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Photo courtesy San Francisco Police Department Records, San Francisco Public Library
In his day, Jaime Maldonado says, his father was an interloper, too. When the elder...
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This will not be an interview with Sky Ferreira. Not much of one, anyway. The shapeshifting Los Angeles pop starlet released one of the best songs of 2012 with her melancholy...
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So our obsession with all things local has come to this: Northern California-style barbecue.
When I first heard the term applied to the Mission's new Hi-Lo BBQ, I rolled my...
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At this point, MGM's 1939 The Wizard of Oz is so inextricably tangled up with L. Frank Baum's novels that any new adaptation of his work inevitably references the motifs,...
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The signs couples use to communicate. A rare edition of Euclid’s Elements, the most famous mathematical work, about geometrical relationships. The human capacity to...
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Pi is without question the most elegant of irrational numbers; surpassing all known tests for randomness, it is essential for describing general relativity, the DNA double...
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The event promoters known as The BitchSlap are behind many a female-centric comedy showcase in San Francisco, but “Tough Titties” actually supports boobs, albeit...
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When faced with the challenge of creating a book for a generation of not-yet-literate Baby Boomers, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, penned a quirky story...
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Winston Smith may be one of the most plagiarized artists of all time; only whoever among us has never scrawled the iconic “DK” logo he created for the Dead...
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The recent G.I. Joe movie was an overproduced bore, filled with special effects but missing a story. It also lacked the silly but infectious Reagan-era nationalism that...
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When San Franciscans think Irish, they think pubs -- most of the City’s best watering holes bear the shamrock. Kennedy’s serves up $3 Guinness with a side of...
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It is now officially March, and while those allergies are still dormant you should enjoy the beautiful color-blend of tropical Begonias. Every month (except for December) the...
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Scientific historian George Dyson was a boat-builder in Canada in his young adult years, an expert on kayaks. He lived in a house he built high in a Douglas fir and split his...
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Seattle-born and L.A.-based Nick Thune is young and tall and white and has cute facial hair and a guitar. Despite all this he is pretty likable and funny, as you can see in...
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In Lynne Kaufman's first play, The Couch, a man cheats on his wife, and she tolerates it -- and not just because that man is Carl Jung. For Amy Glazer, who's directing the...
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For a man obsessed with visions of the future, it seems both appropriate and strangely sad that Lebbeus Woods will miss the culmination of his work in SFMOMA's new exhibit,...
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The Planning Commission is not sexy. Phonebook-sized case summaries before the Planning Commission are not sexy. But a line unearthed from one 425-page case summary does hold...
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It's Valentine's Day, and Antwon is on the roof of his San Jose apartment tweeting about Kid Rock. Earlier this morning, the 26-year-old rapper released In Dark Denim, an...
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Parker Vaughan was flipping his signature patties at the company picnic when his employees decided to give it a whirl back at work. After all, hamburgers find their origins in...
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One thing Craig Scott Rosebraugh's documentary Greedy Lying Bastards cannot be accused of is hiding its point of view; it's right there in the title. Though the connection...
