Here is a "so-called hospitality" title worthy of space in your (compact, apartment) library. A new saucy book from Jacob Tomsky has tasty ties to the Bay Area, and serves up a chance to know what really happens in the crazy world of hotels. Tomsky dishes the dirt on how to get a sweet (suite?) hot ... More >>
Black poodle 1, BART 0A black, 10-pound poodle managed to bring BART to its knees this morning, as it ran wild through the tunnels, snarled rush hour service, and, so far as anyone can tell, got away clean. The animal exited the train at Lake Merritt Station around 7:30 a.m., then decided to take ... More >>
EKAphotographyElectable: Sila performs with the AFE at Stern Grove San Francisco's favorite Kenyan Afro-groovester, Victor Sila, has just released Black President, his second album with the Afrofunk Experience. I'll admit to being a bit biased--Sila is a friend of mine, and I wrote his bio--but I r ... More >>
Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.
Cloverfield is a big dumb monster movie about nothing
Fairy-tale land and the real world collide to no good end in Enchanted
Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown.
Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long
New releases available this week
Where well-heeled snobs go when they need watering
Leaving his art in San Francisco
Some ways to make the best of the best city in the world, year-round
The Park Chalet is like a filmmaker's fantasy of S.F. come to life
Nicole Kidman falls in love with a 10-year-old boy ... sorry, her dead husband
A dance for the dead
Did photographer Diane Arbus exploit her subjects? Decide for yourself at her huge new exhibit
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Chock full of nuts
At the San Francisco Model Yacht Club, sailors answer the call of the sea on a very small scale
As one of TV's best and best-loved series launches a new spin-off, its creator grapples with the aftershocks of terror
Photographer Joel Sternfeld captures the diverse lives of strangers in his cross-country travels
Take a Trip to New York
Stuart Little
Tom Ze's restless experimentalism has earned him adoration from music's cognoscenti everywhere -- except in his native Brazil
Out There The Business
New Pickle Circus hams it up in Jump Cuts! Take Two; Weslia Whitfield sings a mesmerizing evening
The Brothers McMullen relocates Woody Allen's ethos to an East Coast Irish clan
Cruising looks back at the doomed ecstasy of the gay playgrounds in late-1970s Manhattan
