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Illustration by David Plunkert
Many an offbeat film is highlighted by the crafting of a cockamamie plan blessed with the endorsement, "It's so crazy, it just might work!"...
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For the independent record stores of the world, Christmas comes every year on the third Saturday in April. It's called Record Store Day, and since modestly beginning in 2007,...
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We may be at Red Wings for beer and bar food, but this being Korean beer and bar food, the first thing to arrive at the table is pickled daikon. A few minutes after we order a...
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Set in the months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, The Conspirator follows the consequences of the fatal shot at Ford's Theater — specifically, the trial of Mary...
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Christoph Rossner -- he's what dreams are made of. Just kidding. But really, take a look at Rossner's work -- the guy must have some kind of dream-like thought process when...
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Laura Weinbach is tiny. She’s not tall and not wide, and her voice is very high. She’s pretty, and she wears sweet little dresses. In short, she doesn’t look...
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Large American cities during the industrial age had amateur baseball leagues made up of blue-collar workers who created their own little societies unseen by the general...
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Like an acid dream of rocket-powered childhood fantasies, the art at Davis & Davis' “Planet X” is very bright. When baby boomers were babies, and dreaming of the...
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It’s hard to resist a “greatest hits” show, frankly, unless it’s a Neil Diamond tour or a Shia LaBeouf retrospective. No such creepiness, although a good...
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The women behind the variety show Monday Night ForePlays embrace the absurd. Among other sketch oddities, they’ve dressed up people as the bottles in an alcoholic’s...
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Whether planting your literal or metaphorical garden, it's worth setting your sights on great bounty. May your greens be leafy, your pea pods tender, your zucchini a...
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Imagine a white San Francisco so racist that it would become internationally famous in 1906 for taking Japanese schoolchildren out of regular schools and putting them in...
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Art changes lives, and ArtSeed can prove it. The local nonprofit group provides access to its roster of innovative programs to all, but it especially concentrates on...
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Peaches Christ doesn’t show movies — she stages events. Peaches is the longtime force behind Midnight Mass and director of last year’s horror comedy All About...
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The Residents are legend. In the early 1970s they sent a demo tape to Warner Bros., which promptly sent it back in an envelope marked, merely, "Residents." They took it as a...
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Anyone with chicken friends knows: Hens like it hot. Or warm, anyway. They don't like it cold. They stop laying eggs when the cold weather comes, which is sad, so sad for egg...
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Eleven years ago, a group of college students in Michigan started an annual fashion show to help people. On stage were folks who'd put together amazing outfits from what they...
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Truth that's embedded in humor is no less powerful than truth delivered by serious means. In fact, it can be more powerful — just ask political satirists Jon Stewart and...
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If you're forced to pick the coolest guy in hair metal, pick Nikki Sixx, despite Duff McKagan's decades-long body-art project to mirror the life cycle of a fermenting peach....
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Stardate Feb. 22, 1975: It's Northern California's first Star Trek convention, held at Lincoln High School in San Francisco. The long lines, crowded rooms, and boisterous...
