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Illustrations by Mark Ulriksen
On Monday, May 23, Michael Suniga lost his teeth on a bus in Watsonville. He'd removed them to chew gum, wandered off the vehicle to inquire...
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Has My Morning Jacket come full circle? The title of its latest album would suggest as much. The band has certainly come quite a long way in just over a decade, but it's not...
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For a self-proclaimed speakeasy, Bourbon & Branch isn't difficult to find. Arriving on the corner of Jones and O'Farrell with a password committed to memory, I could locate...
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"I am angry," Conan O'Brien admits in Rodman Flender's tour doc. "I'm trying not to be ... but sometimes I'm so mad I can't even breathe." Prohibited from appearing on...
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Bob Mould is more than the legendary onetime frontman of Hüsker Dü and and a punk rock icon. He's also one of the rock world's foremost practitioners of Real Talk....
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In May 2010, the For-Site Foundation (“art about place”) put up a large-scale art exhibition. “Presidio Habitats” commissioned a group of artists to make...
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Hey, Proud Marys! We know all year is your time to shine, but this weekend is when you exhaust yourself with fabulousness, deplete yourself with joy, and blow your wad with...
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San Francisco culture, the theory goes, has been wild and innovative from the beginning, from Joshua Norton and Lillie Coit to the Beat poets and hippies to the Mitchell...
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So you’ve been out late Saturday night drinking, carousing, doing whatever it is you young people do. You’ve woken up in a stranger’s bed in the Mission, and...
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Three people from Oaxaca are here to blow your mind. San Francisco’s science museum is always here to blow your mind, and for the next few months at ColorFest, the...
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This exhibit is a wreck. Which is to say, you, the visitors, get to wreck works of art. Or, to use a term chosen by the artists, “alter” them. And if you want to...
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Aspiring young directors have a choice these days: Drop a serious wad on film school, or put the dough into making a feature, where they get a real-world, sink-or-swim...
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The political and economic landscape of late could make any thinking, feeling human wish for another time, even one fraught with its own issues. Live one of your anachronistic...
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28 Barbary Lane just got a little bit gayer. At the beginning of June, American Conservatory Theater premiered a new musical based on Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City and...
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After years in the economic wilderness following the 2001 dot-com crash, designers, artists, webmasters, and all sorts of multimedia, networking, and software experts are...
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Sizzle
• John Vanderslice and the Magik*Magik Orchestra married S.F. indie rock and S.F. classical music Friday night at the Herbst Theater. Their live performance of...
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"NO SOUP FOR YOU!" proclaim the T-shirts on sale at the new Original SoupMan at Fisherman's Wharf. A sign outside the door lists founder Al Yeganeh's rules for ordering, and...
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The documentary Audience Award winner at this year's Sundance festival, Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly...
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Anna Deavere Smith is a revelation on the Berkeley Rep stage. She's an accomplished actress with lead roles in West Wing and Nurse Jackie, and profoundly skilled storyteller...
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Last week, San Francisco offered a final farewell to firefighters Vincent Perez and Anthony Valerio (except for Jeff Adachi, who was booted out). Gargantuan, citywide funerals...
