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Beginning shortly after Christmas 2001 and running into the new year, Andrew Schoultz changed a long, drearily gray wall in Hayes Valley into a delightful, off-kilter...
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My friend and I, at 37 and 26, respectively, are easily among the oldest mall punks at the Warped Tour this year. In fact, our very appearance amid the vast, Von...
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When choosing a restaurant to please a mixed group of both carnivores and shunners of red meat, one's first choice would not usually be a steakhouse. But when faced with such...
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Rare is the film that caters to fans of rabbits, motorcycles, Gordon Lightfoot, and fellatio, but now, thanks entirely to Vincent Gallo, we've got that demographic nailed....
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The first zine I ever saw was Pippilotta in the jampot come quick ville villecula! It called for revolution, railed against racism, and took inspiration from Pippi...
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Andy Murray is an all-American-looking actor with a mischievous smile and a normally bald-shaved head. He's boisterous and rude. He's not effete. His defining role might be...
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When I met Barry Mallek last week, he was already a couple of hours into a day of defending America from terrorist threat. Still, he seemed to be bored. When he saw me...
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Bebel Gilberto bursts through the door of her suite at the Trump International Sonesta Beach Resort on Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. For a moment, her petite frame commands a...
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Dear Social Grace,
For the past few months, I have been working in a small office in San Francisco. The nature of our business is very "artistic," and so, not surprisingly,...
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It's impossible not to notice that the title of Yes Nurse! No Nurse! -- the first musical film to emerge from the Netherlands -- sounds a lot like porn. "Yes, Nurse, I'll do...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2004
If you're not crazy about corporations shitcanning workers' benefits, raping the environment, influencing elected officials, and getting vast tax...
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Here's how straight I am: Until Marga Gomez opened her latest show, I never knew there was a hierarchy of Gay Pride events. Gomez tells us about her career slide as a Pride...
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Image Consciousness
Readers of this month's Harper's Bazaar will find, tucked into the perfume ads, the embarrassing photo spread that's being tittered over in all the finer...
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Let me know if you've heard this one before: Three hipsters walk into a bar in Williamsburg, bond over a fondness for post-punk and Prince (the obligatory post-punk deviation...
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In Victorian England, 40,000 novels were published every year. Of the few that have endured, perhaps none is more worthy of a film adaptation than Vanity Fair, if for no other...
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San Francisco has long been a place where both visitors and locals feel free to push sexual boundaries. From the miners who found female companionship in the scores of Barbary...
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Is the world ready for a play about a flamingly queer 11-year-old raised by two gay men? It should be, since Breakfast With Scot was a novel by Michael Downing before he...
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The New In and Out
Retrieve mind from gutter; we're talking art here: Adrienne Gagnon's piece ["Outsiders In," Art, Aug. 18] was thought-provoking. Gagnon brings up the...
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Remember when independent labels used to put out solid punk rock collections of tunes by Bay Area bands? Probably not, since classics such as Not So Quiet on the Western Front...
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Part soap opera, part history lesson, part vital, and a little tedious, veteran director Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse illustrates an important standoff in World War II...
