Ivy League

"Tyler Perry's Good Deeds": The Only Novelty Is the Setting

For Sex Week, Yale University Has to Borrow Several San Franciscans

How many of us fantasized about going to college in the Ivy League? To be thought of as among "the best and the brightest," and get a shot at opportunities most people don't have? When a few of my sex-positive colleagues said they were speaking this week at Yale University at something called "Sex W ... More >>

Aperture Dances Into Life's Unknowns

Aperture -- it's that setting on your SLR camera you pretend to understand. Actually, it's pretty simple. An aperture is a hole or a gap, and it's a fitting title for the world premiere performance by the Samantha Giron Dance Project that opens tonight (Friday) at Kunst-Stoff Arts. This Aperture exp ... More >>

Monta Ellis' (Alleged) Penis Waved Around by Lawyer

Dunk = good. Junk = bad. ​In a likely legal first, an attorney representing a former Golden State Warriors employee who claims she received unwelcome and explicit text messages from star guard Monta Ellis brandished an enlarged photo of a schlong for the gathered hordes of media. "We don't care if ... More >>

Baseball by the Numbers

Dunk = good. Junk = bad. ​In a likely legal first, an attorney representing a former Golden State Warriors employee who claims she received unwelcome and explicit text messages from star guard Monta Ellis brandished an enlarged photo of a schlong for the gathered hordes of media. "We don't care if ... More >>

"Moneyball": Formula Works for Sabermetrics Sports Flick

Dunk = good. Junk = bad. ​In a likely legal first, an attorney representing a former Golden State Warriors employee who claims she received unwelcome and explicit text messages from star guard Monta Ellis brandished an enlarged photo of a schlong for the gathered hordes of media. "We don't care if ... More >>

Does San Francisco's Food Culture Owe Its Richness to Tech Money?

Steve Jobs can't get into Flour Water, but is Apple money the reason it's so good?​In 7x7 Magazine this week, Sara Deseran has an thought-provoking article about the links between San Francisco's vibrant tech industry and our vibrant restaurant industry. As one venture capitalist she interviews ... More >>

"The Beaver": Mel Gibson and His Puppet's Strange Return to Screen

Steve Jobs can't get into Flour Water, but is Apple money the reason it's so good?​In 7x7 Magazine this week, Sara Deseran has an thought-provoking article about the links between San Francisco's vibrant tech industry and our vibrant restaurant industry. As one venture capitalist she interviews ... More >>

The Winklevii Remove All Doubt As to Their Horribleness

Johnnyroe/CC 2.0​I actually kind of liked the Winklevoss Twins, as played in The Social Network by Armie Hammer. The movie portrayed them as having a bit of irony about themselves. They were funny, and self-effacing, while still clearly a little jerky. No such luck in real life: The Winklevii ar ... More >>

Hallucinations Made Clear

Johnnyroe/CC 2.0​I actually kind of liked the Winklevoss Twins, as played in The Social Network by Armie Hammer. The movie portrayed them as having a bit of irony about themselves. They were funny, and self-effacing, while still clearly a little jerky. No such luck in real life: The Winklevii ar ... More >>

Bouncer: Christmas Dance of the Sourpuss Fairy

Johnnyroe/CC 2.0​I actually kind of liked the Winklevoss Twins, as played in The Social Network by Armie Hammer. The movie portrayed them as having a bit of irony about themselves. They were funny, and self-effacing, while still clearly a little jerky. No such luck in real life: The Winklevii ar ... More >>

Winged Migration

Johnnyroe/CC 2.0​I actually kind of liked the Winklevoss Twins, as played in The Social Network by Armie Hammer. The movie portrayed them as having a bit of irony about themselves. They were funny, and self-effacing, while still clearly a little jerky. No such luck in real life: The Winklevii ar ... More >>

"Client 9": Alex Gibney's doc rehabilitates Eliot Spitzer

Johnnyroe/CC 2.0​I actually kind of liked the Winklevoss Twins, as played in The Social Network by Armie Hammer. The movie portrayed them as having a bit of irony about themselves. They were funny, and self-effacing, while still clearly a little jerky. No such luck in real life: The Winklevii ar ... More >>

