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Illustration by Brian Stauffer.
Julie Orr has plenty of reasons to bounce a check.
In just a few years, she's gone from running a successful advertising business to being...
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Randall Kline founded SFJAZZ 30 years ago, so he's had lots of time to consider how the perfect space for the organization would look. This week, with SFJAZZ opening the first...
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M.Y. China, the new upscale Chinese restaurant from Martin Yan, faces two obstacles that may prove insurmountable. The first is its location, on the fourth floor of Westfield...
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"Bonham had technique, but he couldn't swing a sack of shit," says great drummer and sack of shit Ginger Baker to interviewer Jay Bulger. This is one of many aperçus in...
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One thinks of narrative occurring in fiction and film, in dance and theater, even sometimes in visual art. Only rarely does one consider the narrative power of a museum...
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You wont be able to take the Central Subway to Chinatown until 2019, but don't let that stop you from heading to the iconic neighborhood. The Chinese New Year Parade has been...
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Everybody loves a petting zoo, with those irascible baby goats and downy-soft bunnies. But what about the kids who love bugs more than bunnies, whose attraction to snakes,...
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Second to Thanksgiving, Super Bowl Sunday is America’s favorite day of overindulgence. This “holiday” of gluttony includes van-sized televisions, 30-packs of...
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We fondly remember the first time we were mopped. There we were, innocently admiring the tub of lard at 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store, when all of a sudden an...
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Nothing exercises the hammies and knees like a brisk bicycle ride. Combined with a hearty off-trail shag or blow break, that is. If the benefits of this alterna-biathlon have...
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The Presidio is filled with some of the strangest wonders of San Francisco — ancient forts, Lucasfilm outposts, labyrinths, gravestones for deceased pets — and the...
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It's pretty rare for a queer (and queer-friendly) literary showcase to last a decade, and even rarer when the host (powerhouse Michelle Tea) bakes you cookies to sweeten the...
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During a live podcast recording at last year’s SF Sketchfest, Kevin Smith regaled the audience with adventures abput his rectum and talked about how he was caring for...
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The Collected Works is a brand-spanking-new theater producing company formed by Stanford and Berkeley alums who are hell-bent on bringing exceptional, experimental performance...
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A longtime affiliation with PianoFight — home to Forking!, the holiday-baiting, choose-your-own-ending theater adventure, and Duck Lake, the world’s last comedic...
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“You awaken, and find yourself locked inside a room. It has a desk, chairs, a carpet — everything seems normal. But on closer inspection you find a series of...
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From a distance, Amy Trachtenberg's Stripes/Sutras looks like marbled paper — the kind with luminous swirls that you'd find inside a 19th-century book about English...
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Historic preservation-minded San Franciscans rushing to City Hall's second floor men's room this month were hit with a double whammy. First, the restroom was closed,...
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Sizzle
• English pop star Patrick Wolf spent much of January hanging out in San Francisco — and we caught up with him at the Hayes Valley Victorian where he lived....
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An intriguing new event is coming to the Bay Area next month. Eat My Heart Out Supper Club is a storytelling dinner theater that pairs specially created food courses with...
