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A half-century ago, when Don Cameron was growing up in the San Francisco neighborhood of St. Francis Wood, his family would summer at Yosemite National Park in cabins near the...
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Valentine's Day is the soppiest date of the year. Dewy-eyed lovebugs would have you believe it's exemplified by bunches of red roses and teddy bears and boxes of candy and...
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Has it been long enough since the Great Pork Belly Craze of 2005 to stage a revival? The people who care about fashion have sneeringly returned bacon to its populist origins,...
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In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall's personal cinematic high score, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open) with the voice of a street freak, barely...
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After waving a gun around at home, young Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren) is shipped to the South Jutland flatlands to cool off as marshal of a small town....
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Support your fellow Bay Area artists tonight as SF Weekly hosts Artopia 2010, a night of art, music, fashion, and culture from 6-10 p.m. at Project One. (Also on tap that...
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Many things important to people inside a relationship are hard to appreciate from the outside. Vacation videos, wedding pictures, breakup/reunion stories: These can be torture....
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Theres no reason to put this gently: Woo at the Zoo is about animals screwing. The idea is, you go to the zoo, eat a romantic meal (beef tenderloin and herbed couscous...
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At a recent Haiti benefit, Kelley Stoltz stole the show from Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, and the Sandwitches. That the latter are all raging rock bands, the best of their ilk in...
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People raise chickens in the city for many reasons: hunger, companionship, mental illness, the desire to get nicknamed by the neighbors, the desire to impress Novella...
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Its no stretch to call the Kronos Quartet iconic; the string foursomes very name has become shorthand for visionary, genre-blind exploration. And rightly so. Its...
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We've heard some people don't like grits. Excellent: More for us. Over the five days of the sf|noir Wine and Food Event, a vast array of Caribbean, African, Creole, Southern,...
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Not everyone loves architects. Some people, in fact, curse architects daily, self-righteously saying foul words about the designers of window-deprived apartment buildings, flat...
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If you think youre quick with the cutting riposte, take a moment with this phrase: Ozzy Osbourne wrote a book. Okay? Go! Howd you do? If the best you came up with...
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Teachers are often trained to count to 10 before expecting an answer after asking questions. Those seconds go by like cold honey, but it works every time, netting the good...
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Slap a title like Freaks, Punks, Skanks, and Cranks on a film series, and it can mean only one thing: Fun for the whole family. San Francisco Punks and...
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For many adults, the phrase Swing your partner, do-si-do inspires fluttery stomachs and sweaty palms. At some point, the California public education system decided...
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Slight, indifferently shot, and entirely lacking in ballast, Harmony and Me's sole justification for being is that it's consistently very funny. Harmony (Justin Rice) has a...
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If youve ever been among Australian mates in the wee hours in the presence of liquor and no women, youve probably heard them trade stories about romance. This can...
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Long before electro-cumbia became the latest club style to break out in the States, Richard Blair was exploring electronic-Latin fusions en route to his new home in Colombia....