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By Brian J. Barr, Jennifer Maerz and Mike Rowell Published:
May 31, 2006
The concept behind the supergroup is that it's an impressive music personnel package composed of individual heavyweights. Take Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, for example. Or...
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Frontman Eliot Bergman of Michigan future-funk big band NOMO believes that things are funked up, but not funked up enough.
"There's this state of fear everyone is conditioned...
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Since a wall of the tiny restaurant Canteen boasts shelves of carefully selected books (not just randomly bought by the yard as decor, but books you might actually want to pull...
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With ice caps melting, sea levels rising, and Poseidon sinking fast, this is no environment for any disaster movie — particularly a real one — to take our interest...
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My first instinct when I read the news about A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books going up for sale — followed closely by the news that Cody's Books on Telegraph Avenue in...
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If the creepy, self-flagellating albino monk in The Da Vinci Code really wanted to suffer, he'd drop his flesh-shredding cat-o'-nine-tails, pick up a controller, and play The...
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By day, Noel von Harmonson mans the Echoplex for Comets on Fire, torquing the band's heavy psych slabs through the prism of his proto-electro tacklebox. Actually, no — by...
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In case you missed it, hip hop has gone global. One of America's truly homegrown musical genres and social barometers has definitely left the building, as rap has been...
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Abigail's Bakery and Cafe: 2120 Greenwich (at Fillmore), 929-8889. Marina. California bistro, brunch.
Apollo Deli & Market: 501 Fell (at Laguna), 255-6870. Hayes Valley....
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You know how in most romantic comedies, the best friends are nearly always more interesting than the leads we're supposed to care about? The Break-Up doesn't play that game....
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By Evany Thomas
McSweeney's (March), $15
Injected with just the right dose of McSweeney-ian humor, this book is downright precious for those of you (un)fortunate enough to...
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By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky Published:
May 31, 2006
Will & Grace: Series Finale (Lions Gate) The way this got hustled to shelves, mere days after Will Truman and Grace Adler said their mushy farewells, you'd think this were some...
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The nearly re-constructed Fourth St. Bridge — a piece of Dr. Frankensteinlike patchwork engineering whose design revolves around accommodating a huge, decorative...
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Consider the red rose: the fiery hue, the intoxicating scent, the perilous thorns. It's the perfect symbol for Argentina's hot-blooded tango, an indigenous music and dance...
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Let's trade, action fans. Give up all 126 minutes of Mission: Impossible III's digitized bloat and torture games, along with Poseidon's more modest — yet somehow more...
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By Christopher Hirsheimer and Peggy Knickerbocker
Chronicle (Feb.), $22.95
On a glorious Saturday at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market, when the purveyors are out in force...
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The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
A Fine Romance (Tango)
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (Dark Sky)
Freedomland (Sony)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
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A bizarre deck of playing cards, including the Ace of Goats and the Three of Ducks; dozens of foam kernels, pierced by paper clips, with random second-millennium dates written...
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It's interesting, yet not all that surprising, to learn that when not working with the bicoastal, avant-garde duo Young People, singer Katie Eastburn is a dancer and...
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There was a time when people moaned whenever Hollywood would remake — and thus suck the life out of — a classic movie. These days, Hollywood just sucks the life out...
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