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Following retirement from 35 years of work in the mutual fund industry, George A. Miller went to the library "to have some structure in my life," he says. And there he stayed....
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It all seems so clear now. Ninety years ago, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated -- tripping off the guns of August and the start of World War I. Doesn't that shit just...
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"'When you wake in the morning, Pooh,' said Piglet at last, 'what's the first thing you say to yourself?' 'What's for breakfast?' said Pooh. 'What do you say, Piglet?' 'I say,...
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The very best thing about A Dirty Shame, a giddy sex farce from John Waters, is the credits. What's not to love about a list of characters that includes "Sylvia Stickles,"...
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History is littered with people famous for their freaky looks, among them the Elephant Man, plastic surgery disaster Jocelyne Wildenstein, and '80s cult star Klaus Nomi. During...
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When she finally arrived, fashionably late, to her own opening night, Dame Edna descended from the rafters on a great pink sparkling replica of her signature rhinestone...
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Last week, in the latest instance of fan-athlete violence, Texas Rangers relief pitcher Frank Francisco hurled a folding chair into the crowd at Networks Associates Coliseum,...
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These days, whenever he puts out a new album from either of the two bands he fronts -- the clamorous Cursive or the comparatively subdued, acoustic-based the Good Life -- Tim...
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When I lived in Milwaukee, I spent a lot of time (usually during the dinner hour) lamenting the fact that I wasn't in San Francisco anymore. Good Chinese food was about as...
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"Ash is feeling a little bit under the weather, so I'll be taking charge." So says Shaun (Simon Pegg) to his valiant crew of appliance salespeople, but if you don't get the...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004
There's a weird strain of hard-core musicians who get all rah-rah as soon as politics come up. We're thinking here of the Sierra Club/Beastie...
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"Living Cinema," as Canadian artist Pierre Hébert and San Francisco musician Bob Ostertag call themselves, means live, digital filmmaking: Hébert and Ostertag sit at...
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"Present yourself with confidence and authority in any business or social situation!" the Web site says, showing pictures of people in business clothes eating expensive...
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Har Mar Superstar is a paunchy, balding indie rocker from Minnesota who creates bawdy R&B and hip hop that critiques the stereotypes of those genres by -- oh God, never mind....
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From way over here in the West, it's kind of difficult to discern what the Siamese (since 1939, the Thai) people did to piss off their Burmese neighbors so royally, but over...
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Prior to its 2003 reopening, the Asian Art Museum discovered a funny thing about its collection: Some of the pieces were fake. A 900-year-old bowl from Iran, for instance, was...
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"100 Years of Political Theatre, Series A." Eastenders' fifth annual One-Act Festival has a political theme this year. The troupe offers a century's worth of dissident...
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Fringe Effort
Correction: Our critics don't get to eat: I appreciate Michael Scott Moore delivering a compelling review of this year's Fringe Festival by deadline ["Seeking...
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Bushies may think that the French are a bunch of girlie-men, but today's French musicians are proving that they can bench-press plenty. Just as Sofia Coppola's favorite...
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In this year of political movies, in which agendas serve as plots, comes the unlikeliest candidate of them all, The Forgotten, in which the climactic moment hinges upon the...
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