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Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen.
It can take a San Francisco politician years of toil to render the city ridiculous in the eyes of the world. The Commission of Animal...
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Chuck Inglish, one half of Chicago's retro-styled rappers the Cool Kids, is speaking about releasing the duo's new album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, through a quasirecord label...
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In San Sebastián, pintxos are bar snacks pinned to a slice of bread with a toothpick, usually served en masse on a buffet — you eat your fill and count up the...
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There are movies that make news and movies that are news. World on a Wire is one of the latter. A virtually unknown, newly restored, 1973 two-part telefilm directed by...
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We begin in classic, saddle-sore terrain. A lone stranger with a mysterious past — Daniel Craig fills the boots here — rides into a Godforsaken town in the Arizona...
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Web comics are often overlooked by the art cognoscenti. The reason is clear: The cognoscenti like to move about the world looking at art, on walls or train cars, in galleries...
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Shakespeare wrote some weak endings in his time, but none so weak as what you'll find in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Considered by some critics to be the Bard's earliest...
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Caltrain has a new policy for riders stuck with malfunctioning Clipper cards: Tell it to the judge.
A crew advisory fired off to the line's conductors and leaked to SF Weekly...
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Sizzle
• We got major '90s flashbacks when the Soundgarden reunion tour rolled through Bill Graham Civic. Flashes of gray hair aside — and despite Chris Cornell...
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Freddie's Sandwiches is tucked away on a quiet corner downhill from North Beach and uphill from Fisherman's Wharf. You'd think the location would be challenging, but owner Ed...
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The smartest, funniest cheap monster movie import this side of June's Trollhunter, Attack the Block is a near-perfectly balanced seasonal trifle: Anchored in social realism...
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Lately, the local press — including SF Weekly — has lavished much attention on Leland Yee. What have we learned about the front-running mayoral candidate?
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Crystal Castles
www.crystalcastles.com
If you don't already know how spectacularly special these Canadian electrogoth wunderkinds are, this is probably the first time you've...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Ahn Sushi and Soju: 177 Eddy (at Mason), 929-1118, www.ahn-sf.com. Tenderloin....
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He gave me half my performance with the lighting," says actress Kathleen Byron of cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who shot her in 1947's Black Narcissus. A rebuke to...
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There's a reason you haven't heard of New Spell — the local trio didn't even have a name until a few months ago — but no reason you shouldn't get in on the ground...
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There may be nothing as Old Hollywood as the narrative about a pretty girl summoning up a dose of pluck to triumph over adversity. And yet Brit Marling — the lithe,...
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The M.O. at Fat Possum Records sure has changed over the years. Early on, the Mississippi label focused on aged, venerable, black bluesmen like T-Model Ford and R.L. Burnside....
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In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her high school sweetheart and husband of 20-plus years, that she wants a divorce....
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Vice Palace. Combine Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" with Fellini's La Dolce Vita, persuade most of your actors to show off their peens, then stage the whole thing as a...
