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Live Review, 1/23/12: Wolves in the Throne Room Deliver a Monotonous Barrage at Slim's

Wolves in the Throne Room Worm Ouroboros Ashborer Jan. 23, 2012 Slim's Better than: Anarcho-Punk bands performing at the Republican National Convention. It's easy to see how Wolves in the Throne Room are demonized by many cult black metal fans as the group most responsible for the neutering and re ... More >>

Out with the Kids: Goat Hill Pizza's Neighborhood Mondays

Alex HochmanGoat Hill Pizza's Sarah Stanford serves up a veggie combo.​A family night out for pizza is supposed to be an easy meal, but rarely is. The main issue: topping differences. My oldest daughter wants ham and pineapple while my youngest actually likes vegetables (damned California kids ... More >>

Girls' Christopher Owens: 'I Hate To Say I'm in a Band'

Girls' JR White (left) and Christopher Owens (right)​San Francisco indie-rock band Girls got national attention almost immediately. The release of yearning, grainy pop songs such as "Lust for Life" and "Hellhole Ratrace" -- made before Christopher Owens and JR White had even formed a band --& ... More >>

Art Review: Teo Gonzalez: "New Paintings" at Brian Gross Fine Art

Girls' JR White (left) and Christopher Owens (right)​San Francisco indie-rock band Girls got national attention almost immediately. The release of yearning, grainy pop songs such as "Lust for Life" and "Hellhole Ratrace" -- made before Christopher Owens and JR White had even formed a band --& ... More >>

Jóhann Jóhannsson’s sublime songs

Girls' JR White (left) and Christopher Owens (right)​San Francisco indie-rock band Girls got national attention almost immediately. The release of yearning, grainy pop songs such as "Lust for Life" and "Hellhole Ratrace" -- made before Christopher Owens and JR White had even formed a band --& ... More >>

Gray Area's new gallery hopes to cast light on an underserved neighborhood

Girls' JR White (left) and Christopher Owens (right)​San Francisco indie-rock band Girls got national attention almost immediately. The release of yearning, grainy pop songs such as "Lust for Life" and "Hellhole Ratrace" -- made before Christopher Owens and JR White had even formed a band --& ... 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 >>

Mmmm Cai?

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 >>

Doc Block

Nonfiction continues its ascent onscreen

Skream signals dubstep's dance with assimilation

Nonfiction continues its ascent onscreen

Repertory Film Listings

Nonfiction continues its ascent onscreen

Tone Deaf

Ed Harris cuts loose in Copying Beethoven, but a poorly composed script lets him down

Brush With Greatness

Okami shows that videogames can be art

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Kees to the City

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

Wild at Art

In a show about collaboration, artists work with bees, trees, flies, and Chinese

Lipstick Thespians

This year's DIVAfest isn't all about lip gloss and halter tops

Bouncer

The best new club in S.F., Madrone Lounge, is a -- gasp! -- collective art space

A Fitting Send-Off

Painter Gordon Onslow Ford: the "Forrest Gump" of the art world

Portrait of the Artist

Dutiful if not particularly insightful, Pollock splatters the painter's life on the screen's canvas

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

The Magnificent Andersons

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

Intergalactic Planetary

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

Public Enema No. 2

Bondage, fellatio, feces-swapping, and intimate cleansing at the S.F. Art Institute

House Of Tudor

Teenage Frames, Neomythic, Austin Lounge Lizards, Alan Kaufman, Lowbrow

Mr. America

Teenage Frames, Neomythic, Austin Lounge Lizards, Alan Kaufman, Lowbrow

A Calder Balancing Act

SFMOMA brass are going through hoops to keep cantankerous heirs of the sculptor happy

Recordings

SFMOMA brass are going through hoops to keep cantankerous heirs of the sculptor happy

Suspicious Minds

SFMOMA brass are going through hoops to keep cantankerous heirs of the sculptor happy

Recordings

SFMOMA brass are going through hoops to keep cantankerous heirs of the sculptor happy

Barron Storey's Life is an Open Comic Book

The demons -- personal andfantastical and pop cultural -- that have shaped the art of a San Francisco illustrator

Night+Day

The demons -- personal andfantastical and pop cultural -- that have shaped the art of a San Francisco illustrator