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On a raw, wind-whipped night in early December, the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition hosts a teach-in titled "Whither the anti-war movement?" The question, loaded with an...
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Sometimes the difference between noise and music is all in your head.
The above quote is not from a John Cage manifesto; rather, it's from a Tylenol commercial in which a...
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It seems to me that every human being I know lives in, on, or around the Duboce Triangle, the pivotal San Francisco neighborhood of the new millennium. In fact, the Triangle...
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Ray Lawrence's Lantana is high-toned Australian soap opera, which is to say that its philandering police detective and its grief-stricken psychoanalyst are a bit quirkier than...
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Taxidermy is an imperfect art, but its purpose is to render permanently lifelike that which is lifeless. Its practitioners spend weeks skinning, drying, and stuffing hunting...
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It should be so easy to hate this man sitting on a couch in a high-priced hotel suite, this man sharing his bottle of Evian. He is, after all, a demon dressed head to toe (or...
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Jutting from the northern wall of the S.F. Maritime Museum's bottom floor are mementos of a more civilized era: bright chrome shower heads lined up at attention, as if waiting...
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In the annals of rock 'n' roll, the tour bus has achieved near mythic status. As a locus of sex, drugs, and unrestrained debauchery, the bus ranks second only to the hotel room...
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I Like Trouble The latest project to pop up on Philip Kaufman's North Beach radar screen is a thriller starring Julia Roberts as an investigative reporter tracking a killer...
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Scoff if you must, but it's not easy being a Scorpio. Living under one of the most misrepresented astrological signs, my Scorpion brethren and I live with the burden of having...
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What is it with playwrights and scientists? The last three months have seen at least four plays in San Francisco spin metaphors from scientific theory: Dominant-Looking Males,...
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When I was a young girl I lived for a time in Oregon on top of a mountain in a large, drafty log cabin without electricity, indoor toilets, or running water. Our means of...
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Watching the local music scene for the past few years has been like working the desk at a dilapidated hotel: You see a lot of people check out and not many check in. Sometimes...
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Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard adult admission; discounts often apply for students,...
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Whatever happened to theater for the masses? For the last few years, local director Val Hendrickson has been grappling with that question, exploring new forms of theatrical...
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Navy brass showed up at City Hall last week to renew talks about transferring property at the former Hunters Point Shipyard to the city -- a sign that the Navy may be feeling...
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Besides being Hawaii's last head of state before the U.S. annexation of 1893, Queen Lili'uokalani remains one of the islands' most beloved composers. On To Honor a Queen: The...
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In the grim arts climate of the last three decades, the politically committed and the lifelong rebels have best withstood the onslaught of tough times. For artists on the...
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There have been many attempts through the years to explain to the outside world what it's like to attend an Oakland Raiders game at the Network Associates Coliseum.
Some of the...
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Princess Superstar is the queen bee of hip hop comedy, a rhyme-wielding satirist with a cartoonishly inflated ego and libido. While Superstar -- nee Concetta Kirshner -- may...
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