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Specs' leaves me with a bad feeling.
Not for what it is, but because of my behavior there a few years ago.
I was drinking a beer, and the bartender made a martini for...
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Chicago's California Wives — spoiler alert: evidently not from California and ineligible for wifehood — released their full-length debut, Art History, in...
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Remember those rad children's atlases that had cartoon representations of the major exports of every region around the world? Well, a group of Berkeley cartographers and more...
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Researchers over at Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group are experimenting with different pavement coatings on one of their parking lots to determine if they can cut down on the...
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Lisa Ohlin's Simon and the Oaks has all the superficial elements of compelling drama but none of the interiority; it looks like a good movie without ever actually feeling like...
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Nathan Rabin of the A.V. Club coined the term "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" to describe a female character whose story function is to teach the male protagonist to come out of his...
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Movies about drugs and alcohol may be a dime (bag) a dozen, but James Ponsoldt's Smashed is so beautifully shot and well-acted as to transcend the genre. Centered on...
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If First Aid Kit's music is proof, Stockholm must be much closer to the American South than any maps have had us believe. In "Emmylou," off January's The Lion's Roar, Swedish...
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Give some points to a genre flick whose style mash-up reflects uneasy relations between Asia and the West just as its fracas-intensive plot tries to dramatize them. Yuan...
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Give Us a Break From Loopholes
Most of us pay for our necessities: If California's Proposition 39 closes some of these bogus tax loopholes for the rich, it has my vote. While...
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It doesn't matter whether you've heard Dan Deacon's excellent new album, America, or not: The live show of this Baltimore electronic mischief-maker is sure to be a looney,...
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A weekly listing of new dining spots around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Cocotte: 1521 Hyde (at Jackson), 292-4415, cocottesf.com. Nob Hill. French.
Company:...
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The mandate at Oakland's Highland Hospital, as one doctor says during Pete Nicks' attentive vérité portrait of the place, is to admit people "just as much for...
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Assassins: Sondheim's musical about presidential assassins. Wednesdays-Sundays. Through Oct. 28. $20-$30. Shotgun Players, 1901 Ashby (at Martin Luther King), Berkeley, (510)...
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The interesting thing about Bassnectar — one of the qualities that makes S.F.-based longhair Lorin Ashton stand out from the pack of electronic dance music producers...
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English filmmaker Andrea Arnold's atypical, impressionistic approach to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is her adaptation's main hook. As with Fish Tank and Red Road,...
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British filmmaker Andrea Arnold's remarkable new adaptation of Wuthering Heights comes packing some redoubtable weapons, including the most atmospheric ultra-realism the story...
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The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance, Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In, an occasionally muddled disquisition on the colossal failure of the war...
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This week's Paranormal Activity 4 continues the story of an extended American family whose members own a lot of surveillance cameras, camcorders, smart phones, baby monitors,...
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It's tempting to snipe that the argument of Atlas Shrugged Part II — that the genius of an unregulated free market results in the greatest of all greater goods —...
