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Daniella Martin eats 'em up. Yum. Photo by Kimberly Sandie. Hair and makeup by Ellyse Bernales. Animation by Andrew J. Nilsen
Mónica Martínez bills her Don...
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Two years ago, Josh Davis realized he had accumulated a whopping $800 of store credit for Amoeba Music. Davis had built up the bounty after managers at the chain of...
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To get to Leatherneck Steakhouse, which the Marines' Memorial Club barely advertises on its sign, you pass through a lobby decorated with glass cases of military uniforms,...
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The mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein's claim to "know what it feels like to be God," to Jurassic...
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Say you're a struggling artist and can't exactly afford a studio on top of what you're paying for your room in that house you're sharing with six other struggling artists. For...
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Part of what gives San Francisco its, um, charm is its vibrant history of colorful characters. The city has survived multiple earthquakes in addition to plenty of cultural and...
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Nina G. grew up with a stutter. A couple of times each minute, a certain syllable will hang her up. She'll stall, repeat the same sound a few times – like the word is...
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About a decade ago we visited New Orleans in late October, and a local couple assured us that we had never seen anything like Halloween night in NOLA. We politely assured Mr....
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San Francisco invented denim jeans, Irish coffee, and the modern-day fortune cookie (we think). Awesome, right? There are endless amounts of fun historical facts about this...
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Monica Canilao’s paintings and drawings have a warm, stick-like quality. She sometimes works in “woodburn” on oak panel and renders images of trees. That’s...
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In 2009, So You Think You Can Dance featured traditional Russian folk dancing (don’t ask us how we know this) and it bombed, spectacularly. Primarily because American...
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Lars Von Trier’s latest patch on tormented human nature, Melancholia (opening next month), tests Kirsten Dunst with a planet on a potential collision course with Earth....
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Consider the elevator. Colson Whitehead did in his first novel, The Intuitionist, in which "the lift" occupies the center of a secret society. Certain elevators have minds of...
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“I show the best show, and tell the best tell,” says Jason Magabo Perez, channeling a disturbed third-grader. In a passionate stage whisper, he adds...
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Remember sitting in the dark with friends, turning off all the lights, and each of you adding parts to a bone-chilling story? Imagine doing that with a room full of people and...
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The Golden Gate Bridge might be the more iconic span, but there’s a special place in our jaded hearts for its argent-hued counterpart to the east. That said, the Bay...
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To read Maurice Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande is to encounter a world of unexplained melancholia, gloomy forests and castles, and sweet, unconsummated...
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Thanks to advances in technology (hello Google), the definition of "map" has evolved oh so radically in the past decade. Not surprisingly, visual artists are utilizing these...
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Walking hurriedly through the galleries at SFMOMA, leading me on a tour of his life's drawings, Richard Serra suddenly stops in front of Pacific Judson Murphy, a giant,...
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Much has been written about the provenance of a curious paperback that turned up around the city last week, the glossy little hagiography that for 120 pages — plus...
