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Back in 2010, Bethany Cosentino demonstrated that even as a member of the aw-shucks indie rock club, it was possible to become a near-cultural icon with just a few addictive...
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Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen.
In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create...
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As introduction for this month’s InsideStory Time, a quote from Austrian writer (and frequent Wim Wenders collaborator) Peter Handke was chosen: “The storyteller...
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San Francisco's largest electronic dance music festival will now take place in Mountain View.
Seeking to capitalize on dance music's massive appeal, Live Nation planned to...
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We don’t know why stiltwalking holds such enduring fascination, but archaeologists found a vase with a Greek chorus of stiltwalkers dated as early as the sixth century...
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There’s plenty of hype about disruptive cultural shifts in this time of billion-dollar apps that apply faux-Polaroid effects to digital photos. But in the case of the...
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Vogue editor Anna Wintour says negative projections on the fashion world come from people who feel frightened or excluded by a spectacular lifestyle. Wintour might be right....
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At this year’s Bay to Breakers, you can’t drink alcohol. You can’t bring a float. You can’t pee in someone’s driveway, and you can’t throw...
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We’re not saying someone is guaranteed to fall in the pool. We’re just pointing out that a pool is there, and that people are drinking cocktails and perhaps not...
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If burlesque queen, diamond aficionado, and bondage enthusiast Dita Von Teese hadn’t already existed, the web’s fetish-mining hive mind may have had to invent her....
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The 1978 assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk forever changed San Francisco. Milk, the self-proclaimed “Mayor of Castro Street,” was...
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New York Times columnist and Princeton professor Paul Krugman has spent a couple of decades integrating old industrial economic theories into the developing international...
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Mark Lanegan's gruff but sultry baritone is a thing to reverently behold — as is his long and fascinating musical history. Whether you loved him in Screaming Trees and...
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P
unk rock can be an immensely powerful weapon of change, with fiery guitars and drums creating intense, perspective-shaking expressions of the human condition. Alternately,...
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As a people, we hate our bodes. And why wouldn’t we? Thanks to advertising, religion, and pop culture, we’re taught to see our physical selves as either...
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Asian art is hot, selling at unprecedented highs and eclipsing Western art. San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, one of the largest in the world dedicated to Asian art and...
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When you walk into Tenderloin, the new documentary play at the Cutting Ball Theater, you might find yourself disoriented, even doing a double take. You thought you were...
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Supervisor Eric Mar won't make national news shutting down late-night fast-food restaurants or getting a strippermobile towed from an Outer Richmond street. Maybe that's the...
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Sizzle
• Roger Waters brought the mega-spectacle of his The Wall live show to AT&T Park, and took a stand for bleeding hearts and artists everywhere. In what has to be...
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An awful lot of restaurants like to make "Best [blank] in San Francisco" claims. The list of self-proclaimed "best burgers" is so long at least 21 of the places advertising...
