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It's tempting to adopt film noir slang when discussing Chris Crites' mugshots painted in acrylic on paper bags. The 1940s-era San Francisco criminals who stare at the viewer...
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Admit it: When a tourist family with more baggage than the Spanish conquistadors lugs its way onto a BART train and proceeds to loudly lament the difficulty of the route map,...
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The kaleidoscopic cover of Celebration's The Modern Tribe features an image of a chorus line straight out of the notebook of Hollywood choreographer and director Busby...
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Ezra Feinberg of San Francisco's Citay (say it like, say, Steve Perry would sing the word "city" — cit-aay) makes music that's been appropriately tagged "chamber metal."...
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This show, while sweet and mildly funny, doesn't live up to the capable talents of its actresses or writer and director Gary Graves. It's a slight affair, following the story...
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Turkish Dismay
Blind hatred all around: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' recent adoption of a resolution calling on [U.S. House] Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi to continue her...
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Noted jazz pianist records pop icon tribute, endures cries of 'sellout' from the jazz community, laughs all the way to the bank. You'd be forgiven for assuming Herbie...
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This week's Bouncer will be a book report of sorts, because what I have considered to be my bible throughout adulthood is getting me through a rough patch right now, and...
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"Hold still" — it's what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men. The first time we hear it, it's the out-of-work Vietnam vet Llewelyn...
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The combined eyes of Puerto Rican artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla seem to be able to see into the fourth dimension. The artists have been collaborating since...
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By Mark Keresman, John Garmon, Dave Pehling, Michael Alan Goldberg, Lily Moayeri and Ben Westhoff Published:
November 7, 2007
A case could be made for San Francisco's American Music Club being a truly American counterpart to Britain's Joy Division. Although they're sonically different, the two groups...
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Can-do pep is the resonant key in Ted Braun's profile of six people, spread across three continents, working to provide relief in western Sudan. Featured are a sheik displaced...
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Audience members shouldn't be deterred by Sleepwalkers Theatre's don't-give-a-shit facade. The company prints its handwritten programs on binder paper, uses the word "fuck"...
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Adam Dorn — a.k.a. Mocean Worker — started as a DJ who drizzled brassy samples atop digital drum 'n' bass sequences. But this son of a jazz producer has recently...
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Castlevania, the vampire-hunting series that stretches over 20 years and as many games, has basically two kinds of fans. There are the traditionalists, who've followed the...
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The Bluest Eye. Published in 1970, Toni Morrison's debut novel tells the story of an impoverished 11-year-old black girl's journey from self-loathing to madness via rape,...
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Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2
(Genius)
On the heels of the Electric Company boxed sets, which were at once educational and groovy as all get-out, comes the latest in...
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The Best of the Colbert Report (Paramount)
Blame It on Fidel! (Koch Lorber)
Blood Car (TLA)
The Crown Prince (Koch)
Deck the Halls (Fox)
Election (Tartan)
Flight of the...
