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In the film As Good As It Gets, Jack Nicholson plays a bitter, aging hack writer. His chosen genre is romance novels. Writing 62 of them has made him a very rich man, but,...
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M. Ward is tinkering with his acoustic guitar onstage at the Great American Music Hall. The small crowd -- which, like Ward, is seated -- looks up at him with an air of quiet...
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Nothing could be more annoying than having a meal begin with a white man saying, "Konbanwa" (Japanese for "good evening"). OK, maybe a few things could be more annoying --...
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When last we spotted indie icons Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau on screen together, they were knocking back fruit-flavored martinis and chasing L.A. skirt in the inventive Gen-X...
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If there truly is a just God, the great gift of digital video will turn out to be his subversive potential. With only the mildest of financial barriers, the radical, the...
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"Ever since I learned of female circumcision," writes Torange Yeghiazarian in her program notes to Deep Cut, "sex has become a religious experience for me. It's as if with...
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Amazon.com -- Evildoers, according to some romance authors. Amazon promotes the sale of used copies on the site, which deprives authors of royalties. Because Harlequin ships...
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Right in the middle of our telephone interview, just as she's recounting how and with whom she recorded her first song, Mystic is interrupted by something on the television....
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I drank my first martini courtesy of John the Jehovah's Witness, serving behind the bar at Da Angelo in Mill Valley. I had ordered a kamikaze and John had misunderstood me. I...
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Actor "Beat" Takeshi Kitano has built an international reputation over the past decade, primarily through a series of ultra-hard-boiled crime films in which he plays either a...
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Margaret Mitchell's 1936 epic Gone With the Wind is not your standard quiet piece of fiction. With over 25 million copies sold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is one of the...
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The Train Station Theater Lab's debut production is a remarkably imaginative and intelligent telling of the lives of two families broken by the Great Depression. The Tillers...
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Sipping a drink at "Bardot A Go Go" the other night (and how many other columnists have been able to write those words?), I was struck by the tongue-in-cheek energy of it all....
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A recent Entertainment Weekly article on Detroit's garage rock revival hinted that the Motor City might be the ever elusive "next Seattle." If it does get slobbered on by the...
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Empty Plates With the dining scene cooling off, the survival tactics are heating up, and as a result many restaurants have redesigned their menus in the hopes of keeping...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors Nick Katsapetses (Get Over It, The Joys of Smoking) isn't one of those Wunderkind filmmakers who got a camera as soon as he was old enough to cry. "My...
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You know you've been a critic too long when you've seen Lonely Planet twice. Steven Dietz's play about two gay men and a map store had a maudlin production at the New...
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Torture (tor-chur) n. 1. the infliction of severe pain as a punishment or means of coercion. -- Oxford American Dictionary
Torture (tor-chur) n. 1. a form of sensual bliss...
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Listening to an album for the first time can be like "hanging out" with someone new. You don't know whether an evening will end in a kiss or whether it's just a trip to the...
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Dear Social Grace,
I need to know whether it is polite to use the word "picnic." I was recently told that this term has a racist origin; however, some research at my local...
