Cultural History

MoMA Celebrates a Century of Frida Kahlo this Summer

Dog Bites

Revolution Run Amok

Communism takes a wild ride in I Am Cuba

Painting Tracts

Communism takes a wild ride in I Am Cuba

COLOR IT GONE

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

Antonio Gaudi

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

Hitchcock's Dreams Come to Life

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

Warhol's Jews

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

Bringing Femme Fatale Back

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

Space Oddity

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

Rocket Men

Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

Pedro the Lion

Achilles Heel (Jade Tree)

Snap, Crackle, Art

SFMOMA's "Pop!" parachutes art out of its ivory tower and into the streets

Alpha Female

Darwin's Finches wonders what'd happen if humans lived outside any "natural" habitat

Best Contortionist

La Candela, Teatro ZinZanni

Best Pick-Me-Up

The Ginger Rogers at Absinthe

Baroque Redux

Latino artists give a modern twist to an old art style

Reel World

A documentary on the hallucinatory visions of an architect dubbed the "William Blake of San Francisco."

The Magnificent Andersons

Two local showings of an extensive collection provide an embarrassment of riches

The Crucifixion of Galilei

Two local showings of an extensive collection provide an embarrassment of riches

Night Crawler

Two local showings of an extensive collection provide an embarrassment of riches

Night Crawler

Da Da Da

M

As they explore M-theory, will Bay Area physicists earn the eternal glory sure to reward the inventors of the Theory of Everything?

The Face of Lying

UCSF's Paul Ekman, a national expert on the science of lying, helps police (and journalists) determine whether perps (or presidents) are practiced prevaricators

Doo Doo Doo, Da Da Da Da

UCSF's Paul Ekman, a national expert on the science of lying, helps police (and journalists) determine whether perps (or presidents) are practiced prevaricators

Hear This

UCSF's Paul Ekman, a national expert on the science of lying, helps police (and journalists) determine whether perps (or presidents) are practiced prevaricators

Letters

UCSF's Paul Ekman, a national expert on the science of lying, helps police (and journalists) determine whether perps (or presidents) are practiced prevaricators

Suspicious Minds

UCSF's Paul Ekman, a national expert on the science of lying, helps police (and journalists) determine whether perps (or presidents) are practiced prevaricators

Radio Rahaim

UCSF's Paul Ekman, a national expert on the science of lying, helps police (and journalists) determine whether perps (or presidents) are practiced prevaricators

To the Moon, Alice! Google Homepage Touts Inaccurate Lunar Landing Anniversary.

Science news flash to supposed Google geniuses: Astronauts don't leave footprints on suns!Google, the ubiquitous search engine famously based on complex, supposedly-more-accurate-than-the-competition algorithms, Monday graced its homepage with a glaring, scientific error. The July 17 ... More >>

The Googly-Eyed Beholder

Science news flash to supposed Google geniuses: Astronauts don't leave footprints on suns!Google, the ubiquitous search engine famously based on complex, supposedly-more-accurate-than-the-competition algorithms, Monday graced its homepage with a glaring, scientific error. The July 17 ... More >>

Creation

Science news flash to supposed Google geniuses: Astronauts don't leave footprints on suns!Google, the ubiquitous search engine famously based on complex, supposedly-more-accurate-than-the-competition algorithms, Monday graced its homepage with a glaring, scientific error. The July 17 ... More >>

Creation casts light on Darwin the scientist, and Darwin the man

Science news flash to supposed Google geniuses: Astronauts don't leave footprints on suns!Google, the ubiquitous search engine famously based on complex, supposedly-more-accurate-than-the-competition algorithms, Monday graced its homepage with a glaring, scientific error. The July 17 ... More >>

The Black Keys, Common, N.E.R.D @ NASA Party in Mountain View

There are plenty of space cadets in San Francisco, but Yuri's Night celebrates a man for actually leaving Earth's atmosphere. And it does this with a very Bay Area-style party, combining high technology, creative styling, and a huge dance party. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin officially became th ... More >>

Oh God, If There Is A God, Save My Soul If I Have One

There are plenty of space cadets in San Francisco, but Yuri's Night celebrates a man for actually leaving Earth's atmosphere. And it does this with a very Bay Area-style party, combining high technology, creative styling, and a huge dance party. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin officially became th ... More >>

Your Place

There are plenty of space cadets in San Francisco, but Yuri's Night celebrates a man for actually leaving Earth's atmosphere. And it does this with a very Bay Area-style party, combining high technology, creative styling, and a huge dance party. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin officially became th ... More >>

Rich Coffee

There are plenty of space cadets in San Francisco, but Yuri's Night celebrates a man for actually leaving Earth's atmosphere. And it does this with a very Bay Area-style party, combining high technology, creative styling, and a huge dance party. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin officially became th ... More >>

