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Illustration by Brian Stauffer.
A crowd has gathered around Geary Brown and his letter.
"Look what I got," he says, almost in a whisper.
Heads peer over his...
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White people can't play the blues. Granted, some black people can't play it, either. But most new blues these days is played by white people — talented Austin guitarist...
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For all the upscaling that has been thrust upon the pizza — the Neapolitan flours, the wood-fired ovens, the word "artisan" — the pizzaioli of San Francisco have...
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A successful young New Orleans ad exec living a no-frills, booty-on-call, single-by-choice lifestyle, Marley Corbett has a sunny irreverence and Teflon resistance to emotional...
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Wayne Brady fronted his own ABC talk show for several years in the early aughts, and he is now the modern-day incarnation of Monty Hall, fronting the resurrected game show...
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Bridges are among the first things that come to mind when people around the world think of San Francisco, but how many of us know anything about them? Lucky for us, local...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a pioneer in the business of bookselling (City Lights was the nation's first all-paperback retailer), and he turned the literary world on its head by...
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The Day He Arrives, the prolific Hong Sang-soo's 12th film, begins with Sungjoon (Yu Jun-sang), a former film director now retired to a professorship at a provincial school,...
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In the early ’90s Kevin Bacon put on a dazzling performance in Tremors, a film about mutant worms and trailer parks. As children, we played a game in which, side by side...
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After an abortive attempt at recording a new Circle Jerks album, SoCal hardcore icon and original Black Flag singer Keith Morris formed OFF! with Burning Brides guitarist...
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In San Francisco, it's perfectly legal to keep a brood of chickens or a badelynge of ducks in your backyard. Bees are also permissible, though a little trickier. Good thing...
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As a manufacturing outpost, San Francisco doesn’t make very much. We make people click ads, mostly. And we make a lot of coffee. But wouldn’t it be great if you...
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"I blame Mick Jagger for fucking with black magic," Peter Coyote says a good chunk of the way into Season of the Witch, Salon founder David Talbot's sprawling, lurid, dishy,...
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Otto von Danger's friends wanted him to blow up a bank.
"They were upset about what the banks are doing," the Oakland artist (real name Otto Ewen) explained. "We all are."...
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Sizzle
• Talk about a crowd-pleaser: Bruce Springsteen played for three and a half hours in San Jose — and even went surfing through throngs of elated fans....
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Trippa alla fiorentina is not a pretty dish. There are no elegant curls of handmade pasta to photograph. A tuft of baby greens placed on top would only look like a boutonniere...
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John Stossel is a fuck-noob, but we do have him to thank for those hard-hitting shit exposés over the years. 'Twas he who first looked deep into the hole of a bowling...
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Since their irresistibly madcap 2005 debut Iceberg, Belgium-based filmmakers, actors, and former clowns Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy have been spinning...
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Extreme Swedish quintet Meshuggah has been destroying the boundaries of metal with its quantum-physics complexity and brutal precision for a quarter century. Founded by singer...
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Run DMT is afoot. The Austin-based duo of John D. Robbins and Chris Parson is known for producing fun, bass-driven, sample-laced music. Charting heavily on Beatport, Run DMT...
