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Does Recology have a right to pick up San Francisco's trash forever? Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and David Campos don't think so. They plan to put a measure before voters in...
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Pirate captains weren't known for their enlightened attitude toward questions regarding their authority. And, it appears neither are the captains of pirate radio stations....
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Kids. They can drive people crazy. Especially when they're not really kids, but rather some type of animated warm sticky foodstuff like a pork dumpling. And these kid/food...
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T.C. Boyle’s fiction avoids simple binary distinctions, searching for uneasy truths in highly polarized situations. The approach has given previous works like 1995’s...
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We call it “bicycle creep.” San Francisco is slowly, gradually, but with undeniable certainty, assimilating the bicycle as a central part of its structure and...
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Emily Heller and Janine Brito are the same, but different. They're both girls. (Bear with us for minute.) They both do standup comedy. But there they diverge. Among Heller's...
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Four days in March are super fancy: Fat Tuesday in the Fillmore doesn't just mean the $300 costume contest at the Masquerade Ball on Mardi Gras proper, although it does mean...
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Choreographer Stephen Petronio has amassed a contact list of musicians for which any rock 'n' roll journalist would trade his or her Scotch. The Guggenheim fellow has worked...
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To our recurring surprise, many locals never get the idea to visit Alcatraz, because traveling by boat to an island to walk around cellblocks is just something they don't like...
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Independent rapper Sellassie is serious. He wants change — he's a "revolutionary hip-hop presence," as he puts it. So what does a man like that do? When you care, and...
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Regard with respect the breakthrough technology that was VHS, you overindulged child of the digital age. The home-video revolution of the mid-‘70s introduced a raft of...
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Once inside the tiny theater with 007 James Bond in Ladykiller: Live stomping the boards in front of you, prepare for low-production-value guilty pleasure, emphasis on the...
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One of our biggest problems with organized religion – and we're sure we're not alone on this – is its pervasive humorlessness. To our knowledge (and we'll admit that...
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A woman is the large version of a little girl. We know that. Is a female child the miniature version of an adult? Television show Toddlers and Tiaras would lead you to think...
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You can probably guess the subject of this ridiculous remark: “I enjoy the interaction I have with the app. It makes me happy to use it because it simulates using a...
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Apparently we spend more than 27 years of our existence doing absolutely nothing. During this time we could be researching a cure for cancer, helping attain world peace,...
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At first glance, this play about backroom politicking during a presidential primary campaign shows us nothing new or revelatory. It's a chess game of spin, purposeful press...
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New work by Ryan Wallace, inspired by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's "Omega Point." Paintings on canvas, panel, and paper are shimmery, philosophical, technological. New work by...
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Group show with Ana Teresa Fernandez, Mónica Enriquez-Enriquez, Geraldine Lozano, Rosario Sotelo, and Tanya Vlach. The Wailing Woman inspires this group of Latina...
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We are surrounded by the Hispanic culture in San Francisco in the form of music, art, and food, to name only the obvious few. But what do we really know about it? Can we ever...
