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It's not exactly official. It's just two square logs tucked between the pavement and the Caltrain depot, flanked on either end by rusted fencing and graffiti-coated windows....
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Gypsy music has become all the rage of late, what with Beirut, Gogol Bordello, and DeVotchKa bringing their Roma-inspired sounds to the masses. Locally, the closest thing we...
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It's probably the worst acronym in music history. IDM. Intelligent Dance Music. The words come out in a pompous snort, sneering down at anything that deigns to be merely...
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Renaming Lower Fillmore the Fillmore Jazz Preservation District is a classic example of shutting the barn doors long after the cows have fled and the farmer has torn down the...
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When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note, not even a question mark at the end — you didn't...
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Lunafest, a traveling women's film festival, features nine films made by women from seriously international backgrounds. The auteurs span Korea, Iceland, Colombia, and many...
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Truss up your breeches for this one: The ships down at Fisherman's Wharf are well known to children and tourists, but once a month, in the dead of night, locals creep to the...
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It's hard to believe that the epic battle in Ray Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts has only seven skeletons. That inhuman maelstrom of bony fingers and clacking teeth is...
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In the shifting sands of the Middle East, the only constants are faith and fables. They coexisted quite happily before the rise of fundamentalism, and they find a soulful...
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It's hard not to grant The Twilight Zone an honorary place in the pecking order of cult television. After all, how many other shows encapsulated premillennial anxiety and that...
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Since he was posthumously granted the Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time, Ed Wood has inspired some unlikely, but long overdue, devotion. The Sacramento-based...
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The YouTube video promoting Lucy McLauchlan's new exhibit reveals she was born to make art, attacking walls instead of hedging her bets with disposable canvases. The artist...
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On a February day in 1919, four pissed-off heavyweights of the silent era signed a pact. Although the movie industry was still young, businessmen had already figured out how...
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Scarcely a soul exists who hasn't already experienced a bilevel bed-filled all-white room filled with trapeze artists and drag queens, if only in the privacy of his or her own...
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Mary Roach is legendary. As an author, she is a rare combination of dry wit and ferociously talented investigator. Having produced two books of nonfiction, Stiff and Spook, on...
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Savage Love, the wildly popular sex column by Dan Savage, the editorial director of Seattle's alt-weekly The Stranger, is not just smart and egalitarian — it's also...
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There are any number of reasons a collaboration between Urban Bush Women's Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny might have struck both women as...
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Texas is a cradle of civilization. After all, the Lone Star State gave the world Bob Wills, Wes Anderson, Danny Elfman, the Butthole Surfers, and the Asylum Street Spankers....
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Afro-Peruvian chanteuse Susana Baca is a lady with an extraordinary glow, as evidenced by Memoria Viva, the documentary that celebrates her; she matches that outer radiance...
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We don't usually recommend highly sponsored events, but we can't resist the Barback Olympics. No, not the Bareback Olympics. That's a very different event we don't usually...
