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Illustration by Jesse Lenz.
Richard Lee Baney still remembers the excitement he felt in 1963 as a fireballing freshman in high school. Scouts like Los Angeles Dodgers'...
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To many it would be unthinkable, if not impossible: In an age of informational ubiquity, when seemingly any fact in the world lies about three clicks away, Chuck Prophet made...
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As you'd imagine, most of the children at Cole Valley's Ice Cream Bar were pressed around the ice cream case at the front, saplings amid a greedy thicket of adults clutching...
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The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from the visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about love that in no way reassures that love...
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The physical world loves binaries. Day and night. Life and death. Action and reaction. The social world also loves binaries. If you’re not white, then you’re...
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Remember this the next time you vote with your wallet: Chain-operated multiplexes offer tiered rows and cushy seats, but independently owned neighborhood theaters can play the...
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For about 300 years starting in the 14th century, mainland Europe was afflicted by choreomania, a social phenomenon that caused thousands of people at once to dance...
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Benefit sporting events are often good ways to raise money, awareness, and heart rates at the same time. But today’s Fight for Air Climb offers participants more than...
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Despite all the video games, baked potato bars, and racquetball leagues in our great country, it seems people still care about love. We salute your lizard brain pursuits! You...
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The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is 17 years old, and we’ve been covering it just as long, so forgive us if we dwell on this year’s promotional material: the...
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Just because Sunday is April Fools Day doesn’t mean you get to skip church. If you’re a member of the First Church of the Last Laugh (and you are), it’s the...
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In the search for life on other planets, we used to get all excited about the "life" part, scanning the heavens for radio signals. In the past few months, though, scientists...
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The leather-lunged rivalry between Giants and A’s fans has cooled a bit since Barry Bonds retired, depriving East Bay boo-birds of their favorite target. There’s...
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Consider how much mileage Moshe Kasher gets from just the title of his new memoir. It’s called Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a...
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At Regreturature, well-known writers read their worst — as the name suggests, it’s the stuff they regret. This is a very good and charitable idea, with...
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The first thing K.Flay did after returning from South By Southwest was go to the Oakland farmer's market with her mom. When she talks about her shopping trip, K.Flay —...
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The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from the visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about love that in no way reassures that love...
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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 recently as president of the Republic of...
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A glamorous, glittering city on a hill, San Francisco in the late 1950s represented the pinnacle of American prosperity and sophisticated civilization. But every dream home...
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Filmed during the months leading up to the 2009 presidential election in Iran, The Hunter still seethes with fury — and anticipates the blood that would spill after the...
