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X came rocketing out of the Los Angeles punk scene in 1978, a quartet with a fierce punk-meets-rockabilly attack and a scathing view of the political malaise gripping the...
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This past year saw a flurry of pizzeria openings in San Francisco, but none as anticipated as Capo's, the new North Beach pizza joint from Tony Gemignani. The 11-time World...
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Illustration by Justin Crutchley
Quentin Tarantino has been Googling himself, and it's starting to become a problem. The filmmaker, whose eighth feature, Django Unchained,...
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A note from the killers is found on the corpse, addressed to Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favorite commando. It says simply: "We are coming for you. Await our call." Or so...
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Hypocrites stalk the land with impunity, stuffing their faces and pockets while lecturing us proles on the need for self-sacrifice. Lord, we miss the Spanish surrealist and...
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We San Franciscans sometimes like to revel in the trappings of pretention. We buy signature products, we eat "artisinal" everything, we wax poetic on the character of Napa...
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San Jose comic slash boiler technician Kellen Erskine has been a finalist in the San Francisco International Comedy Competition and appeared on the seventh season of...
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Like humans, we Night+Day entries sometimes give in to bad habits. We indulge in purple prose, we exceed our word counts, we (occasionally) write beyond our ken. And for a...
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Here in San Francisco, it seems you can't throw a bong out of a window without it landing on a yoga studio. The ancient practice is so popular, there's even a dedicated yoga...
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For the latest in its Family Matinee Series, New Conservatory is staging a musical that, while geared for young audiences, might be most familiar to their parents: Really...
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A young woman dressed in a wedding gown flies through the air, her eyes closed. In one hand she grasps a portrait of the back of a man's head (her groom?), and the same rope...
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We hate to state the obvious, but the world really doesn't seem like such a peaceful place right now. Shootings in our cities and in our schools, a prison system intent on...
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You know what ensures that children’s books stay in good condition? Keeping them away from children. That’s why Mr. George M. Fox’s collection, which...
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Written in 1836-7, Woyzeck occupies a fascinating place in theater history. German playwright Georg Büchner died at the age of 23, before completing it. Though its story...
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After the harrowing blur of tinsel and seasonal stress, most are relieved to say sayonara to St. Nick. Unless you're Santa himself.
Johnathon B. (who will not reveal his full...
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Sizzle
• We've been rounding up the best local albums of the year in various genres. Our favorites were made by Ty Segall, Main Attrakionz, Chuck Prophet, E-40 and Too...
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For a business born out of a pun that grew into a hoax, Double or Muffin is an admirable new member of San Francisco's homegrown pop-up scene. The story is a backward one, a...
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Watching Django Unchained, it's easy to imagine that Quentin Tarantino had such a blast making his last picture, the ebullient Holocaust fantasia Inglourious Basterds, that he...
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Dear California: I love you, I really do, but you have a really lame Christmas vibe. Sure, the big tree in Union Square is pretty cute, and the Macy's windows with kitties are...
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You can hear the people sing — really hear them — in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the standard...
