The comedy of misunderstanding is afoot in Hong Sang-soo's misty beachfront divertissement, an improbably endearing three-way Isabelle Huppert vehicle. Framed as notes toward...
Though I'm supposed to be a barfly, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I hang out at the Beat Museum in North Beach once a week — and with all the characters...
Lagunitas Brewing is known for many things, including making great beer, embracing all visitors as friends, and knowing how to party. On any given day at its "Taproom and Beer...
Greeting the new year with bulldozers and the boast of a rare resolution kept, the Trust for Public Land's Parks for People program has concluded a five-year fight to overhaul...
For a metal band, Gojira sports a name so fantastic that it's shocking no one snapped it up earlier. The Bayonne, France-based outfit nods to Godzilla's original Japanese...
A weekly listing of new dining spots around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 21 Taste House: 1109 Ocean, 859-9728. Ingleside. Chinese. The American Grilled...
For Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Ronald Harwood adapts his own play about an English retirement home for esteemed musicians. The resulting quasi-farce gathers Billy...
4,000 Miles: Twenty-one-year-old Leo arrives on his 91-year-old grandmother's doorstep after a cross-country bicycle trip. Discounted admission and free bike valet by SFBC on...
Ordinarily, a London-based soul chanteuse has zero reason to beef with a hulking 1990s rapper from the Bronx — but that's not the case for Jessie Ware and the late Big...
Whatever else you can say about this movie, it has a thematic integrity other literary mashups lack. Jane Austen's characters never encountered zombies or sea monsters, and...
Blog Comments of the Week Reader points to a reason for jail crowding: The increase in the jail population in Lake County is similar to the increase in county jail populations...
It's been over a decade since The Walkmen's debut full-length, and after last year's unusually joyous album Heaven, it's fair to say the band is a different animal these days....
Artists' Television Access. dreambody/earthbody: An experimental documentary video by Antero Alli. Fri., Jan. 25, 8 p.m. $6. Trance Mutations: An ongoing series of live...
There's a moon-goddess mysticism in the electro-pop of Niki and The Dove, something that brings a primal warmth to the icy pop sensibilities they share with similar Nordic...
A movie that fades from memory even as it's happening, this latest take on the noir-pulp novels of Donald E. Westlake glumly implies that every generation gets the adaptation...
