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Jaron Nunnemaker looks ready to die for his country. He's dressed entirely in black -- black cowboy hat, shirt, vest, jeans, and chaps. The only other colors he wears are a...
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If you visit Cologne, Germany, and venture forth a few blocks from a square called Barbarossaplatz, tucked along a residential side street -- just past the pastry shop with a...
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My favorite thing to do in the entire world is travel. And one of my favorite things to do during trips is (big surprise) sample the local cuisine. I put in my time doing...
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In 1991, two Florida police officers were married in a loving ceremony captured on video. Their names were Mickie Mashburn and Lois Marrero, and though they were both women,...
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One of the best Elvis Presley impersonators in the world isn't very faithful to the King of Rock 'n' Roll. He doesn't re-create specific shows, he doesn't sing in English all...
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Let's face it: Poetry readings can be deadly. Sometimes they're full of energy and spirit and riveting language, but more often than not, they're full of angst-ridden mumblers...
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Mufasa's ghost: Simba, you have forgotten me.
Simba: No. How could I?
Mufasa's ghost: You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba....
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For those creative types facing indifferent audiences in half-filled dives while trying to make it big with their bands, day jobs are a necessary evil. The members of the...
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Dear Social Grace,
When my friends get back from Burning Man, bursting with stories and photos and souvenirs and declarations about Life, how do I let them know in the nicest...
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Revolutionary idolatry is an odd business. Just ask unruly pop singer Stew, of the unruly pop group the Negro Problem. On his Naked Dutch Painter album, the melodic rebel dares...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004
We went to the last "Punk Sound Night," very excited to see raw footage of Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna's old band, Bikini Kill. The early...
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Edited by Michele Anna Jordan
Gibbs Smith (2004), $12.95
Veg-Out, penned by former San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Michele Anna Jordan, immediately won my heart...
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"Ever wonder what your pets feel and what they have to say?" questions an ad featuring a smiley woman hugging her dog. "They are angels beside us in physical form. With...
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The most amazing thing about this British quartet's second album is that it got made at all, considering how co-singer/guitarist Pete Doherty has spent the last two years...
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It was only a matter of time before Hollywood capitalized on the sympathy and admiration that have enveloped the nation's firefighters since 9/11, and here we are. Jay...
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When a gaggle of British schoolboys flies to a distant location to avoid a war breaking out at home, the plane unexpectedly goes down and the boys wind up on a deserted island...
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By Jenni Olson
Chronicle Books (2004), $19.95
Much has been written about the role of queers in cinema -- with Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the...
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Beach Blanket Babylon Auditions: The Sequel
There it was, right in the newspaper: open-call auditions for Beach Blanket Babylon, San Francisco's musical-theater equivalent of...
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By limiting the instrumentation of her fifth proper studio release almost exclusively to vocal samples, Björk holds to the path that has made her an icon of eccentricity....
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Shark Tale is an animated film, though after you see it you might wonder whether the term is intended as oxymoronic. Put simply, it has no life in it at all. Not even the kids...
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