artist, and pain in the right wing's butt Ensler works...
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If Armageddon does come, God probably will smite Tony DuShane — and in the meantime, the worshippers in DuShane's family probably will shun him. That's because the San...
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Though not fanning the flames of political upheaval or drug-fueled counterculturalism, a pocket of Los Angeles tone poets has emerged as a new beat generation of sorts. These...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Barbacco: 230 California (at Front), 955-1919, www.barbaccosf.com. Financial District....
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Wednesday, Feb. 3
Bay Area author Carol Sklenicka's new book is called Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life (Scribner, $35). That isn't a bad title. Gets right to the point. You...
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Though less famous than its San Diego–area namesake, San Francisco's Ocean Beach is anything but unknown to surfers: Its three miles of coastline provide "a world-class...
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Last week, Apple unveiled its new tablet computer, the iPad, in San Francisco. It has been hyped as the savior of newspapers. What else can Apple's new product save?
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The sunny, halcyon days of the 1960s have been shoved down our collective throats with every Woodstock anniversary and baby boomer film reveling in the music of the times. In...
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Last week, on the very day District Attorney Kamala Harris fired off a press release crowing she had raised $1 million over the past six months for her attorney general...
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Phèdre. Neoclassical French drama is most famous for its rigid adherence to the theory that nothing interesting must ever be shown onstage. Instead, the plot is...
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Can't three women just rock out, please? That might be what Vivian Girls Cassie, Katy, and Ali are thinking after three years of music press scrutiny debating their sound and...
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Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com.
Artists' Television Access. "Return from Gaza and Lebanon": Films by...
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Life Without Parole
And that's the way it should be: It is all well and good to extol Lonnie Morris' supposed virtues and apparent transformation while incarcerated ["No Way...
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Call it kitsch if you must, but the French ensemble Nouvelle Vague has found an affable niche reimagining rebellious punk, postpunk, and New Wave anthems as breezy bossa nova....
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Seth Troxler is a Kalamazoo-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer who guarantees that feet start moving when he gets on the decks. Those first movements usually come from the...
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I'm gleeful now I can easily access all the TV I want online, and I don't have to give any money to Comcast, which has taken my checks long enough. Now I mainly watch Hulu,...
