David Cross

R.I.P. MCA: A Selection of the Beastie Boys' Greatest Works

In all likelihood, you've spent the weekend doing exactly the same thing we did -- trying to come to terms with the loss of Adam "MCA" Yauch and getting together with friends for Beastie Boys parties in his memory, trying to imagine the musical landscape without the trio. Truthfully, it's hard to th ... More >>

Kevin Arnold's Top Five Noise Pop Memories

In all likelihood, you've spent the weekend doing exactly the same thing we did -- trying to come to terms with the loss of Adam "MCA" Yauch and getting together with friends for Beastie Boys parties in his memory, trying to imagine the musical landscape without the trio. Truthfully, it's hard to th ... More >>

SF Sketchfest: Cast Reunion (and Radio Play) for Cult Comedy Wet Hot American Summer

In 2001's Wet Hot American Summer -- a raucous send-up of 1980s summer-camp movies -- the counselors vow to meet up 10 years later in 1991, when they'll all be in their late 20s, to see how they've fared. And just over a decade since the film's release, many of its main players reunited on stage at ... More >>

Sketchfest Renders S.F. a City Under Comic Seige

Is there any comic more suited to an old-time radio play than John Hodgman, with his everyday suits, sometimes-mustache, and thin, delicate fingers? Of course not. He appears Sunday night in an old-time radio play, The Thrilling Adventure Hour at Marines Memorial Theatre, one of the many events at S ... More >>

A Great Deluge

Is there any comic more suited to an old-time radio play than John Hodgman, with his everyday suits, sometimes-mustache, and thin, delicate fingers? Of course not. He appears Sunday night in an old-time radio play, The Thrilling Adventure Hour at Marines Memorial Theatre, one of the many events at S ... More >>

The Coup's Boots Riley on His Next Record, Hip-Hop for White Kids, and Loving Battlestar Galactia

The Coup's Boots Riley​ It's been almost a decade since 9/11 -- which means (among other things) that it's been 10 years since Boots Riley was seemingly everywhere, coolly responding to outrage over some extremely ill-timed album art depicting explosions at World Trade Center. It's also been f ... More >>

What to Do? Friday's Pick: Comedian Jim Short

​Jim ShortPunch Line8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $24.05Jim Short is a literate comic, but not one who takes pains to demonstrate what a smarty-pants he is. Unlike David Cross, Short isn't throwing out the occasional Lexis-Nexis reference. Regardless, the San Francisco comic is sharp and tart in his takedow ... More >>

Long on Wit

​Jim ShortPunch Line8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $24.05Jim Short is a literate comic, but not one who takes pains to demonstrate what a smarty-pants he is. Unlike David Cross, Short isn't throwing out the occasional Lexis-Nexis reference. Regardless, the San Francisco comic is sharp and tart in his takedow ... More >>

Big Fan

​Jim ShortPunch Line8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $24.05Jim Short is a literate comic, but not one who takes pains to demonstrate what a smarty-pants he is. Unlike David Cross, Short isn't throwing out the occasional Lexis-Nexis reference. Regardless, the San Francisco comic is sharp and tart in his takedow ... More >>

The Heff

​Jim ShortPunch Line8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $24.05Jim Short is a literate comic, but not one who takes pains to demonstrate what a smarty-pants he is. Unlike David Cross, Short isn't throwing out the occasional Lexis-Nexis reference. Regardless, the San Francisco comic is sharp and tart in his takedow ... More >>

What To Do? Thursday's Pick: Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman

Eugene Mirman​Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman on You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice @ The Jewish Community Center A book with the title You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice implies certain things. Namel ... More >>

How to Be

Eugene Mirman​Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman on You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice @ The Jewish Community Center A book with the title You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice implies certain things. Namel ... More >>

Mistakes Were Made

Eugene Mirman​Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman on You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice @ The Jewish Community Center A book with the title You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice implies certain things. Namel ... More >>

Super Cross

Eugene Mirman​Daniel Handler, Larry Doyle, Marc Maron, and Eugene Mirman on You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice @ The Jewish Community Center A book with the title You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice implies certain things. Namel ... More >>

Last Night: Comedy Death Ray at Cobb's

Photo of Zach Galifianakis by www.brandonhickman.comComedy Death Ray w/ Zach Galigianakis, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bob Odenkirk, Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Kindler, Chris Hardwick and the Fun Bunch (Scott Aukerman & BJ Porter)Friday, Jan. 30, 2009Cobb's Comedy ClubBetter than: Lemme get back to you on th ... More >>

Worth the Gamble

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Mr. Show's Cross, Odenkirk Star in New HBO Series

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Human Giant Hit SF for NoisePop

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

The General

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Like a Complete Unknown

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Long Live the Colonel

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

The snorification of indie rock

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Noise Pop Tip Sheet

Dump the Dandy Warhols for Dead Meadow

Misc. Reviews

Vice walks a short plank

Lewis Blows His Top

Vice walks a short plank

Men Behaving Badly

Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in tepid man-child comedy

Nuts to You

She's the Man fits the bill for teenage drag-king fans

Idle Curiosity

Curious George is so timeless, you might wish it were more timely

Swindled Art

Curious George is so timeless, you might wish it were more timely

Holiday Happenings

Why We Need DVDs

New releases available this week

Charlotte's Web

A cross-dressing spoof on a classic film

The Tinkerers

The Books, Battles, Prefuse 73, and other bands for whom, musically speaking, freedom is on the march

Me Talk Pretty

In conversation with comedian Patton Oswalt and the original pianist for John Kerry's Electras

Drum Circles of Confusion

In search of the truest, sweetest kind of music, comedian David Cross journeys into the woods of Oregon – and lives to tell about it!

Shops and Gifts

In search of the truest, sweetest kind of music, comedian David Cross journeys into the woods of Oregon – and lives to tell about it!

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

Richter's Scale

Andy Richter deserves to control the universe, if only Fox would let him

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