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Inside San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the atmosphere is bass.
The bass rips through you, pressing against your throat, lungs, and stomach like an invisible...
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Come out and show some love for the youngest and brightest generation of up-and-coming artists and performers at the second annual San Francisco Youth Arts Summit. Youth...
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The days are shorter, the nights are darker, and even those of us in temperate climes feel a natural need to hunker own, share food, and sing songs to keep the gloom at bay....
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While Mah Jongg, a game of skill, calculation, and chance involving 136 tiles, may have originated in China (with alternate variations found in Japan and Korea), Gravity...
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Congratulations, San Francisco. We made it through the consumer blitzkrieg of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. For those of you with a few stragglers...
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Congratulations, San Francisco. We made it through the panicky consumer blitzkrieg of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. For those of you left with a few...
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It’s hard to be objective about the brilliance of W. Kamau Bell. Earlier this year, the San Francisco native built a bridge between stand-up performer and journalist...
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Sex slaves. Obliteration of natural resources. Malnutrition. San Franciscans craving an authentic, inexpensive vacation often turn to developing countries, but low costs often...
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People who’ve lived in San Francisco for a decade or more often grouse about how much cooler the city used to be, usually around the time they moved here. But what about...
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The legends of maritime history evoke images of seafaring adventures to exotic destinations afar: Explorers setting sail to terra incognito, ships conveying pilfered riches...
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Local film historian Matthew Kennedy’s forthcoming book, Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, recounts in juicy, gory detail how bloated bombs like Doctor...
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Philadelphia playwright Greg Giovanni offers a touch of Japanese artistry in A Minor Cycle: Five Little Plays in One Starry Night. This is the first collaboration between...
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There are few things that can console us during the cold, dark malaise known as winter. We often resort to hunkering down in bed, drinking whiskey out of a measuring cup, and...
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There are few things that can console us during the cold, dark malaise known as winter. We often resort to hunkering down in bed, drinking whiskey out of a measuring cup, and...
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What was your favorite part of The Little Mermaid? Was it when the enchantress cuts out the mermaid’s tongue in payment for her potion? Ah, Disney omitted that detail...
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Meze, the tradition of small plates eaten with drinks that ranges from the Middle East to Greece, seems like a great direction to take a restaurant in the Financial District...
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Last week, the eyes of the nation were drawn to San Francisco to observe something the nation's eyes would probably rather not observe: San Francisco's indignant nudist...
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The title of Performers Under Stress's new show might sound like the Uncle Sam recruiting poster of the theater world. In fact, You Need to Read Poetry! is as compassionate as...
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Singer-songwriter Sean Hayes has been on the San Francisco scene for nearly two decades, self-releasing albums of plaintive, intimate folk and building an adoring local...
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An empathic, absorbing tale of the old and the beautiful, Starlet tracks an unlikely intergenerational friendship in the San Fernando Valley. Florida transplant Jane (Dree...
