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"Mmmmmm!"
We all say this at once. It's 11:30 in the morning, sunlight trickles through the trees and spills onto the Napa River, and what we're all trying to say is that the...
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West Coast breaks are back, but things aren't necessarily any easier for Gavin Hardkiss. Sitting in a coffee shop in his former Lower Haight stomping grounds (he recently...
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The neon sign over the entrance reads "Welcome Home," but Home isn't like any home I've ever been in. Its mood leans more toward the hipster lounge than, say, the Cleaver...
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It is possible to admire Frailty, directed by Texas-born actor Bill Paxton, without actually liking it. It's not, strictly speaking, a gratifying movie: Too dependent upon...
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In his debut novel, Notable American Women, literary hipster Ben Marcus relies on clever language and postmodern artifice to philosophize on the kind of thorny topics that make...
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There's an obscure portrait in France called The Black Nun of Moret, from (very roughly) 1700, showing a bland African face in the penguinish folds of a nun's habit. Her name...
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It's April 2002, and the city budget is suffering the aftereffects of a half-decade of financial fakery that might be called the Internet-Enron flimflam boom. The airport is...
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The record industry is not known for its charity work. Major labels have built their fortunes by screwing artists out of royalties, overcharging listeners for CDs, and suing...
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Dear Social Grace,
Recently, two friends, independently of one another, told me that I make a lot of noise when I chew. One of them even said that if I couldn't learn to eat...
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Pull My Daisy The red and green tiki lights signaling the entrance to the venerable Bannam Place Theater on Telegraph Hill are disconcertingly cheerful this Wednesday evening,...
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Performer, filmmaker, and visual artist Michelle Handelman may be remembered locally for BloodSisters, an award-winning documentary about the local lesbian S/M subculture that...
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It's about time somebody wrote a satire of politics in San Francisco. Wandering ballot boxes, shifty voting registrars, and the general toxic presence of a political consultant...
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Four men in bunny ears and cottontails stand on Mission Street smoking cigarettes and passing a small bottle of Jack Daniel's from paw to paw. I stare a bit longer than is...
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In 1977, a 24-year-old Gary Wilson self-released You Think You Really Know Me, his only full-length. Recorded in his parents' Endicott, N.Y., basement, this singular collection...
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Standing near Market Street's 711 Club at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday, you can detect arriving customers at a distance of 50 feet. They come in many shades, but all have a...
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Leslie Ayvazian's play about an Armenian family living in America and searching for its roots begins with a scene many of us are familiar with: A nuclear family is visiting...
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A Contest Contested
But she was voted Miss Understanding: As the promoter of "Bondage A Go-Go," April Fools' Day came two days late for me. Imagine my surprise when I woke up...
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Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites spent the last year and a half interviewing convicted murderers, neo-Nazis, and arsonists for a documentary called Until the Light Takes Us. The...
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In the South of France, a secret war is being waged against the facile electronic runway music of "French touch" acts like Daft Punk and Cassius. The movement's primary...
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Hoping to follow the White Stripes' path from Midwestern house parties to MTV2, the Soledad Brothers hearken back to the roots of rock, setting off blues explosions ecstatic...
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