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Illustration by Mario Zucca.
At the dawn of the last century, holy war broke out in San Francisco. Its declaration was announced on the front page of the Nov. 25, 1900,...
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Several vans sit parked outside 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley — a common sight on any weekend night at this legendary all-ages punk venue. But among the beat-up and...
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The modern restaurant didn't just spring into being, fully formed — even something so basic as bringing individual plates to the table in courses, known in the industry...
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Calling back many of the same characters and more than a few of the same jokes, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy's fourth film as writer-director, is a sequel to her 2007 2...
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BATS is the Bay Area theater scene’s long-standing reminder not to plan out everything so seriously. A little bit of spontaneity always leads to unexpected directions,...
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All the world might be a stage, but it's the temporary proscenium on the fourth floor of SFMOMA that you want to watch right now. On the occasion of its current "Stage...
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Dean Delray is a tatted-up, Guns N' Roses tee-wearing, crass stand-up comic. There's a lot of that around the stand-up scene -- the over-the-top Real Guy with a plethora of...
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It’s been half a decade since Two Gallants released their most recent album, What the Toll Tells, but the duo’s drummer Tyson Vogel hasn’t spent the hiatus...
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In June, a 700-year old “vampire” skeleton was found entombed in a Bulgarian church near the Black Sea. It had been stabbed through the chest with an iron rod and...
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The arts sector is one of our city's major life forces -- not only do the arts feed the city's soul, but also its pockets -- four times as many jobs and three times as much...
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As you count down the dwindling days on your summer fling, it’s perfectly natural to feel a melancholy twinge. The Italians have a word for it: Ciao. (As in, “It...
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We've all heard the common adage "Honesty is the best policy," but when it comes to actually living it, we tend to fall short of this ideal. We fudge resumes, we weasel our...
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Clothes Minded
Don’t get us wrong, we love us some drag queens, but it’s drag kings we’ve always been obsessed with — the swagger, the bravado, the...
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As comics grow in popularity, so grows the medium’s diversity. Yet comics have always been open to every background. There have been Jewish, Latino, Asian, and...
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There are a couple ways to “Disney” if you belong to the non-infantile set: You can stand in line in the sweltering heat with said infants to ride a flying...
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The rent is too damn high. Anyone trying to find a place to live in S.F. right now can attest to this, and local businesses are not immune to the pain of price hikes either....
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The Dance Films Association has been around since the mid-’50s, but most of us didn’t even know a “dance film” genre existed until Wim Wenders won an...
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The buzz over the Tupac hologram may have abated, but the reign of the holograms hasn’t, especially at the annual two-day explosion of Japanese pop culture known as the...
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In Precious Little, which premieres tonight at Shotgun Players, veteran actress Nancy Carlin plays three characters, two of them called “The Baby” and “The...
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"Who is Lee Miller?" The words echoed from the mouth of a twentysomething clerk in a Mission District bookstore. I'd just asked if his store had Lee Miller: A Life, Carolyn...
