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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...
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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...
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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...
