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God and Science
Looking for the wrong miracle: "Intelligent design" is silly nonsense ("Looking for God at Berkeley," June 20). If we can't understand how some feature of...
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Conan Neutron (né Newton), the 23-year-old lead singer and guitarist for East Bay trio Replicator, is trying to persuade me that his group wasn't named after the...
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By its narrowest definition Independence Day celebrates our decolonization from the British Empire, but in a broader, happier sense the Fourth of July is nothing less than one...
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Kiss of the Dragon -- the latest vehicle for martial arts star Jet Li, a mainland talent who became a superstar in Hong Kong and has since succumbed to the blandishments of...
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San Francisco these days is a city of sounds -- from the reassuring thud of dot-commer skulls hitting the pavement to the happy squeal of SUV brakes as they introduce yet...
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Originally, this was to be a story about how Stan Lee, the industry icon who ran Marvel Comics for decades and co-created Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, wound up remaking...
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Perched atop the peak it's named after, the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House is one of San Francisco's least-known architectural treasures. Designed by Hearst Castle architect...
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Felix the Dog has been playing records in San Francisco for over a decade. If you ask him what similarity there is between mixing house and soul tracks in the late '80s and...
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No man is born with a qualifier in front of his name -- he must achieve it or have the qualifier thrust upon him. I like qualifiers, since they add a bit of color to our daily...
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On the Town The Little Tramp fingers the brim of his bowler, coyly cocks his head, and mouths a question. "So you can see?" the intertitle reads. Cut to the flower girl -- but...
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Many of us weaned on pop culture gained an appreciation for classical music not by taking piano lessons from the biddy down the block, but rather by watching Looney Tunes and...
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Vladimir Nabokov ends his novel Bend Sinister with a pun, "mothing," that flustered at least one copy editor. His introduction to a late edition of the book insists the word...
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Even in this build-power-at-all-costs political environment, it's not impossible for traditionally powerless, already polluted communities like southeast San Francisco to stop...
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It seems hard to believe that Unwound turns 10 years old this year. Rooted in the Olympia, Wash., punk scene of the early '90s, the trio has remained remarkably vital -- and...
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Dear Social Grace,
The man I love has some facial piercings, which I think look great on him, but I think he should remove them when we go somewhere that is a "dress-up" place...
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Strangefruit Theater Ensemble's adaptation of a surrealistic novel, The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, features two old ladies named Marion and Carmella who share an...
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It's hard to predict what bearing any or all of the three public power proposals on November's ballot might have on the Potrero plant. The proposals would in various ways...
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Hailing from the sideshow circus scene in Manhattan, where she dabbled in cabaret-style skits and folk-singer ventures in the '90s, vocalist/guitarist Dawn McCarthy moved to...
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The thing about a San Francisco Fourth of July -- or July in general -- is that it's often too chilly to feel like summer. One alternative: Mission Street's Club Malibu, which...
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Unless your idea of a great summer vacation is a trip to the Jerry Springer Show to yell "Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!," you may want to skip Christopher Durang's 1999 farce about...
