In the autumn of 2000, the more than 600 people crammed into Chinatown's cavernous Meriwa Restaurant for a dinner hosted by the venerable San Francisco Neighbors Association...
The new CD from San Francisco's Andrew Douglas Rothbard, Abandoned Meander, is one of those captivating, outta-nowhere masterworks. Recorded over three years on Rothbard's...
What accounts for a restaurant's success? The conventional wisdom is that location is paramount, but while Tadich Grill has had a line out the door since it moved to California...
Solemn, flashy, and flabbergasting, The Fountain adapted by Darren Aronofsky from his own graphic novel should really be called The Shpritz. The premise is...
Through stage shows with names like Marga Gomez's Intimate Details and Single Wet Female, it would be fair to say that Gomez -- groundbreaking in the ´80s as one of the firs...
Typically, people who react to museum art with physical symptoms (temporary heart stoppages and ambulatory failure, or just a hand thrown to the forehead as if feeling faint)...
When writer and activist Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes first appeared in 1939, some critics warmed to the play's brittle social message about the destruction wreaked by...
An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount)
This isn't exactly the kind of DVD you buy to watch again and again; the ending doesn't get happier, and there are no twists to decipher...
As starving artists' paintings are to Motel 6 rooms, "man-on-the-street" features are to newspapers that is, their cliched way of punching up bleak tableaux.
Yet I've...
"We're really good. People should just trust us," cracks Melvins guitarist/founder Buzz Osborne during a telephone interview with an audible smirk. "We know what we're doing."...
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mailfresheats.
The Alembic: 1725 Haight (between Cole and Shrader), 666-0822, www.alembicbar.com....
Men are literally disposable in Pedro Almodovar's Volver. But the film, particularly for fans of the gynophilic, flamboyantly color-coordinating maker of loco melodramas, is...
Jennifer Berry takes exception to the fun and smiley television advertisements for antidepressants that feature women riding horses, running through grassy fields, and laughing...
Guitar Hero gave party games a much-needed kick in the ass.
No one expected this rhythm game -- sold with a miniature plastic guitar -- to play to sellout crowds. But it...
The Bay Area sports landscape could look far different in just a few years. This month, both the 49ers and the A's announced major moves out of their historic city homes. Over...
True, MySpace may be a cesspool of Internet predators and bands that never should've grabbed a guitar pick or a drumstick without severe punishment from a firing squad. But,...
For progressives lifted, however temporarily, by the swell of a turning tide, Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is an Airport movie with the assassination of Robert...
It's Christmas Eve, and Rachel, a loving mother and wife, has just discovered that her husband has taken a contract out on her life. This realization causes her to step out the...
American Slapstick (Image)
Alias: The Complete Fifth Season (Buena Vista)
Boston Legal: Season Two (Fox)
The Cry Baby Killer (Buena Vista)
Devil Times Five (Code Red)...
If you don't play a lot of videogames that is, if you have a life it's hard to understand why anyone would wait in line for days to buy a new console. And despite...
An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?