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When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's deal with the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians to bring Las Vegas-style gambling to San Pablo came unraveled in August -- amid an outcry over...
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"The job of the artist is to suggest the incredible in order for the possible to happen," says Genesis P-Orridge, influential musician, countercultural icon, and -- soon,...
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For sentimental reasons, I knew just where I wanted to take my 11-year-old godson, Chester, for dinner a couple of months ago, when he was visiting the Bay Area from the East...
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Ray, director Taylor Hackford's 15-years-in-the-making biography of Ray Charles, begins as you might hope: with 1959's "What'd I Say (Part 1)" pulsing on the soundtrack, the...
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Sergio de la Mora is nothing if not a diplomat. Addressing the issue of gentrification in the Mission District, the curator and assistant professor of Chicano/a studies at UC...
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The quaint Gothic horror plays classified as Grand Guignol started as ripped-from-the-headlines realism: Paris' Théâtre du Grand Guignol specialized in true-crime...
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satire trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
irony the use of words to express something other than and esp. the opposite of the literal...
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"Nothing we do is meant to be a parody or campy joke." Or so says Cramps frontmanimal Lux Interior in the liner notes of the band's latest rarities CD, How to Make a Monster...
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Dear Social Grace,
At the last minute my fiance decided to back out of our wedding. And now I need to return some bridal gifts, but have no idea what to write in the cards ......
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Even before the movie begins, as the New Line logo is still coalescing on a dark screen, a man speaks the soundtrack. He's talking about reincarnation and about what he would...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
A lot of official public monuments are sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution: Those industrious ladies often decide what is...
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One of the first lessons we learn as kids when borrowing books from the library is don't fuck them up. Don't write in them, don't put stickers on them, and for God's sake,...
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Scowly-faced, bowl-cut Robert Haaland takes a keen drag on his cigarette as he lopes across Ashbury Street Thursday evening. As one of 22 hyperactive candidates competing to...
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März, the German duo of Ekkehard Ehlers and Albrecht Kunze, opened its first album with a short loop of Nick Drake's "From the Morning," nailing down its aesthetic --...
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The punk-hipster appeal of filmmaker Jim Van Bebber is based on half a dozen lurid, no-budget gorefests like My Sweet Satan, in which a suicidal teenager gets strung out on...
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The Cow Palace was never intended to host half-naked people cavorting in leather and rubber, or the Grateful Dead. It was created, literally, to house local livestock...
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By Adrienne Rich
W.W. Norton (2004), $22.95
Northern California poet Adrienne Rich always steers us straight into disasters -- from the forceful Diving Into the Wreck,...
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It's Halloween. Booooooo! Wooooo! Sorry to scare you, but it's for good reason. I came across an ad on Craigslist trumpeting the need for haunted-house workers in Marin and...
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David Byrne long ago traded in commercial viability and his arsenal of big suits for a Panamanian accountant's wardrobe of sensible whites, an enigmatic collection of solo...
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The travelogue is a little over 20 minutes long, and depicts a German community that looks idyllic. Theresienstadt, based on what we see, is a near-Utopian community for...
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