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David Mark leans against a parked Honda Civic on the corner of Hyde and Ellis in the Tenderloin. It's a hot June afternoon, and his friends, Cambodian-American teens like...
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If the gospel backup singers on Jason Morphew's "The Living End" sound familiar, they should. Anna Pagen and Nancy Buchée sang on the Jeffersons theme song; they also...
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After a century and a half of culinary colonialism, San Francisco's Italian restaurants have evolved in so many different directions that there are options for every mood and...
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Times certainly have changed. Twenty years ago, a musical about an East German transsexual rock singer would have premiered in one of New York's off-off-Broadway theaters or...
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Dr. Aaron Wolf Baum stands naked in front of a screen on which fragmented colors morph and melt together. He moves his hands, covered in "motion capture gloves" that resemble...
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Shakespeare festivals don't always do Shakespeare; maybe they never have. Folded in with summer Tempests and post-structuralist Othellos you find an odd Molière or a...
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Quote of the day:
Having the Chevron headquarters in the pristine waters of the San Francisco Bay, we understand the Turkish people better than anybody.
-- Ismail Kafescioglu,...
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Over the decades, there's been a virtual carnival of punks happy to give staid rock 'n' roll a swift, steel-toed kick in the side. The more methodical rock becomes, the more...
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Shanghai Noodles is located on a quiet stretch of Balboa in a tiny storefront space that, given the bright lights and spare décor, could just as easily house a dry...
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With its funding officially cut from the 2001-02 city budget, the nonprofit International Film Financing Conference (IFFCON) has been forced to cancel its January 2002 shindig....
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Light, like running water and electricity, is easy to take for granted. But to legendary photographer Ruth Bernhard, it's vital. "Light is the real teacher," she declares in...
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"It's kind of like the Go-Go's, but with an edge," says one of the members of Betty, a girl band known to people who watch HBO. She's talking, accurately, about her band, but...
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It is a warm, sparkling Thursday morning at United Nations Plaza, where a small group of volunteers from the Care Through Touch Institute has come to give aid and comfort to...
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Glasgow's Teenage Fanclub is a textbook case of a band that fell victim to its own early brilliance, as well as the mercilessness of circumstance and fashion. In the early '90s...
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Dear Social Grace,
I have two questions of a bathroom nature for you. First, what do you do if you clog the toilet at someone else's house? Second, how do you handle it if you...
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The Jewish Film Festival has always been uncommonly enthusiastic about younger filmmakers, recognizing that even their occasionally fumbling explorations of contemporary Jewish...
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William Shakespeare made sure his plays had enough intellectual meat for his learned audience members and enough fart gags for the groundlings. Director Val Hendrickson's...
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The San Francisco Chronicle has arrived, apparently, in the circle of world-class newspapers. Just ask the folks running it.
This past Friday, for instance, crotchety yet vague...
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When bebop revolutionaries challenged the jazz status quo in the '40s, their melodic and harmonic ideas were considered musical anarchy. Despite being denounced by many...
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West Portal is a bit fancier than it used to be, but the bars have maintained a certain uniformity: They're all small, draw local crowds, and are hospitable places where people...
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