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Illustration by Michael Waraksa
LAST YEAR, sportswriter King Kaufman stepped up to the lectern at a symposium held on the Google campus. In a 14-year haul at Salon.com,...
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Sometime in the last two decades of dance music, we clubgoers lost the plot, turning away from one another and toward the DJ booth. We moved our expectations away from social...
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How many places serving thin-crust pizza does one neighborhood need? Already the Mission is graced with Pizzeria Delfina, Flour + Water, Beretta, and Mozzeria, not to mention...
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Say what you will about activism in San Francisco, but at least our politics are never boring. We stage puke-ins; we canvass in the buff; we even voted on a proposition a few...
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Doing research on human trafficking for her latest piece, The Escape, which integrates dance with music, text, film, and martial arts, dancer and choreographer Lenora Lee says...
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Stew and the Negro Problem, an “Afro-Baroque” band, is all about blurring boundaries: between different races and cultures, between theater and concert, between...
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Lit Crawl is the ultimate proving ground for San Francisco writer, readers, and those who love them. Its the highlight and closing ceremony of Litquake's nine-day mega...
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Halloween is no longer Fright Night so much as Amateur Night. (Impossibly high expectations quenched with too much cheap booze likewise ruined New Year’s Eve years ago.)...
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While it's hard to think of something more deserving of the term "heckle" than an entire audience masticating on giant burritos whilst a comedian tries to get through an act,...
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Literary Death Match -- the adjudicated reading series that hugs the obscure middle ground between Sartre’s The Roads to Freedom trilogy and America’s Got Talent....
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We get a lot of e-mails at SF Weekly. Some delightful, some boring, and some that are downright baffling. Jonathon Keats' Epigenetic Cloning Agency falls into the latter camp,...
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Probably a lot of perfectly good culture gets avoided because people just don’t get it. Without a baseline understanding of the art in question, they have no context for...
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Fresh from an acclaimed run at the New York Fringe Festival, Thao Nguyen’s solo show, Fortunate Daughter, is about her revealing her homosexuality to her parents without...
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Did the season premiere of Walking Dead leave you with a craving? Not to worry. The fine folks of San Francisco Theater Pub have your back. Over the last couple years...
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Three provocative exhibitions within walking distance of each other are opening this week. "The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951" opens Oct.11 and...
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Three provocative exhibitions within walking distance of each other are opening this week. "The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951" opens Oct.11 and...
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One of the few happy developments here at the end of all book culture has been the vigorous republication of out-of-print marvels by the New York Review of Books crowd under...
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Imagine you're a regional transit agency hunting for a piece of art to display outside one of your busiest stations. Do you go with a sculpture of an Aztec serpent god —...
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Sizzle
• At Slim's, folk singer William Elliott Whitmore alternately tore out our heart with his songwriting and made us laugh out loud with his banter. After performing...
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The Corner Store opened on Aug. 24 in the former Hukilau space; the old, dilapidated tiki bar has been renovated into a fresh new cafe with a saloon feel. And while it looks...
