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During the 12 years that Dr. Thomas Meyer had worked in the Kaiser Permanente emergency room in San Rafael, not a single child in his care had died. Much of his work involved...
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"There's a section right after the beginning part where a Casio's playing quite fast and then a piano and a drum kit come in and they play this very hectic, cartoony-sounding...
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Earlier this year I had a fabulous and uniquely interesting meal: an Indian tasting menu, idiosyncratic and chef-driven, in a small restaurant off the beaten track in a not...
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Throughout p.s. , a thoughtful, self-possessed film from director Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger), there is a sense of the disaster it could have been. A 39-year-old woman, divorced...
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Just a guess: You've been feeling cynical lately. Everything seems crappy, or fake, or stupid. The whole election situation makes you want to scream, but you don't, because...
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"In 1971, fed up with the politics and culture of America," reads the jacket copy to Terry Tarnoff's new novel, The Bone Man of Benares, "Terry Tarnoff packed a bag, a guitar...
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When I first ran across the proposal by Supervisors Tom Ammiano and Chris Daly to fund a $300,000 study on whether the city should go into the business of providing Internet,...
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Whether it inspires you or just leaves you pummeled, Funeral is a staggering debut. Over the course of just one album, the Arcade Fire bursts out of the rigid beats and...
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Dear Social Grace,
I'm in a bit of a bind just now. My best friend and her boyfriend have recently become engaged, and I've been asked to be the maid of honor. I was honored...
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Whatever else can be said about Tarnation -- and there is plenty to say -- there is no denying this: It is a very brave movie. Rarely is the subject of a documentary willing...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Stephen Elliott on John Kerry: "He looks like a President. He's tall and stately. I think he's wearing a wig; in fact, I'd bet a dollar on it."...
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Mary Zimmerman's alluring surprise Broadway hit Metamorphoses was a collage of Greek myths according to Ovid. Her new show at the Berkeley Rep, The Secret in the Wings, is an...
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"Republicans! Republicans!" I chant with my arms in the air, entering the GOP state convention at the Hyatt hotel by the airport. The concourse is a conservative's wet dream,...
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American Music Club frontman Mark Eitzel is not a happy fellow these days, not that anyone's ever thought of his work as "party music." The S.F. band's first album since...
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The first thing you notice about Howard Zinn, the wildly popular populist historian and activist, is that he's beautiful. The deep creases in his face radiate from his...
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For many people, the melancholy wail of a saxophone or the brassy bop of a swing band evokes images of dimly lit jazz clubs in Chicago, humid juke joints in New Orleans, or...
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The high point of "Single Spies," a pair of plays by Alan Bennett receiving an American premiere at the Rhino, is a chance meeting, in A Question of Attribution, between Sir...
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What will we do if George W. Bush is re-elected in three weeks? Dog Bites doesn't know, but surely Google must. We searched for the phrase "If Bush wins, I'm ...." From the...
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Well, the obvious question is: How relevant is the traditionally youthful pine of a gooey power-pop love song when it's sung by a fortysomething? Normally, not so much, which...
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Before he made Primer for some $7,000, Dallas software engineer-turned-writer/director/actor/editor Shane Carruth had no idea how to make a movie. Some who see his creation...