"Inside Job": Charles Ferguson's meltdown doc will make you seethe

Johnnyroe/CC 2.0​I actually kind of liked the Winklevoss Twins, as played in The Social Network by Armie Hammer. The movie portrayed them as having a bit of irony about themselves. They were funny, and self-effacing, while still clearly a little jerky. No such luck in real life: The Winklevii ar ... More >>

"The Romantics": College friends reunite for bad behavior

Johnnyroe/CC 2.0​I actually kind of liked the Winklevoss Twins, as played in The Social Network by Armie Hammer. The movie portrayed them as having a bit of irony about themselves. They were funny, and self-effacing, while still clearly a little jerky. No such luck in real life: The Winklevii ar ... More >>

Weekend Party Preview: Rock It Science, BFD Pre-Party

The Golden Filter​We know. Our list this week is a bit short. Usually we like to offer a myriad of choices for you to go out, get obliterated, and dance to whatever's awesomest through the weekend, but, you know, it's kind of a slow weekend. No worries, however, we've got a pick for Friday and Sat ... More >>

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

The Golden Filter​We know. Our list this week is a bit short. Usually we like to offer a myriad of choices for you to go out, get obliterated, and dance to whatever's awesomest through the weekend, but, you know, it's kind of a slow weekend. No worries, however, we've got a pick for Friday and Sat ... More >>

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

The Golden Filter​We know. Our list this week is a bit short. Usually we like to offer a myriad of choices for you to go out, get obliterated, and dance to whatever's awesomest through the weekend, but, you know, it's kind of a slow weekend. No worries, however, we've got a pick for Friday and Sat ... More >>

Oscar-Starved

The Golden Filter​We know. Our list this week is a bit short. Usually we like to offer a myriad of choices for you to go out, get obliterated, and dance to whatever's awesomest through the weekend, but, you know, it's kind of a slow weekend. No worries, however, we've got a pick for Friday and Sat ... More >>

The Bookish Bunch

Vampire Weekend's shaky smart-aleck stand

Suck on It

Vampire Weekend's shaky smart-aleck stand

Stud recovery

Vampire Weekend's shaky smart-aleck stand

Welcoming the local honor roll

Vampire Weekend's shaky smart-aleck stand

Outrageous Beauty

Vampire Weekend's shaky smart-aleck stand

Greening the Left

Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results

What's a Coxswain?

Preppies gather in Redwood City

Geisha Fixation

Two seemingly unrelated plays take different approaches to racial concerns

Get Lost

It'd Be Cool if this sequel were any good. Too bad it ain't.

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

House of Tudor

Dusty-voiced troubadours, corporeality explorers, cotton candy jazz, and animalistic toga parties

MC Paul Barman

Paullelujah!

Presumed Local

This year's superb S.F. International Asian American Film Festival focuses on homegrown, U.S. films

How Legends Are Born

It pains us to award the Columbia Journalism Review its very own dart.

Saving Togo

One man's hope for Nigeria's tiny neighbor

Ready or Not

This year's documentaries

South to the Future

Harvard Students, Citing Record Endowment Revenue, Seek to Abolish Tuition Fees

Savage Love

Harvard Students, Citing Record Endowment Revenue, Seek to Abolish Tuition Fees

Night + Day

Harvard Students, Citing Record Endowment Revenue, Seek to Abolish Tuition Fees

Savage Love

Harvard Students, Citing Record Endowment Revenue, Seek to Abolish Tuition Fees

Night + Day

Harvard Students, Citing Record Endowment Revenue, Seek to Abolish Tuition Fees

Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Slap Shots

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Flunking Out

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Slap Shots

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Tex-Mex

John Sayles' Lone Star limns the uncertain border between past and present

Looking A little Green

Taking the Sierra Club's helm, boy wonder Adam Werbach confronts more than his own inexperience

Seventh Heaven

Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse captures the comic hell of junior high

Slap Shots

Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse captures the comic hell of junior high

Night+Day

Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse captures the comic hell of junior high

Slap Shots

Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse captures the comic hell of junior high