Jack Kerouac

Arthouse Movie Listings for April 3-9, 2013

Arthouse Movie Listings Mar. 27-Apr. 2, 2013

"On the Road": Kerouac Would Be Meh

Mysterious Suitors: OkCupid's Latest Venture Might be a Ruse

Eat to The Beat: DJ-Assisted Weekend Brunches Still in Swing

The trend of brunch served with a side of music has been cooking in the Bay Area for a few decades now; old club kids might remember Boogie Buffet, a weekly Sunday party in San Francisco held in the mid-Nineties where food was set to a chic beat. Today, like waffles and syrup, it's still a great com ... More >>

Gaming the System

Bouncer Takes the Disneyland North Beach Ride at Vesuvio

The Beat Museum Finally Gets a '49 Hudson Like the Car in On the Road

Cultural institutions in San Francisco continually search for new acquisitions. Alexis Coe brings you the most important, often wondrous, sometimes bizarre, and occasionally downright vexing finds each week. The day Jerry Cimino opened the Beat Museum in North Beach, he put out a sign: The museum w ... More >>

"The Fighter": Boxer biopic falls through the ropes

Beat Crazy

Dolores Park Renovation Sparks Paltry Offline Response: There's No 'PBR' in Democracy

GreenkoziNot fueling civic activism in the real world, apparently...​We at The Snitch had best come clean on something to start off: You can count us among those who sometimes wish a meteor would crash directly into Dolores Park on a Saturday afternoon, annihilating at a stroke every fixed-gear bi ... More >>

Tosca's 90th Birthday Party: Cappuccino, the Culterati, and Gavin

M. LaddIt was a mix of the sliver-haired and the sliver-tongued.​Last night was the 90th birthday party for North Beach institution Tosca Café (242 Columbus at Jack Kerouac Alley). By 6:30 p.m., the bar was crowded with silver-haired neighborhood denizens, journalists, and the local culterati ... More >>

Beat It at Vesuvio Cafe

Jay Farrar, Ben Gibbard, and a bad actress pay tribute to Kerouac’s Big Sur

Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar Plan Kerouac Tribute Show in S.F.

Autumn de WildeJay Farrar (left) and Ben Gibbard​We reported earlier that Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Son Volt's Jay Farrar teamed up on the soundtrack to a new Jack Kerouac documentary, One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. (The movie and the soundtrack come out Oct. 20). Now th ... More >>

Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Pay Tribute to Jack Kerouac

​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

Zen and the Art of Nose Maintenance

Bouncer’s Highly Accurate Bar Quiz

Framing the Truth

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Oh it may have looked like summer yesterday, but tomorrow it's supposed to rain. So those plans of bonfires at the beach may have to wait until the real summer comes along. In the meantime, there's plenty of cheap stuff to do indoors this weekend. Take a look at our top ten.1. Frankenstein L.I.V.S., ... More >>

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/19

How High?

SFWeekly's 7-Day Dish

Swapaholics

One for the Team

Jack Kerouac's writing still influential for rock icons 50 years after On the Road

And the Beat Goes On

An interview with Alan Kaufman

Notebooks From the Underground

This is the summer to put pen to paper

The Hold Steady

Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant)

Ramblin' Gamblin' Men

David Dondero and Adam Gnade hit the road

Repertory Film Listings

Hear This

Tom Russell pays homage to "real goddamn American character"; Dengue Fever takes you to Cambodia and back

You Grow, Girl

Plant your spring garden

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Long Run

A reason to race

BeatBox

"Real People" is a breath of fresh air at the Oxygen Bar; Ghostface Killah proves he's Wu Tang's No. One.

Bright Lights

City Lights Bookstore turns 50, and we can hardly contain ourselves

Straight From the Fridge

This 25-year-old play about Beats sticks too close to biography to be cool

Hit the Road, Jack

The life and times of a dead Beat, in Visions of Kerouac

Reps Etc.

Commentary by Gregg Rickman

Real San Francisco

Hyde Street Bistro

The Luddite Eats

Paragon

On Another Road

Clark Coolidge

History Takes a Beating

Two new CDs devoted to Kerouac and Ferlinghetti show what's good -- and bad -- about romanticizing the beats

Night Crawler

The Kerouac Obsession

Gerald Nicosia has spent a decade challenging the disposition of Jack Kerouac's $20 million literary estate. Along the way, he's annoyed most of what remains of the beat generation.

The House of Tudor

Slap Shots

Revolting Cocks

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press