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Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen.
The protesters call themselves "autistic people." Members of the organization they're protesting call them "people with autism." While...
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In the predawn hours of Aug. 2, 2010, the members of San Francisco death metal band Early Graves and their friends in the Funeral Pyre crashed their Chevy van on Interstate 5...
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Last year, a Chinese survey claimed that Hong Kong residents eat per year 66,000 tons of siu mei — a blanket term for the Cantonese barbecued meats you find hanging from...
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Found-footage eco-horror cheapie The Bay — in which a previously harmless waterborne parasite mutates into an unstoppable human-flesh-eating scourge thanks to the march...
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Once upon a time, when documentaries consisted almost exclusively of “educational films,” inventors and presidents were usually the only people deemed worthy of...
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The San Francisco Opera celebrates its 90th season with a jam-packed, community event. The Opera Community Open House is an insider glimpse into the world of opera and stage...
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Fresh off the heels of its successful campaign to help Felix Baumgartner become the first human to break the sound barrier by falling from the edge of space, Red Bull comes to...
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There’s probably no such thing as an ordinary psychic. But for those who tire of mere palm reading and crystal ball gazing, Kevin Seaman and his creation Dr. Zebrovski,...
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Actor and comedian Simon Amstell has been a performer for most of his life in the UK, co-writing and starring in the BBC2 sitcom Grandma’s House, hosting the game show...
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Since KUSF was yanked from the airwaves early last year, die-hard fans of the college radio station have been forced to tune in online. Meanwhile, they’ve begun a legal...
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In the West, yoga refers to an hour-long class that usually starts with downward dog, but the term, coming from a Sanskrit word meaning “yoke” — and more...
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The Rumpus, brainchild of local author Stephen Elliott, has always been a literary darling, publishing top-notch essays and interviews, incubating the Dear Sugar phenomenon,...
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Much is made about our city's storied history in subversive art, with iconic groups like the Billboard Liberation Front, Survival Research Laboratories, the Cacophony Society,...
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Sometimes art is at its most powerful when it takes a familiar scene and dislocates it just slightly, gives it a new context. We stop and look more closely because we suddenly...
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Would you call modern day California rural? Lisa M. Hamilton does, and she’s spent years visiting “places where the culture and the economy are defined by the...
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The Cutting Ball Theater's production of Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep has no shortage of headline-makers. It falls on the 100th anniversary of Swedish playwright...
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When you're offered advice like the following, you'd best take it: "The majority of people here are hip. Straights who want to fit in might do well to don an Indian corn...
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Sizzle
• Just when you thought festival season had ended, Live 105 announced a two-day Not So Silent Night concert with Jack White, the Killers, M83, the Shins, Passion...
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There aren't many superlative lunch options around Levi's Plaza at the tip of North Beach, but now there's Parlor 1255. The "creamery and eatery" opened a few weeks ago under...
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It begins as an ordinary, if bittersweet, family event. The 98-year-old grandmother of Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger has died, and as this superb documentary opens,...
