-
On an ordinary day in 1972, an Asian boy butted in front of a black girl in the cafeteria line at Oakland Technical High School. Pissed, the girl followed him to his table and...
-
In the summer of 1986, as they had for many years before that, my parents sent me off to camp in the hills above Santa Cruz. Care packages filled with sugar were strictly...
-
In April my fancy lightly turns to thoughts of poetry. This is partly because all around me the Earth is bursting into bloom, brilliant orange poppies nodding in the yard,...
-
Abel Raises Cain
(U.S., 2004)
In her diverting debut documentary, Jenny Abel (with Jeff Hockett) sets out to rescue her father's reputation and, beyond that, justify his...
-
William Laven's photos could be misconstrued as propaganda. This misreading can happen with the work of plenty of visual artists, but in the case of "William Laven: War...
-
Confinement is one of the most common themes for artistic exploration -- and one of the darkest. Over the centuries, artists have demonstrated an unmitigated horror of...
-
Ordinarily, to keep my cynicism levels in check, I write about politics the minimum amount that allows me to hold onto my job commenting on our city's public life. This week...
-
Still frustrated from the last election? Feeling that the left consists of a bunch of ineffectual weaklings who don't have the heart, much less the balls, to take back this...
-
Dear Social Grace,
A friend and I recently had dinner at a small restaurant in our neighborhood. The waiter was a little grumpy and he got one of our soups wrong, but he was...
-
This year's selection of works from the neglected filmmaking countries of Malaysia and Indonesia reveals countless tsunamis, not all literal, that have swept the shores of...
-
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Bee Lavender's first mark on the literary scene was her writing in Hip Mama, a hipster parenting zine that proved to gals like us that we could be...
-
Britney's doing it, so it must be cool. Getting pregnant -- possibly the most public of private things you can do -- is apparently a story of national proportions. A recent...
-
A good argument in support of vegetarians, vegans, and animal rights protest groups is: How come it's OK to kill and eat an animal, but it's not OK to, well, fuck an animal?...
-
You can tell by the off-kilter intro beats to the kickoff track, "Blast Your Radio," that indie hip hop collective Living Legends is on to a fresh sound. Then the virtuosic...
-
Americano Restaurant: Hotel Vitale, 8 Mission (at the Embarcadero), 278-3700, www.americanorestaurant.com. South of Market. Modern Italian.
BS Restaurant: 4072 18th St....
-
"We have become homeless because of the war and politics," says an old woman stranded near the Iran-Iraq border, fleeing the 2003 American invasion, in Ali-Reza Amini's The...
-
Weimar Germany was probably not the best time or place to be a boy who wanted to be a girl. But that was the unlucky fate of the real-life transvestite on whom Doug Wright's...
-
If you could set foot inside one of Tracey Snelling's miniature sculptures, it would be something like walking into Paris Las Vegas. The Paris-themed casino is not so much a...
-
Pulitzer Surprise
Great. A flack likes our story: As a press agent who has done numerous pro bono campaigns for worthy causes, I thoroughly enjoyed your story ["The 2005...
-
The hazy, out-of-focus portraits gracing the cover packaging of the fourth studio CD from Angels of Light -- current project of former Swans frontman Michael Gira --...
