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Illustration by Jesse Lefkowitz.
Not so long ago, a San Francisco tax lawyer and habitual hot chocolate drinker named William Weissman was puzzled as to why he paid sales...
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The first thing K.Flay did after returning from South By Southwest was go to the Oakland farmers' market with her mom. When she talks about her shopping trip, K.Flay —...
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After the shooting, rosé was poured.
Skeet shooting, to be exact, on the shores of Lake Merced, on one of those rare spring days when the fog peels back from the coast...
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Another loosely factual gloss on a little-known chapter from Nazi-occupied Europe, Free Men tells of a Vichy France mosque that supplied North African Jews with fraudulent...
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We’ve had it all wrong: The greatness of a film is not measured by who is playing the lead, but what that person is wearing. That’s right, we’re talking...
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There's plenty of interest in American roots music these days, and Carolina Chocolate Drops are the scene's wildly popular black sheep. One of only a handful of...
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It’s hard to believe that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “ruining it for everyone,” as some detractors have claimed. Over 33 years, they’ve...
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If you’ve ever stumbled upon a fire jam, or a melee of staff-wielders, or even just a common group of jugglers, you know that the “flow arts” have gone the...
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Between them, Rachel Kramer Bussel and Susie Bright have probably edited or written 100 books relating to sex, and contributed to almost as many publications or websites. (We...
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Keith Lowell Jensen hates Chicago. But he has a reason. He spent a night in jail there after being caught with a handgun in the airport. But it wasn’t his gun. Unknown...
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When Michelle Williams was cast as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, the blogosphere lit up with outrage and petulant assertions that “even drag queens”...
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Bayard Rustin was a fervid orator and incisive rhetorician who served as a key figure in the civil rights movement for more than 60 years. He introduced Mahatma Gandhi’s...
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Ground control to all wannabe Major Toms: It’s been 51 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to breach the atmosphere and reach the expansive void of space....
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In 2010, internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home and sentenced to six years in prison for “[participating] in a gathering and...
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Obviously, bibliophiles with coulrophobia (fear of clowns) will want to avoid Literary Clown Foolery, but for the rest of us, this 90-minute cabaret -- set in a bookstore,...
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San Francisco bicyclists face constant battles. Rain. Hills. Rainy hills. Cars with outraged drivers. Jaywalkers wearing headphones. FiDi workers on cell phones. Agitated...
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Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait beautifully polarized audiences with his screamy, phlegm-filled non sequiturs in the 1980s. It was the most visceral part of an experimental...
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Usually, when Berlin is mentioned in a musical context, it’s in reference to the city’s thriving club scene. Yet, dig deeper under the surface of the German...
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In the mid-1980s, Barack Obama left a promising and well-paid New York business career to work as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. That decision was...
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U.K. producer SBTRKT — a.k.a. "subtract," or Aaron Jerome to his mates — actually operates by an additive property: Begin with equal portions of Chicago house's...
