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Cesar Chavez Street dead-ends near San Francisco's eastern waterfront in a bleak industrial area of nondescript warehouses, workshops, and small office buildings. During the...
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The follow-up to LaVette's potent 2005 LP I've Got My Own Hell to Raise stays true to its title, as The Scene of the Crime is the sound of a survivor's sure-footed stand. Here...
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Remember how everyone went crazy in 2001 for that Avalanches record Since I Left You? Critics, listeners, and Madonna loved the lush strings, whimsical samples, and good-time...
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A tinderbox, the dictionary tells us, is a box for holding tinder (gee, thanks), but also "a person or thing that is highly excitable, explosive, inflammable." Tinderbox, a...
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Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about American foreign policy — and it wasn't...
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Synesthesia involves the blending of the senses, in which shapes have taste, sounds have form, and black letters appear in colors. The curiosity has caused quite a commotion...
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As you can see by its title, The $2,904 New York City to San Francisco Motorized Vehicular Tournament takes pains to not depict itself as a Cannonball Run–style road race...
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Here's a mystery: How can a good restaurant offer a really luxurious wine tasting and dinner for a reasonable price? We don't have the answer, or we'd be running the...
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A musician friend recently confessed his true dream: to be a foley artist on an old-fashioned live radio show. You know, with sheet metal to rattle for thunder, and shoes to...
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What do snakes, gay history, and cartoons have in common? For a start, they're all things San Franciscans like to look at. For another, they're located within a few steps of...
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In America, profanity is thought to comprise 13 percent of all adult conversation. Swearing is, in fact, so commonplace we take it for granted, quickly employing hackneyed...
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This weekend's Green Festival features the usual speaker lineup of book-toting big guns — Fritjof Capra, Deepak Chopra, Paul Hawken, Gary Zukav, yawn — but wait,...
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Lydia Lunch's new book, Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary, concerns her travails through the no-rent city life of gloriously depraved late-'70s, early-'80s New York. It captures...
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Not a lot of people can take a punch and write about it. Usually, it's one or the other. This is probably why Dashiell Hammett's hardboiled style of the 1930s has held up so...
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Mississippi, 1964: A lifetime ago and a world away, hundreds of Northern civil rights volunteers — mostly young, mostly white — joined with blacks living in the heart...
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Years ago we remember seeing odd little books from the now-defunct High Risk imprint with titles like Dear Dead Person and The Roaches Have No King. What stuck with us was not...
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When Sophia Loren received a lifetime achievement award from the Rome Film Festival last month, it was the first career honor she'd ever received in her home country. It's...
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The art of arranging written items one below the other is deceptively mundane. For some, it's easy and fun. For others, making a list, any list, creates an unfathomable maw...
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News flash: Bambi's mother did not, in fact, die a painful, horrible death. She was made out of paint and celluloid, not flesh and blood. That's right, kids: cels, not cells....
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Lies can be disconcertingly easy to swallow, especially when they take the form of seemingly innocuous stories recited by kindly-looking men on our television screens....
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