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Illustration by Taylor Callery
On the morning of May 1, 2010, Tian Yu Lu awoke before dawn. Taking care not to disturb his wife, Lu left his home in San Francisco's Parkside...
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No one loves CDs.
The cool kids today want to either dig through crates of dusty old vinyl or pay four times too much for the new stuff. The even cooler kids spend actual...
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First to come around was a tray of crudités, each of the small plates a minimalist collage: a single baby fennel spear, whirled pyramids of romanesco broccoli, and tiny...
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Directed by Marie Losier, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye chronicles Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's recent career and second marriage,...
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With expectations to match its obscenely huge budget (an estimated quarter of a billion dollars), this long-delayed adaptation of pulp meister Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1917...
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For children of a certain generation, the Starship Enterprise’s earnest Capt. James T. Kirk was a cardboard cousin of Dudley Do-Right. The latter, a dim-bulb Canadian...
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National treasure Sarah Vowell's most recent book, Unfamiliar Fishes, explores the Americanization of Hawaii, from the arrival of the first missionaries in the early 19th...
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San Francisco Chronicle columnist Scott Ostler typically provides opinion and perspective on all sectors of pro and college sports, but tonight he turns his attention to...
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Mathematically speaking, pi is transcendental, irrational, and deliciously random. It is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It never ends, and it...
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Sexuality could be said to course through the veins of Marie Losier's films, but it's often thrillingly murky and atmospheric rather than goal-oriented. Losier perhaps finds...
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Back in the freewheeling 1970s, Pam Grier was the hottest -- and coolest -- woman in movies. Rough, tough, and occasionally out-of-control scary, she was a fierce force of...
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The San Francisco Symphony turns 100 this year. So how does it celebrate? With an ear-bending American Mavericks festival that bridges space and time. The poster boy for the...
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Watching Eiko & Koma is like observing nature. The duo is brutal and beautiful; lingering, gradual, and dynamic; deliberate and chaotic. In a word, awesome. While the two are...
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California is home to about 4 million Irish Americans, roughly a quarter of whom reside in the Bay Area. Today the West Coast’s largest celebration of that heritage --...
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The new breed of catamaran pushed by Larry Ellison for the America’s Cup can turn on a dime and tach out at more than 30 knots. Teams in the race reportedly have to pay...
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Scott Herman’s play Octopus’s Garden might not seem like typical PianoFight fare. It’s not sketch comedy, it’s not an interactive...
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The area around Sixth and Market is changing. Known as one of the most poverty-stricken parts of the city, Central Market has seen a recent surge of new businesses moving in...
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You can be forgiven for having great expectations for The Waiting Period, Brian Copeland's new solo show at the Marsh. His last play, 2004's Not a Genuine Black Man, became...
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San Francisco public school students haven't eaten fresh-cooked cafeteria food since the Reagan era. In fact, many schools no longer have kitchens; some have no more than a...
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Sizzle
• New York dance-punk pioneers ESG rolled through Mezzanine on their final tour of a 34-year career, and packed the house with an unusually diverse crowd. The...
