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Photograph by Gil Riego Jr. Model: Neon Lolita. Photo illustration by Audrey Fukuman.
When news broke last week that Peter Acworth, the founder and CEO of local porn...
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Not many bands have the bravado to sell a $100,000 box set housed in a refrigerator, but then again, the Residents aren't just any band. In a city with a musical history that...
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Breakfast has long been heralded as the most important meal of the day, and dinner's supremacy in the daily meal lineup isn't questioned, but poor little lunch so often sits...
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The Oscars are almost here! Are you excited? Neither are we, and that's why we'd like to humbly offer up our alternative awards: the Esseffies. The voiceless labiodental...
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So this is Werner Herzog phoning it in: cutting down another director's film from four hours to one-and-a-half, ruminating on the imagery at hand, and slapping on his own...
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Fred Halsted’s legend invariably precedes him, for the simple reason that the handful of daring films he made in the 1970s are largely unavailable and rarely shown. One...
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What makes a good cocktail? Fresh ingredients, quality booze, a semi-autonomous artificial agent guided by electronic circuitry? At BarBot 13, the annual festival of cocktail...
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Be part of the revolution with today’s daylong African-American literary festival, Free Your Mind, showcasing a fabulous array of authors, visual artists, activists,...
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At the age of 90, Henry Brant won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for "Ice Field," a "spatial narrative" requiring 100 players spread throughout a grand hall. The composition...
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Two years after Crime After Crime premiered at Sundance, Yoav Potash’s multi-award-winning exposé of California’s malfeasant criminal justice system is...
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Disney’s animated version of the story of Aladdin had a lot going on. There were the Broadway-worthy songs, Robin Williams hamming it up as the voice of the genie, and...
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San Francisco history, from the lawless Gold Rush era to the Beatnik culture of the ’60s (and everything in between), is thrilling. For just one weekend, the San...
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It’s that time of the month. That time when, after paying every bill, you realize you live in one of the most expensive cities in the country. Fortunately, there is...
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Crack the lid of your inner geek and prepare to cringe-laugh with Mortified, the storytelling series that brings teen angst to light in the form of comic storytelling from...
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Is Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, a villain or a victim? For one night, watch award-winning actor Guy Masterson debate the...
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On International Women's Day, the Iranian women's nonprofit organization 30Voices addresses their often complicated, too often oppressed, but defiantly beautiful lives. These...
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One of the things we love about San Francisco is its delightful randomness. On any given night you might stumble across acrobats wall-dancing off the Women’s Building,...
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When you live in a bustling metropolis, even one as eco-friendly as San Francisco, the magic of seclusion and returning to the tranquility of nature, resonate deeply. This...
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We were happy when trucks revolutionized food, but when are trucks going to revolutionize art? Well, how about this weekend? The Exploratorium opens its new digs remotely,...
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Dancing, as the people of Elmore, Okla., can attest, a symptom of a truly abhorrent disease. By now, you have come to know the sickness by many names: “Night...
