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Illustration by David Flaherty.
Copper thieves are pilfering copper. Carjackers are jacking cars. Home burglars, however, are not making off with homes. The plot of the...
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Optimists say that if you want to have your dreams come true, you should write them down. We frankly doubt that elucidating the things we want to happen in S.F. music in 2012...
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Déjà vu arrived along with Wo Hing General Store's poached yellow-feather chicken and ginger-scallion relish ($18). A breed with slimmer breasts, fuller flavor,...
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A brooding, evocative Norwegian juvie-hell drama set in 1915, Marius Holst's movie lands us in a fresh locale: secluded, wintery Bastøy Island, home to the...
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It’s been our experience that a few drinks will benefit any game of Rock Paper Scissors, because then you don’t feel quite so adolescent as you bang away over some...
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The love of pork never ceases. We bet that people in the 1300s loved bacon just as much as we do now. Not many of us celebrate that by serving a boar's head at our holiday...
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“After having a section of my leg removed, I began researching medicine from the Middle Ages through the 18th century.” That remark alone in Arabella...
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There’s “alternative comedy,” and there’s offensive humor, and any good comedian will tell you it’s part of the job to push the boundaries...
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It might seem like an odd time to release a novel that includes a fictionalized narrative by Kim Jong-Il, seeing that North Korea’s self-described “Dear...
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We often wonder whether it’s better to make things at home instead of buying them at a supermarket, especially when we’re buying Uncrustables, the PB&J sandwiches...
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A brooding, evocative Norwegian juvie-hell drama set in 1915, Marius Holst's movie King of Devil's Island lands us in a fresh locale: secluded, wintery Bastoy Island, home to...
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Motivational speaker Clam Lynch could have taken a stage name like Victor Cashflow or Rock Awesome, but no. We bet he kept that name to show he could succeed on the speaking...
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Before the theater was about expensive tickets and Andrew Lloyd Webber productions that run 1,300 weeks, it was often an exuberant, even rowdy affair in which the audience was...
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"They should have been the band that went way beyond any of us who were influenced by them," says Primus' Les Claypool about groundbreaking African-American band Fishbone in...
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In Carnage, Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, posh pair Alan and Nancy (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) come to the home of wholesaler Michael (John C....
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Nikola Tesla and the San Francisco Old Mint comprise an odd parallel. The inventor, a golden boy of the Gilded Age, pioneered technology in electricity and electromagnetism,...
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America once had a national war. It happened about 150 years ago. It was over slavery and state sovereignty and also about land. It lasted about four years, and the nation...
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If this theatrical season has had any major trend, it's the fairy tale. First, Marin Theatre Company gave us Bellwether, in which a fantastical underworld was used to explore...
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The daily roster of Fisherman's Wharf peddlers runs the gamut: There's the Bushman, charging for scares from behind his leafy bough. There's Kenny the Clown, juggling fiery...
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Rock Albums
Mikal Cronin, Mikal Cronin [Trouble in Mind]
The Dodos, No Color [Frenchkiss]
Dominant Legs, Invitation [Lefse]
Thee Oh Sees, Carrion Crawler/The Dream [In the...
