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Before 1887, the Inner Sunset was like San Francisco's massive sandbox, all fog, marsh, and sand-stretched miles. There were no trees, no electrical poles, and few buildings....
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Over early afternoon beers in the back of a Western Addition bar, Tim Cohen, frontman of S.F. rock band the Fresh & Onlys, explains his skewed approach to writing a love song....
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There's a forlorn air that hangs over an empty restaurant, and persists no matter how good the meal or how handsome the dining room. The pan-Latin food at Gilberth's...
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Weddings make such bitchin' film scenarios because the stakes are believably high: If anything goes wrong, social opprobrium, the loss of your beloved, or both can ensue,...
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It’s hard to imagine an experimental Danish documentary siphoning off too much Best Actor attention. But make no mistake: in The Ambassador, Mads Brugger -- who, as both...
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Lydia Panas lures families and friends to the fields of her 75-acre farm in rural Kutztown, Pa., and shoots them. With a camera, that is. Her “Mark of Abel” series...
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Despite periodic efforts, hipster boxing has never become a lasting trend. Part of the reason is that pain doesn’t give a crap about your layer of irony. Also, those big...
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At last year’s BYOQ (Bring Your Own Queer), a cute stranger taught us how to booty bounce against the stage of Golden Gate Park’s historical Bandshell Pavilion. We...
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Long before Fifty Shades of Grey made it kosher to read BDSM lit on BART, Anne Rice wrote her own best-selling erotica trilogy. Based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty,...
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It’s common knowledge that San Francisco has a thriving drag scene — Fauxgirls, Trannyshack, Hot Boxxx Girls, Midnight Mass, the Drag King Contest, and even Esta...
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Pacifica Tribune columnist Lynn Ruth Miller started warming up for her comedy gig at the age of 67, with the release of an autobiographical novel about her eating disorders....
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How do you take your Hamlet? If you were too busy loathing the Bard in high school to just read the damn play, here are the Cliffs Notes: Shakespeare’s “revenge...
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Since 2006, Silicon Valley’s ZERO1 Biennial has offered guided tours of the Möbius strip running through art and technology. During the last festival this took the...
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The orchid is a complicated botanical figure that pretty obviously asks you, in all its Georgia O’Keeffe glory, How often do you think about sex? The ancient Greeks...
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Watching and mocking terrible films is something of a San Francisco pastime. The Dark Room in the Mission has its Sunday Bad Movie Night tradition (this month’s theme is...
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People are always acting oddly in the Mission. But have you ever spotted a group of strangers all standing silently together, listening intently to the street sounds?...
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Pee-wee’s Playhouse, a Saturday-morning staple for Gen-Xers who were, at the time, way older than the time slot’s intended audience, represented the pure, uncut...
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The jam session has always been a defining element of jazz. A wholly informal exercise, the jam is where musicians limber up, experiment, fine-tune, or freak out. Folkies had...
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Sizzle
• After all these years, Blondie's Debbie Harry says she's still not used to seeing her face on T-shirts. In a conversation ahead of her Sept. 10 gig at the...
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There is a class of cocktails whose sole purpose is to deliver as much alcohol as painlessly as possible. These mixtures are either loaded with enough sugar to mask the...
