Dr. Seuss

Arthouse Movie Listings March 14-20, 2012

"Dr. Seuss' The Lorax": Tediously Preaching Preservation

Life’s Only Constant

Five EDM Tours that Paved the Way for Identity Festival

Colin Young-WolffWe've seen this before...​ The good folks of Identity Festival, which comes to Shoreline this Saturday, don't want to lie to you. Yet despite what they've claimed, they're not the first-ever electronic touring festival ever seen in America. It's merely the first electronic-onl ... More >>

The Blank Tapes on Loving S.F., Writing Too Many Songs, and Getting Busted in Colorado

​Otherwise known as the Blank Tapes, Matt Adams is a bit of a music machine -- since 2003's Country Western Honky Tonk Saloon Blues, he has released over 100 songs and played almost all of the instruments on each one. Adams has toured the country, written music in a van -- well, sort of -- an ... More >>

Weird and Random Glimpses of Food on Film

Watch What You Eat, Pray, Love Where: Oddball Film and Video, 275 Capp (at 18th St.), 558-8112 When: Sat., Mar. 26, 8:30 p.m. Cost: $10 The rundown: After dinner tomorrow night, Oddball Film and Video invites you to a visual feast. Mining deep in the archives, conscience-driven filmmaker Soum ... More >>

Speed Dating at the Library -- No, Really

Wonder, wonder, wonder no more: Kathleen McGowan wrote The Book of Love​In San Francisco, libraries serve many more purposes than they do in other towns -- in which they're mainly used by 14-year-olds to loudly check their Facebook accounts until the librarian boots them out. Here they serve as de ... More >>

Sex, Seduction and Darkness at the 10th Annual Edwardian Ball

View more pics in Edwardian Ball Part One and Edwardian Ball Part Two.The 10th Annual Edwardian Ball this past Saturday was the seductive fashion intersection of Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, and Dr. Seuss. Throw in a little Steampunk style in there and what you have is a glorified underground prom wher ... More >>

Video of the Day: Snoop Dogg's Fireside Reading of the Grinch

Pretty much a classic in the making here. Snoop Dogg offered a holiday good night story on Friday's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, when the rapper sat fireside and read the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Of course, he had to give the Dr. Seuss classic a Dr. Snoop twist, throwing in referenc ... More >>

They Know They Can Do It

Pretty much a classic in the making here. Snoop Dogg offered a holiday good night story on Friday's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, when the rapper sat fireside and read the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Of course, he had to give the Dr. Seuss classic a Dr. Snoop twist, throwing in referenc ... More >>

Drink a Toast to American Genius with These Killer Local Brewskis

WhatKnot/FlickrBeer goes with the Fourth of July like hot buttered rum at Christmas or a sazerac on Bourbon Street. All those thick burgers, molten enchiladas, smoky platters of barbecue, and big slabs of pepperoni pizza cry out for a tall, cool beaker of suds in all its thirst-quenching glory. Th ... More >>

We Win! San Francisco Sells Costliest Business Traveler Food (Or Hosts Most Profligate Business Travelers)

Dr. SeussEighteen bucks for green eggs and ham? You're ripping me off, Sam I Am!San Francisco has become the country's most expensive place for business travelers to eat, according to the New Jersey-based Institute of Management and Administration. "San Francisco has unseated New York City as t ... More >>

All Grown Up

Dr. SeussEighteen bucks for green eggs and ham? You're ripping me off, Sam I Am!San Francisco has become the country's most expensive place for business travelers to eat, according to the New Jersey-based Institute of Management and Administration. "San Francisco has unseated New York City as t ... More >>

Antonio Gaudi

Dr. SeussEighteen bucks for green eggs and ham? You're ripping me off, Sam I Am!San Francisco has become the country's most expensive place for business travelers to eat, according to the New Jersey-based Institute of Management and Administration. "San Francisco has unseated New York City as t ... More >>

Art House

Dr. SeussEighteen bucks for green eggs and ham? You're ripping me off, Sam I Am!San Francisco has become the country's most expensive place for business travelers to eat, according to the New Jersey-based Institute of Management and Administration. "San Francisco has unseated New York City as t ... More >>

Saturday: The de Young Goes Psychedelic for Chihuly

Dr. SeussEighteen bucks for green eggs and ham? You're ripping me off, Sam I Am!San Francisco has become the country's most expensive place for business travelers to eat, according to the New Jersey-based Institute of Management and Administration. "San Francisco has unseated New York City as t ... More >>

Saturday: Chocolate and Chalk Art Festival

Dr. SeussEighteen bucks for green eggs and ham? You're ripping me off, Sam I Am!San Francisco has become the country's most expensive place for business travelers to eat, according to the New Jersey-based Institute of Management and Administration. "San Francisco has unseated New York City as t ... More >>

Last Night: Unpopable, The Dead Hensons, Borts Minorts at Bottom of the Hill

Dr. SeussEighteen bucks for green eggs and ham? You're ripping me off, Sam I Am!San Francisco has become the country's most expensive place for business travelers to eat, according to the New Jersey-based Institute of Management and Administration. "San Francisco has unseated New York City as t ... More >>

Fast Track to Nowhere

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer.

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/5

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer.

The Rose of Planet B612

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer.

Look Who's Back!

After the unspeakable Grinch, a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation.

Six Degrees of Separation

Lonely art-folkie P.G. Six makes new friends

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 22:

Lonely art-folkie P.G. Six makes new friends

Trail of Tears

Prey should be called Dances With Tedium.

There Be Monsters

A malfunctioning windup toy of a show, meant for adults but good for kids

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Marshaling the Troupes

Glamour-rama

Rhyme and Punishment

A boisterous play in verse nearly lures our critic into poetic excess

From Aush to Bowlawni

Everything we try at this Afghan restaurant in North Beach is unusual and delightful

Best Museum

Cartoon Art Museum

House of Tudor

The squirlly Full Moon Partisans square off against the folky Two Gallants; puppets give the cat the hatchet

Doctor's Appointment

Commemorate a Seussian century

Not Kidding Around

Taking children's books back where they came from

Letters to the Editor

Week of December 10, 2003

Kitty Litter

The Cat in the Hat forms clumps for easy scooping and disposal

Reps Etc.

The Cat in the Hat forms clumps for easy scooping and disposal

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 29, 2003

The Big 4

Robber Barons

L.A. Confidential

Stars in bars, stars in cars, stars with plastic surgery scars.

A Kinder, Gentler Dope Fiend

In Ted Demme's Blow, Johnny Depp summons an American snowstorm

Tomorrow Never Dies

Dot

Zoom Lens

Holiday Films for Children

Sexual Reeling

Philip Kaufman's Quills is a harsh, lush lecture on sensuality and censorship

House Of Tudor

Zmrzlina, Little Jimmy Scott, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff

Dog Bites

Zmrzlina, Little Jimmy Scott, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff

House of Tudor

Zmrzlina, Little Jimmy Scott, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Zmrzlina, Little Jimmy Scott, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff

... So Why Don't You Kill Me?

Metal roolz at Lolla VI

Night+Day

Metal roolz at Lolla VI