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When the troupe of tracksuited drag kings launched into a thumping Marky Mark cover, this much grew clear: It was going to be one hell of a party. Ice cubes clinked in...
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Here's a picture of Ke$ha. We know what you're thinking. It's either "Oh dear God, no!" or "Damn! Girl needs a wash!" And both of these are valid responses. Ke$ha is one of...
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If you arrive after 5 p.m. at Brenda's French Soul Food, one of San Francisco's most popular breakfast and lunch places, it's almost alarming to find no two-hour waits. Just...
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Tenacious indie director Kelly Reichardt has specialized in quirky, minimalist quasiroad movies in which loners come unmoored in some great American space. Meek's Cutoff,...
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Bukowskiology wasn’t taken seriously for a while. But then it started seeming like a tenure-track discipline. Still, the proper Bukowskiologist maintains an ambivalent...
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Bianca Cabrera is a really, really, really accomplished dancer. She trained in the Martha Graham technique, for one thing, and anyone who’s even tried that shit can tell...
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Our national pastime is paranoia, not baseball. In the mid-1970s, when the Watergate revelations and a wave of conspiracy theories about JFK’s assassination fueled a mood...
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Great storytellers can be powerfully enjoyable to hear go on and on about that time they went to a water slide and accidentally received an enema from the experience. In a...
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The United States is harder on crime than almost any other Western nation, yet it has an unending fascination with serial killers, mob bosses, and high-profile white-collar...
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Plenty of yoga classes skim over spiritual pursuits in favor of more immediate (butt) results. At Darren Main’s Tuesday classes, though, the emphasis is on reflection....
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If you were to judge from television, comedy, theater, film, some murderers, certain Pink Floyd songs, and confiding in friends, you could ascertain that moms are a big deal....
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We have a friend named Jasper; he was born with severe brain damage, and nobody knew what was going to happen at first. But he’s nearly a big kid now! He’s really...
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Q: What did the Buddhist say to the hot-dog vendor? A: Make me one with everything. Say what you will about the quality of the joke, but it does point to a certain quality of...
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In Anytown, U.S.A., being part of a live radio broadcast probably means getting a prank call from some Howard Stern wannabe on an FM morning show who tricks you into thinking...
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Any geeks who had plenty of late nights to kill during the ’90s are well-acquainted with Mystery Science Theater 3000, the late-night Comedy Central staple in which the...
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Parachute Without Bomb is made of “cotton and pins;” it’s art. It was made, like all the art at “Pip Culbert,” by razoring out the important parts of...
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If comedian Demetri Martin’s career were dropped into one of his trademark pie charts, one slice would be “Comedy Central star,” one slice would be “law...
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Technology literally gives us a picture of the world, or at least the nation. If you’ve moved away from your childhood home, for example, as many of us have, an online...
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Kay Ryan is a classic poet, which is to say that she’s spent a lot of time working as a teacher at a community college. Because she also recently Pulitzered, she is a...
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Now that Chris Adrian has graduated from Harvard Divinity School, is just about done with his pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship at UCSF, and is no longer "Under 40," as...
