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If the ingredients of comedy are tragedy plus time, the formula for nostalgia must be time plus banality. Given ample years, everyday items morph from detritus to...
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A lot happened in Bay Area music in 2011 — and not all of it had to do with a female rapper from Oakland called Kreayshawn. Remember KUSF getting shut down? Or the...
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Even while it was happening, most of us who monitor San Francisco's restaurant scene recognized that 2010 was a peak year. The city's tepid tolerance for avant-garde flavors...
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It was 1952 in Haddon Township, N.J., and 5-year-old Steven Spielberg was bummed about The Greatest Show on Earth, the first movie he saw in a theater. "I wanted to see...
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Podcasts — WTF? For years, talk radio hosts were the only people telling us to listen to their podcasts, and we were all, “Suck it, host. You’re already on...
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Even in this vinyl-happy town, Groove Merchant Records in the Lower Haight stands alone as a dealer of rare, vintage, and under-appreciated sounds on wax. The tiny shop has an...
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It'll soon be time to finalize those New Year's resolutions, and if (like us), one of yours is to shoehorn more art and culture into your life, we have a suggestion to get a...
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In simpler times, a crew calling itself the Church Team might have been found weeknights at the local bowling alley, wearing monogrammed shirts and knocking down a few pins,...
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It's straight out of a movie scene — where a great song comes on and all the actors know the same choreographed dance. At tonight's event, not only can you learn dance...
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The customary way to welcome the New Year is to tie one on, get loaded — or hammered, blotto, three sheets to the wind, or whatever your preferred phrase for excessive...
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Prior to its 2006 premier, the online buzz for Snakes on a Plane was so loud that New Line Cinema sent the crew back into production to add violence and vulgarity, for the...
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As bluntly humanist and free-ranging as its subject, Paul Goodman Changed My Life -- a brisk take on the life of the poet, sociologist, educator, psychologist, and general...
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China is living through an intellectual and creative dark age. While the nation’s economy booms and consumer culture thrives, the totalitarian government has...
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Since it thrives upon candor, revelation, and the imaginative input of the reader, the novel stands as the only media form to portray sex as anything like what sex is actually...
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The prose that critics call “luminous” tends to be of the light-reflecting-on-the-water variety: It shimmers prettily but doesn't illuminate much. Tea Ohreht's The...
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“Tennessee Williams has outdone himself.” That's hard to fathom. Consider the sexual tension, violence, and outright denial of A Streetcar Named Desire. Consider...
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Daniel Gross' preface to Rebel Voices – PM Press's newly reprinted treasury of stories, testimonials, songs, and jeremiads from the heyday of the Industrial Workers of...
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Life's anxieties find natural avatars in demons and monsters. Given physical form onstage, they help us cope, making those anxieties feel more manageable. In fairyland, the...
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“He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But to...
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Don McCunn teaches people how to make clothing. Visit his blog and you'll see links to posts on various sewing techniques and patterns as well as how to create nursing bras,...
