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The nightmare seemed so real that Amy began sobbing in her sleep. In it, she learned she was pregnant with her then-boyfriend's baby. Only there was no nine months of...
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Local songwriter Ben Chasny admits that he often creates from the headspace of "Everything is kinda fucked; let's write a song about it."
Despite working on fingerpicked...
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You could tattoo the entire population of Black Rock City with the amount of ink that's been spilled bloviating on the Music Business 2.0: Internet decentralizes distribution,...
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Living in the Bay Area and dealing with daily life, you can forget sometimes that San Francisco is one of the top tourist destinations in the world. I'm still faintly...
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Brian De Palma is angry — angry about the war in Iraq, and about the fact that his Iraq movie, Redacted, has fallen victim to the very censorship it is, in part, a...
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The late Charles Nelson Reilly directed five Broadway plays, won a Tony for acting, was nominated for three Emmys, and knew full well that his legacy would be as a flamboyant...
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You exercise, and someone else gets to eat. It almost doesn't seem fair, does it? But the ravenous hunger you feel after a good run or walk should remind you of what it would...
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An elixir, you'll remember from your alchemy phase in college, is a potion or substance — a brew, if you will — capable of prolonging life and/or turning base metals...
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Southern Exposure, our favorite address-hopping gallery and public-art champion, has finally found a new home on 14th Street at Valencia. That puts it a block and a half away...
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Although more than 65 artists have shuffled through the rubbish at the dump (the city-run one, not our sidewalks), the S.F. Recycling & Disposal Artist-in-
Residence program...
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Oakland artist Tiffany Bozic was a fine choice for the California Academy of Sciences' first-ever artist in residence. Known for her beguiling, detailed portraits of the...
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With Pakistan all over the news, the fifth San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival seemingly arrives at a perfect time. Alas, the lineup of the 3rd I fest, as...
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Painter Jorge Jurado's work at "A Multitude of Memories" reminds us of Jeopardy, if Alex Trebek's show were designed by a stylish guy from Colombia. Using layers of images,...
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Sean Dorsey has a bullshit detector. The local transgendered choreographer is in full posession and complete control of the device that blasts away delusion, self-indulgence,...
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"The W. Kamau Bell Curve" is the local comedian's new show, which is "designed to end racism … in about an hour." Smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically...
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Hip hop dance has come a long way from the urban streets (and, shortly thereafter, the suburban bedrooms) of the '80s, showing up prominently and a wee disturbingly this year...
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"If you know the city, then why can't you find a place to get your hair cut?" asks Fresno's Rademacher. It's a messed-up question from a great band. Who CAN find a place to...
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Following up his viciously funny HBO special, Pimp Chronicles, Katt Williams releases American Hustle on DVD on November 20, a hybrid of madcap fictional road trip (à...
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There's a squirmingly funny scene in Judd Apatow’s TV series, Undeclared, in which Loudon Wainwright III offers to play a song for Adam Sandler, who is visiting...
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At the San Francisco Asian Film Festival, Xiaogang Feng's The Banquet isn't about food, really. Instead, the film reinvigorates the centuries-old Chinese tradition of Wu-Xia,...
