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Rene Pascual stands expectantly against the wall of a darkened hotel banquet hall, sipping a glass of whiskey in nervous anticipation. The lengthy four-hour program of the...
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While Kristin Erickson and Bevin Kelley may live in Oakland, the pair's musical personas exist far from the reaches of the BART tracks. For the past four years, Erickson (Kevin...
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My earliest memories of classic French cuisine go back to when I was about 6. My father, quite the gourmet, used to spend hours in the kitchen making coq au vin, fish in white...
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On film, group sex tends to be the stuff of Russ Meyer flicks: A straight-laced fella runs into a harem of pneumatic women, the hot-tub jets fire up, some bad psychedelic music...
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Swedish-born turnip Ann-Margret's pouty mouth, strawberry-blond mane, and kick-ass cleavage may have put her in line with the Marilyn Monroe types of her heyday -- as did that...
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Racial humor is thriving in Berkeley, and Culture Clash has committed the unpardonable sin of making it funny. "The way you tell a Latino apart from another Latino is by the...
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It is an understatement, even a cliché, to suggest that journalism is a profession prone to self-congratulation. Indeed, journalists give themselves awards arranged...
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Emma Goldman never actually uttered the line, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." The now-famous abridgment of Goldman's sentiment was actually...
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Going for Gold Jianna chef Marc Valiani proved his Olympian cooking capabilities when an old friend, responsible for the catering at Utah's Olympic Village, asked our boy to...
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Grand Illusion In early October, local filmmakers Jay Rosenblatt and Caveh Zahedi put out a call to 100 peers for short pieces inspired by the events of Sept. 11 (Reel World,...
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Though some people are more comfortable pretending that racial tensions don't exist, outspoken African-American playwright August Wilson refuses to let us forget it. The...
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Adam Bock's funny new play is broken into five parts, or "flights," like a Russian ballet -- Narrative, Vision, Mad Scene, Conclusion, and A Little Dance -- but most of the...
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Gloretha Caldwell, 63, an employee of the California State Disability Insurance Office who lives not far from the Mervyn's on Geary Boulevard, doesn't get out much these days....
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As an artist, Phoenix Perry somehow savors the damage inflicted on the human body even while she suffers from a repetitive-strain injury severe enough to prohibit her from...
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In Ionesco's absurdist classic, giant rhinoceroses invade a small French town, disrupting the petty philosophizing of a coffee klatch at a local cafe. Dismayed at first by the...
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When Peter Kirby, the independent filmmaker, sat down at a Tenderloin coffee shop recently to talk about his oeuvre, we expected him to cop an attitude about mainstream movies....
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Philadelphia's Cash Money hails from an earlier age of turntablists, when spontaneity, versatility, and showmanship were as crucial as raw dexterity. Incorporating his...
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"Pray for us." So ends a note Judd Apatow sent out last week to television critics who have been supportive of his series Undeclared, among the few half-hour comedies to debut...
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John Farrell so fervently believes he has a chance of winning the election for city assessor on March 5 that he has put $50,000 of his own money into the campaign. Assistant...
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Runways in the bay: Matt Smith got it right: "[Filling] in a mile of the bay to protect regional economic growth would involve a careful evaluation of benefits and costs; this...
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