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Illustration by Jason Crosby
In an airport bar, anyone can be from anywhere.
The patrons are all transient, all in limbo, and although they'll make snap judgments about...
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Leaning towers of discs seem to stalk R. Stevie Moore's every move. At least, this is what we've gathered from the dozens of publicity shots that have promoted the homemade...
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As he set down my Cosmic Brain Trip ($7) — an elixir served in a cocktail glass with a swizzle straw and a lot of ice — the owner of Source, a new vegetarian...
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A woman in nothing but a trenchcoat dashes onto a midnight roadway, almost getting smacked by the Jag of the P.I. who makes the mistake of picking her up. An embittered former...
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Zhong Biao’s solo exhibit, “Reflected on Air,” is about travelers, young and old. The Chinese contemporary artist paints human forms that are fluid in their...
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For nearly a century in the U.S. it was illegal to send anything through the mail considered “obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious.” That included certain novels now...
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Gertrude Stein is often quoted, but usually, people repeat her most sensible words. It’s a shame, and it goes against her whole deal. Hardly anyone ever looks off into...
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A video clip of Rolling Through the Bay made the Facebook rounds a while back. It showed that Scott Weaver, local person, had spent 35 years making a toothpick sculpture...
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Oh yes he is. Even though he’s a warrior, he’s, like, a peaceful warrior. He’s philosophical, he eats gross healthy food, he don’t look right, and he loves...
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In 2009 in San Francisco, Sammy Kitwara ran what’s believed to be the fastest 12k race ever at 33 minutes, 31 seconds. In 2010, he won the same race for a second...
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A geode is like an oyster, in the sense that it’s a lump of crap with shiny jewelry inside. Marissa Textor’s photorealistic drawings often have the viewer looking...
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We love drag. We love burlesque. We know what to expect. Flashy outfits. Colors so bright they’re blinding. Exposed skin. Exploration of racial, political, sexual, and...
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The bio of choreographer Opiyo Okach reads like a case study for the geography of the Internet age. Born in Magadi, Kenya, he grew up steeped in village life before developing...
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Spring in San Francisco: Flowers bloom, birdies sing, cold wind and fog blow in from the Pacific, and graduating art students present their final shows. It’s a great time...
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Several years ago, the great feminist author Eileen Myles described some artfully ugly local performance-art comediennes as “really capturing the horror of being...
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If Peter Bjorn and John have taught us anything (besides how to put our lips together and blow), it's that figuring out what to do after having a hit record might be harder...
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There’s almost no end of dramatic adjectives that can be applied to the San Francisco LGBT community’s response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s. On...
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Fifty years ago this July, Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand set up a sheet in their backyard in the California town of Canyon to project avant-garde films. This low-key, lo-fi...
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Bike riders aren't usually the nattiest of dressers, unless ripped-up shorts, Chrome bags, and ironic mustaches fit your definition of the height of fashion. Fortunately for...
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No passion for fashion is required to enjoy Bill Cunningham New York, an absorbing portrait of legendary New York Times "On the Street" photographer Bill Cunningham, but a...
