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In the dim light of the hallway, Gilbert Melendez's tiny 4-ounce gloves flick through the darkness and the tension. Jab, jab, hook. Double jab. Shoot in for the takedown. A...
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If you think you've experienced a disorienting weekend or two, you should have been in Leslie Feist's shoes several years ago. Then living in Toronto, the Nova Scotia-born,...
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Calvin Trillin has a ready answer when questioned about why he and his family chose to live in New York: "We're big eaters." I had a standard response to the same query during...
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Not many people saw Lost and Delirious, the 2001 boarding-school drama about two girls in obsessive love, and that was probably for the best. Yes, Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly)...
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It was the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus who, in a fit of decidedly unscientific brilliance, gave chocolate its taxonomic description, theobroma, which translates to "food...
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During her seven-year tenure as Kathryn Janeway, captain of the starship U.S.S. Voyager on Star Trek: Voyager, actor Kate Mulgrew was spirited and tough. She had to be:...
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Fresh off a humiliating 2-14 season, the 49ers found themselves grappling with an off-the-field disaster last week, after the San Francisco Chronicle received an anonymous...
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Sounds Released: Folk field recordings and pop music from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
In the late 1800s, this esoteric philosopher and mystic G.I. Gurdjieff scoured...
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Seems like every other day I find myself contemplating the question of why I'm still here (in San Francisco, I mean, not on the planet, although there are times ...). Why, I...
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DC Comics has kept its superheroes locked in a fortress of solitude for almost a decade, forcing the likes of Superman and Batman to warm the bench while longtime rival Marvel...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
It's time to bust this thing wide open: Shannon Ferguson is from Petaluma. Sure, he's the guitar player for "NYC's" glamorous Longwave, an exploding...
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Joanna Murray-Smith's play Honour explores the nature of marital infidelity. When a middle-aged newspaper pundit, Gus (John Doman), trades in a 32-year relationship with his...
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It's Sunday evening -- day three of Mindstates VI: Technology and Transcendence. I'm exhausted; my wallet is totally tapped, and I'm curled up like a little, shoeless monkey...
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Dear Unknown Band From Middle-of-Nowhere Missouri,
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Firstly, your name, which tickles me in ways I don't fully understand....
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Arc Café: 1890 Bryant (at Mariposa), 437-2233, www.arccafesf.com. Potrero Hill. Gourmet cafe food, coffees, beer, and wine.
Asqew Grill: 3563 16th St. (at Market),...
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What Winged Migration was to birds, Deep Blue is to the ocean -- a breathtaking nature documentary cheapened slightly by melodramatic voice-over. In an opening that swells...
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Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco's oldest alternative art space, is turning 40 this year. Its name is now synonymous with the Mission District, and as hipsters flow...
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In the middle of Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov recites a "poem in prose" of his own composition titled "The Grand Inquisitor." It is this strange...
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Roller Derby's Dark Past
The pink belly of terror: I remember Amy Jo Stewart (aka Stitches Stew) from junior high ["B.A.D. Girls," June 1]. She used to trip me and then sit...
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If Dr. Phil made an album, it might sound something like Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus. Cloud Cult rocks like a motivational speaker on a self-help book tour:...