Photo: How You Know the "Icing" Trend Has Gone Too Far

Random Night Out/Nick McGlynnThe embodiment of random, Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai, appears to "Ice" Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin at the Webby Awards after-party.Icing, for the uninitiated, is a prank popular among bros, and start-up co-founders apparently, in which victims are requir ... More >>

Forever de Young: Masterworks from the d'Orsay still evoke strong emotions

Random Night Out/Nick McGlynnThe embodiment of random, Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai, appears to "Ice" Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin at the Webby Awards after-party.Icing, for the uninitiated, is a prank popular among bros, and start-up co-founders apparently, in which victims are requir ... More >>

The Dream Syndicate

Random Night Out/Nick McGlynnThe embodiment of random, Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai, appears to "Ice" Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin at the Webby Awards after-party.Icing, for the uninitiated, is a prank popular among bros, and start-up co-founders apparently, in which victims are requir ... More >>

Grand Cafe: Chichi Surroundings, Cheap Eats and Drinks

marisa w./YelpGrand Cafe's rococo art nouveaux surroundings make it an urbane oasis.​The place: Grand Cafe, 501 Geary (at Taylor), 292-0101 The hours: Mon.-Fri., 3-7 p.m. The deals: A wide array of snacks and drinks for $3-$7 The digs: Splendidly rococo art nouveaux setting makes you fee ... More >>

Katherine Sherwood: "Healers from the Yelling Clinic"

marisa w./YelpGrand Cafe's rococo art nouveaux surroundings make it an urbane oasis.​The place: Grand Cafe, 501 Geary (at Taylor), 292-0101 The hours: Mon.-Fri., 3-7 p.m. The deals: A wide array of snacks and drinks for $3-$7 The digs: Splendidly rococo art nouveaux setting makes you fee ... More >>

How Many Schools Will Be Evacuated Today Due to Gas Odor?

Andrew GormanSchool's out, kids! ​The understandable fears sparked by San Bruno's immolation have led to some abrupt curriculum changes for hundreds of Bay Area students. Yesterday, three different West Bay schools were evacuated due to gas odors. San Bruno's Portola Elementary, and San Francisco' ... More >>

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon": The Enjoyable Hum of Your Brain Cells Dying

Andrew GormanSchool's out, kids! ​The understandable fears sparked by San Bruno's immolation have led to some abrupt curriculum changes for hundreds of Bay Area students. Yesterday, three different West Bay schools were evacuated due to gas odors. San Bruno's Portola Elementary, and San Francisco' ... More >>

Fall Arts: Eight Visual Art Exhibits You Must See This Season

Andrew GormanSchool's out, kids! ​The understandable fears sparked by San Bruno's immolation have led to some abrupt curriculum changes for hundreds of Bay Area students. Yesterday, three different West Bay schools were evacuated due to gas odors. San Bruno's Portola Elementary, and San Francisco' ... More >>

"Modern Masters: Works from the 1910s to 1950s"

Andrew GormanSchool's out, kids! ​The understandable fears sparked by San Bruno's immolation have led to some abrupt curriculum changes for hundreds of Bay Area students. Yesterday, three different West Bay schools were evacuated due to gas odors. San Bruno's Portola Elementary, and San Francisco' ... More >>

A Life Story on Canvas

Andrew GormanSchool's out, kids! ​The understandable fears sparked by San Bruno's immolation have led to some abrupt curriculum changes for hundreds of Bay Area students. Yesterday, three different West Bay schools were evacuated due to gas odors. San Bruno's Portola Elementary, and San Francisco' ... More >>

Natural Selections

Andrew GormanSchool's out, kids! ​The understandable fears sparked by San Bruno's immolation have led to some abrupt curriculum changes for hundreds of Bay Area students. Yesterday, three different West Bay schools were evacuated due to gas odors. San Bruno's Portola Elementary, and San Francisco' ... More >>

Bouncer Finds DaDa Doesn't Live Up to Its Name

Andrew GormanSchool's out, kids! ​The understandable fears sparked by San Bruno's immolation have led to some abrupt curriculum changes for hundreds of Bay Area students. Yesterday, three different West Bay schools were evacuated due to gas odors. San Bruno's Portola Elementary, and San Francisco' ... More >>

Bouncer: SOMA Bar DaDa Doesn't Quite Live Up to Its Name

From this week's Bouncer column: ​I have many lifelong friends, but my memory is longer and clearer when it comes to the nuts I have known. I am generally docile and sedentary, but get me next to someone funny with a mischievous streak and some sort of switch goes off inside me, and our Wond ... More >>