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There's a world of difference between standing in the cold desiring a streetcar and A Streetcar Named Desire. But, thanks to San Francisco's ongoing drive to ensure those...
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Photos by Amanda Lopez.
Noise Pop has prevailed.
This year, as the San Francisco festival's 20th annual week of indie music concerts gets under way, the proceedings have...
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To date, the New California Cuisine emerging from restaurants like Benu, Aziza, and Commonwealth has wrought dehydrated-vegetable powders, improbably succulent meats cooked at...
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Act of Valor is, according to the opening titles, "based on real acts of valor," whatever that means. It does star real active-duty Navy SEALs, and much of it was filmed with...
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The notion that art and science exist in opposition to one another persists, although it’s an unnecessary — and often imaginary — divide. Many have dared to...
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Paper or plastic. Creamy or crunchy. White or wheat. Regular or decaf. Some choices are easier to make, especially when it comes to choosing which talks to attend on BookFest...
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Orchids used to appear wonderfully rare and exotic, a specialty plant hunted by romantics, hobbyists, and thieves; today, pallets of hardy, year-round bloomers stacked in...
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“Food addiction.” On its face it sounds absurd -- like maybe “air addiction” or “water addiction.” How can we be addicted to something we...
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It took filmmaker Terry Zwigoff nine years to make the documentary Crumb, about the underground comic artist of the same name. Zwigoff was broke, suffering chronic back pain...
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So you didn’t score tickets in Burning Man’s bizarre lottery system. You can either continue grieving, or you can dry your eyes with those furry boots and pencil a...
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If global warming is a distant, abstract concept to you, Mohamed Nasheed has a pressing message: There is no Planet B. Deposed just a few weeks ago as president of the...
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The impact of Kevin Epps’ 2003 documentary Straight Outta Hunters Point runs so deep in the neighborhood where it was filmed, kids who have never met the director have...
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Ron Garrigues takes a subtle approach to the most vexing of issues: overpopulation, destruction, and extinction. A person might call his artwork gruesome — especially...
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The notion that art and science exist in opposition to one another persists, although it’s an unnecessary — and often imaginary — divide. Many have dared to...
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No one goes to the Moscone Center just to see its bronze bust of the late Mayor George Moscone. Don’t get us wrong, it’s a perfectly nice statue, cast by artist...
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It’s not easy using humor and wit to expose heavy subjects such as racism, domestic violence, or suicide, but Brian Copeland did it in his 2004 solo performance Not a...
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Sexy topical questions add sheen to the surface of Annie Baker's Body Awareness, a Bay Area premiere now at the Aurora: To what extent is feminism still politically relevant?...
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Sizzle
• The Warren Hellman Public Celebration brought stars like Emmylou Harris and Old Crow Medicine Show to two stages at Ocean Beach on Sunday, and reproduced all...
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A series of free "skill exchange workshops" are about to resume at Pot and Pantry, a kitchen boutique in the Mission. San Francisco graphic designer Kate Koeppel and Pot and...
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Ranters: Retiree clutching a theater program and wearing a denim dress; her gentleman companion; a guy sitting nearby reading Mother Jones.
Location: BART train leaving Civic...
