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Illustration by Kyle Fewell
Ask someone like Jon Entine, a science writer for Ethical Corporation, to describe the sort of person who claims hydraulic fracturing presents...
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“Who really wants to be President in this hyper-partisan political climate?” Dean Obeidallah asks. “I’d rather be V.P. You get paid great, treated like...
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Alternating between trite over-earnestness and clear-minded observation, Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts manages to hint at both the yearning for adulthood of sensitive...
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“If you build it, they will come” may have worked for Kevin Costner, but most of us need more than a creepy voiceover in order to achieve our dreams. Thankfully,...
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In the 1950s, the destination spot of Niagara Falls, N.Y., was also a hotbed of industry made of petrochemicals, paper, plastics, rubber, and abrasives. But while shiny-faced...
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New York already has one so it’s high time San Francisco started one too, an opportunity for participants to trot out their finest and show the world what we got. We are...
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Footloose Artistic Director Mary Alice Fry has done the conventional theater thing before, where you “sit there and wait for people to come in and be polite.” But...
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Poet, journalist, and critic Luis Francia’s work usually breathes slowly through the politics of Filipino nationalism, often as creative nonfiction that’s more...
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Prior to the San Francisco 49ers' preseason finale last month, a North Bay drunk allegedly saw fit to vent his spleen upon a group wandering through the parking lot in the...
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A golf course is about as natural as a fake tan and a face full of Botox. Links-dwelling flora and fauna inhabit picturesque environments that appear to be lands of ecological...
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BART's Not in a Rat Race
Exterminators need to think of a better solution: Good God ["Infested BART," Beth Winegarner, Sucka Free City, 9/12]! What is wrong with those...
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A long time ago — the early 2000s — Animal Collective was pegged as one of a handful of new bands making music both beautiful and weird. But what's "weird,"...
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Sizzle
• Southern jammers My Morning Jacket let fans help suggest the setlist for its Saturday show at the Greek Theatre. Highlights like "Gideon" and "Victory Dance"...
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It's hard to say why some businesses do well, while others do not. I've watched enough Gordon Ramsay shows to know that the secret to success starts with a manager at the helm...
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Covering soul and pop hits has been a standard practice for reggae bands since the musical style first emerged from Jamaica in the late '60s, but NYC-based collective Easy...
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Whether you're a Hüsker Dü fan, a Sugar fan, or a solo Bob Mould fan, you should show up enthusiastically for this Friday's performance, since it will focus on...
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Memorable rock 'n' roll vocalists don't come much more distinctive than warbling Armenian-American super-talent Serj Tankian. His unabashedly political and unusually...
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Dramatic films taking place around the porn industry — let us retire the ridiculous code "adult films" — tend to highlight the hollow and despairing aspect, while...
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Psychedelic-folk soothsayer Ben Chasny (the main man behind Six Organs of Admittance) frequently lets his guitar instrumentals soar into the upper reaches of nowhere, so it's...
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The first time I tried Hog Island Sweetwater oysters, on a picnic bench out at the Tomales Bay farm, it was love at first shuck. I'd had flings with other West Coast oysters...
