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Chris White scares people.
More specifically, Chris White scares darts players. Darts and fear don't seem as though they ought to go together; darts, after all, is a laid-back...
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It's midnight on a brisk February night, and a large, boisterous group of folks has gathered in the studio of Berkeley radio station KPFA-FM (94.1). Local DJ luminaries Marz,...
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Hanging in my apartment is a detail drawing of San Francisco in 1915, nine years after the great earthquake. The perspective is from a biplane or a hot-air balloon hovering...
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After a long absence from American screens, British stage director Richard Eyre, best known for his agreeably nasty The Ploughman's Lunch in 1982, makes his return with an...
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Feminist theater company Brava! for Women in the Arts couldn't have chosen a more convincing presence to consecrate "A Special Evening for Peace in Afghanistan" than Coleman...
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The first time we see her, Lynn Redgrave's character is a devastatingly confused, imperious old Englishwoman who used to be a famous actress. Now her career is over, her...
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Actor/producer/writer J. Stephen "Rock" Peace's 1978 film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! set such a high standard of campiness that for two decades nothing topped it -- not...
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Thanks in part to Montreal's annual electronic music festival, MUTEK, the city is quickly becoming known as one of North America's premier centers for experimental techno....
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Dear Social Grace,
Interesting to read your piece regarding saving a parking spot ["Parking Violations," Jan. 30]. Some time ago, I was standing in the street while my friend,...
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Tongues Untied "Ralph Ellison never allowed Invisible Man to be made into a movie, a play, or an opera, although he got appealing offers from Sidney Lumet and Quincy Jones,"...
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I must admit that I'm not much of a romantic. In my junior year of college, while most of my colleagues were getting drunk and getting laid, I was writing my final paper --...
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This nearly indestructible "penny dreadful" by Charles Ludlam, about a Victorian household cursed by werewolves, Egyptian magic, and the memory of a dead lady named Irma, has...
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Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant dangers. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success....
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Josh Rouse has a way with words. It's not so much what the Nashville singer/songwriter says as how he says it -- a reluctant enunciation that unfurls like a slowly blooming...
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Pittsburgh's Pub may be the only bar in San Francisco with a banner touting the Alaskan Duck Fart (Kahlúa, Irish cream, and Canadian whiskey; one's plenty), but the...
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Sex is not original: It's been going on for years. And yet folks just can't seem to get enough of it. But while the subject may lack originality, the work of C.A.F.E. (Combined...
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It is a stunningly sunny afternoon in late January, and a Secret Service agent wearing all black waits impatiently as his bags are checked in at the American Airlines terminal....
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Drawing on shorts submitted to festivals all over the world, Pink Bubble Bath: The Sexy Film Festival selects movies that look at sex in a "new and interesting, non-exploitive...
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Local news junkies were hardly shocked by this week's departure of the San Francisco Chronicle's managing editor, Jerry Roberts. (He and his boss, Executive Editor Phil...
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For fans of wild rock 'n' roll you can watch in a G-string, an event like Sleazefest is heaven. Founded in 1993 by Rick Miller, the kitsch-loving frontman for North Carolina's...
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